Grenfell
10.30pm, Channel 4
It has been five years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire. Split over two nights, this verbatim play about the inquiry into it is a searing reminder of the injustices. The first half includes infuriating accounts of the architects behind the decision to use highly flammable cladding. “This disaster happened in a city where there is one housing system for the rich and another housing system for the poor,” says Leslie Thomas QC. “That political, social and economic context cannot be ignored … nor can it be decoupled from race.” Difficult but essential viewing. Hollie Richardson
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway: Inside the Elizabeth Line
8pm, BBC Two
“Constructing Crossrail is like undertaking heart surgery on a patient while that patient is awake,” describes a very stressed worker in the early days of the project – a sign that it would inevitably end up being four years late and £4bn over budget. This weirdly intense and fascinating documentary picks up from 2019 when CEO Mark Wild took over the Elizabeth Line. HR
