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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, Hannah J Davies, Ali Catterall, Mike Bradley and Paul Howlett

Friday’s best TV: BBC Ouch Storytelling Live: Going Out; Britain By Bike With Larry & George Lamb

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BBC Ouch … warmth and wit from the Edinburgh fringe.

BBC Ouch Storytelling Live: Going Out

11.35pm, BBC Two
For the third year running, Ouch – the multimedia strand tackling disability and mental health issues with warmth and spiky wit – presents a freewheeling show from the boisterous chaos of the Edinburgh fringe. Scheduled to follow Nish Kumar’s Edinburgh Nights (11.05pm), it looks like a late-and-loud showcase featuring both first-time storytellers and pro standups sharing tales on the theme of “going out”. The MC for the night is app-enabled chatterbox and BGT champ Lost Voice Guy. Graeme Virtue

Britain By Bike With Larry & George Lamb

8pm, Channel 5
More gentle cross-country journeys, albeit with a Partridge-ish vibe, as father and son explore the Peak District on two wheels. Well, mostly on two wheels – a classic car (Larry) v bike (George) race ends with the younger of the two doing his best Geraint Thomas impression to no avail. Hannah J Davies

Video Killed the Radio Star

8.30pm, Sky Arts
The show looking at the making of famous music videos catches up with Prince, an artist whose rise coincided with an explosion in spectacular promos. Videos include 1999 and Purple Rain although, arguably, the most iconic music video for a Prince song starred another singer: Sinéad O’Connor with Nothing Compares 2 U. Ali Catterall

Code 37: Sex Crimes

9pm, More4
As TV’s sharpest European crime-fighting quartet continue their investigations, crusading detective Hannah embraces the case of medical student Lotte, who says she was raped after a party. Bob doesn’t buy her story, but Hannah’s instincts prove well founded. A gutsy show that is winning more friends by the week. Mike Bradley

Peng Life

11.05pm, Channel 4
The chicken connoisseur and “the two mandem who look the same” pit a high-end pedicure versus the high street equivalent. Plus, there’s a battle of the bling doughnuts, a competition to guess the Instagram users with the most followers and guest appearances from Jessie Ware and Tim Westwood. MB

Petula Clark Live in Berlin

1.30am, BBC Four
Sixties pop princess Petula Clark was 83 when she gave this concert at the vast SchwuZ club in Berlin. Clearly enjoying herself, she rattles though hits including Downtown and Couldn’t Live Without Your Love, as well as Pour Etre Aimée de Toi, a collaboration with nonagenarian crooner Charles Aznavour. MB

Film choice

Colin Firth in The King’s Speech.
Colin Firth in The King’s Speech. Photograph: Uk Film Co/Rex/Shutterstock

The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010) 10.35pm, BBC One
Colin Firth is George VI, AKA Bertie, tortured by a stammer until an unorthodox therapist (Geoffrey Rush) offers a cure, and a friendship that teaches the king a new humanity. Helena Bonham Carter is beautifully snooty as Elizabeth, the Queen Mother-to-be; and the performances are matched by an upper-crust screenplay. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Premiership rugby union: Bristol Bears v Bath Rugby 7pm, BT Sport 1. Ashton Gate hosts the opening match of the 2018/19 season.

Athletics: Diamond League 7pm, Eurosport 2. The 14th and final round of the season, held in Brussels.

International women’s football: Wales v England 7.30pm, BBC2. A crucial World Cup qualifier.

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