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Ammar Kalia, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: sweet secrets revealed Inside Cadbury

Like Willy Wonka with hairnets ... Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped.
Like Willy Wonka with hairnets ... Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped. Photograph: Ryan Mcnamara/Channel 4

Cyprus Avenue

10pm, BBC Four

A man seeing the face of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in his newborn grandchild might not sound like the most typical start to an adaptation of a play on sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland, yet David Ireland’s dark comedy is certainly captivating. It isn’t a work for the faint-hearted – its original run at the Royal Court prompted walkouts for its violent ending – but Belfast loyalist Eric Miller is played with a simmering intensity by Stephen Rea and, for all its horror, it exposes the damaging consequences of division. Ammar Kalia

Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped

8pm, Channel 4

Like a trip into Willy Wonka’s factory but with hairnets and a rigorous health and safety protocol, this documentary follows the chocolatier through a pivotal year when it is tasked with radically reducing the sugar content of its Dairy Milk bar. Will it leave a bitter taste? AK

Stacey Dooley Investigates: Nigeria’s Female Suicide Bombers

9pm, BBC Two

Testimony and tearful empathy ... Stacey Dooley Investigates.
Testimony and tearful empathy ... Stacey Dooley Investigates. Photograph: BBC

Dooley tackles terror group Boko Haram and its recruitment of female suicide bombers. There is her signature tearful empathy but it is the powerful testimony of the women who have escaped the jihadists who make the film a necessary watch. AK

Peaky Blinders

9pm, BBC One

Can you even call it a proper Shelby family party unless someone gets shot? In the penultimate episode, Tommy and Aunt Pol must clean up the aftermath of last week’s unexpected gunplay while keeping Mosley onside until the odious toff can lay out his political vision. Fraught, crackling television. Graeme Virtue

Sanditon

9pm, ITV

What manner of Lannister-esque lustiness is going on between the Denham siblings? Clara witnesses a moment that gives her cause for unease, as Andrew Davies’s adaptation strays ever further from Jane Austen’s unfinished original novel. Not that we’re complaining, though. Ellen E Jones

The Real Patrick Swayze: In His Own Words

9pm, Channel 5

Casting a lookalike to appear in dramatic reconstructions is always risky, but there are enough startling anecdotes in this epic biography to smooth over the moments of bathos. The star of Ghost and Dirty Dancing, we learn, was primed from an early age for fame, and for self-destruction. Jack Seale

Film choice

Hunted and haunted ... Harrison Ford in The Fugitive.
Hunted and haunted ... Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros

The Fugitive 9pm, TCM Movies

Harrison Ford takes on David Janssen’s TV role as poor doc Richard Kimble, fitted up for his wife’s murder and on the run while trying to prove his innocence. Ford looks suitably hunted and haunted, and gallops through the big action set-pieces, but Tommy Lee Jones as the wily marshal on his trail is the real star. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Swimming: World Para Championships 9.45am, More4. Final day from the London Aquatic Centre.

Premier League Football: Bournemouth v Everton 1pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Watford v Arsenal follows at 4pm.

Cycling: Vuelta a España 3.30pm, Eurosport 1. The 21st and final stage of the Grand Tour race.

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