Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story
9pm, BBC Two
An infuriating investigation into what is described in this documentary as “the longest-running scandal in British history”: the UK government’s nuclear testing in Australia and the South Pacific during the 1950s and 60s, and its severe impact on the health of service personnel and local people. “We were lab rats,” says one of the five veterans interviewed. Most harrowing is a graveyard at Woomera military base, which experienced an unexplained high number of stillbirths and infant deaths during the 50s. Hollie Richardson
Fungi: The Web of Life
8pm, BBC Four
From shaping the weather to supporting life and breaking down plastics, there’s more to fungi than just something to trip out on. In this fascinating documentary, the musician Björk and the biologist Merlin Sheldrake comb the globe to explore this magical kingdom, and discover how fungi are at the cutting edge of medical breakthroughs. Ali Catterall
Shetland
9pm, BBC One
The windswept Scottish cop drama blows into Slow Horses territory as DI Calder (Ashley Jensen) brings her partner Tosh (Alison O’Donnell) up to speed with the cloak-and-dagger past of one of their victims. But is her suspiciously helpful source Rossi (Ian Hart) truly out of the spy game or does he have another agenda? Graeme Virtue
After the Party
9pm, Channel 4
In this gripping New Zealand drama, science teacher Penny Wilding (Robyn Malcolm) is compelling from the moment we meet her giving a spectacular lecture on porn to a class of teenage boys. Her feathers are only ruffled when her ex-husband (Peter Mullan) returns from Scotland after five years and a big scandal from their past is revealed. HR
My Brilliant Friend
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The sumptuous dramatisation of Elena Ferrante’s books reaches the fourth and final season, in which the adult friends deal with the tumult of Italy in the late 1980s. As we reconvene, Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) is planning a new life in Naples, but tragedy is just around the corner. Jack Seale
Young, British and Anti-Abortion
10.40pm, BBC One
The threat to women’s reproductive rights isn’t just an urgent issue in the US, as the brilliant Poppy Jay learns in this eye-opening documentary about the UK’s anti-abortion movement – but also, and unexpectedly, among the UK’s gen Z demographic. She is patient but pressing as she meets those involved. HR
Live sport
Women’s Champions League football: Chelsea v Celtic 7.45pm, TNT Sports 1. A Group B tie at Stamford Bridge.
