Today’s radio

THE 7.39 9PM

Sheridan Smith and David Morrissey star in David Nicholls’ romantic drama

BBC 1

6am 9.15

Breakfast (HD)

Crimewatch Roadshow Live Appeals for information from the public about crimes. (HD)

10.00 Homes Under the Hammer Properties in Derby, Essex and Cheshire. (R)(HD)(AD)

11.00 Ill Gotten Gains A team in north Wales try to help suspected sex workers. (HD)

11.45 Fraud Squad: The Hunt

A manager treating the NHS like a cash machine. (R)(HD)

12.15 Bargain Hunt How antiques and music can help those living with memory loss. (HD)(AD)

1.00 BBC News at One; Weather (HD)

1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45 Land Girls Ellen is confronted by

a face from the past. (R)(HD)(AD)

2.30 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British

The duo forage for food. (R)(HD)

3.00 Escape to the Country

Jules Hudson helps a recently married couple to find a new home in Derbyshire. (HD)(AD)

3.45 Garden Rescue Baking-mad

Piper wants plants to add flavour to her cakes. (HD)

4.30 The Repair Shop Items include a teddy bear and a portable police crime office. (HD)

5.15 Pointless (HD)

6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather (HD)

6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 7.00 Panorama In-depth current affairs report. (HD) (Repeated on Friday at 2.40am on BBC2)

8.05 Eastenders As Gray is questioned by police, Karen, Mitch and the family return from Southend to learn the awful truth of what has happened. (HD)(AD)

PICK Ghosts New series. Comedy, starring Charlotte Ritchie. See Pick of the Day. (HD)(AD)

9.00 The 7.39 Part 1/2. Romantic drama about a pair of disillusioned individuals whose lives dramatically change after they meet on their morning commute. David Morrissey and Sheridan Smith star. (R)(HD)(AD)

10.00 BBC News at Ten (HD)

10.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 10.45 Famalam Fat Sam goes in search of romance, while Shawn and Leslie get married. Movie star Babatunde Warrington shoots a music video. Last in series. (HD)

11.10 Yung Filly’s Celeb Lock-in

Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo join Yung Filly and four teams from the West Midlands. (HD)

11.40 Have I Got a Bit More News for You Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts, with guest panellists Jess Phillips and Ahir Shah. (R)(HD)

12.25 Weather for the Week Ahead 12.30-6.00 BBC News (HD) 8.30

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ONLY CONNECT 8PM

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts a 16th series of the fiendishly difficult quiz

BBC 2

6am The Repair Shop (R)(HD)

6.45 Garden Rescue (R)(HD)

7.30 Beechgrove (R)(HD)(BSL)

8.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse:

Gone Fishing (R)(HD)(AD)(BSL)

8.30 The Week in Parliament (HD)

9.00 BBC News at 9 (HD)

10.00 BBC News (HD)

12.15 Politics Live Updates from

Westminster and beyond. (HD)

1.00 The Boss Quiz, hosted by

Susan Calman. (R)(HD)

1.45 Make Me a Dealer Two Liverpool locals face off in the antiquesbuying challenge. (R)(HD)

2.30 A Place to Call Home Matt and Elizabeth exchange some home truths. (R)(HD)

3.20 Meet the Monkeys: Natural World The lives of Celebes crested macaques on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. (R)(HD)(AD)

4.15 Oceans The impact the Indian Ocean’s tides and currents have on coastal areas. (R)(HD)(AD)

5.15 Flog It! (R)(HD)

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games With Yolanda Brown, the Rev Kate Bottley, Joel Dommett and John Thomson. (R)(HD)

6.30 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Sheep and pig farmers compete at the

Yeovil Show. (R)(HD)

7.00 The Yorkshire Dales Paul Rose explores the region, beginning in Wensleydale. (R)(HD)

7.30 Tom Kerridge: Lose Weight for Good Tom creates recipes to help the dieters to resist temptation away from home. (R)(HD)(AD)

NEW Only Connect Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the return of the quiz show. (HD)

8.30 University Challenge The Royal Academy of Music plays St John’s College, Cambridge. (HD)

9.00 The Diagnosis Detectives

A man suffering multiple seizures every day. Last in series. (HD)(AD) (Repeated tomorrow at 11.30pm)

10.00 Mock the Week With Angela Barnes, Ed Byrne, Hal Cruttenden, Ed Gamble and Zoe Lyons. (R)(HD)

10.30 Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby Giles Coren and Monica Galetti work in the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. (R)(HD)(AD)

10.45 Newsnight; Weather (HD)

11.30 Women’s Cricket: England v West Indies T20 Highlights

The first match in the series. (HD)

12.30 Louis Theroux: Life on the

Edge (R)(HD)(AD)

1.30 Countryfile (R)(HD)(BSL)

2.30 Antiques Roadshow Fiona

Bruce presents. (R)(HD)(BSL)

3.30-4.15 Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed? (R)(HD)(AD)(BSL) 8.00

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GHOSTS

8.30PM, BBC1 ★★★★ Silliness is an undervalued virtue in comedy, and it’s at the heart of this returning show from the Horrible Histories gang. To recap: Charlotte Ritchie (right, bottom left) plays the inheritor of a rickety mansion she wants to turn into a luxury hotel, only it’s filled with ghosts who constantly get in the way. The spirits hail from down the centuries (caveman, aristocrat, soldier, MP, etc) and each has their own quirks and obsessions, many of which are on display in an opening episode in which the haunting becomes common knowledge, and attracts paying visitors.

INSIDE THE BOMB SQUAD

8PM, CH4 ★★★

Fireworks may have been used to create an explosive device in this new collection of callouts with the bomb squad. As ‘Podders’ (Sgt David Podmore, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq) inspects the ominous items in suburban Liverpool, 360-degree cameras give us some impression of the sense of danger this involves.

ROSE WEST & MYRA HINDLEY: THEIR UNTOLD STORY

★★★ Trevor Mcdonald speaks to ex-prisoners to learn what happened when the serial killers Rose West and Myra Hindley met and had an affair in prison. Some of the tales are sinister, some frank and almost funny: ‘She was this little fat donkey woman,’ says one of West, when she arrived.

BRAIN SURGEONS: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

9PM, CH4 ★★★★

This new series takes us inside the Neurological Centre in Southampton and, most intriguingly, inside the heads of its patients. There are plenty of insights into how our brains work as we meet 12-year-old Matthew, who is having a two-day operation to remove a brain tumour. ROBIN WIGGS

5.55pm A Touch of Frost

8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot

A woman is murdered during a flight.

10.10 DCI Banks Part 1/2. An accountant

is killed in his home by a hit man.

11.10 Agatha Christie’s Marple

THE RESIDENT

9PM, SKY WITNESS ★★★

The hospital has been taken over by greedy corporate overlords in the new, third season of this enjoyably acted US medical drama, and the doctors, such as surgeon Kit Voss (Jane Leeves, left), are asked to put profit before patients. They don’t take it lying down, as you’d imagine.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF WRITING

9PM, BBC4 ★★★

Humans have existed for roughly 300,000 years, but we’ve only been writing for around 5,000. This first of an intriguing new series explores the similarities between different writing systems around the world, and the reason we started scrawling – not for art, but for accounting and tax.

9PM, ITV