The Secret History of My Family BBC2, 8pm
The documentary charting social history over the centuries tells the story of an Edwardian family locked in benefit dependency, and of a mother who was accused of a shocking crime against her own child. Susan Nelson and her family live on government welfare – did her descendants follow a similar path or did they manage to move up in life? As the film reveals, more than 100 years on, some of them still rely on benefits, while others have freed their families from the grinding poverty of their ancestor.