CRITICS' CHOICE

MILITARY SPECTACULAR The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2017, 6.30pm, BBC1

THE QUEEN’S Colour Squadron and the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment are joined by many military musical groups from overseas on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle for a programme of highlights, rounded off by the massed pipes and drums and the lone piper.

WHAT A DISH! Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food, 8pm, Ch4

IF YOU have always dismissed your cooking abilities as being non-existent, Jamie Oliver is the man to help. This week, he demonstrates four more deliciously simple recipes — chicken pot pie, meatball buns, chocolate rye cookies and sesame seared tuna.

LIFE REFLECTIONS Imagine . . . , 10.30pm, BBC11

ACCLAIMED as Canada’s greatest living writer, Margaret Atwood has always been fearlessly outspoken, both on and off the page. Meeting the author in Toronto, Alan Yentob (pictured with Atwood) hears how her childhood helped to shape work such as Alias Grace and The Handmaid’s Tale, the TV adaptation of which was recently shown on Ch4.

FILM CHOICES Mr Peabody & Sherman, 10.20am, BBC2

THEY were among the stars of Sixties cartoon The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show, and now get their own adorably retro feature film. Mr

Peabody is a brainy dog that adopts human boy Sherman — and Peabody’s parenting style comes with time-travelling adventures.

The Searchers, 2.35pm, Ch5

JOHN FORD’S superb western presents the genre’s key themes in perfect form, a film that every discerning movie fan should see. John Wayne is the bitter cowboy setting out across the stark Texas plains with revenge in mind.

The Theory Of Everything, 9pm, ITV

EDDIE REDMAYNE and Felicity Jones (pictured) are two reasons why this biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking is such a success. Based on the memoirs of Hawking’s ex-wife, Jane Wilde, it charts his time at Cambridge as his motor neurone disease diagnosis is confirmed.