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become even more complicated when Irving and Sydney (who is pretending to be an English aristocrat called Lady Edith Greensly) are arrested by the FBI in a sting operation fronted by agent Richie DiMaso (Cooper). It’s DiMmaso who persuades them to help him take down corrupt politicians, beginning with New Jersey major Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), who is looking to rebuild Atlantic City as a gambling attraction.

That connection ultimately

(Rhys Ifans) and wife Julia (Keeley Hawes).

Sally suggests the activists could buy tickets to the show, infiltrate the audience and disrupt the live TV broadcast with flour bombs and football rattles.

The women engineer their audacious plan as comedian Bob Hope arrives in London to host the pageant, accompanied by his long-suffering wife, Dolores. Elsewhere, Miss Grenada Jennifer Hosten nervously prepares to make her island proud against bookies’ favourite Miss Sweden Marjorie Johansson.

Chicago Med - Season 5 (Cert 15)

performed by the London-based 12 Ensemble – whose collaborators include The National and Max Richter – this Prom journeys through the back catalogue of singer-songwriter Laura Marling. The Brit Award winner and four-time Mercury Prize nominee takes the Royal Albert Hall stage for a one-off acoustic retrospective. Songs from her latest album including Fortune and the album’s title-track, Song for Our Daughter, sit alongside those from earlier albums including Alas, I Cannot Swim – released when Marling was just 18.

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge (BBC2, 9pm)

Louis Theroux has become synonymous with to die for and a motorbike scene that would have given Evel Knievel nightmares.

Death Race (2008) (ITV4, 10.25pm)

Former Nascar driver Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) is framed for murdering his wife and child. The petrolhead is sent to Terminal Island Prison, a facility that broadcasts the highly profitable Death Race – a high-octane event where convicts battle to the death in customised cars. When one of the popular drivers is killed in a violent race, the

documentaries about subcultures and people on the fringes of society. This four-part series features interviews with the award-winning filmmaker, as well as catch-ups between him and some of his most notable contributors – many of whose stories have since unfolded in unexpected ways. Tonight, Louis looks back at his early career, including programmes on survivalists and believers in UFOs, to his now notorious documentary about the White Aryan Resistance in California. He speaks to Lamb and Lynx, members of a white nationalist pop group, and finds they’ve changed their mind, and hears from survivalist Mike Cain who is still preparing for an ‘inevitable war’ with the federal government in America.