The Murder Of Lord Mountbatten: 3 Days That Shook Britain

Channel 5, 9.30pm

A look at what happened on that fateful summer day in 1979, when Prince Philip’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was killed by an IRA bomb. The documentary begins by explaining the political climate in the late 1970s and looks at how two men climbed aboard the

Shadow V fishing boat and planted 50lb of plastic explosives. ★★★★★