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DOCUMENTAR­Y

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C4, 9pm AT the start of this year, Grayson Perry set out to make art about what he calls “the most divisive issue of my lifetime” – Brexit.

The Turner Prize winner, known for his ceramic vases and crossdress­ing, decided to explore both sides of the argument.

He says: “The referendum has inflamed people’s passions more than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.”

And then, right in the middle of his investigat­ions, Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election. This one-off special follows Grayson as he pursues his challenge to make two pieces of art. He spends a night driving around in a minicab chatting to punters in Boston, Lincolnshi­re – the highest number of Leave voters in Britain, and also in Hackney London, where 78 per cent voted Remain.

And he uses social media to crowdsourc­e imagery for his art. The result is a matching pair of vases – one to capture the hopes and dreams of Leavers, one for Remainers. They are, he says, “pots to stand on the mantleshel­f of Britain”. BROKEN BBC1, 9pm SEAN Bean and Anna Friel star in this gritty thriller, starting tonight after being postponed due to the Manchester terror attack last week.

Set in northern England and written by Jimmy McGovern, who gave us Cracker, our hero is Sean Bean as we’ve never seen him before.

Usually swatting off villains as an action man, here he is softly spoken Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan. Although, if the flashbacks are anything to go by, he’s got a few skeletons in his closet. Meanwhile, TORMENTED Single mum Christina

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