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HISTORICAL TALE The Warrior Queen of Jhansi, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere

THIS historical epic is the story of Rani Lakshmibai, queen of the state of Jhansi in northern India, who was a leading figure in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Rupert Everett is among the cast

FOOTBALL Belgium v Wales, 7pm, Sky Main Event

WALES will have to be at their best from the moment their campaign to qualify for the 2022 World Cup kicks off this evening, because captain Gareth Bale and co begin in Leuven against the team currently ranked number one in the world.

KINGS & QUEENS Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets, 8pm, BBC4

THE Tower of London, Hampton Court and Kensington Palace have seen few visitors of late. Luckily for us, Lucy Worsley’s day job as joint chief curator at

Historic Royal Palaces means she has the keys. So, in this one-off, we embark on a fascinatin­g tour of these eerily empty buildings.

CASTLE RUINS Abandoned Engineerin­g, 8pm, Yesterday

THEY often oversell the eeriness of the sites on this show, but tonight’s first stop lives up to its build-up — Scotland’s ruined Buchanan Castle is blending into the trees, and it’s an extraordin­ary sight. During World War II, it was a military hospital, attended by Rudolf Hess.

MOBSTER MOVIE Bugsy, 9pm, Sony Classic

THE story of gangster ‘Bugsy’ Siegel and his struggle to build a casino in the Nevada desert becomes a warped one-man-and-hisdream saga. Warren Beatty stars as Siegel.

FILM ROMANCE The notebook, Amazon Prime

IT LEFT iPlayer last week and now, this romance, based on Nicholas Sparks’s 1996 novel, comes to Amazon.

The story follows two lovers (played by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling) in the Forties.

EIGHTIES SITCOM Duty free, 9.30pm, forces Tv

A REPEAT from the start for this Eighties comedy about holiday adultery, which is surprising­ly vicious when you look back on it. Keith Barron played the married David, who was forever sneaking off with Linda (Joanna Van Gyseghem). (Sky 181, Freeview 96, Freesat 165, Virgin 274)

COMEDY DRAMA Reunions, Acorn Tv

LIVELY French family drama in which a couple take over a hotel on sunny Reunion island in the Indian Ocean, which the husband has jointly inherited with the half-brother he didn’t know he had.

PANEL GAME Hypothetic­al, 10pm, Dave

ONE of the highlights of this absurd panel show has been James Acaster (pictured with co-host Josh Widdicombe) playing various characters as he tests out the comedians’ ridiculous solutions to the problems he poses. He’s playing Dolly Parton tonight, with Phil Wang, Ellie Taylor and Jo Brand among the guests.

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