5 NEED-TO-KNOWS TODAY

1 to watch

Beat The Chasers, ITV, 9pm Bradley Walsh hosts as members of the public try to take on all the Chasers and win cash.

1 to know...

Dubliner Tom McClean completed the first solo west-to-east transatlantic crossing in a rowing boat, on this day in 1969.

1 to answer

A group of holidaymakers set off from London for Paris on the first package trip arranged by who, today in 1861?

Birthdays

Sugar Ray Leonard, 66; Enya (Eithne Ni Bhraonain), 61; Trent Reznor, 57; Jeremy Vine, 57; Hill Harper, 56; Andrea Corr, 48.

1 to listen to

Bridget Jones’s Diary, BBC Radio 4 Sally Phillips reads Helen Fielding’s iconic 1996 novel of single thirty-something life.