The Wonder Of Britain (ITV, 9pm)

THE second episode of this series, which celebrates some of the nation's most impressive landmarks, aims to give us a fresh perspective on our industrial past, and even presenter Julia Bradbury admits she was surprised by what she discovered.

"If you'd have asked me whether or not the industrial stories would have been the most some of the most exciting prior to filming, I probably would have said, 'No'," she says. "But the way we've covered our industrial and story of invention is really interesting. It's in a very non-history lesson way, which works for me.

"We've highlighted epoch making moments like the Factory Act of 1847, which restricted workers' hours. That had a huge impact on how we started to spend our free time as a nation. It doesn't seem to be a very important part of our industrial heritage, but it changed leisure time, not just across the country but across the world."

One of the pastimes that benefited from the act was football, and Bradbury discovers that her own home town also played a key role in the rise of the beautiful game.

"I went back to Sheffield several times which is where I grew up and went to school and it makes me proud to think the town I grew up in was home to the world's first ever football team, Sheffield FC. On December 29, 1862, Sheffield FC took to the field at Bramall Lane for the stadium's first football match. So industrial heritage is not all about the nuts and bolts, coal and fire and steam. There are lots of social elements to our industrial story, which make it much more interesting and much more human."

She also visits the Caphouse Colliery in Yorkshire, which was in continuous operation for two centuries before closing in 1985.

Her journey also takes her to Pontcysyllte Aquaduct, 1,000 foot of cast iron and stone, which holds over a million and a half litres of water 126-feet above the River Dee, as well as Blackpool Tower, Manchester Town Hall and the SS Great Britain, which was the handiwork of legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. While it may have been the biggest ship on the planet, she discovers that Brunel didn't just care about size.

"Victorian engineers like Brunel were obsessed with not only building bigger, but also more beautiful. Art, science and innovation all went hand in hand to create these objects of national pride. Look at the name of this ship, SS Great Britain. What an advert."

And it's also a reminder that the wonders of Britain come in all shapes and sizes.

The Secrets of the Tea Chimps (Channel 5, 8pm)

THE chimpanzees who appeared in adverts for PG Tips were almost there at the birth of commercial TV, making their debut in 1956. Within two years the brand was one of the UK's leading forces in British tea sales and voiced by celebrities, such as Bob Monkhouse and Peter Sellers.

They were familiar faces on the box until 2002, but what happened to them after their time in the limelight?

This documentary catches up with one of the last surviving tea chimps, at Twycross Zoo. There's also rare archive footage and first-hand accounts from the people who worked with these simian superstars, from an ex-keeper to the writer and director of the commercials.

Count Arthur Strong (BBC1, 10.35pm)

STEVE Delaney's radio character being given the small screen treatment is reminiscent of 1970s comedian Harry Worth.

It's broad family appeal is one of the reasons it has been promoted to BBC1 after its 2013 debut. This week, Arthur is taking flying lessons, which would be ominous at the best of times. But throw in a broken heart and some confusion over the clocks going back, and you've got a recipe for terror at 2,000 feet in the air.