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WARTIME THRILLER The Train, 3.30pm, Film4
EXCITING, fact-based adventure from John Frankenheimer. Burt Lancaster stars as a French train manager and resistance fighter who agrees to liberate priceless artworks from the clutches of the Nazis. Paul Schofield plays the Wehrmacht art expert he’s up against.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Paddington 2, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THE bear goes to prison, where he continues to see the best in everyone, in this delightful and very British sequel. What’s less obvious about it is the technical brilliance, as you barely notice that Paddington is computer animated.
MONEY MAN Inside Hitler’s Killing Machine, 6pm, Yesterday
NEW series that continues daily and opens with the lesser-known figure of Hjalmar Schacht, the ‘Devil’s banker’ who transformed Germany’s finances after the crippling post-war inflation. He served Hitler’s government but was never a member of the Nazi party.
FILM DRAMA Custody, 6pm, Sky Premiere
SYMPATHETIC courtroom drama following the lawyer (Hayden Panettiere, pictured) and judge (Viola Davis) dealing with the case of a mother trying to get her kids back from protective custody.
FOOTBALL Manchester United v Sevilla, 7pm, BT Sport 2
DAVID DE GEA kept United in the first leg of this Champions League tie with some stunning saves. Otherwise, the 0-0 draw was a functional performance from United, and the Old Trafford faithful will hope for more tonight.
NOTORIOUS CASE ASE The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story, 9pm, BBC4
IN 1955, Ruth Ellis (played by Emma Moore, pictured) became the last woman to be hanged in Britain — for the murder of her lover, in n an apparently open-and-ndshut case. case In this new, daily three-parter, British-American director Gillian Pachter digs into the case and finds troubling omissions and assumptions.
AUSSIE MINERS Outback Opal Hunters, 9pm, Quest
NINETY per cent of opals come from Australia, which is why the country has so many of those shops that sell twinkly ornaments. This interesting new series shows us how the miners dig them out of the ground, and includes a visit to ‘opal mecca’ Coober Pedy.
JUSTICE SYSTEM The Prosecutors: Real Crime And Punishment, 10pm, BBC4
THIS revealing and rigorous, threepart documentary series follows the work of Crown Prosecution Service lawyers over 18 months as they decide whom to charge and what to charge them with in any given case. This first part deals with the case of a child killed in a collision with a car and makes for
moving m viewing.
DARK COMEDY Divorce, 10.10pm, Sky Atlantic
FFRANCES ploughs her efforts into her new art gallery, and Robert into selling his house, as season two of this HBO comedy continues.ti ThisThi episode has less arguing in it than any so far, because the children aren’t in it — the biggest source of tension here is Frances’s increasingly frustrated friend Diane (Molly Shannon).
SOLDIER’S STORY A War, 11pm, BBC4
DANISH drama, from the director of A Hijacking, following with sensitivity the devastating fallout of an officer’s actions in Afghanistan. Borgen’s Pilou Asbaek is the commander who faces legal action as his wife and three children are pulled into the mire.