THE WITCH HUNTS: LUCY WORSLEY INVESTIGATES

9PM, BBC2 ★★★★

By day, she’s the Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces; by night, she’s the TV presenter who loves raiding the dressing-up box to bring her documentaries to life. Sadly, there are no fancy costumes for Lucy (right) in this revealing new series as she’s in serious mode to reinvestigate some of the most dramatic and brutal chapters in British history. Using the latest scientific advances and a modern perspective, she will shed light on the murder of the Princes in the tower in 1483, the causes of the Black Death, the madness of King George III and, first, the witch-hunting craze that swept 16th-century Britain.