Craig & Danny: Funny, Black and on TV (STV, 8pm)
IN celebration of this year’s Black History Month, Red Dwarf co-stars Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules take a look back on some of the greatest and sometimes forgotten black comedy legends of our time. Through a combination of nostalgic archive footage and star interviews, they find out about the greatest black comics, from the first breakout black comic, Yorkshireman Charlie Williams, to today’s rising stars, such as Michaela Coel and genre-defining shows from Desmond’s to The Real McCoy.
Escape to the Farm with Kate Humble (C5, 9pm)
IT’S now more than a decade since presenter Kate Humble left London to start a new, more sustainable life on a small farm in Monmouthshire, Wales. Some cynics may have wondered just how much of the actual farming she was really going to do, but as this new series proves, she’s very hands on. In the first episode, cameras follow Kate as she tends to Sausage, a Welsh pig who is due to give birth – but things aren’t going to plan.
Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (BBC2, 9pm)
AT Royal Papworth, senior consultant in thoracic surgery Aman Coonar and Addenbrooke’s plastic surgeon, Charles Malata, undertake a mammoth chest wall reconstruction. Kevin has been living with an open hole in his back for 15 years since having a cancerous lung removed. Meanwhile, leading neurosurgeon Richard Mannion and consultant ENT surgeon Patrick Axon treat Gulraiz, who has a rare type of tumour growing at the back of his brain.
Ivor Cutler by KT Tunstall
(Sky Arts, 10pm)
CULT humourist Ivor Cutler was Glaswegian, Jewish and a musical genius. To KT Tunstall, his records have been the soundtrack to her travels: “I’ve always found his music almost medicinal,” she says. Now the celebrated Edinburgh-born singer-songwriter sets out to explore the unique character of the great eccentric. She meets the musicians with whom Cutler collaborated, the friends he often fell out with, as well as his many celebrity fans, before finally recording a cover of Cutler’s song Women
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