TV tonight: the rise and fall of Maggie Thatcher

The Iron Lady outside Downing Street after winning the 1983 General Election. Photograph: Willie Smith/BBC/Willie Smith

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
9pm, BBC Two

James House’s five-part documentary about Britain’s first female PM opens with an account of her humble beginnings and her journey from outsider to premier when, having ousted Ted Heath, the “milk snatcher” won power in 1979. An interesting perspective, which underlines that no one was expecting her to upset the postwar applecart with quite such vigour, it sees toothless Tory grandees remember her as “conscientious” but “dictatorial”. Mike Bradley

Hatton Garden 9pm, ITV

The 2015 heist has already featured in several films but this four-parter beats them all. Jeff Pope and Terry Winsor fill their script with plausible yet gob-smacking detail and Timothy Spall heads up a connoisseur’s choice of character actors. Brían F O’Byrne is particularly well cast as enigmatic sixth man “Basil”. Ellen E Jones

The Hunt for Jihadi John 9pm, Channel 4

“The intelligence operatives involved in the hunt for Jihadi John have never spoken publicly about the mission,” we are told, before an array of spooks detail the operation to apprehend Mohammed Emwazi, who went from London boy to the Isis executioner Jihadi John. MB

Swimming Through the Seasons: The Hampstead Ponds
9pm, BBC Four

Jane, the women’s pond lifeguard, calls it NFP – Normal for Pond: “It’s mad and strange and beautiful.” She’s referring to the culture, atmosphere and bathers around Hampstead Heath’s beloved trio of swimming ponds, as portrayed in this warm, lovely film. Ali Catterall

Game of Thrones
9pm, Sky Atlantic

While it has delivered on sheer bloody spectacle, the climactic season of the world’s biggest TV show has often seemed a little contrived in its plotting compared to the rug-pulling days of yore. After last week’s big barbecue, now only a few key power players remain. Will the finale contain one last surprise? Graeme Virtue

Ghosts
9.30pm, BBC One

Many will miss this joyful sitcom in which a hapless couple battle to get the better of the incorporeal inhabitants they have inherited along with a mansion. As the hilarious series from the people behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland comes to a close, a greedy hotel chain sets its sights on Button Hall. MB

Film choice

The English Patient, 10.50pm, AMC from BT Adapted from Michael Ondaatje’s novel, this romantic epic has Ralph Fiennes’s cerebral Almásy drawn into a passionate wartime affair with married Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas) in north Africa. Director Anthony Minghella and supporting actress Juliette Binoche both won Oscars. Paul Howlett