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TV tonight: inside the astonishing true story of a casino bomb plot

A wild true-crime tale. Plus Jamie Oliver’s ultimate barbecue and a gruelling trek with Bear Grylls and Matthew McConaughey. Here’s what to watch this evening 9.45pm, BBC TwoThis heart-racing, three-part documentary tells the wild story of a casino bomb and the man behind it. In 1980, a ticking timebomb using 1,000lb of dynamite was wheeled through Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe, with a note demanding $3m (£2.2m) attached to it. It was so sophisticated that, as one bomb squad member who was there remembers in the first episode, “all the usual techniques were thrown out of the window”. Hollie Richardson 8pm, Channel 4Jamie Oliver tries to improve the nation’s barbecue skills for summer in his latest show. Expect the usual mix of step-by-step advice and mouthwatering dishes, which in this opener include a sirloin steak cooked three ways and some luscious lamb lollipops. Graeme Virtue 8pm, Channel 5Big news in series three of the charming Our Yorkshire Farm spin-off: Reuben has a new favourite tractor. He’s soon putting it to work assembling a sheep pen. Then everyone mucks in with sheep shearing, including younger brothers Miles and Sid (who might consider themselves lucky

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TV tonight: inside the astonishing true story of a casino bomb plot

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