Terrestrial Soldier Girls: On the Road to Afghanistan Channel 4, 7.35pm First-time filmmaker Vanessa Stockley follows two women from very different backgrounds facing the final stages of their officer training at Sandhurst before being sent to Afghanistan. Pushed to the brink, Holly and Sarah struggle with sleep deprivation, exposure, digging trenches and full-scale battle simulations complete with rifles and bayonets.
Rocket Science BBC2, 9pm From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking, the UK boasts a proud and prestigious heritage of scientific endeavour. The future, however, may be a different story. Recent research by the Royal Society of Chemistry has shown that the take-up post-GCSE of all sciences has dropped by an incredible 25%. Andy Smith aims to fire the scientific enthusiasm of everyday kids in a typical comprehensive - Woodchurch High School in the Wirral - with a project to unravel the secrets of firework design. He hopes that being involved in rocket science will inspire Class 8XS to re-evaluate their opinions.
Thirteen-year-olds can be a notoriously tricky audience, so how does he plan to make science more enticing?
Not Going Out BBC1, 9.30pm Lucy is stressed. She has an important speech to make at a recruitment conference and nobody to help her write it. Lee sees an opportunity to impress her and offers his services, but at the expense of Tim, who also thinks he's the best man for the job. What starts off as a small job now turns into a competition.
Digital WarGames Film 4, 6.45pm Matthew Broderick is a highschool kid who accidentally hacks into the Pentagon and starts playing what he thinks is a computer game called Global Thermonuclear War. Only he's inadvertently pushing the world toward destruction for real.
X-Men: The Last Stand Film 4, 9pm In the last of the X-Men movie franchise, a mutant named Leech (Cameron Bright), able to produce an antibody curing all mutants, becomes the focus of the X-Men's battle. Billionaire Warren Worthington (Michael Murphy), ashamed of his mutant son Warren III, aka Angel (Ben Foster), kidnaps Leech to manufacture the cure and rid the world of mutants. But while Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) advises negotiation and understanding, Magneto (Ian McKellen) favours using mutant forces against Worthington.
Zoolander E4, 10pm Ben Stiller directs and stars in a satire attacking the fashion industry as the eponymous Zoolander, an air-headed male model who's eclipsed by the equally vacuous Hansel (Owen Wilson).
But evil fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) has plans for the ex-model; he's going to turn him into an international assassin.
Radio Battle Lines Radio Scotland, 11.30am With her husband's livelihood and whole communities under threat, Carol Macdonald joined three other fishermen's wives to fight their corner. Shereen Nanjiani hears how a pub cleaner from Fraserburgh became a cod crusader across the country.
At 7pm on Radio 2, there's a four-part profile of Nat King Cole, whose immaculate "buttery"
voice made him a giant in pop music but whose earlier career was as a formidable jazz pianist. And at 6.30pm on Radio 4, The Now Show is back with the usual gang of wisecracking anarchists.
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