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DRAMA Belgravia
The creative team behind Downton Abbey have reunited for ITV’S latest big-budget costume drama, Belgravia, which follows the lives of the wealthy families who inhabit the posh piles in the London neighbourhood in 1815. Adapted by Julian Fellowes from his own novel, the US co-production stars Philip Glenister as James Trenchard with Tamsin Greig as his wife Anne. The Trenchard family have recently ascended to the aristocratic society of London’s Belgravia, but a decades old love affair comes back to haunt them and jeopardise the happiness of many. Also starring Alice Eve, Tara Fitzgerald, Harriet Walter and Tom Wilkinson.
Tomorrow, STV, 9pm
HISTORY Harry Birrell Presents Films Of Love & War
This feature-length film, in its TV debut on the BBC Scotland channel, is an amazing and personal insight into one man’s view of life, love and war in one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century.
Born in Paisley in 1918, Harry Birrell was given a cinecamera at the age of 10. It sparked a lifetime obsession with film-making – never as a professional, but as a diligent amateur with a gift for the cinematic, chronicling his life experiences through the late 1930s, the Second World War and then family life in the 1960s and 1970s.
Narrated by Richard Madden, this is an unmissable and compelling social history.
Tuesday, BBC Scotland, 10pm
ART The Art Mysteries
In a new series, art critic Waldemar Januszczak sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat.
The pictures are among the most celebrated masterpieces of art, yet, hidden inside them are codes and puzzles that no one has been able to decipher.
The first episode begins with Van Gogh’s Self-portrait With Bandaged
Ear. In a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken love and artistic jealousy, Januszczak follows the clues and stumbles upon the real reason why Van Gogh cut off his ear. Tuesday, BBC4, 8:30pm
POLITICS Taking Control: The Dominic Cummings Story
Dominic Cummings is perhaps the most powerful unelected political figure in Britain today, but what does the chief advisor to the Prime Minister actually believe? What has shaped his approach to politics and the media? And what can his rise to power tell us about how politics has changed?
With testimonies from some of his fiercest critics and closest political friends, presenter Emily Maitlis aims to shed light on a man at the heart of power in Britain.
Wednesday, BBC2, 9pm
COMEDY Kate & Koji
This new six-part sitcom centres around Kate (Brenda Blethyn), a working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in a seaside town who develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with an asylumseeking African doctor, Koji (Jimmy Akingbola). Also starring Blake Harrison and Barbara Flynn.
Wednesday, STV, 8pm
DRAMA The Good Karma Hospital
Served up as an appetiser to Belgravia, The Good Karma Hospital returns with Amanda Redman and Amrita Acharia reprising their roles as doctors Lydia Fonseca and Ruby Walker, respectively. Veteran Scottish actor Kenneth Cranham joins the cast as Edmund. ■
Tomorrow, STV, 8pm