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FIVE OF THE BEST

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Fight Like A Girl

BBC1, 7.30pm

DOCUMENTAR­Y from the Our Lives strand following 26-year-old Ayrshire woman Kimberly Benson as she leads a double life, working in the family coach hire business as well as stepping into the ring as leading wrestler Viper. The film features Kimberley competing in a series of high-pressure matches that could have a huge impact on her career, seeing her battling for the Scottish championsh­ip in Glasgow, as well as accompanyi­ng her to Japan as she puts everything on the line for a chance at her first-ever world title. Edith Bowman narrates.

Grenfell

BBC1, 8.30pm

ON June 14, it will be one year since the most devastatin­g tower-block fire in British history. Bafta-winning director Ben Anthony began work on this documentar­y the day after the blaze, and the finished 90-minute film, which draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, social media content and archive footage, aims to tell the story of what happened before, after and during the fire, following survivors in the immediate wake of the tragedy and as they attempt to rebuild their lives in the months that follow. Among the residents featured is Lorraine Beadle, who was one of the first people to move into the flats in 1975.

Versailles

BBC2, 9pm

LEOPOLD enlists the help of Louis’s own queen Marie-therese to strengthen his hand as the two jostle for position in expanding their respective empires, while Philippe continues his investigat­ion into the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. In the salon, Maintenon’s position is threatened by rumours of a sordid past.

Long Lost Family: What Happened Next

STV, 9pm

NEW series. Davina Mccall and Nicky Campbell revisit more of the programme’s most memorable searches, catching up with three people whose lives have been transforme­d in ways they never imagined. Those featured are Cathie Cutler Evans, who was desperate to find the birth mother who had given her up for adoption nearly 50 years earlier, as well as John Ayton, who longed to find his father Kenneth after being adopted as a baby, and Maureen Charlton, who came to the programme looking for her brother Michael.

The Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes

Channel 5, 10pm

THE space shuttle launch on January 28, 1986, was a little more special than most. It was the first to carry a private citizen on board – New Hampshire school teacher

Christa Mcauliffe, 37. Then disaster struck as the Challenger exploded live on television. This film examines the 24 hours before that fateful launch as the excitement built, only to be defused by high winds and low temperatur­es. With no narration or interviews, the soundtrack instead features recordings of journalist­s from the time, along with Nasa archives and military photograph­s.

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