BLOODLANDS

BBC One, 9pm

The crime drama set against the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland frets on as, in the wake of last week’s discovery of three long-buried bodies, DCI Brannick (James Nesbitt) is ordered to distance himself from the investigation but decides to take the search for the mystery assassin into his own hands. The authentic atmosphere

of Nordic noir-esque gloom is well done.

BBC Four, 10pm

The latest from the thought-provoking Storyville strand is the dark and immersive tale of what happened after Libya’s infamous dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi fell from grace. Following the Arab Spring in 2010 and early 2011, Gaddafi swiftly realised that this was no country for old politics, or indeed old men. Deciding to flee Libya, he also took steps to take his billions of dollars (Libya was believed to be one of the richest countries in the world) with him. He died in 2011 and the whereabouts of the money was lost. This enthralling documentary follows the involvement of a rag-tag group of

South African mercenaries, spies, government officials and even former ANC Leader Jacob Zuma as they search for said money even as the death count and disappearances rise.

It’s not all about the present day, however, as the film-makers explore links between liberation theory in South Africa and Libya, and explain how their alliance came to be and what benefits it held for each side. So what did happen to the missing money? Storyville offers no easy answers, but the implication is that it left the country only to be lost in the ether and will never be found. Sarah Hughes

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i A protester celebrating the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, 2011