BBC Proms 2010 | Five Days That Changed Britain | The Man With 121 Children | Stealing Shakespeare | European Darts Championships | The Secret TouristBBC Proms 2010
7.30pm, BBC4Paul Lewis continues his epic contribution to this year's Proms, proceeding through all five of Beethoven's piano concertos. Tonight, it's No 2 in B flat major. Beethoven was less than convinced by this work, but he has been in a minority for two centuries now. Lewis is joined by the CBSO under Andris Nelsons. Also on the programme are Dvorak's New World Symphony and Wagner's Rienzi overture. The latter, pub quiz fans will all know, opened the very first Prom, back in 1895. AMFive Days That Changed Britain
9pm, BBC2Documentary revisiting the unprecedented political events of May, as Britain grappled with the unfamiliar business of assembling a coalition government. BBC political editor Nick Robinson gets the access you'd expect, including interviews with prime minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg. The similarity of their backgrounds has been much remarked upon, but this film will also illuminate the similarity of their current situations: ambitious men who have won power by selling startling compromise to hesitant parties accustomed to perceiving each other as rivals. AMThe Man With 121 Children
9pm, National GeographicIn south-west Canada, Mormon spiritual leader Winston Blackmore has gone a little excessive on kids, getting his 24 wives to give birth as many times as possible in order to create a religious community and make it to the celestial kingdom. Pretty much everyone in the community is related to Blackmore, with polygamy held as a pillar of faith; the wives who are interviewed speak with bland praise of the family set up, while a former polygamist wife talks about the shallow, phoney friendship between the wives, and of how male sex drive has got more to do with polygamy than divine purpose. WHStealing Shakespeare
10.35pm, BBC1Raymond Scott was a flamboyant 53-year-old rare-book dealer from the north-east whose life was turned upside down by a long-lost Shakespeare first folio. Scott claims he came across the £15m book in a nightclub in Havana. He then took it to the Folger Shakespeare library in Washington DC to verify it; the FBI and Durham police believe he stole it from Durham University Library in 1998. On 9 July Scott was found guilty of handling stolen goods, but not stealing the book. So who did? Follow the folio's strange journey here. WHEuropean Darts Championships
7pm, BravoThe 2010 tournament is brought to you by Bravo, which, in an attempt to dispel the staid, beery fug of darts coverage, has brought in Football Italia's James Richardson and googlewhacking comedian Dave Gorman to host the affair. Watching on TV a pastime that would feel like a bit of a waste of time even if you were actually doing it may be a guilty pleasure. However, anyone who's ever got tangled up in TV darts will know the tension it can engender. Raymond van Barneveld and Phil Taylor will be among those competing. DSThe Secret Tourist
9pm, BBC1New hidden camera show advising British tourists how to assert their right to moan on holiday, because you wouldn't get this at Center Parcs, etc. Every week, a UK family go undercover to reveal horrors like legionella in the bath and salmonella in the souffle. Meanwhile hosts Matt Allwright (Rogue Traders) and Carole Machin demonstrate how to defeat pickpockets and assorted scammers. This week: a dangerous hotel in the Dominican Republic and over-zealous doctors in Tenerife. AJCPreviews by Andrew Mueller, Will Hodgkinson, David Stubbs and Ali Catterall.TelevisionClassical musicDocumentarySport TVTravel TVAndrew MuellerWill HodgkinsonDavid StubbsAli Catterallguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
