PICK OF THE DAY
PASTRY PERFECTION? The Great British Bake Off, 8pm, Ch4
IT’S pastry week and the bakers kick off with a Cornish dish, before Prue (pictured with Paul Hollywood) sets a retro challenge in the technical round. Then, only the showstopper lies between one of them and the title of star baker. How hard can it be to rustle up a tart hidden iin a pastryt cage? ?
AUTUMN FEAST How To Cook Well With Rory O’Connell, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
THE chef wraps up his latest series of fancy recipes with pickled beetroot tacos with smoked eel butter, as well as roast chicken salad, courgette salad and a blackberry and geranium posset.
ENTERTAINING DRAMA Life, 9pm, BBC1
THE boundaries between the lives of the flat-dwelling neighbours continue to crumble as the six-part drama reaches its fourth episode. Henry struggles with the effects of Gail’s decision, Neil makes Belle (Victoria Hamilton, left) an offer that sparks a confrontation, and Hannah and Liam host a dinner party where secrets are very definitely on the menu.
OPERATING THEATRE Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life, 9pm, BBC2
IT’S hard to imagine a pair of operations more jaw-droppingly difficult than the ones on the table here. First up, the neurosurgeons at Addenbrooke’s have to peel away at a tumour on a patient’s spinal
cord. Then, the specialists at Papworth perform a double lung transplant.
POLITICAL UPHEAVAL Mrs America, 11.15pm, RTÉ One
IT’S 1977 and conservatives Alice (Sarah Paulson) and Phylis (Cate Blanchett, right) attend the National Women’s Conference in Houston, but Alice inadvertently gets high after making a new, but politically opposed, friend at the hotelotel barbar.
FILM CHOICE Naal, 2.05am, Ch4
SUPERB Marathi-language drama following Chaitanya (Shrinivas Pokale), a lively eight-year-old boy living with his landlord father and long-suffering mother in a rural village in Maharashtra. His quiet world is turned upside-down when his uncle reveals that he is adopted, and there follows an obsessive search as he sets out to track down and meet his birth mother.