TV tonight: ‘lab rat’ veterans of the British nuclear test scandal speak out
The British nuclear bomb scandal: our story
9pm, BBC Two
An angry investigation into what this documentary describes as “the longest running scandal in British history”: the British government’s nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s, and their serious impact on soldiers’ health staff and local people. “We were lab rats,” says one of the five veterans interviewed. Most poignant is a cemetery at the Woomera military base, where an inexplicably high number of stillbirths and infant deaths occurred in the 1950s. Hollie Richardson
Fungi: the web of life
8pm, BBC Four
From shaping the weather to supporting life and breaking down plastic, fungi have more to offer than just something to trip over. In this fascinating documentary, musician Björk and biologist Merlin Sheldrake comb the world to explore this magical kingdom and discover how fungi are at the forefront of medical breakthroughs. Ali Catterall
Shetland
9pm, BBC One
The windy Scottish police drama sweeps across Slow Horses territory as DI Calder (Ashley Jensen) informs her partner Tosh (Alison O’Donnell) of the cloak-and-dagger past of one of their victims. But is her suspiciously helpful source Rossi (Ian Hart) really out of the spy game or does he have another agenda? Graeme Virtue
After the party
9pm, Channel 4
In this gripping New Zealand drama, science teacher Penny Wilding (Robyn Malcolm) is riveting from the moment we meet her as she delivers a spectacular lecture on porn to a class of teenage boys. Her feathers only get ruffled when her ex-husband (Peter Mullan) returns from Scotland after five years and a major scandal from their past comes to light. HR
My brilliant friend
9pm, Sky Atlantic
The lush dramatization of Elena Ferrante’s books reaches its fourth and final season, as the adult friends deal with the tumult of Italy in the late 1980s. As we reunite, Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) plans a new life in Naples, but tragedy lurks around the corner. Jack Seale
Young, British and anti-abortion
10.40pm, BBC One
The threat to women’s reproductive rights is not only a pressing issue in the US, as the brilliant Poppy Jay learns in this startling documentary about the British anti-abortion movement – but also, and unexpectedly, among Britain’s Generation Z demographic. She is patient but persistent when she meets those involved. HR
Live sports
Women’s Champions League Football: Chelsea – Celtic 7.45pm, TNT Sports 1. A Group B draw at Stamford Bridge.