A House Through Time
9pm, BBC Two
The historian David Olusoga sets his sights on another British house, the history of which will be uncovered over the course of this documentary series. He is in Bristol at No 10 Guinea Street, a road named after the Guinea coast in west Africa – a hub of the international slave trade. Olusoga discovers how the house was built by a prolific 18th-century slave trader, Edmund Saunders, and learns of Bristol’s role as one of the world’s biggest slave-trading ports – a history with which the city has an increasingly uncomfortable relationship. Ammar Kalia
Life and Birth
8pm, BBC One
This is a muted conclusion to the maternity ward documentary, but, even if the most compelling stories were in other episodes, these subtler heartbreaks still provide drama – whether from expectant mothers with mental health problems or a newborn with a hole in her heart. Jack Seale
Bake Off: The Professionals
8pm, Channel 4
Benoit and Cherish are back with their notebooks and suspiciously small forks to examine the best baked goods the country’s pâtissiers have to offer. Today’s teams must create 24 identical mini strawberry tarts before reinventing the pineapple upside-down cake. AK
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
9pm, Channel 5
The adventurer Ben Fogle returns for a second series, meeting previous contributors who dropped out of the rat race to live off the grid in some of the most remote locations on Earth. How has life changed for the Long family, who set up home in Gorge River, off the remote coast of New Zealand? Ali Catterall
Rob & Romesh Vs Cricket
9pm, Sky One
Messrs Beckett and Ranganathan conclude their banter-fuelled trip to South Africa. It feels more like a jolly than a serious documentary, but the pair are good value and the cricket itself adds considerable drama – the conclusion to the Test match they attend will feel poignant to anyone yearning for a fix of live sport. Phil Harrison
Unprecedented
10pm, BBC Four
Just as ITV’s Isolation Stories tackled lockdown through physically distanced TV drama, this new BBC series explores our collective quarantines through a collection of shorts created by some of the nation’s finest playwrights. Together they tell the stories of NHS workers, families and couples from home. AK
Film choice
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016), 9pm, Film4
Ever since ET, meeting extraterrestrials has involved searching inwards as well as outwards – and so it is with Denis Villeneuve’s handsome sci-fi drama. Amy Adams is a linguistics expert, Dr Louise Banks, called on to help communicate with aliens who arrive in 12 huge, threatening spacecraft around the world. Paul Howlett
