Kew On A Plate, BBC Two, 9pm
New four-part programme featuring Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc and Springwatch presenter Kate Humble in which they spend a year at Kew Gardens in London trying to bring life to the long-lost kitchen gardens. In episode one, titled Spring, they turn their attention to rhubarb, asparagus and watercress, products that Blanc then turns into a menu of sorts. Cue a vanilla-laced rhubarb pudding, a light starter of grilled asparagus and a garnish for a pea risotto. As well as food and gardening, there's lashings of history too as Humble tells us how a 12-year-old slave helped introduce vanilla to the UK, and why one Eliza James became known as the Covent Garden Watercress Queen.
A Fair Cop: A Century Of British Policewomen, BBC Four, 9pm
It's a century this year since the first British policewoman was given the power to make an arrest and in this one-off feature length documentary we hear the stories of some of the trailblazing women who followed. Among them are Sislin Fay Allen, Britain's first black policewoman; the woman who was the model for the character Helen Mirren played in Prime Suspect; and Cressida Dick, who was once the most senior female police officer in the UK. But just in case we forget that this is a story about struggle, the programme also looks at the case of Alison Halford, who brought a sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police in the 1980s.
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