PICK OF THE DAY

THE WINDERMERE CHILDREN

9PM, BBC2 ★★★★★

In 1945, 300 child survivors of the concentration camps were brought to Lake Windermere to recover. Showing after a programme to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at 7pm, this is a shattering dramatisation of that process, and it’s in the details of their behaviour that you see how deeply the Nazi horrors shaped them: the way the youngest ones react to a dog’s bark; the way they all hide food; the terrifying paintings they produce. One outlet is football, coached by Jock (Iain Glen, far right, with Pascal Fischer as Ben).

SILENT WITNESS

9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

This week’s case is an engaging mystery that steadily reveals itself to the viewer. When human remains are discovered in a car park pillar, Dr Nikki breaks out both the actual and the intellectual chisel to chip away at its secrets. Meanwhile, Clarissa receives upsetting news that forces her to make a difficult decision.

COLD FEET

9PM, ITV ★★★★

Adam is a man of instinct – it’s why he’s with Karen and why, tonight, he goes bounding after the young woman he nearly adopted with Rachel all those years ago. The results of that send ripples through his family, but otherwise, tonight’s episode is theoretically about bonding, with trips away for both the women and the men.

999: WHAT’S YOUR EMERGENCY?

9PM, CH4 ★★★

This alarming portrait of our overstretched emergency services continues. Tonight’s episode focuses on police custody in Northamptonshire, where there are just 62 cells for a population of 700,000 – and, frustratingly for officers, familiar faces are clogging up the system. ROBIN WIGGS