PICK OF THE DAY

The Ganges With Sue

Perkins

9PM, BBC1

In this colourful and enjoyable three-part series, Sue Perkins travels 1,500 miles along the ‘beautiful, contradictory and rather pungent’ Ganges river, from its source high in the Himalayas to journey’s end at the Bay of Bengal. Though she is, as ever, quick-witted and endearing, it’s not all about fun for Sue, who has had ‘a really horrible year’. As she travels through some of the most chaotic, exciting and spiritual places on Earth, walking in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims turns out to have a profoundly affecting emotional resonance.

H Is For Hawk: A New Chapter – Natural World

9PM, BBC2

Ten years ago, to cope with the sudden death of her father, Helen Macdonald bought and trained a goshawk; the book she wrote about her experience was a bestseller. This poignant, lyrical film follows Helen as she sets out to train a new bird ‘that won’t be a solution to grief, but my wings to somewhere new’.

Gordon Ramsay On Cocaine

9PM, ITV

‘I’ve been asked to dust cocaine on top of souffles, to [use it] as icing sugar…’ In this hardhitting two-part documentary, chef Gordon Ramsay explores the grim trail of criminality and death that is bringing cocaine to our streets – shockingly, Britons consume 30 tonnes of the drug every year, making us Europe’s biggest user.

Bad Habits, Holy Orders

10PM, CH5

Four-part series following five young women as they spend four weeks living in a convent in Norfolk – no booze, social media or men allowed. Will Sister Thomas More and her Daughters Of Divine Charity help the girls to swap the bad habits of their generation for something less narcissistic and more meaningful?