Silk Road

Monday

Flowers

Channel 4

10pm

From writer/director Will Sharpe and starring Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), the eccentric Flowers family are undergoing something of a meltdown. 

Maurice (Barratt) is a children's author, while his wife Deborah (Colman) is a trombone teacher. Both are dealing with their own demons, and are quietly helpless as their marriage falls apart. 

Baddiel was talking to broadcaster Danny Baker about his four-part travelogue for Discovery Channel. David Baddiel on the Silk Road, which started on 21 February, takes the comedian and novelist on a journey from Xi’an in China to Istanbul to discover the 2,000-year-old trade route.