A new series on growing your own food, the return of Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge and Blues America - here's tonight's top telly
Grow Cook Eat, RTÉ One, 7.30pm
This is a new series responding to the burgeoning interest in growing your own food. Presented by writer, founder of GIY and grower Michael Kelly and Karen O'Donohoe, who has an academic background in health promotion, episode one shows viewers how to grow Ireland’s most popular vegetable, the potato, from start to finish, visits a thriving community garden which was once just a derelict site; and shows how our brown bin waste is made into compost and given to farmers to spread on their land, free of charge.
Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge, RTÉ One, 9.35pm
BO'C is back with the big news stories making the headlines alongside the colourful nuggets that may have escaped the public’s attention. On the panel for tonight's first edition of the new series will be Maia Dunphy, Jennifer O’Connell and Niall Boylan.
Blues America: Woke up This Morning, BBC Four, 11.00pm
Blues is usually described as the sound of racial suffering and feeling sad, but this documentary argues that the blues began as a form of black pop music. First appearing in the southern states of the USA around 1900, blues created by the poorest people in the richest nation on earth took America by storm. The film looks at the early years of the blues to discover how Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charlie Patton used the latest media to bring their music to the public. With contributions from Keith Richards, Taj Mahal and Chuck D.
