ART OF PERSIA

9PM, BBC4 ★★★ Reverent new, three-part tour of the history and culture of a land we now call Iran. Samira Ahmed (left) heads to such incredible sites as Persepolis, which was built by

Darius the Great (550-486BC) – a ruler who earned his title by digging the first Suez canal, and introduced standardised weights and measures.

LOVE ISLAND: AUSTRALIA

9PM, ITV2 ★★★

With this summer’s UK Love Island abandoned, ITV2 is instead showing the first series of the Australian version from 2018. Sophie Monk is the host, and 25-year-old Melbourne barmaid Cassidy (left) is among the Aussie singletons embarking on the ultimate summer of love. Continues nightly.

A VERY BRADY RENOVATION

10PM, HGTV ★★★

The surviving members of The Brady Bunch (including Barry Williams, left) come together for this curious challenge. The idea is to re-create the interior of their old TV home inside the structurally different house used for the exterior shots. (Freeview 42, Freesat 166, Sky 158, Virgin 279) RW

SKY COMEDY

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8.35am Class Rank (2017)12 u (S) 10.30 Identity Thief (2013) 15 u

See 6pm. (S)

12.25pm Family (2019) 15 u

See 8pm. (S)

2.05 Sword of Trust (2019) 15 u

See 9.40pm. (S)

3.45 The Terminal (2004) 12

Eastern European Tom Hanks becomes stranded in America after a coup in his homeland, but makes a life for himself in J.F.K. Airport. (S)

6.00 Identity Thief (2013) 15

Executive Jason Bateman goes in search of the con-woman living off his credit cards. (S)

8.00 Family (2019) 15 Socially awkward Taylor Schilling is tasked with babysitting her equally awkward niece – and everything goes awry. (S)

9.40 Sword of Trust (2019) 15

A woman inherits a sword with an alleged important past from her grandfather. (S)

11.20 The Cleanse (2016) 15

Depressed Johnny Galecki gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a mysterious spiritual retreat. (S)

12.50am-3.05 The Terminal

(2004) 12 See 3.45pm. (S)

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PROM

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2.25PM, SKY FAMILY HHH Teen romance exploring the highs and lows ahead of the last prom before college. Aimee Teegarden is the student finding a special connection in an unlikely place.

SKY DISNEY

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7.10am Herbie Goes Bananas

(1980) U ● (S)

8.50 Christopher Robin

(2018) PG ● (S)

10.45 Old Dogs (2009) PG ● (S)

12.20pm Maleficent: Mistress of

Evil (2019) PG ● See 7pm.

2.25 Lilo & Stitch (2002) U

See 10.55pm. (S)

3.55 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

(2011) U ● (S)

5.25 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta! (2012)U●

The leader of a group of pampered Chihuahuas helps the pack’s smallest member gain some self-esteem. (S)

7.00 Maleficent: Mistress of

Evil (2019) PG ● Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning begin to question the complex family ties that bind them.

9.00 Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) PG ● Six years after the events of Wreck-it Ralph, the video game character embarks on a new adventure. (S)

10.55 Lilo & Stitch (2002) U A manic alien on the run crashes his spaceship in Hawaii and befriends a little girl. (S)

12.30am-2.05 Beverly Hills

Chihuahua 2 (2011) U ● (S)

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KEN BRUCE

9.30AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Cher chose Adele’s Rolling In The Deep and Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ to kick off her Tracks Of My Years when she was a guest on the Ken Bruce show. The superstar actress and singer was a guest on Ken’s show just after the release of 2013’s Closer To The Truth, her 25th studio album.

EMMA

12.06PM, 10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Emma’s father sits by the fireside, fretting about draughts and worrying about weddings. He doesn’t like marriage at all as it disrupts everyday life, but his young, rich, pretty daughter doesn’t agree with him. Emma’s hobby is matchmaking, but her various romantic schemes for her

BBC RADIO 4

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5.33am Shipping Forecast 5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day

6.00 Today

9.00 Start the Week Colm Toibin and Mary Costello discuss James Joyce

9.30 Home School History Greg Jenner looks at the gladiators of Rome.

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: The Bells of Old Tokyo By Anna Sherman.

Read by Amanda Root.

10.00 Woman’s Hour Including at 10.45 Drama: Part six of The Seventh Test.

11.00 The Untold Stories of

21st-century Britain.

11.30 Loose Ends Guests

include Siobhan Finneran.

12noon News

12.03 Shipping Forecast

BBC RADIO 1

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7am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show. 11.00 Clara Amfo. 12.45pm Newsbeat. 1.00 Clara Amfo. 3.00 Nick Grimshaw. 5.45 Newsbeat. 6.00 Nick Grimshaw. 7.00 Power Down Playlist. 9.00 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie. 11.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show. 1am Drum & Bass Show.

BBC RADIO 3

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6.30am Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Classics. 12noon Composer of the Week: Beethoven – Hero. 1.00

PICK Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.

2.00 Afternoon Concert. Performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 4.30 Early Music Now. Performances from the 2019 London International Festival of Early Music. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape. An eclectic, nonstop mix of music.

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs Janacek, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. 10.00 Music Matters.

10.45 The Essay: Italy Outdoors. Polly Coles reads her essay on the life of Italy’s public spaces. 11.00 Night Tracks. 12.30am Through the Night.

