8pm LILIES: The Tallyman - Drama
Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood; a world on the brink of change. Iris, May, and Ruby come of age in a time when life is lived on the breadline.
TALLYMAN
Scarlet fever invades the district, and the Mosses scramble to provide for seven orphaned children and stay one step ahead of the dreaded housing inspector. But, in secret, May becomes more occupied with Mr. Brazendale's renewed attentions.
9pm SERANGOON ROAD - Crime/Drama
Separated from her husband at the outset of WW2, and not even knowing if he is still alive, a woman returns to Singapore from a long exile in China to search for him.
10pm MOTHERS, MURDERERS AND MISTRESSES: Empresses of Ancient Rome Documentary
Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic lives of two women at the heart of power in 1st-century imperial Rome. One is Messalina, whose scandalous reputation lives on 2,000 years after her bloody and dramatic death. The other is Agrippina - sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero - an extraordinary woman who was not only a skilled and ambitious politician but also a murderer and ultimately a murder victim.
