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PLANTING IDEAS Gardeners’ World, 8pm, BBC2 MONTY DON looks past the winter months that lie ahead and plants bulbs and wildflowers to provide an early spring feast for insects. Plus, Adam Frost visits Sezincote Garden in Gloucestershire, while Nick Bailey is at Powis Castle, Wales, to find out what it takes to trim the centuries-old, 45ft-tall yew hedges. WELSH WATERS The Island Strait, 8pm, ITV THE Menai Strait is the ribbon of shallow sea that separates the isle of Anglesey from mainland Wales. This new, four-part series follows a year in the life of this magical stretch of tidal water and the people who live here, including conservationist Frankie and boatmen Stan and Emrys. TWO-WHEELED TOURISTS Britain By Bike With Larry & George Lamb, 8pm, Ch5 THE fifth episode sees George and Larry (pictured with Derry tour guide Garvin G Kerr) exploring Northern Ireland viav its most scenic cycle routes. While George is keen to explore the province’s premier mountain biking spot, Larry gets to indulge his passion for one of his favourite foods when the pair tuck into oysters and Guinness. They also visit a seal sanctuary, try their luck at leprechaun hunting, learn to play the bodhran drum, have a flutter at the races and delve into their ancestry. FILM CHOICES The Other Man, 11.50pm, BBC1 RICHARD EYRE (Notes On A Scandal) directs this tangled psychological drama,

which tanked spectacularly at the box office, despite its strong cast. Liam Neeson stars as a widower discovering that his late wife (Laura Linney) led a double life during her frequent business trips to Italy. Red Eye, 12.40am, Ch4 CILLIAN MURPHY plays a charming psychopath in Wes Craven’s tense mid-air thriller. Murphy is a terrorist engaged in a convoluted assassination plot, who forces Rachel McAdams (pictured, with Murphy) to be his unwilling accomplice on a flight to Miami.