Emmeline Pankhurst: The Making of a Militant
7.30pm, BBC Four
There’s a real punch-the-air moment in this excellent biography of Emmeline Pankhurst: when she’s a child, her activist father sighs that it’s a pity his brilliantly precocious, already rebellious daughter “wasn’t born a lad”. “I don’t want to be a boy,” she protests, bolting up in bed. And a legend is born. Sally Lindsay tells the story of the fearless general of the suffragettes – a term originally coined as a slur by (who else?) the Daily Mail – and working mother from Moss Side, Manchester. Ali Catterall
Genius: Picasso
8pm, National Geographic
A chance encounter in Paris brings a new muse into the world of young Picasso (Alex Rich) and threatens his marriage. In the later narrative, with a new mistress stoking flames of passion for her increasingly distant husband, Françoise (Clémence Poésy) embarks on an artistic journey of her own. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Versailles
9pm, BBC Two
If you think Love Island is a haven for drama and revolting behaviour, Versailles takes it to another level. The king is agitated when protests worsen, and Madame de Maintenon’s past comes back to haunt her. Meanwhile, at the Vatican, Cardinal Leto isn’t happy about Louis’s intentions towards Spain. Hannah Verdier
Long Lost Family: What Happened Next
9pm, ITV
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell revisit three more families. They follow Laura – as she travels to Nigeria for a second time to meet her father as well as her new, huge extended family – and also Marion and James, who were reunited with the son they put up for adoption as teenagers. Ben Arnold
Snatches: Moments from Women’s Lives
10pm, BBC Four
Stripped across the week as part of the BBC’s consistently excellent suffragette season, this opening episode in a series of monologues sees Romola Garai performing Compliance. Written by Abi Morgan, it explores an actor’s experience of meeting a producer. Phil Harrison
Rebel Women
10.30pm, BBC Four
How do we write women back into art history after centuries of erasure? This documentary follows the artists and activists who undertook that formidable task, from the 1960s onwards, featuring LA educator Judy Chicago, Turner prize winner Lubaina Himid and Hugh Hefner, reimagined as a bunny girl. Ellen E Jones
Film choice
Scarface (Brian de Palma, 1983), 10pm, ITV4
Updating Howard Hawks’s 1932 movie and shifting the action to Florida, Brian de Palma presides over an orgy of cocaine and violence. He also creates an indelible monster in Al Pacino’s Tony Montana – a Cuban immigrant “with balls of steel” who is determined to cash in on the nightmarish side of the American dream. Paul Howlett
Live sport
One-Day Cup cricket 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. The second semi-final.
World Cup football: Sweden v South Korea 12.30pm, ITV. Games to follow later in the day are Belgium v Panama at 4pm and Tunisia v England at 7pm.
Superleague netball: Wasps v Benecos Mavericks 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Coverage from the Ricoh Arena.
