The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home (BBC2, regions vary)

BRADFORD'S Anita Rani, of Countryfile fame, heads off to a refugee camp in Jordan which opened in 2012 and is now home to 80,000 Syrians, who have fled the devastating civil war just across the border.

Zaatari began as a few hundred tents, but now has 24,000 homes, two supermarkets, nine schools, 11 hospitals and clinics alongside playgrounds and sports centres.

"It's nothing like I expected," Rani, 38, tells TV Times. "What we usually see of refugee camps is on the news after natural disasters and they are very haphazard tented communities. In Zaatari, they still live in temporary structures, but the main high street with all its shops blew me away.

"It's not normal for a refugee camp and was very much driven by the Syrian people living there. The area the refugees come from in Syria, Daraa, is a middle-income area and they're doctors and teachers, so they're used to a certain standard of living. They want things to make the camp feel like home, such as coffee shops and falafel shops."

Rani talks to a bride-to-be who tells her that if she hadn't been forced to flee Syria, she wouldn't be getting married. Instead, she would be following her dream of becoming a doctor."

"I'm a woman who prides herself on my independence and freedom to make choices, so to hear that gutted me. It's a dead end for all of them but particularly for the bright young women who should be out there being doctors and teachers in their own country. It's a lost generation and that's incredibly sad. When I was out there I kept thinking over and over again, 'They're just like us'. They have the same motivations, the same drives and same wants. We live in a safe country – touch wood – but if the same thing happened here, we would want exactly the same things. the camp is testament to the kind of human spirit that says, 'Life goes on and you have to get on with it'."

In this two-part documentary, Anita, Ben Timberlake and Javid Abdelmoneim immerse themselves in camp life, tackling the daily problems of providing water in the middle of the desert, and meeting some of the young casualties of war. They also find out how 90,000 loaves of bread are baked every day.

RHS Tatton Flower Show 2016 (BBC2, 7pm)

THE first of two programmes highlighting exhibitions at the RHS Tatton Flower Show in Cheshire. Monty Don and Joe Swift host, exploring the show gardens and the small but intricate 'back-to-backs' Monty witnesses fierce competition in the fruit and vegetable tent, while Carol Klein provides viewers with a guide to combining colours in the garden. Toby Buckland offers tips on growing shade-loving plants, and Danny Clarke meets the designers who transformed small sheds into garden hideaways.

999: What's Your Emergency? (C4, 9pm)

CAMERAS continue to observe police and paramedics in Cheshire, with this episode looking at community spirit – or the lack of it – in Warrington and Crewe. Disputes and fights between neighbours are on the rise, and emergency services are caught in the middle. We follow PCs Greg Greaves and Billy Elliot as they deal with a succession of disputes and confrontations between neighbours in Crewe. They include a man who claims someone else moved into his flat while he was away on holiday, long-running feuds, and bickering about noise.

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (BBC4, 10pm)

THIS is a profile of the eponymous socialite who became a key figure in the modern art movement, displaying the work of Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp and her ex-husband Max Ernst, among others. "She wanted this art as a mirror for her own strangeness," remarks one contributor. "Peggy is a sort of model for the liberated woman," remarks another. It may divide opinion, but proves a compelling watch for art fans and casual observers alike.

Viv Hardwick