England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

BBC FOUR, 9.00PM

While dedicating three hours to just nine days of British history might seem like overkill, here it almost feels inadequate, such is the wealth of incident and intrigue in Dr Helen Castor’s series. This middle episode follows the five days that determined whether or not Lady Jane would survive on the throne. The reconstructions are decent and the CGI sparingly used; instead, Castor lets the experts do the talking in an engaging piece of narrative history, concluding tomorrow.