9pm, BBC Two Variously described as “the Marco Polo of the drugs world”, “a Robin Hood character” and “a master of disguise”, it’s unsurprising that Howard Marks came to believe in his own myth. This two-part documentary looks at how an Oxford student from the Welsh valleys became a prolific cannabis smuggler, living the high life (in more ways than one) on Mallorca and surrounding himself with criminal specialists – some of whom crop up here. They’re joined by the former British and US law enforcement officers who spent the 1980s trying to catch Marks, as well as his Oxford contemporary Lynn Barber.
8pm, Channel 5 As the new series of Wolf Hall reminds us, this wasn’t a healthy place to be back in Tudor times. These days the Tower of London is a tourist magnet and ceremonial site, and this returning docuseries covers 2024. Chief Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller and Yeoman Gaoler Clive Towell get used to their new jobs as the fortress prepares for its most action-packed event in years.
8pm, BBC Four The director, who did much to revive fellow director Michael Powell’s reputation in the 1980s and whose long-term editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, would go on to marry Powell, introduces the BBC’s season of films by Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Scorsese gives an overview of why their films resonate so strongly with him, the season beginning later with I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). 8.
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