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W1A BBC TWO, 10.00PM; NOT NI

This is a welcome return turn for John Morton’s acid-tipped BBC insider der sitcom that has spent t two series mocking the Corporation’s culture of bureaucracy, backstabbing and relentlessess right-on-ness. The third hird run finds the cameras s back in Broadcastingg House at a time of anxietynxiety in the year of Charter renewal, a process described as “giving the BBC an opportunity to question everything it does and ask the question whether there’s any point to any of it at all any more”. We begin with the everconfounded Head of Values, Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville), chairing yet another box-ticking meeting with the usual management suspects (included in the terrific cast are Sarah Parish and Jason Watkins) and scrambling to avert a PR disaster when a cross-dressing former footballer complains of discrimination when he fails to get a punditry job on Match of the Day. GerardOGerard O’Donovan

Letters f from Baghdad BBC FOUR,FOU 9.00PM

Thi This richly detailed do documentary, na narrated by Tilda Sw Swinton, gives a voice to the letters of the co colourful and ch charismatic figure of Ge Gertrude Bell, writer, dip diplomat and expert in mat matters Arabian. The mos most powerful woman in th the British Empire in her d day, Bell had a huge influence over British policy-making in the Middle East, and was a key figure in the creation of Iraq. GO