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Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: revisiting an infamous Nazi massacre of Ukrainian Jews

Bella Chernovets fled, aged four, with her mother and brother after her Red Army soldier father heard about the Nazis murdering Jews, as she recalls in Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero.
Bella Chernovets fled, aged four, with her mother and brother after her Red Army soldier father heard about the Nazis murdering Jews, as she recalls in Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero. Photograph: Channel 4

Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero

10pm, Channel 4

This harrowing film is about one of the most horrific massacre sites of the second world war – Babyn Yar, to give it the Ukrainian spelling, on the outskirts of Kyiv, where almost 34,000 Jews were shot dead by the Nazis over one weekend in 1941. Soviet archive film is woven together with contributions from survivors and interviews with experts to explore as far as possible the full impact of the atrocity. Hollie Richardson

Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge

7pm, Sky News

After six years of giving MPs a tough time on Sunday mornings, Sophy Ridge launches a new politics show four nights a week, Monday to Thursday. It’s the TV equivalent of moving from a reflective weekend broadsheet to a reactive daily, but Ridge seems to have the necessary appetite for slicing through Westminster waffle. Graeme Virtue

Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae

9pm, BBC Two

In the second, final episode of this documentary on a notorious Scottish trial, Valerie Steventon’s testimony reveals Renee MacRae’s love for the accused, William MacDowell. While DI Brian Geddes retraces MacDowell’s steps on the night in 1976 when Renee and her three-year-old son Andrew were murdered, further testimony from MacDowell’s former secretaries suggest an alibi. The closing speeches from prosecution and defence bring the 2022 case to a tense conclusion. Ali Catterall

The Inheritance

9pm, Channel 5

Larry Lamb and Gaynor Faye star in a family mystery in which the unexpected death of a father (Lamb) raises suspicions among his three children Sian (Faye), Daniel (Robert James-Collier) and Chloe (Jemima Rooper). Why did he leave everything to a woman they had never met? And why is he being cremated when he always told them he wanted to be buried? HR

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

9pm, Sky Atlantic

The nicely realised 1980s basketball drama continues to evoke the shifting sands of the era as the Lakers’ superstar Magic Johnson flexes his MVP muscles. He is asserting his primacy over Coach Westhead but, as a result, owner Jerry Buss is left facing a power vacuum – can Jerry West pick up the pieces? Phil Harrison

Starstruck

10pm, BBC Three

The romcom that defies the classic happy ending continues. Things are going well between Jessie and her new flame Liam – so, of course, she risks it all by visiting her ex, Tom, as he gets ready to perform his new play. Just to make things even more awkward, Tom’s clueless fiancee and acid-tongued agent turn up. HR

Film choice

Sylvester Stallone and Simone Griffeth in Death Race 2000
Sylvester Stallone and Simone Griffeth in Death Race 2000 (1975). Photograph: Album/Alamy

Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975), 10.05pm, Talking Pictures TV

B-movie king Roger Corman produced this trashy but immensely fun exploitation flick, directed by Paul Bartel. A totalitarian US government uses a transcontinental road race as its opiate for the masses, to paraphrase Karl Marx, with competitors scoring extra points for mowing down the public. Negotiating the violence and sex of this dystopian Wacky Races are the likes of David Carradine’s ace driver Frankenstein and Sylvester Stallone’s hair-trigger Machine Gun Joe Viterbo. Simon Wardell

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