FOUR OF THE BEST
The Gadget Show Channel 5, 7pm
In a fresh selection of features, Jon Bentley kits out an old car with some of the latest gadgets in the hope of putting it on the same tech footing as a modern motor. Rebooted retro video games are a must for millions of joystick jockeys, so Jordan Erica– Webber gives us her rundown of the best on the market. Georgie Barrat takes a look at an electric bike with a difference: one that you build yourself. And in a sound bit of business acumen, one company has recorded a library of more than 15 million sounds in an attempt to improve how our favourite gadgets work. Ortis Deley takes a closer look, and listen. Plus, Craig Charles and the team reveal how they will transform their summer holiday together with some tempting tech.
Unreported World Channel 4, 7.30pm
Sahar Zand reports on the adverse impact of locusts across Kenya and neighbouring countries, which are devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation. Filmed before the UK went into lockdown, she visits Kenya, on the trail of immense swarms of the insects – the biggest for 70 years. In a country in which agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 80 per cent of the population and where moe than a million people live on the edge of hunger, even a small swarm can eat the same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people, threatening millions with starvation and economic collapse.
Travel Man’s Greatest Trips Channel 4, 8pm
Richard Ayoade introduces more previously unseen footage inspired by mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing, featuring a pre-breakfast Tai Chi session in Hong Kong with Hollywood hotshot Jon Hamm followed by beach yoga in Miami with Rhod Gilbert. Later, there’s smoke sauna in Helsinki with Paul Rudd, topped off with some birch beating in Moscow with Greg Davies. On the white isle of Ibiza, Jessica Knappett accompanies Richard in a Gong Bath and in Athens, before he and Dawn French dip their toes into the thermal waters of Lake Vouliagmeni.
The Young Offenders BBC1, 9.30pm
There’s a commotion in the housing estate, and Conor and Jock discover can-trailers – tearaways from other estates with open paint cans tied around bikes intent on destroying the rival estate. The lads stop their rivals, but the encounter leads to an argument and Jock is challenged to a boxing match.