THE SOUTH BANK SHOW

Sky Arts, 10.45pm

Melvyn Bragg’s enjoyably wide-ranging interview with Bernardine Evaristo (whose co-win of last year’s Booker Prize catapulted her to international fame) explores her upbringing in London and the key influences and themes of a 40-year career. GO

before demonstrating how to make an incredible anchovy elixir to be drizzled over chicory and steak. What, no pizza?

A VERY ROYAL CHRISTMAS: SECRETS FROM SANDRINGHAM Channel 4, 9pm

Channel 4 muscles in on 5’s territory with this

Sky Arts examines early Leonardo da Vinci paintings