Professor Green attempts to get to grips with the particular issues facing working-class white men; can a group of stammerers be trained in four days to speak confidently from a Trafalgar Square soapboax? Plus: House of Saud – A Family at War

Working Class White Men

10pm, Channel 4

There is an argument that if everyone who felt marginalised and angry in modern Britain was to step forward at this moment, there would be a long queue indeed. But this series attempts to get to grips with the particular issues facing working-class white men as Professor Green meets Lewis, who is aiming for Cambridge Uni, entrepreneurial Denzil, and David who is homeless, furious and flirting with far-right politics. What drives their alienation? Phil Harrison

House of Saud: A Family at War

9pm, BBC Two

The sands beneath Saudi Arabia are shifting. This timely three-parter contemplates the future of the cloistered kingdom. Its rising power is the thirtysomething Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who appears to recognise that his family’s survival may depend on a willingness to move with the times – and that their support for hardcore Islamists may blow back. The prince describes himself as “moderate”, but in Saudi, that is a relative term. Andrew Mueller

School for Stammerers

9pm, ITV

Can a group of stammerers get up on a soapbox in the middle of Trafalgar Square and talk confidently? And why should they be forced to? Six people are pushed right out of their comfort zone for the climax to this one-off documentary. They agree to sign up to the McGuire Programme, which sees them go through four days of intensive coaching and separation from their families. It’s a gruelling and emotional process, but life-changing results are promised. Hannah Verdier

England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

9pm, BBC Four

The popular image of Lady Jane Grey is of an innocent manipulated by men. Historian Helen Castor offers a more nuanced picture, reminding us that Grey was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII and grew up surrounded by powerful women. Charting the constitutional crisis after Edward VI’s death, Castor also explores why Grey claiming the throne would have enraged Tudor England. Jonathan Wright

Inside No 9

10pm, BBC Two

These self-contained episodes co-written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are often dark, as befits their League of Gentlemen pedigree. This one is too, in its way, but it’s also moving and very sweet in the tribute it pays to an expired mode of popular comedy. The duo star as Len and Tommy, AKA “Cheese And Crackers”, light entertainers who split up 30 years ago reuniting one last time, despite recrimination and the divergent paths they’ve taken. David Stubbs

How to Get Away With Murder

10pm, Sky Living

Law professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) is throwing a last supper and we are all invited. Before that, though, in one of HTGAWM’s beloved time-jumps, Annalise is trying to persuade her mum (the forever fierce Cicely Tyson) to move into a nursing home. Good luck with that. By this point in Shonda Rhimes’s melodrama, countless killers have gotten away with it, yet somehow the stakes keep getting higher. Ellen E Jones

Codebreakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes

9pm, PBS America



While Alan Turing remains the poster boy for the code-breaking that went on at Bletchley Park during the second world war, less is known of Tommy Flowers and Bill Tutte, the designers of Colossus, the computer that cracked the Lorenz cipher. Less feted, and not even mentioned in the film The Imitation Game, it was their hacking into “Hitler’s hotline” that helped to turn the tide of the war. Here their inspiring story is told. Ben Arnold

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Film choice



The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman, 2011) 9pm, More4

Based on a Michael Connelly novel, this slick thriller stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, known as the Lincoln lawyer because he conducts his business from the back seat of his Lincoln Continental. He is engaged to defend rich kid Ryan Phillippe, who is accused of the attempted murder of a sex worker, in a tale with enough wit and snappy dialogue to balance a workaday plot. Paul Howlett

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