Back In Time For Dinner
8pm, BBC2
A family home becomes a foodie Tardis in this illuminating new series, presented by Giles Coren. In each episode, the Robshaw clan are beamed back to a different decade and tasked with recreating historically accurate meals cribbed from the National Food Survey. Week one is the 1950s, when beef dripping was big and most houses didn’t have a fridge. “Like camping indoors,” explains food historian Polly Russell. Then Mary Berry turns up to tempt them with a newfangled electric oven. Graeme Virtue
Free Speech: Battle Of The Kingmakers: Greens, SNP And Plaid Cymru
8pm, BBC3
If, as seems likely, neither Labour nor the Conservatives get a majority in May, we’ll be in for another coalition or a minority government. What price might the smaller parties exact if this is the case? Natalie Bennett of the Greens, Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP and Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru face an audience of 16-34-year-olds. Rick Edwards chairs and, happily, nobody has to put up with David Cameron’s faux-officer-bark-this-is-how-we’ll-do-the-debates posturing. Jonathan Wright
Ordinary Lies
9pm, BBC1
Jason Manford is a salesman suffering a classic Primetime Drama Crisis: money worries, bad marriage, shouting kids, boss on his case. What you mustn’t do in that scenario is panic and tell a lie that spirals out of control … oh dear. Danny Brocklehurst’s series is set in a car showroom packed with people fighting hidden battles, played by likable light-drama actors: Jo Joyner, Sally Lindsay, Max Beesley. Soapy fun, with a different character spotlit each week. Manford just about holds his story together. Jack Seale
Horizon: Dancing In The Dark – The End Of Physics?
9pm, BBC2
Cern’s Large Hadron Collider has been dormant for two years, as the immense particle smasher undergoes upgrades. Ahead of its restart, this film wonders what might be discovered when it is fired up again this month. The ultimate object of the quest is so-called dark matter – the immense gap in our understanding of the cosmos. As one of the boffins interviewed cheerfully admits: “We have no idea what 95% of the universe is made of.” David Mitchell narrates. Andrew Mueller
The Lady Who Flew Africa: The Aviatrix
9pm, BBC4
Lady Mary Heath was quite a Lady: the first UK female javelin champ; the first British woman to make a parachute jump; and, in 1928, the first British woman to make a solo flight from Cape Town to London. It’s the latter feat that “aviatrix” Tracey Curtis-Taylor aims to emulate in this mesmerising film, as she follows in her predecessor’s contrails for an incident-packed African adventure, 30ft above the elephants and hippos. “And then I land, and I’m moved beyond tears.” Ali Catterall
Critical
9pm, Sky1
When you hear the words “You might want to double glove”, you know it’s time to push aside your takeaway and immerse yourself in gory medical drama. This week, the team have an hour to save a man who’s been wheeled in beaten and gagged, but when his temperature rockets they realise he’s carrying a highly infectious virus. With the trauma unit on lockdown, the team must operate but Rebecca bails. There’s still time for a bit of politics, with Glen’s CV showing some gaps that need explaining. Hannah Verdier
Life After Suicide
10.45pm, BBC1
Eleven years ago, Angela Samata returned home to find that her partner Mark had taken his own life. Now, she feels able to talk about what happened, and speaks to people who have suffered a similar loss. Yet Angela is aware that while the silence surrounding suicide is toxic, talking about the subject is by no means straightforward either: having always been open with her sons about what happened to their father, she is concerned that her candour could run the risk of normalising suicide in their eyes. Rachel Aroesti
Today’s best live sport
WTA Tennis The BNP Paribas tournament reaches the last 16. 6pm, BT Sport 2
Uefa Champions League Monaco v Arsenal – after a tragicomic first leg performance, can Arsenal overturn a 3-1 deficit? 7.30pm, ITV
Uefa Champions League Atletico Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen – Leverkusen hold a 1-0 first-leg lead. 7.40pm, Sky Sports 1
Cricket World Cup Sri Lanka v South Africa in the first quarter-final, live from the Sydney Cricket Ground. 3am, Sky Sports World Cup
