PICK OF THE DAY

DAMILOLA, OUR LOVED BOY, 8.30PM, BBC1

IN 2000, ten-year-old Damilola Taylor died in a dingy stairwell in Peckham, south London, after being stabbed with a broken bottle. This powerful, profoundly moving drama takes us behind the headlines to tell the heartbreaking true story of Damilola and those who loved him. Made with the cooperation of his family, and seen mainly from his father Richard’s perspective, this compelling drama charts events before and after that fateful day, and explores how the shocking killing of an innocent little boy left a nation appalled and a family broken.