5 NEED-TO-KNOWS TODAY

1 to watch

Britain’s Top Takeaways, BBC Two, 8pm Five of the nation’s top-rated Indian takeaways compete in an epic battle of the spices.

1 to know...

Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of Lipton’s grocers, who went from errand boy to millionaire by 30, was born in Glasgow today in 1850.

1 to answer

Who, Hitler’s deputy, parachuted into Scotland in an effort to negotiate a peace settlement, on this day in 1941?

Birthdays

Barbara Taylor Bradford, 89; Lady Lucinda Lambton, 79; Graham Gouldman, , 76; Donovan, 76; Maureen Lipman, 76; Sly Dunbar, 70.

1 to listen to

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sounds A body in Hyde Park reunites the sleuth with a notorious ex-client.