CRITIC'S CHOICE

HISTORIC FINDS

Britain’s Biggest Dig, 9pm, BBC2

AFTER London, the next stop for Professor Alice Roberts and historian Dr Yasmin Khan is Birmingham, where they explore the archaeological sites unearthed by the construction of the new HS2 rail project. There, they learn how Victorian Birmingham grew into a boom town of the Industrial Revolution.

VET TALES

All Creatures Great And Small, 9pm, Ch5

TRICKI WOO takes centre stage this week when James (Nicholas Ralph, pictured with Rachel Shenton) receives a call from Mrs Pumphrey (the late, great Diana Rigg), who fears her beloved dog is dying. But things don’t go according to plan when James takes Tricki back to Skeldale House for a period of rehabilitation, as his condition deteriorates. Surely this can’t be the end for the poor Pekingese?

ADULT EDUCATION

The Write Offs, 9.30pm, Ch4

SANDI TOKSVIG (pictured) left the

Bake Off tent to focus on other work projects. And so, here she is presenting an uplifting two-part documentary in which she helps a diverse group of eight adults who have never learnt to read or write. Can

Sandi help them to overcome the one thing that has always held them back?

FILM CHOICES

Secret Lies and Family Ties, 2.15pm, Ch5

BRITTANY ALLEN stars as Lucy, whose seemingly happy life is turned upside down when she discovers she was abducted as a

baby. Her biological mother (Paige Turco) is now a prominent politician, thrusting Lucy into the media spotlight — and antagonising her newly discovered sister.