How to Beat – Ageing (C4, 8pm)
Kate Quilton and Dr Javid Abdelmoneim will be exploring the small changes that could bring huge health benefits. With the assistance of volunteers and scientists from around the UK, this new series reveals the latest scientific evidence when it comes to bringing down your biological age, managing stress, beating pain and sticking to a healthy diet. In this offering, Kate and Javid recruit eight volunteers to take part in an experiment: they want to see if making simple lifestyle changes can knock years off their biological ages in a mere five weeks. Plus, a look at home gym innovations, whether training in extreme environments holds the key to staying young in body and in mind and how a good deed can benefit the mind and body.
Noughts + Crosses (BBC1, 9pm)
The Hadleys and the McGregors both attend Callum’s passing-in parade to the military academy, where Meggie sees a familiar face from the past and Kamal makes a controversial speech to the assembled crowd. Callum and Sephy snatch a moment together and realise they must find a place that they can be alone together – but Lekan suspects Sephy is hiding something from him and is on the rampage. Meanwhile, Jude is getting involved deeper with Dorn and his ambitions to make himself the new leader of terrorist group the Liberation Militia.
Shipman: 5 Mistakes That Caught a Killer (C5, 10pm)
Twenty years ago, serial killer Harold Shipman was convicted of murdering 15 of his patients by injecting them with diamorphine. However, he is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of more than 200 people. This documentary reveals the string of mistakes that led to his arrest. One of them was establishing a pattern and drawing attention to himself. Often, his victims were found fully dressed and sitting up – unusual for elderly patients who he claimed had been unwell in the weeks beforehand, while his lack of computer skills also led to his downfall.
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