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Will love flourish in the farmyard or fall at the first haybale? We’ll find out when Sara Cox returns to play Cupid in LOVE IN THE

COUNTRYSIDE (BBC2, 9pm). The lovelorn farmers more used to mucking out than making hay include Grace, whose job on the family’s 380-acre farm on the Welsh border has left her no time to find a soulmate. An evening of speed dating – is this the 1990s? – results in Grace choosing three men to invite back to the homestead, where the hopeful blokes try to impress her in the milking parlour.

The other lonely heart is farmer Martin, who’s just taken over his family farm, leaving him with even less time for love. Sara helps Martin identify a trio of dates to join him at on his rural turf, but he’s understandably worried about the rustic state of his home. Love Island, this isn’t – and what a relief. With letterwriting, speed-dating and shy glances involved, it seems far more innocent than that.

It’s the day of reckoning for the famous faces in SINK OR SWIM FOR STAND UP TO CANCER (C4, 9.15pm). Twelve weeks ago, the likes of Linford Christie and James Argent were practically non-swimmers, but they and the other stars pushed past their fears to conquer the water – particularly moving has been the journey of The Last Leg’s Alex Brooker, who reduced us all to blubbering wrecks as he ploughed on despite his disabilities.

Tonight they’ll dive in to swim in hour-long shifts across the 21 miles of the world’s busiest shipping lane. If you haven’t already read the headlines, you’ll know their watery endeavour didn’t go exactly as intended.