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Billy Monger: The Race Is on for Comedian Aid

9pm, BBC One
“That is the 12 months that took me to the sting.” An enormous assertion coming from racing driver Billy Monger, who misplaced each his legs in a racing accident when he was simply 17 years previous. Right here he’s in the present day, taking up one of the excessive endurance challenges on the planet – an Ironman in Kona, Hawaii, the place he’ll must swim 2.4 miles within the ocean, cycle 112 miles and run 26.2 miles. It’s all for charity, so put together for an emotional journey. Hollie Richardson

Surgeons: On the Fringe of Life

9pm, BBC Two
Unflinching however fascinating footage from the working theatres of NHS Lothian. At St John’s Hospital in Livingston, a surgical staff put together to take away a harmful cheek tumour. However to provide their affected person the most effective likelihood of retaining her potential to smile, they plan to reconstruct her facial nerve – after harvesting a spare nerve from her leg. Graeme Advantage

A Merciless Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

9pm, ITV1

Ruth (Lucy Boynton in a breakthrough function) is counting down the times till her hanging, and whereas she has accepted her destiny, outdoors there are some folks preventing in opposition to this “miscarriage of justice”. All of the whereas, flashbacks fill within the full story of what drove her to kill. HR

The Righteous Gem stones

9pm, Sky Comedy
The Rapture should be shut at hand: it’s the ultimate season of this scabrous, televangelist-spoofing comedy, and the Gemstone siblings try to rebuild some bridges. First with their father (although they’ll have to seek out him first), then with Aimee-Leigh’s estranged bestie Lori. Phil Harrison

What We Do within the Shadows

10pm, BBC Two
Laszlo (Matt Berry) thinks Nandor (Kayvan Novak) is overreliant on “artless” hypnosis in his dealings with people, when it must be “wit, knowledge and allure” {that a} vampire relies upon upon. He will get an opportunity to show his level on an evening out with their buddy Sean, leading to some all-time traditional line readings from Berry. Ellen E Jones

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture With Sir Gareth Southgate

10.40pm, BBC One
What are Gareth Southgate’s huge life classes from his time as England’s soccer supervisor? Specializing in younger folks in a fast-evolving world, he imparts his knowledge by delivering the forty sixth Richard Dimbleby Lecture from Senate Home, with perception, unity and resilience all excessive on his record. HR

Movie alternative

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1947), 11am, Film4
Joseph Mankiewicz’s romantic fantasy could also be set in a California approximation of 1900s England, with accents to match, nevertheless it’s additionally a touching drama about life’s ebbs and flows. Gene Tierney performs the titular widow, Lucy, who strikes together with her daughter and servant to a home on the coast that’s haunted by Capt Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison). After she flatly refuses to be spooked by him, they grow to be shut. Harrison’s salty sea-dog character – all “belay” this and “blasted” that – skirts cliche initially however positive factors pathos when George Sanders’ comically lascivious suitor seems. Simon Wardell