Summer Holiday

Susan Calman visits seaside resorts around England, taking in Great Yarmouth, Brighton, St Ives, Southend-on-Sea and Blackpool.

Scarlette Douglas discovers if it's cheaper to book your summer holiday in advance or if last-minute booking is best. She also reveals the latest money-saving insider holiday tips.

As British women jet abroad for their summer holidays, thinking about sun, sea and sand, little do they know that predatory men lurk in these idyllic resorts, ready to romance them into bed, simply to get into their bank accounts! These love rats prey on women, wooing them with good looks, youth, charm and flattery. But when women fall for these flirty foreigners, they're often conned into handing over large sums of money, leaving them both broken-hearted and broke. In this documentary we'll reveal the truth behind the holiday romances from hell and speak to real women whose lives have been ruined by a foreign love rat.

Documentary looking at some of the travel problems faced by British holidaymakers so far in 2022, hearing stories from people who have experienced holiday nightmares. Thousands of families have had flights cancelled, and holidays ruined, but it's not just the airline industry in crisis. The whole country has plunged into chaos with national rail strikes, ferry cancellations, relentless roadworks, and food and petrol prices skyrocketing

Dr Xand van Tulleken and Dr Helen Lawal challenge three pairs of friends to try out the latest popular diets, while cook Stacie Stewart demonstrates some healthy recipes. Sophie and Zoe give the Citrus Diet and the Sexy Pineapple Diet a road test, Barbara and Denise spend six weeks on the Summer Salad Diet and the Summer Sandwich Diet ahead of their holiday in Ibiza, and Theo and Ervis take on the Greek Island Longevity Diet and the South American Diet so they can lose weight in time for a pool party.

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip of a lifetime as she explores the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer. Grace’s epic journey covers everything that informs our attitudes to summertime, from the travel shows of the 60s and 70s, which first brought the world’s finest resorts into our living rooms, to Del and Rodney Trotter fooling about abroad and the high jinks of Hi-de-Hi!

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday in the Lake District with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone… As a desperate battle for ownership of the island ensues, the real dangers of an adult world on the brink of war encroach on their paradise in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies hot on the tail of the enigmatic Jim Turner. As the sleepy British summer is turned on its head, the children must learn skills of survival, responsibility, and the all-important value of friendship. Steeped in the wonder of a child's imagination and set against the breath-taking backdrop of the Lakes, this is an exhilarating adaptation of a treasured classic.

Paul Murton explores the most fascinating parts of the country that have charmed visitors for more than 200 years.