PICKP OF THE DAY

BLACKB EARTH RISING, 9PM, BBC2

WRITTEN, produced and directed by Baftawinner w Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman, The Shadow Line), this powerful p eight-part thriller stars Harriet Walter as Eve Ashby, a leading human rights lawyer whose adopted daughter, Kate (Michaela Coel, pictured), survived the horrors of the Rwandan genocide as a child. Kate is now working as a legal investigator in the same chambers as her mother, run by Michael Ennis (John Goodman). But when Eve agrees to prosecute an African militia leader once regarded as a hero for fighting the genocide, the mother-daughter relationship is strained to breaking point.