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Hannah Verdier, Hannah J Davies, Ali Catterall, John Robinson, Ben Arnold, Julia Raeside and Jack Seale

Friday’s best TV

Kate Humble in Mongolia
Kate Humble tries her hand at being a nomadic goatherder in Mongolia. Photograph: Kate Owen/Indus Films/BBC

Kate Humble: Living with Nomads
9pm, BBC2

It’s the concluding leg of Kate Humble’s journey through the nomad cultures of Nepal, Siberia and Mongolia. Tonight, she shares stories with a group of nomads as they move their tents, and goes to a yak festival. As ever, Humble gets among it with elan, helping out with a noisy cashmere wool harvest and eating the testicles of freshly castrated lambs. She also finds nomads embracing modern gadgets to make life easier, using solar panels to power their TVs, and driving a 4x4 to the local well. Hannah Verdier

Big Brother: Live Eviction
9pm, Channel 5

Series 16’s twist has come into effect and this week Big Brother: Timebomb has become Big Brother: Time Warp, with past housemates joining the current mob in the BB house. Despite the new name, dramas are sure to remain equally ridiculous, as the housemates prepare for their seventh week of captivity. Tonight’s eviction sees another chancer booted out, following the likes of kooky actor Eileen and one-time Towie personalities Amy and Sally Broadbent back into obscurity. Emma Willis hosts. Hannah J Davies

Glastonbury Golden Greats
9pm, BBC4

Whether it’s Dame Shirley Bassey vamping her way through the Doors’ Light My Fire, Al Green greeting the crowd with “Hello Bristol!” or Dolly Parton breaking into an unexpected Yakety Sax last year (AKA one of the most perfect things that has ever happened in the history of creation), Glastonbury has had more than its share of priceless moments. Here are a handful of them (including all of the above), followed by Festivals Britannia, a history of UK musical mudbaths, from the Isle of Wight to Leeds and Reading. Ali Catterall

The Saboteurs
9pm, More4

To some, Heisenberg is best known as a feature of Breaking Bad mythology. Here, we meet a dramatisation of the original person: an ambitious, brilliant German scientist who knew how to get a nuclear explosion going, and the heavy water necessary to do it properly. This Norwegian drama focuses on the allied effort to prevent the Nazis exploiting this knowledge, while also dealing with the more sinister business of motivations and rewards. Promising, but Anna Friel’s presence as an English army captain threatens to turn things a bit camp. John Robinson

Whale Wars
9pm, Discovery

This, Whale Wars’ seventh season, is the first that will not feature tireless environmental activist Paul Watson. The silver-maned Sea Shepherd founder, who has been the face of the show up to now, is involved in a court case with the Japanese government, which claims he has breached US law. Without their skipper, and with the whaling ships the Sea Shepherd crew have targeted turning more aggressive, things look more worrying than ever before for the dedicated anti-whaling agitators of the Antarctic. Ben Arnold

Sarah Millican Home Bird Live
10pm, Channel 4

The geordie comedy sensation performs last year’s excellent live tour routine, about settling into the next phase of life, to her home crowd in Newcastle. Topics covered include personal grooming (“just keep it inside the pants”), pensioner swearing and unhelpful women’s magazines. Millican impresses with her mime skills, too, illustrating several gags with extremely evocative hand actions. Like the best comics, she knows what you expect of her yet still manages to keep the surprises coming. Julia Raeside

Artsnight
11pm, BBC2

The arts strand returns, and we’re following Andrew Marr down into the bones of his love for Elizabethan and Jacobean writers who aren’t Shakespeare. He looks in particular at how good these forgotten dramatists were at writing women, and at Ben Jonson’s satire on avarice, Volpone. Trevor Nunn, who is staging the play at the RSC next month, discusses its legacy with the broadcaster. Jack Seale

Today’s best live sport

Snooker World Cup The contest in Wuxi, China reaches the quarter-finals. 6am, British Eurosport 2

Tennis: Queens Club Championships Quarter-final action. 1pm, BBC2

Horse Racing: Royal Ascot Includes the Commonwealth Cup. 1.40pm, Channel 4

T20 Blast Cricket: Gloucestershire Gladiators v Somerset Southern Division clash between the sides. 5pm, Sky Sports 2

Golf: The US Open The cut looms as day two of the major gets under way. 5pm, Sky Sports 4

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