FIVE OF THE BEST

Food Unwrapped: Sweet Tooth Special

Channel 4, 8pm

An episode celebrating all things sweet, looking back at some favourite sugar-centred investigations. Matt Tebbutt hits the patisseries of Paris to find out why macarons are so expensive and explores the reasons for the surge in salted caramel Jimmy Doherty heads to America to find out how the chunks in ice-cream stay solid, asks why chocolate sometimes goes a funny white colour, and learns the secrets behind fizzy sweets. Kate Quilton reveals why some honey is runny, while other varieties are not.

999: What’s Your Emergency?

Channel 4, 9pm

A look at the increasing number of crimes committed by women, with PC Tom Gregory investigating an early evening report of a group of women attacking a lone girl. PC Jon Simpson visits the male victim of an opportunist robbery by a woman at his home, and a 12-year-old girl who has endured years of bullying gives a statement to police about the female teen gang who set fire to her hair.

Warship: Life at Sea

Channel 5, 9pm

The documentary about life aboard HMS Duncan returns for a new series. In the first episode, cameras focus on a female lieutenant training to become a captain, which involves taking control for 24 hours. Then, upon entering the Mediterranean, there’s an emergency when a crew member falls overboard into choppy waters. A desperate search begins to find him. If that wasn’t stressful enough, new details filter through about the mission as Russian warships are seen heading towards the French aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle.

Mary Beard’s Shock of the Nude

BBC2, 9pm

The classicist looks at an eclectic range of works to show how artists have challenged the idea of ‘the body beautiful’, and explores how artistic nudes can provoke viewers to consider fundamental questions about being human. Mary reflects on Marc Quinn’s sculpture of artist Alison Lapper, Sally Mann’s images of her own children in the 1990s and the controversy that surrounded their exhibition, and examines society’s shifting perception of gender, from the binary of male and female to a more fluid concept.

Inside No 9

BBC2, 10pm

Some fans of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s comedy anthology series may have wondered what they could possibly do to top last year’s ingenious live episode. But while that edition may have contained the kind of stunt it’s impossible to pull off twice, the new series is proving that they’re a long way from being out of ideas. It also helps that they are still attracting some impressive casts, including, in this episode, Queen Victoria herself, Jenna Coleman. She stars as Beattie who, along with her partner Sam (Kadiff Kirwan of Timewasters and This Way Up) is desperate to get on the property ladder.