What's on? Top telly tips for Saturday April 18

Today's telly picks include the likes of A Woman's Heart, Mrs Brown and BGT, more Gavin & Stacey, and a rake of great movies to keep you entertained . . .

Pick of the Day

A Woman's Heart with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, 10.35pm, RTÉ One

One of the most popular and much-loved albums ever produced in Ireland, A Woman’s Heart remains central to the lives of many music fans nearly 30 years after its release.

Here, Eleanor McEvoy (who wrote and performed the album’s title track), Wallis Bird and Maura OConnell are accompanied by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to perform the 1992 album live at the Wexford Opera House.

Here are Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black singing A Woman's Heart on The Late Late Show back in 1992:

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Don't Miss

All Round to Mrs Brown’s, 9.40pm, RTÉ One/9.15pm, BBC One

Brendan O’Carroll and co continue their chat show as Agnes and the family are joined on the show by comedian and Masked Singer host Joel Dommett, and morning television presenters Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes. Plus, The Shires perform live on the show.

Britain's Got Talent, 8.00pm, Virgin Media One

Here’s a chance to completely switch off for a chunk of the night in the company of the incomparable Ant and Dec.

Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams are once again on hand to judge this week's applicants, and each of them has the chance to put their favourite contestant straight through to the live semi-finals by awarding them the Golden Buzzer.

The Many Faces of Ronnie Barker, 7.15pm, BBC Two

First shown in 2012, this is the story of a quiet, dedicated man who might have been a bank manager, but went on to become one of the UK’s most popular comedy stars.

Ben Elton, Michael Grade, David Renwick and Josephine Tewson are among friends and colleagues who remember his partnership with Ronnie Corbett in sketch show The Two Ronnies, as skinflint grocer Arkwright in Open All Hours and crafty prisoner Fletch in Porridge.

Gavin & Stacey, 8.15pm, BBC One

In these times, it’s an absolute joy to watch this feelgood sitcom all over again - and on a Saturday night too.

This week, the couple - superbly played by Matthew Horne and Joanna Page - announce their engagement, prompting the Shipmans to throw a party in Billericay.

Even Bryn's decision to use his sat-nav for the journey fails to dampen their spirits, and everything goes swimmingly until the conversation turns to money - and the sweethearts drop a bombshell.

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Tolkien, 8.00pm (and on demand), Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW TV

Before going on to write classic fantasy books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, orphaned author JRR Tolkien finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

This eponymous biopic stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Pam Ferris, Craig Roberts, and Derek Jacobi, and show how Tolkien’s experiences during the First World War inspire him to create a world of hobbits and wizards.

Repeats of the Day

Discovering: Joan Crawford, 3.00pm, Sky Arts

A look at the life and career of actress Joan Crawford, who won an Academy Award for her role in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce and was nominated for Possessed and Sudden Fear.

Man v Food, 2.30pm, Food Channel

Adam Richman with Jenny Greene and Nicky Byrne

Here’s a classic episode where comfort food connoisseur Adam Richman combines his love of food and baseball, visiting three minor league stadiums renowned for their tasty cuisine

Matinee Movie Choices

Die Hard with a Vengeance, 2.10pm, Sky Cinema Greats

Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson and Jeremy Irons lead the cast as New York cop John McClane returns to duty following an explosion at a department store in the city.

The perpetrator contacts the police and tells them that unless McClane and an unfortunate bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time carry out a series of instructions to the letter, more bombs will be detonated.

Roman Holiday, 2.15pm, Sky Cinema Drama

Here's a charming romantic comedy from the 1950s starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert and Harcourt Williams.

After a princess runs away from her entourage while in Rome, an American journalist takes her under his wing in the hope of getting an exclusive - but as he shows her Rome’s sights, he starts to fall in love.

Dr Zhivago, 1.30pm, RTÉ One

This historical drama boasts a star-studded cast that includes Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay and Klaus Kinski.

A married Russian physician falls in love with another woman, but as their passionate affair plays out against the raging backdrop of the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, he is torn between his desires and his loyalty to his wife.

Prime Time Movie Picks

Moana, 6.35pm, RTÉ One

Dwayne Johnson is among the voice actors in this animated Disney delight.

To save her island home from a terrible curse, a brave Polynesian teenager must set sail and journey into the great blue yonder with the aid of a legendary hero.

Song for a Raggy Boy, 9.40pm, RTÉ 2

Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren and Dudley Sutton star in this Irish drama based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin, which was itself based on true events.

A widower is hired to teach at a strict Catholic reformatory school, but the harsh regime soon fires his anger, leading to a series of confrontations with the heavy-handed priests in charge of the establishment.

Sideways, 10.00pm, TG4

Here’s the dramedy that really put Paul Giamatti on the movie map.

Two middle-aged men embark on a wine-tasting tour in California a week before one of them is due to be married.

The groom-to-be is determined to persuade his self-hating, embittered friend to loosen up - while also making it clear he intends to cheat on his fiancee before the week is out.

Late Late Flick Picks

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1.55am, Sky Cinema Select

Superb late-1960s’ western, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross.

Two notorious outlaws' routine of bank and train robberies is cut short when a seemingly unstoppable posse is formed to catch them.

The pair plan to flee America and start a new life in Bolivia, with the Sundance Kid's schoolmistress lover in tow - but staying ahead of the law is not so easy.

The Conversation, 11.00pm, BBC Two

Francis Ford Coppola's thriller, starring Gene Hackman, is one the 1970s’ most celebrated slices of paranoid celluloid.

An obsessive, paranoid electronic surveillance expert - renowned within the profession as being the best - makes the unprofessional mistake of getting personally involved in a dangerous case on his San Francisco patch.

The Damned United, 11.45pm, BBC One

Michael Sheen and Colm Meaney are both brilliant in this fact-based drama chronicling Brian Clough's ill-fated 44-day tenure as boss of Leeds United in 1974, after Don Revie's departure for the job of England's manager.

Following his acrimonious split from Derby County and a brief spell at Brighton & Hove Albion, Clough arrived at Elland Road on a wave of controversy, after previously being an outspoken critic of the club, and struggled to find allies among the playing staff.