War Horse, 2.20pm, BBC1

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel is sprawling and sentimental. Jeremy Irvine is the lad who is

so devoted to his horse that when the young bay thoroughbred is conscripted into the British army at the outbreak of the First World War, he wants to enlist. The drama follows a foal from birth to the battlefield, with his former owner and trainer not far behind.