Pick of The DAY

BEECHGROVE GARDEN 7.30PM, BBC2 ★★★

It’s so refreshing to have this on primetime network TV now, having previously been shown only on BBC Scotland or on

Sunday mornings on BBC2. While growing conditions are very different north of the border, we can all benefit from some of the horticultural tips and inspiration on offer, wherever we are. This week’s show is all about planning for summer colour, and getting free plants from dahlia cuttings.

GARDENERS’ WORLD 8PM, BBC2

★★★★ Monty Don plants out tropical gingers and sweetcorn, and sows beans directly into the ground now that the risk of frost has passed. Joe Swift is in Wales to check out a stunning walled garden in Denbighshire, whose owners are committed to recycling and repurposing materials, while we also catch up with farmer turned nurseryman Barry Proctor as he makes his final preparations for his first-ever RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU 9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Presenter Mel Giedroyc takes her place in the hot seat for the fifth time as she tries to keep control of proceedings in another round of the satirical news quiz. Joining the team captains on the panel are broadcast legend Kirsty Wark and blind comic Chris Mccausland. He’s just survived a stint on the bonkers Channel 4 celebrity reality show Scared Of The Dark, so nothing should faze him now.

HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST 9PM, BBC2

★★★★ Episode two goes behind the scenes at two historic properties in the south of England. Sissinghurst Castle in Kent was owned by the writer Vita Sackville-west and her diplomat and author husband Harold Nicolson, and is now world-renowned for its stunning gardens. Today, the National Trust works to preserve the gardens in the same spirit in which Vita (left) created them – many of the plants and trees that survive today were planted in her time. Twelve miles across the Weald of Kent and Sussex lies the former home of another literary legend, Rudyard Kipling. The author bought a Jacobean manor called Bateman’s in 1902, and lived there with his wife Carrie and their family until his death in 1936. Today, house manager Gary Enstone is preparing to give Kipling’s writing desk a deep clean – which includes checking for every curator’s worst nightmare: woodworm.

I’M A CELEBRITY SOUTH AFRICA UNSEEN 9PM, ITV1

★★★★

A collection of incidents, conversations and other dramatic scenes that didn’t make the cut for the pre-recorded broadcast of this celebrity reality spin-off. It was a shame Shaun Ryder and Gillian Mckeith were the first two to be eliminated; they famously clashed in the Australian jungle in 2010, and fans were hoping for more of the same. How did they really get on this time?