Athletics: British Championships (BBC2, 6pm)
GABBY Logan presents live coverage of the annual event, which this year takes place at Manchester Regional Arena. The event was originally due to serve as Olympic trials in June but has twice been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now it can finally get under way, all eyes will be on the men’s and women’s 100m, where Ojie Edoburun and Dina Asher-Smith will look to defend their titles.
Lodgers for Codgers (C4, 8pm)
WITH the majority of under-30s struggling to get on the property ladder and millions of over-60s sitting on empty rooms, young and old tackle Britain’s housing crisis by trialling a unique solution – moving in together and seeing how they get along. In this edition, 21-year-old poet Marvell leaves his east London council house to lodge with retired couple Lynne and John in their converted chapel in the Somerset town of Glastonbury. Meanwhile, in Birmingham, 20-year-old Sophie co-habits with no-nonsense pensioner Eunice. How she will cope living under her landlord’s strict house rules?
When Luxury Holidays Go Horribly Wrong (C5, 9pm)
INTERVIEWS with the people whose holidays ended in disaster, including Jody and Stacey Mortlock, whose dream honeymoon turned into a nightmare when the Covid-19 pandemic started. Their tour operator abandoned them in Egypt and as their hotel closed, they had to make a dash to the airport to get out of the country.
Soul America (BBC4, 9.30pm)
IN the 1950s and early 1960s, a new sound began heading our way from the US. A combination of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz, soul became hugely popular across the globe, bringing black artists to the forefront of the international music scene. This new three-part documentary series chronicles the development of soul and begins with a trip to the Deep South, taking in the sights and sounds of Muscle Shoals in Alabama and Stax in Memphis before journeying north to Detroit – certainly, no programme about the genre could be made without a visit to Motown.
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