Gentleman Jack Changed My Life
10.40pm, BBC One
Miriam Margolyes narrates this gloriously uplifting hour dedicated to the Gentleman Jack effect – how 19th-century landowner and lesbian diarist Anne Lister’s legacy influences and inspires queer women today. With a focus on the hit BBC drama starring Suranne Jones, the programme also features its creator, Sally Wainwright, along with six women inspired by Anne’s courage to live openly and fully – including sixtysomething Yvonne, who realised she was gay after watching the show. HR
DIY SOS: The Big Build
8pm, BBC One
“It’s going to be touch and go,” says the ever-calm Nick Knowles as the build team head to Bristol’s Southmead to smarten up a neglected children’s adventure playground. The community centre is essential for young people’s development, its enthusiastic staff say. An impossible challenge, a worthy cause: cue the tears. Henry Wong
The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live
8pm, ITV
When the Money Saving Expert recently admitted that he was “out of tools” to help people with the cost of living crisis, we knew we were in deep trouble. But here he is, alongside co-host Angellica Bell, to give the best advice he’s got and answer viewers’ questions. HR
The Witch Hunts: Lucy Worsley Investigates
9pm, BBC Two
Lucy Worsley reexamines some of the darkest chapters in UK history using modern understanding of factors such as mental health. First up: witch hunts, which started more than 400 years ago when a group of Scottish women were executed, leading to the state-sanctioned killing of so-called witches. HR
Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at Rockfield
9pm, Sky Arts
More of the Gallaghers on your screens this week. In this one-off documentary, Liam Gallagher is joined by his two sons as he chats about big nights out, approaching 50 and fatherhood, in between playing a few hits at the famous studios. HR
State of the Union
10pm, BBC Two
Nick Hornby’s comedy-drama returns – each 10-minute episode a bitter little pill. We now have a new couple, chatting before their weekly counselling session: Brendan Gleeson is Scott, an old-school businessman confused by modernity and the diverging interests of his dissatisfied wife, Ellen (Patricia Clarkson). Jack Seale
Film choice
The Handmaiden, (Park Chan-wook, 2016), 1.05am, Film4
Sarah Waters’s acclaimed crime novel Fingersmith is the source for this elegant, erotic psychological thriller from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. Set in a Korea under Japanese occupation in the early 20th century, the tangled tale follows a plot by conman Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) to marry heiress Hideko (Kim Min-hee) and then get her committed to an asylum, pocketing her money. He installs sidekick Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri) as Hideko’s maid to assist him, but the young woman and her victim fall in love. Sook-Hee narrates her part in the scheme, but that’s only the half of it, as Hideko then tells her own, very different story – one of child abuse, sadism and pornographic literature. Simon Wardell
