One to Watch: Rich House – Poor House, 9pm, Channel 5
One family is from the richest 10% in the UK, while the other is from the poorest 10%. In this enlightening documentary series, these families swap homes and budgets to spend a week at the opposite end of Britain’s wealth divide. Does money really buy happiness?
While neither were born in the UK, Ladislav and Qi Hornan have found a place among the wealthiest 10% of Britain, with a lifestyle many would envy. Qi is chief financial officer of a nuclear power company, while Ladislav runs a national accountancy firm. They live with their daughter in a very large four-bed house in Rickmansworth. Their budget after bills is around £2,306 a week.
The Llewellyns are among the poorest 10%. Tracey and Ed live in a three-bed maisonette in Enfield with daughter Millie plus Mikey, Tracey’s son from a previous relationship. With their jobs as a barmaid and a regional manager for a property management company, their weekly budget of £97 per week is less than a 20th of the Hornans’.
The Hornans enjoy annual luxury holidays to Italy, as well as walking and gardening. Their daughter attends private school and enjoys a variety of extra-curricular activities such as drama, Chinese and swimming lessons. The Llewellyns, on the other hand, dream only of eventually owning a home with a garden for the children to play in. The families live less than 20 miles away from each other, but their circumstances are worlds apart—how will they find living at the opposite end of the wealth divide?
The Flash – Nora, 8pm, Sky One
The first of a lovely twenty-two episode run begins tonight on Sky One. In the first edition Barry’s back with a new suit AND a daughter, after last season’s Mystery Girl, was revealed to be Nora, his and Iris’s kid from the future. With the timeline in tatters, Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) ominously confessed to making a big mistake – meaning Barry and Iris have got a job on their hands if they’re to get her back without altering history.
And she’s not the only one causing trouble for Team Flash this run as a new Big Bad rocks up.
Supervillain Cicada (Chris Klein) may not be as fast as The Flash but he’s got one hell of a grudge. He’s out for revenge after his family was torn apart. And he aims to get it one metahuman at a time
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Emmerdale 1918, 8.30pm, ITV, STV and UTV
Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, Emmerdale 1918 continues to uncover the incredible untold stories of real Yorkshire men and women from the unique perspective of the cast of one of ITV’s best known programmes.
Tonight Bhasker Patel, who plays onscreen factory owner Rishi Sharma, follows the dramatic story of Alfred Martlew – a young clerk at Rowntree’s chocolate factory in York, who faced a huge moral dilemma during the First World War.
Alfred was just 19-years-old and recently engaged when war broke out, but whilst the factory workers around him signed up in droves to do their bit, Alfred refused. Instead, he became a controversial conscientious objector. Bhasker’s emotional journey takes him from the streets of York to medieval Richmond castle and over the channel to the battlefields of Northern France. Here, Alfred was faced with the biggest decision of his entire life: would he ignore his morals and join the army, or stick to his principals and face the firing squad? |
Child of Mine, 10pm, Channel 4
She’s still our baby,’ says Vicki to her partner Bruce, as she holds her newborn, stillborn daughter, Ruby. Vicki and Bruce allow this feature-length documentary to follow the birth of Ruby, and their journey of loss and recovery over several months, in the hope that their story will draw attention to the one in two hundred babies that are stillborn in the UK – one of the highest rates in the developed world.
Narrated by Amanda Holden, whose son Theo was also stillborn, Child of Mine is filmed over two years at University College London Hospitals and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. It sensitively follows three couples’ very different experiences of losing a child before birth, revealing the devastating impact on parents while highlighting the urgent need for more dedicated resources across the NHS to combat the current crisis.
These hidden bereavements are rarely talked about, and with only a small proportion of UK hospitals equipped with the special expertise required to deal with high-risk pregnancy, parents are often left feeling isolated and alone.
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Ambulance, 9pm, BBC One
The return of the Bafta-winning documentary, this time following the work of the North West Ambulance Service.
The staff and crews face a busy weekend dealing with 11,000 calls as 80,000 fans descend on Manchester for the annual Parklife festival. As the handlers try to prioritise the influx of calls, Andrea and Glynn are diverted from a one-year-old having a seizure to a road traffic accident on a dual carriageway.
The pair also encounter a 95-year-old lady, who despite being stuck on her floor for over two-hours having suffered a fall, is quite a character – the kind who put the Great into Great Britain.
Meanwhile, Debbie and Shaun try to persuade a homeless man he needs to go to the hospital.
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Impossible Builds, 9pm, More 4
A series which is making its debut on More 4 before later being screened on Channel 4. Architectural designer Charlie Luxton and commercial designer Aidan Keane meet ambitious families who are going against the odds to build innovative bespoke kit homes in some of the UK’s most remote and challenging locations.
Tonight in the 4th episode of the series a determined family attempt to break with convention and build their dream log home from a kit of parts in the Scottish Highlands. Scott, Lisa and their 12-year-old son Archie sold their home two years ago and have been living in a rented house in the suburbs of Inverness. It doesn’t have the space and individuality they want, so they’re determined to move into a new place. But they couldn’t find a suitable house on the market, so they’ve bought an acre-and-a-half plot in the Scottish countryside and have decided to realise their dream of building a bespoke log home there.
On their limited budget, constructing a spacious log house from scratch on such a remote plot would be impossible. Instead the family have ordered their new home from a specialist log construction company based in Shropshire. All the logs are processed and cut to size at the yard and the entire structure is erected to make sure it all fits. The kit of logs must then be completely dismantled before it can be shipped to the plot 450 miles away, where it must then be re-assembled. But as the logs begin to arrive, the weather worsens, wreaking havoc with the build schedule and budget.
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Getting people to the hospital is all part of the Ambulance, tonight at 9pm on BBC One.
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