9pm, BBC One As Freddie Flintoff and his ragtag team continue their sojourn in India, the presenter reminds himself that “this isn’t a cricket tour but a tour with cricket”. And while the boys undergo their first training session beneath a tropical downpour (Indian cricketing legend Arun Lal is their coach), we delve deeper into the backstories of Adnan and Eli. Adnan’s journey to the UK, being smuggled in the back of a lorry and receiving several beatings, moves Flintoff to tears, while Eli explains how his love of cricket was ended by bullying at secondary school.
Happily for the team, he proves a natural with bat and ball. 8pm, BBC One/8pm, ITV1 Facing MasterChef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace in the second heat are Team GB sprinter (and Gladiators star) Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, former EastEnders actor Danielle Harold, comedian and actor Eshaan Akbar, actor Rochenda Sandall and reality star Chloe Burrows. The contestants must create a dish that celebrates a “secret” ingredient, before cooking up their dinner party dishes.
Meanwhile, in the rather more stellar Cooking with the Stars , Carol Vorderman, Linford Christie and Ellie Simmonds try to impress their loved ones with family favourite dishes they serve up in the studio. 9pm, BBC Two Another week, another new hospital-based docuseries. This one follows the work of surgeons in the largest hospital in Wales.
In neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Wales, consultant George Eralil prioritises 19-year-old Chelsea, who has an extremely rare brain tumour. Her operation has been cancelled once already and, with the tumour growing, it must be removed now. 9pm, Channel 5 Still hanging out with the latest troop of Royal Marines recruits at the Marine Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, former soldier JJ Chalmers is deep in the Devon woods with the green beret hopefuls.
And on board the giant aircraft carrier HMS Prince Of Wales in the North Sea, Julia Bradbury gets a chance to steer the biggest warship in the fleet, while Rob Bell gets to spend four days on board the HMS Trenchant , one of the UK’s nuclear-armed submarines. 10pm, BBC Four Why did the entire world stand by in 1994 as nearly one million people were murdered in just 100 days of terror in Rwanda? That’s the uncomfortable question poised in the latest episode of this challenging and supremely well-sourced series about the limits, and highly discretionary use, of US power. US diplomats describe events in Washington as the Rwandan tragedy unfolded.
What did the White House know, when did they know it and why didn’t they act? President Clinton later referred to this episode as “the greatest failure of my life”. 10pm, Channel 4 Fred Sirieix has been in the news recently after his daughter Andrea’s diving exploits at the Olympics. But he’s back in his maitre d’ role, this week meeting and greeting 63-year-old Jean, a French teacher and avid reader, who is looking for “someone to match her intellect”.
Enter 65-year-old crime fiction writer Andy..
