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HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: A painful and disturbing journey
American chat-show host Jerry Springer (pictured) embarks on a personal and emotional journey as the series - in which celebrities investigate their family histories - continues.
Springer was born in London's Golders Green in 1944 after his Jewish parents had escaped to London from Nazi Germany, just three days before the outbreak of the Second World War. Springer's grandmothers did not escape and both were murdered in the Holocaust. He does not know what happened to them after his parents' escape, or where they were murdered, as all knowledge of his family's roots were lost after they died. .. (Click to continue reading)
Who Do You Think You Are? showing on BBC 1 at 9:00pm
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The Kennedy effect
Emilio Estevez's fictional dramatisation of people and events surrounding the assassination of Robert F Kennedy in a LA hotel in June 1968. The film focuses on the lives of 22 employees and guests at the hotel on the fateful night. The cast includes Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and Sharon Stone. (Click to continue reading)
Bobby showing on Sky Screen 2 at 6:50pm
Liverpool v Standard Liege
Live coverage of the second leg of Liverpool's Champions League qualifier against Standard Liege. Rafael Benitez's men face a more difficult match than they might have expected following a disappointing 0-0 draw in their first game against the Belgian league champions. (Click to continue reading)
UEFA Champions League Live showing on ITV1 at 8:00pm
At the heart of the matter
Michael Mosley discovers how pioneering surgeons beat the clock to successfully operate on the heart without killing the patient, as he continues to dissect the history of surgery. (Click to continue reading)
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery showing on BBC 4 at 9:00pm
Crossing boundaries
Road movie comedy-drama, starring Oscar-niminated Felicity Huffman. She plays Bree, a man who is surgically meeting her desire to become a woman until her therapist, who can authorise the final operation, drops a bombshell. She must meet up with her teenage male prostitute and resolve both his problems and her own feelings. (Click to continue reading)
Transamerica showing on Film4 at 9:00pm
Wriggling into action
Comedians Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness travel the UK in a camper van in search of strange sporting events. The pair engage in a spot of toe wrestling in Derbyshire, before partaking in two very entertaining cycling challenges in Oxfordshire and Wales. Then it is time to turn the charm on for some wriggly Cheshire locals. (Click to continue reading)
Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure showing on five at 9:00pm
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The power of addiction
Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine star in a compelling, provocative one-off drama, exploring the nature of addiction. Adapted by David Hare from his acclaimed stage play, My Zinc Bed explores addiction in its many guises: addiction to alcohol, love and the need to control. (Click to continue reading)
My Zinc Bed showing on BBC 2 at 9:00pm
