CAN you guess who this is and where they are standing?
The image is taken from a stunning new BBC1 series called Britain From Above.
“It’s like Google Earth but for real,” explains presenter Andrew Marr.
That’s him on the roof of Manchester’s Beetham Tower for the opening sequence of the pioneering show.
I’ve watched the first programme three times now.
It contains amazing new images and perspectives shown for the first time on television.
Andrew was filmed from a circling helicopter as he stood talking to an on-board camera while on top of the tower.

FORMER Coronation Street star Suranne Jones has gone blonde to play her latest TV role – as a police killer.
The Manchester-based actress appeared as pictured on GMTV last week.
She explained that her new look was for a TV job but didn’t give any details.
So let’s put that right.
Suranne will play a woman called Ruth, trying to rebuild her life after serving a long prison sentence for murder.
She begins filming three-part ITV1 drama Unforgiven next month, with a script by ex-Corrie writer Sally Wainwright
The new series is being made in Yorkshire by Manchester’s Red Production Company and features that new look for the Chadderton-raised actress.

THE summer of 2008 has not been the best of times for TV drama.
Euro football, Wimbledon and the Open Golf have taken up big chunks of the schedules.
Not forgetting a little Olympic affair in Beijing still to come next month.
So if you’re feeling a touch deprived of top class telly drama, don’t miss Burn Up on BBC2 at 9pm tonight.
It’s a terrific two-parter, concluding at the same time on Friday.
I watched the first 90 minute episode almost two months ago in the screening cinema of a posh London hotel.
And the second last week, via my laptop, on a train from Manchester to Euston.
Spooks star Rupert Penry-Jones plays oil company boss Tom McConnell in a cast which includes The West Wing’s Bradley Whitford, plus Neve Campbell and Marc Warren.

ROBBIE Williams is “gutted” that a knee injury has forced him out of Soccer Aid 2008.
But I’m told the former Take That star will still be heavily involved in the charity game in aid of United Nations children’s charity UNICEF.
Tickets for the England v The Rest of the World TV spectacular at Wembley on Sept 7 went on sale at 9am today.
Ant and Dec will host the event, which was the brainchild of UNICEF ambassador Robbie and his pal Jonathan Wilkes.
The last match at Old Trafford in 2006 raised £2.6m for the charity’s work with partners for children around the world.
There’s a news story in today’s MEN – the online version is here.
I interviewed Robbie in the run-up to the last Soccer Aid game.

WILD At Heart fans are a devoted bunch.
I know from the huge number of comments and emails I receive just how much they appreciate the ITV1 series.
So I thought they might like to read the first full details of the fourth series, released this afternoon – with filming going on until November.
Here’s the official ITV press release:
“The Trevanions are back at Leopard’s Den for a fourth series of the much-loved, ratings winning ITV drama Wild At Heart and this series there is a new vet on the scene.
Dawn Steele (Sea of Souls, Monarch of the Glen) joins the cast as feisty vet Alice Collins, who has been working as a locum in South Africa, with her young daughter Charlotte. Danny needs a new vet to work alongside him in the busy animal hospital, but gradually realises he’s taken on more than he bargained for in Alice.

HOME movies are usually of no interest to anyone except those who are in them.
But Rosie Newman’s amateur films contain one or two gems.
They include the earliest known colour footage of the Queen – screened for the first time on TV tonight.
It was taken in the summer of 1936 by Rosie, the daughter of a wealthy banker.
Her family owned a house in London next door to one of the homes occupied by the Duke and Duchess of York.
They were to become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, known later as the Queen Mother.
Invited one day into their garden, Rosie captured colour images of young Princess Elizabeth – now our Queen – and her sister Princess Margaret, whose lives were about to change forever.
Within months King Edward VIII, torn between royal duty and his love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson, had abdicated.

RAFAEL Nadal has just been into the press conference room after achieving his Wimbledon dream tonight in one of the greatest finals of all time.
The raging bull from Majorca ended Roger Federer’s bid to win a record Open-era sixth successive men’s singles title.
But he still had to ask us what the score was.
Before revealing that he couldn’t see a thing at the end of the longest men’s final in Wimbledon history.
As the light faded on Centre Court, Nadal, 22, converted his fourth match point to take the Championship 6-4 6-4 6-7 6-7 9-7.
Rafa was applauded by the media as he walked into the press room.
He had been due to talk at 10.20pm – but being Nadal, it was 10.50pm before he arrived.
“Rafa’s minutes are elastic,” explained one official.
Well, I think we can forgive him.

LAURA Robson may have eclipsed Venus in terms of public and press attention.
But let’s at least mark the fact that Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon singles title here yesterday.
As for today – well, it’s raining again ahead of the Roger Federer v Rafael Nadal clash at 2pm.
Top sports writers from around the world have flown in to report on the dream final.
The rain may delay the start, with heavy showers also threatening to interrupt the match.
I was caught in one on the walk to the All England Club just after 8am and it was accompanied by much stronger winds than yesterday.
Clutching my brolly, I diverted into Wimbledon Park to check out the queue – both for ground passes today and possible play tomorrow.
There is, in fact, no need to turn up early for ground passes on the final Saturday and Sunday.

THERE was a last, almost embarrassed, wave as she walked off court.
But Laura Robson could not stop smiling.
She had, after all, just won the Girls’ Singles title at Wimbledon.
Those of us on Court One this afternoon can say we were there.
This was the day a Brit showed true grit.
The moment she held the trophy aloft.
It’s worth repeating, because it doesn’t happen very often.
We were there when a British player won a singles title on the green and pleasant lawns of the All England Club.
The last time was almost a quarter of a century ago in 1984.
That’s when Annabel Croft triumphed in the girls’ singles, the last British success in any of the singles competitions.
Wimbledon champion Laura, 14, arrived in the press conference room at 7.30pm.

JUST back from a walk around the All England Club ahead of the women’s final.
The grounds are packed, with people still coming in through the gates.
Lots of smiles in the sunshine for a special occasion, although there may be a shower later in the day.
The band is playing on Centre Court and it’s a wonderful English summer scene.
I took my camera along for the stroll and thought you might like to see a few random snaps.
Meanwhile Roger Federer has already been in to see us for his pre-final press conference.
There was a little bit of implied criticism of how Rafael Nadal slows the game down on court, but our Roger was mostly his usual respectful self.