Street Market Chefs (Five, 7.30pm); A Time to Remember (BBC4, 8.30pm); Later Live – With Jools Holland (BBC2, 10pm).

DO we really need another cookery show? Probably not, but we’re going to get one anyway. No famous chefs are involved in Street Market Chefs, although presenter Amanda Lamb is familiar from property programmes.

The idea of the show is to pit professional chefs up and down the country against one another while celebrating the best seasonal produce from across the country.

Lamb tours Britain’s market towns with a challenge to chefs to go head-to-head in a competition to produce two-course meals. But there’s a catch – the ingredients must be fresh and seasonal, bought during the same day from local stalls.

The first episode sees Lamb begin her tour in York, where she meets Robert Ramsden, an executive chef and regular at the York Food and Drink festival, and Stephanie Moon, consultant chef at the award-winning Rudding Park Hotel, in Harrogate.

Both will be taken out of their usual kitchens for this challenge, in which they will have to prepare and cook their dishes alfresco in the heart of York under the watchful eye of shoppers, traders and, of course, the judges – freelance food writer Maggie Wragg, York City football player Neil Barrett and Michelin-starred chef Frances Atkins.

Robert and Stephanie may think their challenge sounds like a doddle, but it comes with a condition – they have to incorporate honey into their dishes.

For Lamb, it’s a far cry from offering up expert opinions to prospective buyers wanting to get on the housing ladder, but cookery isn’t something she’s wholly new to, after co-hosting the satellite TV show Market Kitchen in 2006.

“When I first started Market Kitchen, the powers-that-be were worried if I’d be any good, but I’ve never, ever claimed to be a chef. I just love food, and I’ve learnt so much.”

But she admits her attitude towards food has changed since giving birth to daughter Willow Rose. “I’ve definitely become a lot more efficient, I’ve become the queen of the one-pot wonders. I did a big Sunday lunch recently for some friends, and as lovely as it was, it was just so allconsuming.

“I was making a chocolate cake, and I’d just whisked the egg whites when Willow started to puke everywhere. So it was like ‘Aaaaargh!’ I’ve had to become a lot more organised.”

THE format of A Time To Remember is simple enough: events during the first half of the 20th Century are traced through footage from the Fifties newsreel series Time to Remember.

So far, the programme has featured footage of aviators who took to the skies in the early 20th Century, actor Charles Laughton applying his own stage makeup, Hurricanes taking off to fight in the Battle of Britain, a suffragette protest by Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby and Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica.

Tonight, there’s archive newsreel of royalty, including Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Edward VIII hunting, George V’s coronation and King Alexander of Yugoslavia being assassinated in Marseilles in 1934. Actress Lesley Sharp narrates our way through another interesting slice of history.

LATER Live – With Jools Holland welcomes Sir Paul McCartney celebrating the reissue of Band On The Run by performing tracks from the album.

Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello returns to the Later studio to perform music from his new release, National Ransom, and from Ohio, the Black Keys play a couple of numbers from their latest album.

US soul singer and rapper Aloe Blacc also joins Jools for his Later debut.

Future shows in this 37th series feature Robert Plant, Midlake, and Kings of Leon.