Concerto at the BBC Proms: Colin Currie Plays Gruber
7.30pm, BBC4
Tom Service introduces the BBC Philharmonic, with Finnish conductor John Storgårds and solo percussionist Colin Currie, performing the world premiere of Into the Open by Austrian composer HK Gruber. The 25-minute concerto isn’t intended exclusively as a percussive battery: Gruber explained that he wanted the drums to work with the orchestra, as opposed to being launched against it. Even so, the score calls for Thai gongs, African balaphone and Caribbean cencerros, among others. Andrew Mueller
Flockstars
8.30pm, ITV
A celebrity sheep-herding contest? It feels like a concept likely to make The Jump look as sombre and weighty as The World at War. Still, even if the premise is straight out of the “monkey tennis” playbook, the show itself is conducted with a surprisingly straight face. This week, it’s the turn of Fazer from N-Dubz and actor Lesley Joseph from Birds of a Feather to wave their crooks purposefully. Hardly high-octane stuff, but it’s difficult to take against a show so fundamentally daft. Phil Harrison
Sex in Class
9pm, Channel 4
Belgian sexologist Goedele Liekens heads to a Lancashire comprehensive school to revolutionise the way sex education is taught. Boy, do they need it. The school is fighting a losing battle against the attitudes of teens whose primary source of education is pornography. Liekens has a likably broadminded approach with her vulva puppet and discussion of photos of vaginas. It’s shocking to see how totally lacking in respect the boys are, but Liekens provides an inspiring example of how less buttoned-up teaching can work. Hannah Verdier
The Wonder of Britain
9pm, ITV
Ignominiously pulled from our screens in January, Julia Bradbury’s personal picks of delightful British things is now relocated to the summer schedules. Tonight’s episode is themed around the coastline of Britain and looks nice enough, with its visits to the noisy terns of the Farne Islands, and to the outer Hebrides. You wonder, though, if some of these places might have been better off speaking for themselves, uninterrupted by the presenter’s stunts and vaguely condescending banter. John Robinson
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
9pm, BBC2
It might be a well-trodden truism that without the BBC we wouldn’t have programming like this, but the work carried out by the corporation’s Natural History Unit makes for a perfect rebuttal to the licence fee abolition lobby. Tonight’s episode plunges into the Atlantic Ocean more deeply than sunlight has ever penetrated, finding subaquatic life seemingly untroubled by the progress of evolution, before returning closer to terra firma to explore penguin colonies on volcanic islands. Mark Jones
If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World
10pm, TLC
If reality TV component and professional troll Katie Hopkins ruled the world, she would employ gunships to force prospective migrants back to their own country, burn their boats and drill holes in anything remotely seaworthy. The sentiments of her infamous Sun column are unlikely to find their way into this light-hearted panel show, however, which will instead see Hopkins proposing society-improving ideas less likely to occasion an outcry from the UN’s high commissioner for human rights to a guest panel and studio audience. Rachel Aroesti
The Unbreakables: Life and Love on Disability Campus
9pm, BBC3
Second episode of the doc series set on campus at National Star, a college designed to accommodate students with varying disabilities. Like any group of teens, there are the hotties and the dweebs and tonight we meet uber-clique the Overton Gang who rule the school, fuelled by vodka shots and ill-advised games of truth or dare. Also worth finding online if this inspiring stuff is your bag is The Specials, an absorbing web series about special-needs teens sharing a house in Brighton. It’s brilliant. Julia Raeside
Today’s best live sport
International test Cricket: England v Australia
The opening day’s play in the fourth Ashes test from Trent Bridge. 10am, Sky Sports Ashes
Swimming: World Championships
Including the finals of the men’s 200m individual medley, 100m freestyle and 50m backstroke, and women’s 200m butterfly and 4x200m freestyle. 4pm, BBC2
Tennis: The Citi Open
Coverage of the fourth day’s play at the William HG FitzGerald Tennis Centre in Washington, DC. 9pm, Sky Sports 3
Film Choice
Breaking the Waves
(Lars von Trier, 1996)
9pm, Sky Arts
A harrowing fable of love and faith from the anarchic Von Trier. Emily Watson is Bess, a naive Scottish girl who impulsively marries oil rigger Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). When an accident leaves him paralysed, she indulges his wish that she should have sex with strangers and then tell him all about it. She believes her sacrifice will make him well again, and in Watson’s extraordinary, utterly compelling performance, she makes miracles entirely likely.
Stop-Loss
(Kimberly Peirce, 2008)
1.20am, Film4
Ryan Phillippe’s Brandon is an Iraq war hero who, after a brutal tour of duty, is back home in Texas, recovering from his traumatic experience. Then he’s called up again. Does he go back, or go awol? Peirce’s low-key drama is a gripping exploration of one soldier’s dilemma.
