Critic’s choice

Harvest 2015 8pm BBC2

Gregg Wallace helps with the winter sugar beet harvest, Philippa Forrester samples super-hot chillies and James Manning visits a futuristic lettuce farm in the opening programme.

Eternal Glory 8pm ITV

“Pain is the name of the game,” declares Richard Bacon as the athletes begin the latest tests “devised by a team of sports scientists” with “the chair” – sitting down at a 90-degree angle on an imaginary seat.

The Secret Life of Books: the Faerie Queene 8.30pm & 2.30am BBC4

In Sunday night’s Return to Larkinland, AN Wilson sniggered at Philip Larkin’s youthful dismissal of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene as “the most boring poem in the English language”, but it’s obviously not an assessment shared by Dr Janina Ramirez.

Karl Pilkington: the Moaning of Life 9pm Sky1

The presenter heads off to the United States in search of the meaning of art, attempting to create a masterpiece from his own vomit and stripping down to his pants for a spot of performance art.

Brett: a Life with No Arms 10.35pm BBC1

The documentary-maker Roger Graef is reunited with the subject of his very first film – Australian Brett Nielsen ( left), who was four years old when Graef filmed him coping with no arms, thanks to thalidomide. A spirited child has grown into a successful adult, whom we first meet playing the piano with his feet.