WAYS OF LIFE

A Very British History: Romany Gypsies, 9pm, BBC4

IN THE first of a new series of histories of Britain’s minority communities, the writer Damian Le Bas explores the story of Romany gypsies gyp in the UK. It’s a tangled one, even down to the language. Le Bas says he avoids saying ‘Romany’ in ‘certain contexts’ because ‘it’s easily confused with Romanian’.