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NATURE REPORTS RTS Springwatch 2019, 8pm, BBC2
CHRIS PACKHAM, Michaela Strachan and Iolo Williams (pictured) return for a second week of animal observation live from the Cairgorns National Park. As well as catching up on the action from the nest cameras, we spend time with Gillian Burke on the streets of Birmingham as she reports on the state of Britain’s urban wildlife.
INSIDER TIPS Tricks Of The Restaurant Trade, 8.30pm, Ch4
SIMON RIMMER investigates takeaway pizza cheese, and discovers that it’s not always as genuine as we think it is, while Sophie Morgan heads to Heathrow Airport to see how chefs cope with the demands of passengers in a rush to catch their flights.
RIVETING BIOPIC Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, 9pm, BBC2
ENEMIES is the title of this third in the riveting documentary series, and Margaret Thatcher (pictured) certainly had no end of those in the early 1980s, at home (as unemployment soared and the miners went on strike) and abroad (as Argentina invaded a distant and then little-known British territory named the Falkland Islands).
EMERGENCY SERVICE 999: What’s Your Emergency?, 9pm, Ch4
THE fly-on-the-wall series following workers in the emergency services returns for a ninth run. This time around, the attention shifts to one service in particular, following the work of the police as they defy overstretched resources in the battle to maintain order.
FILM CHOICES Overexposed: Burying A Scandal, 2.15pm, Ch5
A GRITTY thriller from the Lifetime channel, dealing with topical social issues. Mary Katherine Duhon is Erin, a teenage girl who makes the mistake of sending a sexy picture of herself to a boy in school. Panic, outrage and murder eventually follow.
In Which We Serve, 3.20pm,p BBC2
THE directorial debut of David Lean and Noel Coward — who share the job — is an assured Second World War drama that pretty much has it all. Coward also takes the lead, playing a Royal Navy destroyer captain (pictured), despitee studio misgivings over his rather less macho public image.