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Cher (9.30am, Radio 2) friends and neighbours often go horribly wrong. Eve Best reads this ten-part adaptation of Jane Austen’s subtle, funny novel.

RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

1PM, RADIO 3 HHHHH

The pianist Imogen Cooper sits alone on the stage at London’s Wigmore Hall; she looks out

12.06 12.20 1.00 1.45

2.00 2.45 3.00

3.30 4.00

4.30 5.00 6.00 6.30 7.00

PICK Emma

You and Yours

The World at One

A Big Disease with a Little Name The efforts of Aids Coalition to Unleash Power.

Drama: Tumanbay

By Mike Walker.

PICK Two Thousand Years of Puzzling My Generation Quiz, hosted by Stuart Maconie.

The Food Programme Tales from the Stave

The composition of Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto.

The Digital Human PM News programme.

Six O’clock News

The Unbelievable Truth New series. With Holly Walsh, Miles Jupp, Sara Pascoe and Frankie Boyle.

The Archers Lilian is on a mission.

BBC RADIO 2

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5am Vanessa Feltz. 6.30 The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. 9.30 PICK Ken Bruce. 12noon Jeremy Vine.

2.00 Steve Wright in the Afternoon. 5.00 Sara Cox. 8.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation.

11.00 The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews. 12midnight O.J. Borg.

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

5am Wake Up to Money. 6.00

5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 Emma Barnett. 1pm Nihal Arthanayake. 4.00 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 Live Sport: The Monday Night Club. 8.00 The Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show. 9.00 Colin Murray. 12midnight The Coronavirus Newscast. 1.00 Jim Davis.

CLASSIC FM

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6am More Music Breakfast. 9.00 Alexander Armstrong. 12noon Anne-marie Minhall. 4.00 Aled Jones. 7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven. With Aled Jones. 8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John Suchet. John introduces Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. 10.00 Smooth Classics. 7.15 7.45

Front Row Arts programme.

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward By H.P. Lovecraft.

Meanwhile in Damascus Jeremy Bowen examines who will hold real power in a post-war Syria.

Analysis Tina Miller explores why more time and money is being spent on children than ever before.

Afterlives Two women share their journeys to recovery.

9.30 Start the Week

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 PICK Book at Bedtime: Emma By Jane Austen.

Forest 404 Pan and

Theia have a plan.

11.30 Today in Parliament 12midnight News; Weather

12.30 Book of the Week:

The Bells of Old Tokyo 12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

8.00 8.30 9.00 11.00

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA

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6am Lord Peter Wimsey – Murder Must Advertise. 6.30 Whip Hand. 7.00 Sneakiepeeks. 7.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. 8.00 The Navy Lark. 8.30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile. 9.00 Foul Play. 9.30 Chambers. 10.00 The Sea Wolf. 11.00 TED Radio Hour. 12noon The Navy Lark. 12.30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile. 1.00

Lord Peter Wimsey – Murder Must Advertise. 1.30 Whip Hand. 2.00 Foul Play. 2.30 Chambers. 3.00

The Sea Wolf. 4.00 TED Radio Hour. 5.00 Sneakiepeeks. 5.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. 6.00

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace. 6.30 Agoodread. 7.00 The Navy Lark. 7.30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile. 8.00

Lord Peter Wimsey – Murder Must Advertise. 8.30 Whip Hand. 9.00

TED Radio Hour. Guy Raz explores how people endure their darkest moments, looking at what it takes to show resilience in the face of adversity. 10.00 Comedy Club: I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. With Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-taylor, Jeremy Hardy and Rory Bremner. 10.30 The Mark Steel Solution. 11.00 Dead Ringers. 11.30 Hut 33. 12midnight

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace.

(HD)

Strategic game show with Dan Walker. (R)(HD) Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip Terry Wogan and Mason Mcqueen’s tour stops off in Chester, where they sample the county’s famous Cheshire cheese. (R)(HD) Euros Rewind England v Croatia. Action from the Euro 2004 Group B encounter at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, where a young Wayne Rooney was in inspired form. (HD)

Ainsley Harriott and Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman arrive in Bristol, where Len has his first taste of Jamaican food, and Ainsley cooks a dish inspired by his heritage. (R)(HD)

Paul Martin presents from Highcliffe Castle. (R)(HD)

Quiz show. (R)(HD)

Michael Portillo conducts important research in a historic York tea room, discovers Leeds’s textile heritage, and investigates Bradford’s musical past. (R)(HD)(AD)

Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system, revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets. He also addresses plans to take humans to Mars. (R)(HD)

Laura Jane Clark and Robert Jamison create virtual-reality renovations for a three-bed home in Surrey, and help the owners to decide if an extension is a good idea. (HD) PICK A House Through Time Tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street’s occupants. Last in series. See Pick of the Day. (HD)(AD)

Griff Rhys Jones, Scarlett Moffatt, Adil Ray, Angela Scanlon and Janet Street-porter go out for dinner and play a series of games, with the loser picking up the bill. (R)(HD)

Analysis of the day’s events, presented by

Emily Maitlis. (HD); Weather

Part 1/2. The Irwins experience 50 years of black British history, discovering how post-war Caribbean immigration transformed the way of life in the UK. (R)(HD)(AD)

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