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Hollie Richardson, Alexi Duggins, Ellen E Jones and Ali Catterall

TV tonight: the Brighton bomb plot to kill Margaret Thatcher

The Brighton hotel, Brighton at night after the bomb attack on 12 October 1984.
The Grand hotel, Brighton after the bomb attack on 12 October 1984. Photograph: John Downing/BBC/Keo Films/Collection/Getty Images

Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher

9pm, BBC Two
“All I had to know was that it had gone off … and then I slept.” It has been 40 years since the IRA’s Patrick Magee planted a bomb in the Grand hotel, Brighton during the Conservative party conference, killing five people and seriously injuring 34 others. In this fantastic documentary (from the team behind last year’s Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland), we hear from Magee and also from those who were there at the time, along with archive footage, to tell the full story of the tensions that led to this atrocious act (“For a lot of people, it was revenge”). Hollie Richardson

Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice

7.30pm, BBC Two
A one-pot banana peel curry, a colourful beetroot celebration breakfast and Swedish meatballs with silky mash are all on the Bake Off alumna’s menu this week, in a series that promises to transform food scraps into totally delicious dishes. For dessert, it’s mini doughnuts. HR

The Great British Bake Off

8pm, Channel 4
The once-glorious baking contest limps on for another sub-par season. Who will come unstuck during the savoury buns and horns of plenty challenge? How many people will get handshakes this week? And is there any chance that the show might genuinely be shaken up by its attempt at innovation during the technical challenge – a live bake-along with Paul Hollywood? Alexi Duggins

Twisted Twins

9pm, ITV1
The “evil twin” is a favourite trope of schlocky soap opera, but what happens when both siblings have homicidal tendencies? The true-crime series is in Atlanta this week, examining the case of Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead, identical twins who fell under suspicion when their mother Nikki Whitehead was found brutally murdered in her home. Ellen E Jones

Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader

10pm, U&Dave
In the final instalment, Maddix explores Chicago’s gang culture, spending time with inmates at DuPage county correctional facility but also leaderless street kids who see jail as inevitable – and perhaps even safer than being on the outside. But if the streets are so deadly with no inspirational figures, what keeps them in the gangs? Ali Catterall

Industry

10.40pm, BBC One
Time for another double dose of anxiety-inducing financial district action. While Yasmin and Rob represent Pierpoint’s ethical investing at a climate conference, Harper is causing trouble for their “eco” client Sir Henry Muck. Then Rishi puts his job on the line. HR

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