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Train Your Baby Like a Dog
Train Your Baby Like a Dog

There's a show about training babies as you would a dog, a new reality show about strangers in Greece, a quirky documentary about surfing in Lahinch - and another about brass bands . . .

Pick of the Day

Train Your Baby Like a Dog, 8.00pm, Channel 4

As the title suggests, the focus of this programme is on how parents can be better at the task of parenting. 

A leading advocate of this new - and obviously controversial - approach to parenting is world-renowned dog trainer and animal behaviourist Jo-Rosie Haffenden. You could say she has a foot and a paw in both camps. 

She believes that if everyone parented their child the same way we're training our dogs, we'd end up with much more caring and compassionate human beings, and our homes could be transformed from exhausting battlegrounds into oases of calm.

This programme follows her as she works with three-year-old Greydon, whose daily tantrums and violent outbursts are making his parents' lives a living hell.

New or Returning Shows

Heartbreak Holiday, 11.05pm, BBC One

This new reality show seems to have its heart in the right place as it follows ten strangers united by heartbreak who head off for the summer of a lifetime around the Greek islands.

In each episode, they will be joined by a surprise visitor from home who will force them to confront their past and help them move on with help from their new found friends.

Between Land and Sea, 10.15pm, RTÉ One

Here's a quirky-looking documentary about a year in the life of an Irish surf town that's at the mercy of the Atlantic Ocean.

This observational feature embeds itself in the Big Wave surf community of Lahinch in Clare, to present a portrait of the ever-changing life at land's end.

This film delves into the day-to-day lives of the surf community, to create a very real portrait of those who choose the surfing lifestyle.

Battle of the Brass Bands, 8.00pm, Sky Arts & NOW TV

Born out of 19th Century industrialisation, traditional brass bands have played an important role in working-class - particularly coal-mining - communities across Britain for centuries.

While many of the pits may have been closed during Thatcher’s Britain, the tradition continues. Some of the giants of the British Brass scene, such as Brighouse & Rastrick (who became unlikely pop stars in the 1970s), Fairey, Black Dyke and Corey, still go head-to-head in the likes of the Whit Friday Contest, The British Open and the National Championships.

Here's the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band on Top of the Pops in 1977:

New to Download

Simon Amstell: Set Free, Netflix

Honest and introspective comic Simon Amstell opens up about his neuroses, coming out to his father, being in and out of relationships and more, in this new stand-up special.

Ending Tonight

Inside The Factory, 8.00pm, BBC Two

Gregg Wallace is in Leeds, at an enormous mattress factory where they produce 600 bouncy beds every day.

He follows the production of pocket-sprung mattresses from the arrival of hard steel right through to soft bedding heading out of dispatch.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is learning whether there are benefits to be had from taking an afternoon nap, and meets up with a sleep scientist who tells her that we should be having a snooze rather than a coffee.

Gregg Wallace

Don't Miss

Kathy Burke's All Woman, 10.00pm, Channel 4

Legendary English actress Kathy Burke continues her three-parter on what it's like to be a woman these days.

She has never wanted children, but is eager to explore the experiences of women who have chosen motherhood, wondering if the reality of 'having it all' is simply another pressure on women.

The average age of the first-time mother is rising. Kathy meets Joanna, a high-flying financial analyst in the City of London. Aged in her mid-thirties, she has decided to freeze her eggs.

Kathy also visits her old friend Samantha Morton, a Hollywood star just home from filming The Walking Dead in LA. She has three children.

Comedian Katherine Ryan also talks very candidly about her experience of work and motherhood.

Kathy Burke

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