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Backlash: The Homicide of George Floyd

9pm, BBC Two
A visceral, involving documentary recalling the worldwide turmoil triggered by the homicide of George Floyd in Could 2020. It explores the occasions themselves, the protests and counter-protests that adopted. But it surely manages a level of intimacy, too, listening to from Khady Gueye, a Black lady who grew up in rural Gloucestershire who recollects the casually racialised discourse that was a relentless backdrop to her childhood. Phil Harrison

The Restore Store on the Highway

8pm, BBC One
The gang depart the massive shed behind and take their repairing expertise on tour. They start in Dumfries and Galloway, the place they meet firefighter Rodger who was one of many first responders on the scene of the Lockerbie assault. Can they protect his treasured ebook of images commemorating the victims of the tragedy? PH

Location, Location, Location

8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie and Phil courageous the imply streets of Surrey, the place their purchasers this week are younger households with difficult expectations. One set of fogeys can’t get their out-of-budget dream home out of their minds, whereas the opposite have too many good locations to select from, the poor loves. In each circumstances, the proper deal must be struck. Jack Seale

Race Throughout the World

9pm, BBC One

We’ve reached the midway level within the race, and the foothills of the Himalayas await. The following checkpoint is McLeod Ganj, a ravishing hill station residence to the Dalai Lama. Nonetheless, the hole between the leaders and stragglers is rising and the members of 1 staff are scuffling with homesickness. PH

Britain’s Most Costly Homes

9pm, Channel 4
This present is like Promoting Sundown, solely British, and with all of the drama of the talking clock. Nonetheless, for those who’re nosy, you would possibly discover it interesting – not least when the brokers fling open the doorways of an obscenely big nation pad constructed within the 1850s and a “James Bond-style” Cornish bolthole christened Bargesi. Hannah J Davies

David Frost Vs

9pm, Sky Documentaries
Lulu, Paul Gambaccini, Guardian critic Alexis Petridis, Sarah Ferguson and this version’s topic, Elton John, are among the many speaking heads reflecting on the unlikely four-decade friendship between urbane interlocutor Frost and the customarily chaotic Rocket Man. Classic clips – notably a revealing 1991 interview – illustrate the pair’s robust however spiky bond. Graeme Advantage

Movie alternative

Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975) 7.55am, Sky Cinema Greats

The Who’s bombastic rock opera album will get the bombastic celluloid therapy it deserves courtesy of – who else? – British cinema’s wild man Ken Russell. Singer Roger Daltrey performs Tommy, a boy who loses his sight, listening to and speech after witnessing his mom’s adultery. However the traumatised child exhibits a expertise for pinball that evokes a messianic motion. The movie has dated badly in locations, however for sheer chutzpah and verve there’s little that compares to it – from Tina Turner’s devilish Acid Queen to Elton John and his sky-high boots because the Pinball Wizard. Simon Wardell

Dwell sport

Europa League Soccer, Tottenham v Man United, 6pm, TNT Sports activities 1
The ultimate from San Mames, Bilbao.

Dwell Ladies’s Worldwide T20 Cricket, England v West Indies, 6pm, Sky Sports activities Predominant Occasion
The primary T20 within the three-match collection from Canterbury. The second is at 6.30pm on Friday from Hove.