MIDWIVES: STORYVILLLE

BBC Four, 9pm

Thanks to One Born Every Minute et al, the work of midwives feels like familiar turf for British television. But this documentary from Burma, which follows a foul-mouthed Buddhist and her Muslim Rohingya trainee facing down criticism and worse as they work together, across the ethnic divide in an ad hoc Myanmar clinic, is an important document of personal bravery.

MAKE ME PRIME MINISTER Channel 4, 9.30pm

Perhaps a little too frivolous for these serious times, but Channel 4’s political Apprentice has its moments. Rather than considering the merits or otherwise of trickledown economics, the 11 participants tonight turn their attentions to obesity, presenting their policy launches to an audience including the (admirably straight-faced) Labour MP Jess Phillips. GT