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Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Little Simz at her soul baring, electrifying best

Little Simz at Glastonbury in 2024.
Little Simz, pictured here at Glastonbury last year, will perform six hits live at the BBC. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Redferns

Little Simz: Live at the BBC

11.40pm, BBC One
Before she sets off on a European tour and curates this year’s Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London, multi-award-winning Little Simz gives us a taster with this electrifying session at Maida Vale Studios. She will perform six hits – some from her new album, Lotus, along with a few picks from her back catalogue – and chat with Clara Amfo about her struggles to make the album, collaborations and what’s ahead. Hollie Richardson

The Repair Shop on the Road

8pm, BBC One
Daisy is a huge fibreglass cow lantern who’s missing an ear and a couple of hooves, so the experts travel to Devon to see if they can fix her up. Over in Oldham, there’s a warming story behind a vintage fruit machine that is jammed. And in Swindon, a precious Hindu holy scripture needs some delicate attention. HR

Location, Location, Location

8pm, Channel 4
To the outskirts of Glasgow, where Kirstie helps nurse Gwyneth and husband James find a family home for £320,000. Elsewhere, Phil’s with Lorraine and her daughter Emma, seeking a three-bed property to help house Emma’s returning gap-year sister Meg too. But he has his work cut out finding somewhere that suits all three women. Ali Catterall

Race Across the World

9pm, BBC One

Who will go into the final leg of this race in pole position? As the penultimate episode of this delightful travelogue begins, it’s very close – but it’s at least as much about the journey as the arrival. As they head for Goa, the teams enjoy a safari in Gir national park. Phil Harrison

Genius Game

9pm, ITV1
It takes real genius to decipher the rules of this David Tennant-fronted gameshow, but somehow that doesn’t detract from the fun. To secure a place in next week’s final, the remaining players must make astute “media mogul”-style investments. But, as ever, there are multiple levels of play, and only the most strategic will survive. Ellen E Jones

Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

9pm, Channel 4
Another stomach-churning insight into the UK’s top-end property market. An £18m townhouse near Harrods in London is being rented for £27,000 a week while it’s being sold. And in Stratford-on-Avon, a three-storey home with a private jetty on the river hasn’t been snapped up yet. HR

Film choice

National Anthem (Luke Gilford, 2023), 11.20pm, Film4

New Mexico casual labourer Dylan (Charlie Plummer) is getting by day to day with his alcoholic mother and younger brother, until he gets a casual job at the House of Splendor ranch. It is home to – and refuge for – a community of LGBTQ+ folk, in particular rodeo rider Sky (Eve Lindley). Her and Dylan’s mutual attraction is instant, though she is already in a relationship that maybe isn’t as open as she says and he hopes. Gilford’s queer coming-of-age drama is a warm-hearted tale of finding your people, set in a bigotry-free environment that keeps the political personal. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Women’s One-Day Cricket: England v West Indies, 12.30pm, Sky Sports Cricket
The second ODI from Leicester.

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