Documentary
My Life: Locked in Boy CBBC, 5.30PM
This is a moving account of a 10-year-old whose cerebral palsy left him unable to communicate for eight years. Beginning with an alphabet board and his mother’s help, Jonathan now has a reading age beyond his years, writes poetry and is petitioning MPS to improve education for children with his condition. GT
Horizon – My Amazing Brain: Richard’s war
BBC TWO, 9.00PM
An extraordinary document of both personal fortitude and scientific endeavour, film-maker Fiona Lloyd-davies’s documentary follows the remarkable recovery of her husband, former UN peacekeeper Richard Gray, from a stroke. GT
Hull’s Headscarf Heroes BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
Steve Humphries’s documentary meets the redoubtable Yvonne Blenkinsop, leader of the “headscarf ” campaign against Hull’s trawler companies whose questionable attitude towards crew safety cost 58 lives in a series of tragedies in 1968. GT
The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done?
CHANNEL 4, 9.00PM
Rather than reliving the terrible event itself, Matt Smith’s thoughtful film gathers together legal experts and those involved