Pick of The DAY

SARAH THE LUMBERJILL – OUR LIVES

7.30PM, BBC1 ★★★ Chainsaws are in safe hands in the Highlands as fourth-generation forester Sarah Yeaman shares the joys of working with wood and machinery in this Our Lives film. With her father Ralph and brother Ralphy, Sarah has timber in her blood, working for the business set up by her grandfather some 150 years ago. We follow Sarah – one of few women working in this male-dominated industry – as she works on the clean-up operation following the worst storms to hit the area in a lifetime.

GARDENERS’ WORLD 8PM, BBC2

★★★★ Getting ready for summer, Monty Don plants agapanthus to add more colour pops to the jewel garden, while Carol Klein visits a garden in Wiltshire, where ornamental onions, or alliums (above), are the stars of the show. Adam Frost, meanwhile, is in north London at the training centre of Tottenham Hotspur, where an innovative kitchen garden keeps players, coaches and staff well-fed with healthy food.

ONE QUESTION 8PM, CH4 ★★★

Claudia Winkleman hosts a new quiz that hopes to capture the magic of hits such as Deal Or No Deal or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? by dangling a big cash prize seemingly within reach of its contestants. Naturally, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. The first question – ‘What is a circle? – sounds ridiculous, but there is only a series of fixed answers to choose, adding tricky new layers of deflection and confusion. Winkleman is an upbeat host, wanting to make sure the contestants have fun, whether or not they win the £100,000

prize – and despite the straightforward questions, this is a quiz that will challenge even the most expert of trivia and general knowledge supremos.

WORLD’S MOST SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS 8PM, CH5

★★★★

When you think of train travel, deserts don’t often come to mind, but just such an arid landscape is the destination for tonight’s epic railway journey. Sit back and follow the snaking journey of a ten-day expedition, from the remote city of Walvis Bay in Namibia, through the Kalahari desert to Pretoria in South Africa.

BRITISH PLANES THAT WON THE WAR WITH ROB BELL 9PM, CH5 ★★★★★

‘You didn’t so much get into a Spitfire

and fly it. You strapped a Spitfire on…’. So says author John Nichol, who interviewed veterans about what it was really like to fly these iconic planes (above). It’s testimony such as John’s and close-up tours of the cockpit that bring home the fact that this beautiful plane was also a brutally efficient weapon. A fast, agile warplane that, strapped on to our heroic pilots, took on the Luftwaffe and helped us to victory in the Second World War.