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Ardal O'Hanlon on The Way We Were
Ardal O'Hanlon on The Way We Were

There’s the final episode of The Way We Were, Abi Morgan's The Split returns for a third season, Joe Lycett hosts the new run of Travel Man: 48 Hours in, and BBC's Murder in the Badlands concludes . . .

Pick of the Day

The Way We Were, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

The final episode of the second season looks at how people dressed in Ireland as the 20th Century progressed into the 21st.

Each decade of the 20th Century saw its own Holy Communion fashions, bridal and wedding fashions, work wear fashions, partywear fashions, weird underwear trends, teen and youth fashions and outlandish fads.

Punk: when things were Rotten

That ranges from the birth of teen fashion in the 1950s to the 1960s when rising hem lines caused scandal.

In the 1970s there were the hippies at Carnsore to the more colourful glam rock look. Disco and finally the punks rounded-off a truly divergent and largely androgynous decade.

The 80s saw the debs ball phenomenon and the consequent democratisation of formal wear, the appearance of the New Romantics and, later in the decade, the baggy bugged-out stylings of the Acid House generation.

Don’t Miss

Cadbury Exposed: Dispatches, 8.00pm, Channel 4

If you want to give up chocolate, here’s some added incentive.

Who put the 'cad' into Cadbury?

Antony Barnett goes undercover in Ghana to investigate the truth about the much-loved chocolate brand, and the use of child labour in the Cadbury supply chain.

He hears from farmers who are paid a pittance and children who have been injured harvesting beans while working long hours in the searing heat.

Mastermind, 8.00pm, BBC Two

Clive Myrie (above) hosts the sixth and concluding semi-final of the quiz, with four returning contenders answering questions on general knowledge as well as specialist subjects.

The latter include Hollywood actress Jean Harlow, TV show Porridge, historical figure Alexander the Great, and the World Snooker Championship.

New or Returning Shows

The Split, 9.00pm, BBC One

Abi Morgan's drama starring Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan and examining modern marriage and separation returns for its third and final season.

Guest stars this around include Lindsay Duncan, Lara Pulver and Jemima Rooper.

Hannah and Nathan are in the final stages of negotiating their divorce, but Lennie advises her that going through with it would be a terrible mistake.

When Nathan reveals he has met someone else, the amicable separation takes a turn for the worse.

Nina and Hannah take on a new client, the fianceé of the now deceased Earl of Brode, who is struggling to evict his ex-wife.

House of Maxwell, 9.00pm, BBC Two

When Ghislaine Maxwell (above, alongside her father Robert) was convicted of grooming and trafficking underage girls, she became a household name - but she wasn't always the most notorious member of the her family.

This documentary charts an extraordinary family saga, a tale of fortunes built and lost, mysterious deaths, society intrigue and a spectacular descent into scandal.

The opening instalment tells the story of how Robert Maxwell started out and the formative influence he had on the lives of daughter Ghislaine and his other children.

Secret tapes reveal for the first time the shockwaves his disappearance at sea sent through his business empire as news spread that millions of investors' money had seemingly vanished with him.

Travel Man: 48 Hours in, 8.30pm, Channel 4

Joe Lycett is joined by James Acaster for a long weekend in the Spanish part of the Basque Country, travelling from the Guggenheim in Bilbao to Mount Igueldo.

Alojng the way, they sample the local tipple Kalimotxo, a combination of red wine and cola, take a vertigo-inducing walk across the world's first transporter bridge, and pay homage to artist Eduardo Chillida.

The Challenger, 10.00pm, BBC Four

Fact-based drama about American physicist Richard Feynman's determination to reveal the truth behind the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.

When the craft exploded 73 seconds after lift-off on January 28, it caused the deaths of all seven crew members.

It was the most shocking event in the history of US spaceflight, and a presidential commission was immediately convened to investigate what went wrong.

The cast includes William Hurt, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Dennehy, Kevin R McNally and Joanne Whalley.

Icahn: The Restless Billionaire, 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries

Streaming on NOW

This HBO documentary explores the fascinating contradictions at the heart of the famed financier, Carl Icahn.

Amassing close to $20 billion dollars over the last half century and at the forefront of some of the most legendary business deals of modern times.

Icahn, often referred to as the Lone Wolf of Wall Street, is a feared negotiator and master strategist in the art of corporate takeovers and investments.

In his own words and with commentary from family members, journalists, and fellow titans of industry, this documentary probes Icahn’s humble roots, his business acumen, and his obsessive drive.

Ending Today

University Challenge, 8.30pm, BBC Two

Jeremy Paxman (below) asks the questions as two teams battle it out in the grand final of the student quiz.

They'll be endeavouring to succeed last year's winners the University of Warwick and become the 51st champions, carrying off the trophy designed by Manchester sculptor Adrian Moakes.

Murder in the Badlands, 10.35pm, BBC One

Series revisiting horrendous, cold case murders that take the audience on a journey across the badlands of Ulster in the four decades between 1973 and 2005.

Behind each story is the bubbling context of the Northern Ireland of the time, a place engulfed in sectarian conflict.

This episode tells the inside story of the murder of Marian Beattie.

In 1973, the Portadown teenager had travelled with her brother and friend to attend a charity dance in Aughnacloy.

The body of the 18-year-old girl was found at the foot of a cliff in a quarry along a narrow country road.

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