Sunderland Echo

THU FRI Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, ITV, 9pm Bruno Vs Tyson, Sky Documentar­ies, 9pm

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Trisha Goddard joins Piers Morgan to look back at her complex life and career. The star, whose confession­al TV show ran for 11 years in the UK, talks about finding out that the man she called dad wasn’t her biological father and how her mother took the secret to her grave.

Covering the highs and lows of one of boxing’s most fondly-remembered rivalries, this is the story of Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno. But behind the headlines and hype that surrounded both fighters, their lives were connected like two sides of the same coin. This historic feature-length film charts the sensationa­l path of two of the world’s most iconic black sportsmen, capped off with a reunion between the two old foes.

In December 1918, traumatise­d ex-soldier Tom Sherbourne is hired as keeper to work alone for six months at a lighthouse on Janus Rock island, off Australia. On the mainland he meets joyful local girl Isabel Graysmark and they fall in love. After they marry Isabel moves to Janus Rock with Tom, now permanent in the job.

The Singapore Grip

A six-part period drama set during World War II, following British rubber merchant Walter Blackett and his family who live in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion. Adapted from Booker prizewinne­r J.G. Farrell’s 1978 novel.

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