5 NEED-TO-KNOWS TODAY

1 to watch

Rick Stein’s Cornwall, BBC 2, 6.30pm: Rick with an extraordinary family who make some of the best Gouda cheese in Britain.

1 to know...

Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole on January 4 , 1958, the first to do so overland since Captain Scott.

1 to answer

Who died on January 4, 1967, attempting to break the world water speed record on Coniston Water? Answer above right.

Birthdays

James Milner, pictured, footballer, 35; Rick Stein, chef, 74; Bernard Sumner, New Order, 65; Michael Stipe, singer (REM), 61.

1 to listen to

Beyond Brexit, BBC Radio 4, 8pm: After four years of fraught debate, what are our hopes now for Britain beyond the EU?