Television

Programmes

Escape New series in which five engineers are stranded in a desert with the wreckage of a plane. Their mission is to escape in a machine built from the detritus. Sun 1 Oct, C4 20:00 (60mins).

The Last Post Six-part drama following Army officers and their wives on a British military base in Aden in the 1960s. With Jessie Buckley. Sun 1 Oct, BBC1 21:00 (60mins).

Boris Johnson: Blond Ambition

In this documentary charting Boris’s first 14 months as Foreign Secretary, Gary Gibbon looks at what sort of figure our unlikely chief diplomat cuts on the world stage, and whether he could still be aiming for the top job. Sun 1 Oct, C4 22:05 (55mins).

Reformation: Europe’s Holy War

To mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation. Tue 3 Oct, BB2 21:00 (60mins).

The Insider: Reggie Yates in a Refugee Camp

Yates spends a week living alongside 30,000 Syrian refugees in a camp in Iraq. Tue 3 Oct, BBC1 22:45 (50mins).

Films

Suntan (2016) Tragicomic tale about a middle-aged Greek doctor who becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman who befriends him. With Makis Papadimitriou. Wed 4 Oct, Film4 23:10 (125mins).

American Hustle (2013) Entertaining crime caper starring Amy Adams and Christian Bale as couple of New Jersey con artists forced to work for the FBI. Sat 7 Oct, C4 00.10 (140mins).