Dispatches: Broke – Britain’s Debt Emergency
10pm, Channel 4
Although it has been called “insignificant” compared with the recent royal news by a certain BBC reporter, the cost of living crisis certainly hasn’t disappeared – in fact, it’s going to get far worse. In this special Dispatches episode, Citizens Advice debt advisers and some of the 14 million people who, the organisation predicts, will be unable to pay their energy bills this autumn, tell their stories. In Southend, mum Carly is dealing with a £20,000 debt as a result of payday loans. In Manchester, 28-year-old Mateena says she lives on lumps of sugar for her meals. That is the reality explored here. Hollie Richardson
Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker
8pm, Channel 4
A whittle bit more … After debuting last year, the timber-themed Bake Off homage hosted by Mel Giedroyc returns with two new judges in the form of entrepreneur Sophie Sellu and design expert Tom Dyckhoff. The fresh batch of 10 contestants seem keen but can they create a knockout dinner table in two days? Graeme Virtue
Sky Arts Book Club
8pm, Sky Arts
Raven Smith – AKA “the funniest man on Instagram’’ – joins Andi Oliver and Elizabeth Day to talk about his hilarious book Men. Tahmima Anam also discusses her tech-satire novel The Startup Wife, while ultimate bookworm Simon Savidge shares his recommendations. HR
Escape from Kabul Airport
9pm, BBC Two
They were 18 desperate, dramatic days in August 2021, when the US ended its longest war by staging the largest airlift operation in its history. This feature-length documentary combines shocking on-the-ground footage of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe and interviews with fleeing Afghan citizens, US Marines and even some Taliban fighters. Ellen E Jones
Brassic
9.45pm, Sky Max
The ragged and irresistible petty crime caper continues. Tonight, Joe Gilgun’s Vinnie leads his hapless pals through an adventure in the woods, which is disrupted by cocaine-induced paranoia and diarrhoea-inducing food foraging. The group dynamics are captured nicely and Gilgun is as endearing as ever: bullish but with a winning edge of vulnerability. Phil Harrison
The Great
11.05pm, Channel 4
In the series’ penultimate episode, baby Paul arrives (huzzah!), Georgina returns to court a new woman, and Marial finds herself newly engaged. But none of this can distract Peter from worrying about Catherine finding out that he, as he so eloquently puts it, “fucked her mother and killed her”. HR
