David Stubbs, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Hannah J Davies and Paul Howlett 

Wednesday’s best TV: Vive La Révolution!; Inside the SS

Joan Bakewell reminisces about the French revolution that nearly was in 1968, while a new series interviews members of Hitler’s notorious paramilitary group
  
  

Joan Bakewell
Fifty years on ... Joan Bakewell remember’s an era of insurrection. Photograph: BBC

Vive La Révolution! Joan Bakewell on May ’68

10pm, BBC Four
“Be reasonable – demand the impossible” was one of the rallying cries of the Situationists, one of the forces behind the protests against capitalism and imperialism that took place in 1968. Revolution briefly seemed possible in May, when France was brought to a standstill by a general strike, demonstrations and sit‑ins. Joan Bakewell, someone with more than a passing recollection of that era, looks back at an insurrection that momentarily shook the globe. David Stubbs

Inside the SS

8pm, National Geographic
Wartime Germany has been well trodden for factual forays, but this new series attempts to explore the minds of those who served in Hitler’s private army. The recollections from surviving members of the SS – some still sticking to the Nazis’ sickening beliefs – offer uncompromising insights. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Britain’s Fat Fight

9pm, BBC One
As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s attempt to slimline the nation concludes, he becomes the latest person to feel dissatisfied after dealing with Jeremy Hunt. Elsewhere, he explores junk food marketing and joins forces with the celebrity chef who walked this lonely road most recently, Jamie Oliver. Can this foodie tag-team come up with a plan? Phil Harrison

Love In the Countryside

9pm, BBC Two
As the dating show continues, the farmers invite their matches to experience rural life, roast beef and getting up at 5.30am to milk the cows. The women are brilliantly cast, from Kim-Kardashian-alike Franny, a classic fish out of water, to super-sweet Megan, who is having her first date since her husband died. Gently charming. Hannah Verdier

The 100

9pm, E4
Season five of the grimy/sexy sci-fi soap kicks off by filling in all the gory details contained within a recent six-year time jump. How did plucky Clarke survive Earth’s second nuclear cataclysm after sending her pals back into orbit? And what is the deal with the new influx of badass jailbirds making landfall? Graeme Virtue

Tortured By Mum & Dad?

10pm, Channel 5
Californian parents David and Louise Turpin made headlines in January, when it emerged that they may have been keeping their 13 children captive for several years in an abusive, cult-like environment. This documentary picks up where the red tops left off. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

The Quiet Ones (John Pogue, 2014), 2am, Channel 4
This product of the reborn Hammer Films is set in 1974, with Olivia Cooke’s apparently possessed Jane, a Regan-of-The Exorcist in the making, locked up for study by Oxford professor of the paranormal Jared Harris. Sam Claflin is the cameraman growing increasingly perturbed by the experiment. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Cycling: Giro d’Italia Noon, Eurosport 1. Stage five of the road race from Agrigento to Santa Ninfa.
IPL cricket: Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians 3pm, Sky Sports Main Event. More T20 from Eden Gardens.
Scottish Premiership football: Hearts v Hibernian 7.15pm, BT Sport 1. An Edinburgh derby from Tynecastle.

 

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