Our Girls: The Southport Families

8pm, BBC One

“We sent her there as a treat,” says the mother of Elsie Dot Stancombe, remembering the day in July 2024 when her daughter went to a Taylor Swift-themed dance class and didn’t come home. This documentary sees the families of the three murdered children (the other two were Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King) remembering their girls as they were in life rather than lingering on the unthinkable cruelty of their deaths. The sadness is overwhelming. Phil Harrison

A Very British Christmas: Castle Howard

8pm, Channel 4

At the Yorkshire stately home – star of 2008’s Brideshead Revisited – preparations for the festive season last the entire year. This gentle documentary sees designers Charlotte Lloyd Webber and Adrian Lillie deck the halls, usin

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