PICKS OF THE DAY
Education: Class Of Mum And Dad, 8pm, C4
If you have ever told your children “it wasn’t like that in my day” or something akin to that then this should be considered required viewing for you this evening. A class of parents experience what it is really like for their children as they go back to school. For half a term, these “senior” students will study the year six curriculum alongside their own children. On the first day of the experiment, pupils of Blackrod Primary School discover their parents are joining them, and for the grown ups it creates mixed emotions as they face old demons, such as sports day. Prepare to have some old memories come flooding back before a feeling of thank goodness that’s not me.
Travel: Great Indian Railway Journeys, 8pm, BBC2
Another fabulous Michael Portillo journey comes to a close this evening as he moves from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal. The broadcaster (left) charts a course through India’s history from the days of The East India Company to the dawn of independence. In Lucknow, he samples the famous kebabs and stops off at Bodh Gaya, where he meditates on its Buddhist heritage. In Kolkata, he glimpses colonial Calcutta.
Documentary: Made In Yorkshire, 9pm, Channel 5
Chocolate, sausages and John Prescott – what more could you ask for from Tuesday night television? The former Deputy Prime Minister (above left) is travelling around Yorkshire in this mini-series exploring some of the factories which are manufacturing the county’s best-loved food products. In Skipton he takes a look at long-running family business Whitakers Chocolates before a trip to a sausage factory in Northallerton.
Reality: This Time Next Year, 8pm, ITV
Davina McCall (above right) returns with the show in which participants tackle a challenge and seek to complete it within 12 months. They include new parents who want to transform the life of their deaf baby girl and a military couple eager to start a family. Cameras also follow a mother and daughter who hope to lose 15 stone and an oncology student who wants to one day become Miss England.
Drama: Come Home, 9pm, BBC1
This absorbing threeparter reaches its conclusion with Greg and Marie hurtling towards a divisive family court case as the episode begins. You need to be ready to leap between the past and the present at regular intervals as we learn more about their life as a couple. The custody battle forces them to examine the choices they have made and the impact of their behaviour. Christopher Eccleston (right) and Paula Malcomson star.