10pm, BBC Four
Filmed over several years and at a time of severe drought in Kenya, this impressively even-handed documentary illustrates the conflict that can be ignited by climate change. It charts the relationship between the Samburu people, a nomadic community that has always grazed cattle and goats on the grasslands of the Laikipia plateau, and the third and fourth generation European settlers who have ranches and conservancies in the region. With drought ravishing the grazing, the settlers have blocked Samburu migration routes with fences and armed guards, while ranchers have been attacked.
7pm, Channel 5
Two-year-old labrador Duke has been dubbed “Captain Chaos” by owner Kizzie’s friends because he has so much energy. But he is also handsome and a quick learner, so Titchmarsh believes that renowned dog trainer Jo-Rosie Haffenden can unleash this Labrador’s potential as a stunt dog. Yes, apparently there are such beasts.
8pm, Channel 4
The final batch of phobia-sufferers entering the Amsterdam clinic are led by ex-prison officer Paula, who has a fear of spiders inherited from her mum. Chloe, meanwhile, has emetophobia – the fear of people being sick – and talks about her sadness at not being able to care for her three young daughters. And to further illustrate how these fears can be passed down the generations, Chloe’s eldest daughter is already starting to show signs of the same phobia, after seeing Chloe’s reaction.
9pm, BBC One
Poor Stace (Tillie Amartey), caught between her dreadful, neglectful mother and the thought of moving in with her granddad. “He’s boring and he stinks of corned beef”, she complains before falling victim to Dame Stella’s drastic new school rules. Stella herself (Lindsey Coulson) is busy fending off parents aggrieved at her new accelerated learning programme for brighter kids. “Our inbox is like toxic waste,” says the school secretary.
9pm, ITV1
In the concluding half of the documentary series about the cold-case investigation into the 1981 murder of Bedfordshire shopkeeper Carol Morgan, two vital witnesses come forward. And both are alive and well and able to tell the programme-makers about the evidence that they were able to supply – one a neighbour who spotted Carol’s husband Allen when he was supposed to have been at the cinema with his children. Altogether more damning was the evidence of Jane Bunting, who was a “mixed up” 17-year-old when she overheard Allen Morgan and his lover discussing ways of killing Carol.
9pm, Sky Showcase
A forensic examination of events that took place in August 2000, after an explosion on board the Kursk submarine trapped a group of survivors at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Why did the Russians take so long to accept international assistance? How did this crisis change Russia and how would it shape Putin’s own trajectory as the new President? The film hears first-hand testimony from those involved, from former US president Bill Clinton to families of the submariners tragically lost.
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