Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border
9pm, BBC One
Fresh from her light-hearted jaunt to Japan in 2019, Sue Perkins takes a somewhat more serious approach to the borderlands between the US and Mexico, examining how Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric is affecting people’s lives on both sides. We open in Tijuana, where Perkins hears from migrants who hope to get over the border, as well as from US retirees living in the area and medical tourists looking for cheap dental work. Concludes tomorrow evening. Ammar Kalia
The Repair Shop
4.30pm, BBC One
Jay Blades and the master craftsmen are back in the barn for a new series of surprisingly emotional repair jobs. Up first is a pair of vintage weighing scales brought in by Tamzin, which she hopes mechanical specialist Steve Fletcher can fix to bring back memories of baking with her late father. AK
Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore
7pm, BBC Four
Sick of watching animals being hunted to death, reaffirming the brutal hierarchy of the natural world? This could be the soothing solution for you: screensaver footage of animals accompanied by calming techniques from former Buddhist monk and Headspace founder, Andy Puddicombe. AK
Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
9pm, BBC Four
Nigerian-born David Olusoga tells the story of the African novel. From the 1950s, writers such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka paid a price for truth-telling. More recently, novelists from the diaspora have transformed Africa’s international image. Ellen E Jones
Love Island USA
9pm, ITV2
There’s no escaping it: after coronavirus made shooting its UK counterpart “logistically impossible”, Love Island USA is here to fill that void, with a new version set in Vegas. Participants will be sequestered in a “bubble” on top of a boutique hotel, looking to bag that $50,000 jackpot. Ali Catterall
Inside Chelsea: Britain’s Wealthiest Borough
10pm, BBC Two
We’ve had the faux glamour of Made in Chelsea. Now, reporter Mehreen Baig scratches beneath the lustre of the London borough where annual salaries are three times the national average. Joined by photographer and local Amanda Eliasch, the pair investigate. AK
Film choice
Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986) 10.05pm, ITV4
Charlie Sheen stars as a young recruit confronted by a great dilemma of the 1960s US – why are we in Vietnam? Moving queasily through the horrors of the war, he is accompanied, in Oliver Stone’s viscerally powerful work, by good and bad sergeants/angels: Tom Berenger’s savage, amoral Barnes and Willem Dafoe’s decent Elias. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Cycling: Tirreno-Adriatico 12.30noon, Eurosport 1. Stage one of the 83-mile course.
PGA Tour golf: The Tour Championship 5pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Fourth and final day coverage from Atlanta.
Baseball: Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins 6pm, BT Sport 1. National League match from Truist Park.
