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The Shamima Begum Story

10pm, Channel 4

Emma Dennis-Edwards has written a queasy drama about sexual abuse and harassment in colleges that will get beneath the pores and skin and is excruciating from starting to finish. Set in a personal college, it follows scholarship pupil Natalie, who doesn’t keep in mind having intercourse with classroom crush Archie. However the boys in his “#slutsandstuff” WhatsApp group (together with skin-crawling Raffy, performed by David Tennant’s son Ty) know precisely what occurred. Hollie Richardson

Know Your Sh!t: Inside Our Guts

8pm, Channel 4

This hit new collection continues to be surprisingly upbeat and genuinely useful. Dropping into Lisa and Alana’s Poo HQ at the moment are two ladies whose guts put them off courting: yoga trainer Ashara has Crohn’s illness and businesswoman Carmel will get “moist wind”. HR

The Shamima Begum Story

9pm, BBC Two

The Shamima Begum Story
Revealing her model of occasions … The Shamima Begum Story. {Photograph}: Joshua Baker/BBC

Risk to society or sufferer of grooming and trafficking? One factor that may be agreed on relating to Shamima Begum is that she is without doubt one of the UK’s most controversial figures. On this absorbing documentary, she tells her full account to investigative journalist Josh Baker. We additionally hear from her estranged husband, Islamic State members and attorneys who labored on her case. HR

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4

In want of pressing care in Nottingham this week is 21-year-old Connor, whose motorcycle crash leaves him with leg and lung accidents – a predicament given further jeopardy after we hear about his uncommon, troublesome upbringing. In the meantime, a person with locked-in syndrome is preventing for breath and, over in minor accidents, a damage wrist prompts reflection. Jack Seale

The Household Pile

9.30pm, ITV1

Nicole has at all times been the unofficial boss of the household, however because the loss of life admin and home clearance chores pile up, a insurrection brews among the many sisters. Yvette and Gaynor busy themselves with minor irritations, nevertheless it appears Ursula is dealing with a extra severe problem. Ellen E Jones

Huge Zuu’s Huge Eats

10pm, BBC Three

The Bafta-winning Dave collection continues with a double-bill. The affable host plus sidekicks Tubsey and Hyder fly to “the Isle of Mandem” to rustle up a Manx feast for Josh Widdicombe earlier than returning house to shock London Hughes with a meaty menu. Graeme Advantage

Movie alternative

David Earl as Brian and Chris Hayward as Charles in Brian and Charles.
David Earl as Brian and Chris Hayward as Charles in Brian and Charles. {Photograph}: Courtesy of Focus Options

Brian and Charles (Jim Archer, 2022), Prime Video
Nominated for an excellent British movie Bafta, Brian and Charles is a beautiful, joyful gutpunch. David Earl (additionally co-writer) performs a scientist who, wounded by a protracted interval of isolation, builds a robotic companion out of bits of washer and a model head. If that sounds just like the saddest movie of all time, you’re proper. But when it additionally feels like a high-concept, laugh-out-loud comedy, the type of ridiculous handmade hodgepodge that appears as if it was flung collectively in an try and be essentially the most silly factor ever conceived, you’re additionally proper. That Brian and Charles can marry each tones in any respect is a miracle, nevertheless it manages to take action seamlessly. Only a good movie. Stuart Heritage