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guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela join Brightonian riff merchants Royal Blood and former US youth poet laureate Kara Jackson.
Also performing is the highly appropriate Gaz Coombes of Supergrass – his career has seemingly as much longevity as this show. Alexi Duggins
Pick of the day Gods of Tennis 9pm, BBC Two
Tennis got sexy and powerful in the 70s and 80s – and this threepart documentary tells the juicy story of its rise in popularity and the making of heroes during that time. It’s an impressive roster of interviewees, including John McEnroe, Billie Jean King, Björn Borg, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The opening episode focuses on Wimbledon and how King broke barriers for women and equality on the court.
Spy in the Ocean 7pm, BBC One
Meet the “spy creatures” – innovative underwater robots (and ever so slightly bizarre – a spy fish appears to be having a malfunction at one point) that film and interact with the ocean’s happenings in this four-part series. With David Tennant narrating, it starts with a spy octopus and a spy whale. HR
Ten Pound Poms 9pm, BBC One
More major downers in Australia as this soapy but dour drama continues. While Terry (Warren Brown) wrestles with a secret and Annie (Faye Marsay) loses patience with his sozzled self-pity, their daughter Pattie (Hattie Hook) deals with a classic Bleak 1950s Drama situation. JS
60 Days on the Estates 9pm, Channel 4
With more than a million households languishing on the social housing waiting list, filmmaker Ed Stafford ventures into some of the UK’s most troubled housing estates to witness the daily struggles for himself. This week, he meets a Birmingham mum-of-three reliant on food banks and grandparents living amid a steep rise in teenage violence.
Ali Catterall
The Man Who Played With Fire
9pm, Sky Documentaries
As this gripping documentary thriller concludes, investigative author Jan Stocklassa has already got impressively close to solving the 37-year mystery of who killed
Swedish PM Olof Palme. Picking up where novelist Stieg Larsson left off, he’s firmed up the South African connection and now all that remains is to track down the trigger man. Ellen E Jones
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