WHAT TO WATCH

ITV1, 9pm

There’s lots of grit and a refreshing lack of worthiness in this twoparter following members of England’s 2003 World Cup-winning rugby squad as they take on a unique challenge behind prison walls: to use the power of sport to turn around prisoners’ lives.

It begins with former captain Martin Johnson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Mike Tindall meeting behind the gates at HMP The Mount in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, one of the few UK prisons with a playing pitch. Hopes of enthusiasm are quickly dashed by a torrent of four-letter responses from the cells but (after a motivating challenge to take on the prison guards in a match) they pull together a rag-tag team of inmates willing to have a go, despite catastrophic levels of fitness and no prior knowledge of the sport. It’s a struggle, needing the drafting in of former teammates Phil Vickery, Jason Robinson, Will Greenwood, Ben Cohen, Matt Dawson and Jonny Wilkinson (a particularly inspiring presence) to crank up commitment and teach the basic rules of the game. The social contrast between these tough, no-nonsense, highly successful men and their wayward students couldn’t be greater, yet, slowly but surely… A winner all the way. Gerard O’Donovan and Billy Monger) and their plus-ones must traverse 2,000km over land and sea from Portugal to the second checkpoint on Corsica. Beresford is feeling competitive, but will the Blatts’ headstart and carefree spending keep them ahead of the rest?

BBC Two, 9pm

Stacey Dooley is back and helping more people unravel long-term family mysteries using DNA analysis. Tonight, a 91-year-old asks if her mother really died during the Second World War, as she was told by relatives. A former Olympian seeks the GI father she never knew, and two sisters explore whether China’s “one child” policy was behind their adoption as toddlers.

BBC Two take us behind the scenes at Moulin Rouge

The former champions introduce rugby to prisoners