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PRUE LEITH: JOURNEY WITH MY DAUGHTER

9PM, CH4 ★★★★

The Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith adopted daughter Li-da from Cambodia in 1975, and gave her an idyllic English upbringing, rarely questionin­g whether she could have helped Li-da to connect more with her Cambodian roots. But all that’s about to change as mother and daughter (right) travel to Cambodia to search for Li-da’s biological family, and to find out more about her past and her country’s chequered history. It’s a revealing and intimate documentar­y, and the likeable Li-da is a TV natural.

YOURHOMEMA­DEPERFECT

8PM, BBC2 ★★★

Last week, Robert Jamison won over the clients with his bold bath-in-the-livingroom scheme. Can the unconventi­onal architect make it two out of two, or will his rival, Laura Jane Clark, impress Surrey couple Punam and Anuj with her virtualrea­lity scheme for their dysfunctio­nal 1930s home?

OUR GIRL

9PM, BBC1 ★★★ In this week’s dramatic episode, Fingers’ life hangs in the balance after the Taliban attack, and Georgie (Michelle Keegan) has to draw on all her experience and skill to try to save him. But things take a turn for the worse when they enter enemy territory. Can Blue (Ben Batt) and his special forces buddies ride to their rescue before it’s too late?

INSIDE THE FACTORY

9PM, BBC2 ★★★

Gregg Wallace visits an enormous foundry in France, where they produce a castiron pot every five seconds. Cherry Healey, meanwhile, is in South Africa, visiting one of the largest iron ore mines in the world. Nine miles long by three miles wide, it produces a staggering 670,000 tonnes every day. MIKE MULVIHILL

8PM, YESTERDAY ★★★★

The penultimat­e instalment of this nteresting series about a fatherand-son military antiques business. This week, Dave (left) and Steve Nuwar find some Home Guard memorabili­a at Brecon Military Fair, and search for the story behind it at the London Fire Brigade Museum.

9PM, ALIBI ★★★★ nspector Wellington (Stuart Martin) arrives in Miss Scarlet’s office, unkempt and reeking of booze, and with a job offer from Scotland Yard. t sends Eliza (Kate Phillips, left, with Martin) on quite an adventure in this Victorian-set series, which is becoming more fun with every passing week.

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