TV tonight: how Anne Lister’s legacy inspires queer women

Gentleman Jack Modified My Life

10.40pm, BBC One

Miriam Margolyes narrates this gloriously uplifting hour devoted to the Gentleman Jack impact – how Nineteenth-century landowner and lesbian diarist Anne Lister’s legacy influences and evokes queer girls at this time. With a concentrate on the hit BBC drama starring Suranne Jones, the programme additionally options its creator, Sally Wainwright, together with six girls impressed by Anne’s braveness to reside brazenly and absolutely – together with sixtysomething Yvonne, who realised she was homosexual after watching the present. HR

DIY SOS: The Large Construct

8pm, BBC One

“It’s going to be contact and go,” says the ever-calm Nick Knowles because the construct workforce head to Bristol’s Southmead to smarten up a uncared for kids’s journey playground. The neighborhood centre is crucial for younger folks’s improvement, its enthusiastic employees say. An not possible problem, a worthy trigger: cue the tears. Henry Wong

The Martin Lewis Cash Present: Reside

8pm, ITV

When the Cash Saving Skilled not too long ago admitted that he was “out of instruments” to assist folks with the price of residing disaster, we knew we have been in serious trouble. However right here he's, alongside co-host Angellica Bell, to provide the most effective recommendation he’s obtained and reply viewers’ questions. HR

The Witch Hunts: Lucy Worsley Investigates

9pm, BBC Two

The Witch Hunts: Lucy Worsley Investigates.
A number of the darkest chapters in UK historical past … The Witch Hunts: Lucy Worsley Investigates. Photograph: Screengrab/BBC Studios

Lucy Worsley reexamines among the darkest chapters in UK historical past utilizing fashionable understanding of things equivalent to psychological well being. First up: witch hunts, which began greater than 400 years in the past when a bunch of Scottish girls have been executed, resulting in the state-sanctioned killing of so-called witches. HR

Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at Rockfield

9pm, Sky Arts

Extra of the Gallaghers in your screens this week. On this one-off documentary, Liam Gallagher is joined by his two sons as he chats about large nights out, approaching 50 and fatherhood, in between taking part in just a few hits on the well-known studios. HR

State of the Union

10pm, BBC Two

Nick Hornby’s comedy-drama returns – every 10-minute episode a bitter little capsule. We now have a brand new couple, chatting earlier than their weekly counselling session: Brendan Gleeson is Scott, an old-school businessman confused by modernity and the diverging pursuits of his dissatisfied spouse, Ellen (Patricia Clarkson). Jack Seale

Movie selection

Ha Jung-woo and Kim Min-hee in The Handmaiden.
Elegant thriller … Ha Jung-woo and Kim Min-hee in The Handmaiden. Photograph: Moho Movie/Allstar

The Handmaiden, (Park Chan-wook, 2016),1.05am, Film4
Sarah Waters’s acclaimed crime novel Fingersmith is the supply for this elegant, erotic psychological thriller from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. Set in a Korea below Japanese occupation within the early twentieth century, the tangled story follows a plot by conman Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) to marry heiress Hideko (Kim Min-hee) after which get her dedicated to an asylum, pocketing her cash. He installs sidekick Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri) as Hideko’s maid to help him, however the younger lady and her sufferer fall in love. Sook-Hee narrates her half within the scheme, however that’s solely the half of it, as Hideko then tells her personal, very completely different story – one among little one abuse, sadism and pornographic literature. Simon Wardell

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