One of many awkward questions that could be asked about the football hooligan turned far-right rabble-rouser Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, AKA Tommy Robinson. And reporter Matt Shea is asking a few of them in this investigation, after spending a year analysing public records and documents connected to Yaxley-Lennon’s prolific yet somewhat shadowy fundraising. Phil Harrison 8pm, Channel 4Is it better to be open-plan or walled up, ask our hosts as we revisit two couples from 2023.
Aneri and Nihar were divided on their Hertfordshire house: was it isolated or did it have the perfect, ahem, location location location? Meanwhile, Chester’s Carl and Katy wanted to upgrade to a more modern family abode. Priya Elan Miranda Richardson guest stars as former Nazi and notorious book thief Duchess Alberta in the post-second world war detective drama this week.
Book (Mark Gatiss) travels across Germany to the curious medieval town of Würl to catch her – when a body is found in the creepy Schloss Von Bode castle. Hollie Richardson 9pm, BBC TwoThe issue of grooming gangs has become a cynically exploited political football. This horrifying documentary allows many of the girls involved to tell their stories.
It’s clear that there is no cultural specificity to either victims or perpetrators – it’s a problem related to other forms of criminality, and to a poisonous version of masculinity. PH 9pm, ITV1An actor’s nightmare plays out live on stage, when a prop knife is switched for a real one during a performance. A tragic accident or something more sinister?
DCI Maiya, DS Dan and Professor T investigate a theatre company riven with rivalries and grudges. Meanwhile, Zelda Radclyffe’s tarot cards hint at a “highly significant” romance in Jasper’s future. Ali Catterall 10pm, BBC FourDavid Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s 1974 Play for Today, Penda’s Fen, is an astonishing piece of work – a coming-out and coming-of-age story but couched in Deep England mythology and folk horror tropes.
It gets a rare showing here but, first, lead actor Spencer Banks reflects on a career-defining role. PH Test cricket: England v Pakistan 10am, Sky Sports Main Event. Day one of the third and final Test at Edgbaston.
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