Your Home Made Perfect (BBC2, 8pm)
LAURA Jane Clark and Robert Jamison use virtual reality to redesign a 1930s Surrey house with a poorly designed layout to make better use of the space, and allow the owners to both start a family and have their parents move in with them in the future. Laura’s plan involves turning the property into a light-filled interconnected series of spaces, while Robert turns conventional wisdom on its head with a visually striking and flexible design.
Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter (C4, 9pm)
FORTY-FIVE years ago, restaurateur, chef and writer Prue Leith made what was at the time a radical decision which would change her life forever. The Great British Bake Off star adopted a 16-month-old baby girl called Li-Da from a Cambodian orphanage. Her parents were victims of Cambodia’s killing fields. In this intimate and revealing documentary, Prue joins Li-Da on a trip to Cambodia to search for her biological family.
A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble (Channel 5, 9pm)
THE presenter meets the massive Goldby family from Epsom. Mum Vicki, dad Phil and their nine children are bursting out of their four-bed house, which has only one bathroom. They’ve found the most amazing farmhouse with three bathrooms, scope for seven bedrooms, and more than two acres of land. They’re swapping a traditional detached to gain twice the inside space, and 60 times the outside space – all for nearly £130,000 less. But with hen coops and pig pens to build as well as animals to rear, it’s a plan that requires a serious amount of work and commitment.
Our Girl (BBC1, 9pm)
THE soldiers on the rescue mission make it safely back to the hospital, only to be confronted with an unexpected situation that leaves the whole section reeling. Georgie returns to the UK, trying to conceal her trauma, but is horrified to discover that Omar has struck a deal with the US to escape justice in return for providing information. When she angrily challenges the brigadier over this, she finds herself facing a mental health evaluation that leaves her future in the army hanging in the balance.
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