Nina Simone & Me With Laura Mvula
7.30pm, BBC4
Nick Cave tells a funny story about Nina Simone that involves cocaine and sausages. Here, British singer Laura Mvula finds a rather more musical way to relate to the legendarily temperamental singer. She visits New York, following in Simone’s footsteps to what used to be the Juilliard School, then plays a couple of numbers with Simone’s unflappable guitarist Al Shackman. “She was a taskmaster,” says Al. “If we goofed, we’d have to repeat the song 10 times.” John Robinson
When Pop Ruled My Life: The Fans’ Story
9pm, BBC4
A wonderful celebration of pop fandom, its rituals and obsessions, from the New Statesman’s Kate Mossman – who gamely reads back her teen love letters to Queen’s Roger Taylor (“If this is not love, will you please tell me what it is?”). If the grown-up Mossman parks fandom at religion’s door (“It’s pure, intense, unadulterated devotion – the best part of yourself”), fellow music journalist Simon Price highlights the irony of an “ephemeral” music form that “stays with you for life”. Ali Catterall
Marvel’s Agents of Shield
8pm, Channel 4
The last time Agents of Shield properly crossed over with the Marvel movie universe – during the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier – it tore the organisation right down the middle. This week’s episode features a rather more upbeat tie-in to Avengers: Age of Ultron, but is really more concerned with setting up the imminent climax of the second season. Tensions between the remnants of Shield command and the enhanced Inhumans escalate, with Skye torn between both sides, and clairvoyant Raina even pricklier than usual. Graeme Virtue
Apocalypse Code: The Bible Prediction
8pm, Channel 5
Hard to know whether this is knowingly funny-awful or just plain awful-awful. Either way, The Bible Prediction discusses whether the Bible’s Book of Revelation foretells the apocalypse or should all be taken in a more measured and metaphorical manner. Be prepared to witness some bad dramatic interludes and rubbish special effects between opinions from genuine academics, doubtless over the moon to be intercut with literalists who unwaveringly take the Bible’s word at face value. Ben Arnold
Britain’s Greatest Generation
9pm, BBC2
If this series has tended towards sentimentality, it has had its reasons. As this final episode reminds us, not only did Britons of the 1940s have a continent to deliver from tyranny, they subsequently found themselves with a country requiring rebuilding. Among those reflecting on Britain’s reinvention are veterans of the war and the peace – notably those who campaigned for little-regarded minorities. The commitment to civic duty is humbling: one might have argued, circa 1945, that they’d done enough. Andrew Mueller
The Blacklist
9pm, Sky Living
This series finale sees Cooper receive some jaw-dropping news concerning his own doctor, but all of this is as nothing compared with what befalls Agent Liz Keen, to whom this episode belongs. Tonight, she finally realises she is being framed by the Cabal, leading her to question every aspect of the life she has been living these past two years. Interrogated by Tom Connolly and his henchmen, she must rely on Red to use his inside connections to bail her out. After which, their fates become truly intertwined; roll on season three. David Stubbs
Anzac Girls
9pm, More4
The Aussie period mini-series – as much about the nurses’ personal lives as their work saving the lives of patients – continues. Hilda’s anaesthesia training pays off when she and Alice get jobs in theatre. Alice’s mind is elsewhere: she’s desperate for news about Harry, hoping he was captured rather than killed. Olive receives a romantic proposal, but will she think again when a letter from her family brings news of their disapproval? And it’s all hands on deck when a new batch of casualties arrives. Hannah Verdier
Today’s best live sport
• French Open Tennis Third-round matches commence. 9.30am, ITV4
•International Test Cricket: England v New Zealand Day one of the second Test from Headingley. 10.30am, Sky Sports 2
•European Rugby Champions Cup Play-Offs The winners of Gloucester v Connacht take on the seventh-best side in the French Top 14. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
• Boxing: Amir Khan v Chris Algieri Khan hopes to legitimise his claim for a bout with Floyd Mayweather with a win here. 2am, Spike
