Terrestrial The Insider: Bring Back the Orphanage Channel 4, 7.30pm Author Phil Frampton was raised in a Barnardo's Children's Home. Despite witnessing abuse and being beaten and bullied himself, he argues that the home gave him the stability to make a better start in life than the fostering system achieves for most children in its care today. With a shortage of 8000 foster carers, too many children in foster care are frequently moved from pillar to post around the system, with each move invariably damaging the child emotionally and educationally. Phil argues that the over-emphasis on fostering, combined with massive cuts in the number of places available in residential children's homes, condemns children in care - who have already suffered the breakdown of their own families - to yet more instability and a very poor start in life.

Terrestrial
The Insider: Bring Back the Orphanage
Channel 4, 7.30pm
Author Phil Frampton was raised in a Barnardo's Children's Home. Despite witnessing abuse and being beaten and bullied himself, he argues that the home gave him the stability to make a better start in life than the fostering system achieves for most children in its care today. With a shortage of 8000 foster carers, too many children in foster care are frequently moved from pillar to post around the system, with each move invariably damaging the child emotionally and educationally. Phil argues that the over-emphasis on fostering, combined with massive cuts in the number of places available in residential children's homes, condemns children in care - who have already suffered the breakdown of their own families - to yet more instability and a very poor start in life.

The Wild West
BBC2, 9pm
If any single event could be said to embody the Wild West, it would be the gunfight at the OK Corral: lawmen v cowboys in a shoot-out that made Wyatt Earp an American hero. The fight lasted just 30 seconds, after which three men lay dead and two badly wounded. When the smoke first cleared, Earp was seen as a villain, not a hero, being charged with murder.

Balls of Steel
Channel 4, 10:50pm
The Annoying Devil returns to greet Tyneside's favourite son, Alan Shearer, and the Bunny Boiler plays the Baywatch babe as she tries to give other girls' boyfriends the kiss of life.

Digital
Hitler And The Wagner Clan
BBC4, 7.10 pm
An exploration of Adolf Hitler's relationship with the Wagner family that examines the ties between political power and culture that once shaped the Bayreuth Festival. The programme features as-yet-unpublished documents, film sequences and photographs, as well as contemporary accounts, to produce a fascinating portrait of Hitler's Bayreuth. It also puts some myths to rest. In collaboration with Viennese historian Dr Brigitte Hamann, TV author Michael Kloft has reconstructed Winifred Wagner's life story and the tumultuous events in the history of the Festival. Nowadays, Winifred Wagner, the so-called "First Lady of Bayreuth" and once Adolf Hitler's girlfriend, is considered emblematic of incorrigible Altnazis who let the world-renowned Wagner Festival be placed at the beck and call of the Third Reich. It was only sons Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner, so goes the generally upheld belief, who, after the Second World War, rid the Bayreuth Festival of its Nazi atmosphere and led it to new artistic heights.

A Generation
Film4, 12.55am
The first in Polish director Andrzej Wajda's underground trilogy documenting the experiences of the Polish people under Nazi occupation (Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds will be shown later). Tadeusz Lomnicki plays Stach Mazur, a Pole who becomes involved with the resistance through his love for Dorota (Ursula Modrzynska). As the Nazis tighten their grip on the country, their retribution for acts against them becomes harsher, while the resistance movement itself is torn between the various political factions.

Radio
Hang A Thousand Trees With Ribbons . . .
Radio 2, 9.15pm
Circa 1761 a Senegalese child, later known as Phillis Wheatley, was snatched from her home and sold to a wealthy New England family. The cruelty of that journey inspired her poetry, and she became the first African-American woman writer to be published. Here, marking the 200th anniversary of slave-trade abolition in Britain, Sophie Okonedo (Dirty/Pretty Things; Hotel Rwanda), reads Ann Rinaldi's biography of a remarkable life.