Parenting

TV tonight: Prue Leith explores her adopted daughter's roots in Cambodia


Prue Leith: Journey With My Daughter
9pm, Channel 4

Outside of her work as a restaurateur and TV host, Prue Leith provides a deeply personal insight into her life in this fascinating documentary. Forty-five years ago, just before the Pol Pot genocide in Cambodia, Leith adopted her daughter Li-Da and brought her to the Cotswolds to be raised. Now, Leith and Li-Da return to Cambodia to search for her biological family and to learn of the hundreds of other adopted children who also left. A powerful treatise on adoption and cultural identity. Ammar Kalia

Your Home Made Perfect
8pm, BBC Two

Punam and Anuj’s five-bedroom house in Surrey is smaller than it seems, plagued as it is by an awkward layout and dingy living spaces. It’s up to architects Laura Jane Clark and Robert Jamison to come to the rescue in this competitive makeover series, proposing a fresh layout to help the couple with their expanding family. AK

Our Girl
9pm, BBC One

Last week’s cliffhanger ending runs straight into a particularly intense opening sequence in this war-themed series, as 2 Section try to drive their armoured truck back to base through hostile territory with a rapidly deteriorating casualty in the back. But there’s plenty of time for some cheesy, chewy dialogue later. Jack Seale

Inside the Factory
9pm, BBC Two

“That’s a great big dirty pit of metal!” honks Gregg Wallace as he visits a French foundry in his quest to investigate how pots and pans are made. Well, you’ve got to get your kicks where you can these days. Cherry Healey, meanwhile, is at an iron mine while Ruth Goodman traces the history of cooking equipment. Hannah Verdier

Pen15
9pm, Sky Comedy

In a groundbreaking bit of telly, Maya discovers her clitoris (throbbing away, cartoonishly) and the unalloyed joys of that lockdown favourite, ceaseless masturbation. Not even visions of her forbidding dead grandfather can stop her. A superbly honest, all-too rare depiction of newfound female sexuality. Ali Catterall

I’ll Get This: Extra Helping
10pm, BBC Two

The BBC’s celebrity dinner party gameshow returns for a second season, with this week’s diners Jonathan Ross, Gabby Logan, Mark Wright, Anita Rani and Rachel Parris all surrendering their credit cards in the hope one of them will be footing the bill. A gentle hark back to the days of dining out. AK

Film choice

Meryl Streep in Silkwood.



Conspiracy thrills … Meryl Streep in Silkwood. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Featu

Silkwood, 12 midnight, Talking Pictures TV
Karen Silkwood was a whistleblower at a US nuclear plant who died in a suspicious car accident on the way to a press conference. Mike Nichols’s 1983 conspiracy-theory thriller contains a typically committed performance from Meryl Streep, with support from Cher. Paul Howlett



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