Howards End

SoHo, 8.30pm

Actor Matthew Macfayden (left) told TV Guide he was ready to hang up his top hat and monocle and give period dramas a break, until he read the script for Howards End. It was “so good” that he couldn’t resist starring in this television adaptation of the EM Forster novel about two unconventional sisters and the men in their lives. Story p14.