Anzac Girls (More4, 9pm)

WITH the 100th anniversary of the terribly pointless Gallipoli First World War campaign upon us, this award-winning Australian drama, set in 1915, is based on the real-life experiences of five young women.

Peter Rees' book The Other Anzacs was inspired by letters and diaries of five women from Australia and New Zealand, who set out to the Middles East to become the medical support for a secret military campaign.

The six-part series tells of their lives, loves and losses against another incredible story of human endeavour during the Great War and the desperate struggle in the war fields of Gallipoli.

Georgia Flood, Antonia Prebble, Laura Brent, Anna McGahan and Caroline Craig star as the Anzac Girls. In the opening episode, a number of fledgling nurses arrive in Egypt and soon realise the war is not the adventure they thought it would be, as they deal with successive convoys of injured and dying men from the botched invasion of Turkey.

Flood's Sister Alice Ross-King is a bit of a madam with an eye for the officers; Brent's Sister Elsie Cook is burdened with a badly-kept secret; McGraham's Sister Olive Haynes hits the bottle and Prebble's Sister Hilda Steele has none of the assets of her surname which dealing with the emergencies ahead.

Soon the dalliances with dashing lieutenants and expeditions to the pyramids are replaced with the grim reality of war from a battlefield that Western World leaders would rather have buried with its casualties.

More4 bought the UK broadcasting rights last year for the all3media International Australian-made period drama.

Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis (ITV, 8pm)

THE actor continues his mini-break tour of Britain by taking the camper van to Yorkshire and the Davises jump straight into some high-octane hill-racing in Scarborough, before stepping down a gear with a visit to the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival. The kids then go sheep-racing and get lost in a maize maze, prompting their father to send out a drone in search of them, and the action-packed trip ends at Mother Shipton's Cave in Knaresborough, where Warwick and his family get in touch with their spiritual sides.

The Clare Balding Show (BBC2, 10pm)

IT'S clear that boxer Chris Eubank Jr is made of stern stuff – as, of course, is his father, the middleweight and super middleweight world champion boxer who helped raise the profile of British boxing during the 1990s.

Chris Jr is now following his own successful career in the sport, and has risen to the position of being the current interim WBA Middleweight champion, and in March was ranked by BoxRec, the database of boxing records, as the number one middleweight boxer in the UK – and number 13 in the world.

We're about to discover if his famous dad is a help or a hindrance to him as he carves a niche for himself in the sport. Father and son talk to Clare Balding about their respective lives in boxing, and discuss the way in which it has changed over the years. Each Eubank talks about the highs and lows that a life in the ring has to offer in this rare chance to hear from both men at once, as they're not often interviewed at such length.

Balding's series is breaking new ground by being broadcast off the back of a revolutionary deal by the BBC to run the show the day after it airs on BT. It is also a challenge for the in-demand host, who appears on everything from the Olympics to BBC Radio 4 Ramblings (that's walks, not forgetting which show she's on).

In an interview with the Radio Times, Balding says she makes every effort to avoid over-saturating our screens with her presence: "In 2014 I didn't do a single panel show because they get repeated so much. From December 10 last year, when I hosted Sports Personality, until I did Crufts on March 10, I was not on television presenting anything. Yet people still say, 'You're on everything'."

Viv Hardwick