THE RAILWAY MAN TABLE 19

(2013) 15 ◆ ★★★★ Colin Firth stars in this sombre, fact-based drama as Eric Lomax, a survivor of the socalled Death Railway, the line that Japan’s prisoners of war were forced, under torture, to build. Wife Patti (Nicole Kidman) helps Eric, still traumatised, to unpick his story – and its grisly reality.

10.35PM, BBC1

(2017) 12 ◆

2.40AM, CH4 ★★★

In this comedy, Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow and Stephen Merchant are among the wedding guests consigned to the table farthest from the bride and groom. Kendrick’s Eloise finds herself there, despite being the bride’s oldest friend, because she recently split from the best man.