Secret NHS Diaries | Classroom Warriors | How to Live with Women | The Story of Variety | Mud Men | Mrs Brown's Boys
Dispatches: Secret NHS Diaries
8pm, Channel 4
For this investigation into the stark realities of end-of-life care on the NHS, three terminally ill patients have agreed to let the cameras follow their dying days. Harry is in the final stages of emphysema and wishes to die at home, Annie has motor neurone disease and wants to remain independent for as long as possible, and Ken has suffered a stroke and finds it difficult to communicate his wishes to hospital staff. It's harrowing stuff, although easy solutions are thin on the ground.
Sam Richards
Panorama: Classroom Warriors
8.30pm, BBC1
As mobile phone footage featured here shows, classroom discipline in some of Britain's worst schools has plumbed shocking depths. In order to combat this, a scheme is afoot to draft in ex-military personnel to schools as "instructors", even if, as at one Birmingham comprehensive, they have to sit GCSEs themselves alongside pupils. It appears, superficially, to be making a difference ? but will the scheme ultimately go the way of the infamous "short, sharp shock" initiative of the early 1980s? Education secretary Michael Gove is squarely behind the idea, you'll be either gladdened or dismayed to learn.
David Stubbs
How To Live With Women
9pm, BBC3
Several men who can't behave like grown-ups are sent to live with inspirational women in order to recalibrate their idiocy. Tonight, Cherelle, owner of the most incredible mullet since Pat Sharpe or Paul King, sends reactionary boyfriend Tom to stay with a chef, a hair stylist and a vicar so he can learn that women don't exist just to heat up his dinner. But because this is BBC3, the couple are barely out of nappies and all of this seems redundant when neither of them has finished growing yet.
Julia Raeside
The Story Of Variety With Michael Grade
9pm, BBC4
This might look like yet another excuse to wallow in light entertainment's golden era and be reminded once again of Eric & Ernie, Frankie Howerd et al. But while a dire clip of Max Miller may make you wonder quite how golden this era actually was, this is largely wonderful stuff, rich with anecdotes told by veteran showbiz raconteurs. Variety didn't just involve comedy, but jugglers, musicians, hoofers, and acts who spent their entire careers doing just one turn. Among those recalling the high jinks and dismal lodgings of those bygone days are Ken Dodd, Val Doonican, Roy Hudd and Mike Winters. DS
Mud Men
9.30pm, History
Interested in "posterity, not profit", Steve Brooker is a mudlark, licensed to dig on the foreshore of the Thames. He's also Johnny Vaughan's co-presenter in an archaeology series about the history behind the items pulled out of the mud, artefacts such as tobacco pipes and coins. While there are a few contrived moments, it's well worth a look. An ability not to flinch helps though, notably when Steve slices open a sheep's guts to see how our forebears made rudimentary condoms.
Jonathan Wright
Mrs Brown's Boys
10.35pm, BBC1
More potty-mouthed panto from Brendan O'Carroll and his updated Old Mother Riley act. Meddling ratbag Agnes Brown ("I was so long in labour they had to shave me twice") thinks her children are keeping too many secrets from her, such as the real reason why Mark's wife has kicked him out of the house. As usual, the earthy antics are offset by a sentimental streak as thick as your arm. We have come to fecking hug and learn, after all.
Ali Catterall
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/28/tonights-tv-secret-nhs-diaries-classroom-warriors
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