A Place in the Sun (C4, 3pm)
NEW series. The return of the programme where a property expert offers advice to householders aiming to buy a home abroad, beginning with Cath and her daughter Kate, who are looking for a tranquil holiday home along the Costa Almeria in southern Spain. Cath wants enough space for her family to be able to visit, but also somewhere to escape the rat race and find inspiration for her writing. Danni Menzies has five properties lined up but will any be the oasis of calm that she has her heart set on?
Hospital Special: Fighting Covid-19 (BBC2, 9pm)
THE award-winning series returns to give us a remarkable insight into how staff and patients at the Royal Free London Hospital, a world leader in the treatment of infectious diseases, have been dealing with the challenges of the Covid-19 outbreak. Filmed from the first day of the lockdown, the opening episode sees doctors being redeployed and the ICU doubling its capacity. Among the patients arriving at A&E is 88-year-old Peter, who is struggling for breath. In the maternity ward, the staff prepare to perform their first C-section on a Covid-positive mum-to-be, whose oxygen saturation levels are dangerously low.
Normal People (BBC1, 9pm)
CONNELL starts socialising with Marianne in Dublin and is introduced to her friends, one of whom is interested in him. Marianne is still dating Gareth, but her interest in the relationship is starting to fade. Things take a negative turn for the pair when Marianne argues with her brother Alan and Connell loses his part-time restaurant job. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
Nazi Megastructures (More4, 10pm)
THE return of the series charting how the Axis powers built some of the deadliest pieces of military hardware in history. This edition, Japan’s Warrior Code, examines the Battle of Saipan in 1944, when US Marines stormed the beaches of the Japanese island, with a goal of gaining a crucial air base. As they poured from their landing crafts, they faced fierce resistance and fighting became especially brutal. This programme looks at the Japanese mindset, a metaphysical megastructure that made its infantry so formidable.
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