FOUR OF THE BEST
Low Pay Britain: The Truth about Your Job – Dispatches Channel 4, 8pm
It’s fair to say it’s been an unusual and rather eventful 12 months.
Not only have Britain’s residents spent most of it living under strict lockdown conditions, they’ve also faced leaving the EU. Both have had a big impact on the way we work, and so here, reporter Morland Sanders offers an insight into something important to the vast majority of us – the future of workers’ rights in the UK. He uncovers worrying evidence of safety breaches, low pay and dangerous pressures at the heart of gig economy-based practices, some of which are even beginning to appear in the NHS.
24 Hours in Police Custody Channel 4, 9pm
The final episode of the series is a rather thought-provoking one which shows that policing isn’t as straightforward as the public perhaps thinks and that its staff can be haunted by the difficult decisions they make. It focuses on a Bedfordshire police officer’s investigation into a brutal attack which has left a man fighting for his life. That would be a shocking enough turn of events on its own, but when the officer involved realises the victim came to see her at the station the day before he was assaulted, she wonders if she could have done more to protect him.
Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World BBC1, 9pm
It wasn’t too long ago that Greta Thunberg first came to global attention, leading the youth movement of action against climate change. Now in this new threepart series we follow activist over the course of 2019 and 2020, as she travels the world exploring the science of global warming and challenging world leaders to take action on the growing crisis. But how did Covid-19 impact her campaign – and how to persuade a world living through one crisis to face up to the possibility of another?
Meet The Khans: Big In Bolton BBC1, 11.35pm
Northern England’s answer to the Kardashians return for another double bill. This time the couple clash at home before a big family trip to New York. Back in Bolton it’s “new hair, who dis?” for Faryal, before an emotional chat about Amir’s plans for one last dance. Amir puts a pause on training for a quick trip to Dubai for some holiday home shopping.
The wedding hall is causing more headaches and Amir fears the worst.