FOUR OF THE BEST
Live Women’s Rugby League World Cup BBC2, 7pm
Tanya Arnold presents coverage of the second semi-final from the LNER Stadium in York. Australia dismantled Canada at this point in the 2017 tournament, running in 11 tries in Sydney to set up a third consecutive final with bitter rivals New Zealand. Craig Richards’ England came into their home tournament as one of the favourites and if they managed to top Group A, which also contained Papua New Guinea, Canada and Brazil, they will be in action tonight against the team that finished second in Group B.
The Pact BBC1, 9pm
With the Rees family still reeling following Megan’s wedding, Christine takes charge and they make a momentous pact. Dedicated as ever to caring for others, she pays another visit to her terminally ill mother, and helps her client Kayla through a C-section. Meanwhile,
Beth is determined to find answers and follows her husband to a secret meet-up. Her investigation into the Rees’ father, Harry, finally proves fruitful, as Megan and Jamie get some answers about Connor. But with Gethin and Sam getting suspicious of their partners, how long can the pact last?
Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom BBC2, 9.30pm
Until 1997, Hong Kong was ruled by Britain as a colony but then returned to China. Under the “one country, two systems” arrangement, it had some autonomy, and its people more rights. However, in 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a law allowing suspects to be extradited to mainland China, and the bill sparked a wave of anger across the city. Using artificial intelligence, this two-part film tells the stories of four young Hong Kongers who joined mass protests and found themselves drawn into a cycle of violence that threatened to tear the city apart.
Imagine: Douglas Stuart – Love, Hope and Grit BBC1, 10.40pm
Alan Yentob meets fashion designer and writer Stuart as he emerges from the starlight of his triumphant debut novel, and winner of the Booker Prize, Shuggie Bain. The book centres around an alcoholic single mother and her queer son navigating life on a Glasgow sink estate, and is distilled through Douglas’s own troubled upbringing during the 1980s. Yentob takes the author back to the old haunts in the novel: the Sighthill estate, the Barras market and the Grand Ole Opry.