Lockdown: One year on, with the BBC live from Newcastle

IT’S now 12 months since Boris Johnson announced the first UK lockdown, with members of the public being told to stay at home and protect the NHS. The vaccines and the roadmap have given many people hope that we may eventually return to something resembling normality, but in this BBC News Special Naga Munchetty and Nick Robinson look at just how the nation will recover from the pandemic and what we can expect the long-term effects to be. The presenters are joined at a mass vaccination centre in Newcastle by a panel of special guests, who share their stories about the impact of Covid-19.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off For SU2C

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer (C4, 8pm)

The Force definitely deserted Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley when she appeared in the first episode, but now it’s the turn of four more celebrities to hopefully prove they can actually bake. Joining Matt Lucas, Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith this time around are MC Dizzee Rascal, radio DJ Nick Grimshaw, psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry and comedian Reece Shearsmith. They’ll be making vegetable slices for their Signature challenge and attempting a right royal Technical, before the showstopper, which involves a biscuit selfie.

Documentary offering an insight into modern policing

The Detectives (BBC2, 9pm)

The documentary offering an insight into modern policing returns, and this time it’s focusing on one force’s battle against organised crime. It begins when a man is taken from his home by an armed gang, who release him in exchange for a £34,000 ransom – but not before torturing him. The police believe the victim, who is suspected of being linked to drug crime, is just one name on a list of people the gang plans to target. Forensic evidence from the address where he was held hostage helps the officers identify potential suspects, but then another kidnapping takes place…

Kate Garraway in her London home

Kate Garraway: Finding Derek (ITV, 9pm)

In March 2020, shortly after Britain first went into lockdown, Derek Draper was admitted to hospital with Covid-19. One year later, he has still not come home. His wife, the journalist and presenter Kate Garraway, is grateful for the sympathy and support she has received from the public, but she also knows that her experience isn’t unique. So, in this documentary, she talks about how her family has been forced to adjust to a new way of life, but she also meets people who have been through similar life-changing ordeals, including a community nurse who is suffering from the effects of long-Covid, and a woman whose husband Steve has not regained consciousness after contracting the disease.

Ben Fogle Lives in the Wild

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (Channel 5, 9pm)

Ben returns to Scotland to revisit the Goddard family: five years ago, they were living a wild and weather-beaten existence in an off-grid static caravan on the Isle of Rum. But now, Ben discovers them living on the mainland and they’ve swapped their caravan for an actual house. Still remote and surrounded by wilderness, they tell Ben they altered their circumstances to make wild living work for them. Ben learns why they left Rum: if the kids had continued to be home-schooled, what would be their hopes for the future? He takes a dip in the freezing loch, helps collect firewood and discovers this family’s determination to ‘never be normal’.

Strangers Making Babies

Strangers Making Babies (C4, 9.15pm)

Some people want to find the right person and start a family, but others want to become parents without waiting for a partner first. There are currently about 70,000 people signed up to co-parenting sites, looking for someone to have a child with as part of a platonic arrangement, but these can be unregulated. A group of experts, led by a fertility specialist, have created a vetting and matching scheme to help find the perfect co-parent. In this series, women who want to become mothers will be matched with several men who share a desire to have a baby without becoming a couple, but the show will also raise questions about the potential pitfalls of these non-traditional arrangements.