WHAT TO WATCH

HOW TO CRACK THE CLASS CEILING BBC Two, 9pm

Amol Rajan follows up on his previous documentary How to Break into the Elite with this damning inside look at how Britain’s class system dictates who works where. The BBC presenter travels across the country meeting working-class youngsters intent on elite careers – such as aspiring civil servant Chris from Hull and trainee barrister

Paige – who are both depressingly aware of the detrimental effects their background could have on their career prospects.

Meanwhile, at an east London comprehensive, an elocution expert is drafted in to coach pupils on how to act posher. One can’t help but question whether such an acceptance of defeat – and such a usage of public funds – is the right approach. The most surprising part, though, comes with the decision to heavily feature

Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, who were privately educated at Charterhouse and King’s College School, talking about how they managed to get accepted into prestigious graduate banking schemes without much experience beyond having attended Oxford. Surely a working-class screenwriter such as Time’s Jimmy McGovern or My Name is Leon’s Kit de Waal would have been a more appropriate fit? Continues next week. Poppie Platt

BEYOND THE YORKSHIRE FARM: REUBEN & CLIVE Channel 5, 9pm

Our Yorkshire Farm’s Clive Owen teams up with his teenage son Reuben for a new digging business venture. In this first episode, we follow Reuben’s first summer in business as he digs wilderness ponds in Cumbria with the help of girlfriend Sarah and best friend Tom.

THE TRAITORS BBC One, 9.15pm

In the fourth episode of this entertaining new game show, in which strangers living together

in a Scottish castle must plot, trick and deceive one another in the hope of winning up to £120,000, the players don’t know who to trust when host Claudia Winkleman unveils a shocking revelation that makes for a very frosty breakfast indeed; they’re then forced to work together in another high-stakes mission.

BACK TO BASQUIAT Sky Arts, 9.15pm

A welcome appreciation of the influential New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who shunned the conservatism of the Reagan years to create art attacking systemic racism and class struggle; tragically, he died from a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in 1988. This informed and intelligent documentary is a perfect place to start for people less familiar with his work, while long-term fans will relish the reminders of his artistic brilliance. PP