2 weeks Ago By The Guardian
Storyville: 26.2 to Life – Inside the San Quentin Prison Marathon 10pm, BBC Four The 1,000 Mile Club is a running group inside San Quentin state prison , California, in which inmates serving life sentences are coached by a group of volunteer elite athletes to run an annual marathon within the facility’s walls. This powerful film follows the men training in the grounds (“The yard is the only place you can wear clothes that don’t say ‘prisoner’”) and examines the transformative power of the club.
Hollie Richardson Sort Your Life Out With Stacey Solomon 8pm, BBC One The top tidy-upper returns to help a family declutter by sticking their stuff in a warehouse and sifting through it. First up, the Appleyards learn they have 99 odd socks, 2,000 greetings cards and 74 Christmas pine cones. Not even the fact that there are six of them can help make sense of those numbers.
HR The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia 8pm, Channel 4 More antics with patients at the Kindt Clinics in Amsterdam, who are encouraged to tackle their phobias face-on in the “confrontation room”. Zara, who is terrified of birds, finds herself in a pigeon coop, while gardener Gary is forced to confront his anxiety about frogs. Ali Catterall Mussolini: Son of the Century 9pm, Sky Atlantic As this bold, theatrical biopic series from the director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement) continues, Mussolini’s Il Popolo d’Italia newspaper becomes the mouthpiece of the rising fascist movement.
But betrayal and backstabbing are equally powerful tools, and Mussolini (Luca Marinelli) is prepared to step on anyone for power. Hannah J Davies David Mitchell’s Outsiders 9pm, BBC Two Some surprise guests join Jessica Hynes, Joe Wilkinson, Maisie Adam and the rest of the happy campers to help with this week’s Taskmaster-style challenges. They include composing a fanfare and teaching a group of kids about the good old days.
HR Top Guns: Inside the RAF 9pm, Channel 4 The second season of this series offering strictly controlled but intimate access to the inner workings of the RAF follows a Reaper spy drone which, although it’s on active service in Iraq, is being managed remotely from RAF Waddington. Meanwhile, in Cyprus, there’s an attack on a Royal Navy warship that has consequences much farther afield. Phil Harrison Live sport FA Cup football: Exeter v Nottingham Forest, 7.
30pm, ITV1. At St James Park..
