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Cambridge blues: Amanda Burton goes back to college (BBC1, 9.35pm)
Silent Witness (BBC1, 9.35pm) Forced to shape up by competition from ITV rival Dr Iain McCallum’s grislier cases and more turbulent private life, Dr Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) returns with new blokes vying for her sexual favours and an old mentor (Anthony Bate) willing to act as confidant.The latest stiff on her slab is flirtatious don Annabelle Evans (Katharine Schlesinger), one of Ryan’s party at the May ball on the night of her death. In the frame are Evans’s estranged husband and a Cambridge wannabe who was compelled to work as a notably short-tempered waiter in the city after she rejected his application. But the most assured of her students looks a smart long-odds bet.
Channel 4 Racing (C4, 1.30pm) See More Business, the Somerset challenger, and Irish-trained Dorans Pride lead the field contesting the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase (3.15pm), the jump season’s supreme trophy, while presenter Derek “Tommo”Thompson finds out whether anybody in racing is still speaking to him after his recent courtroom humiliation. European Cup Winners Cup Football Live: Chelsea vs Real Betis (C5, 7.30pm) The Blues defend their convincing 2-1 victory in Seville, with rookie manager Gianluca Vialli still to decide whether to drop a star player - himself - to make room for Tor Andre Flo, whose vital away goals earned it. Local Heroes (BBC2, 8pm) In a blatant snub to the Italians, pedalling pedagogue Adam Hart-Davis travels to southern Italy, only to talk about Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists, who inexplicably preferred the sleepy Mezzogiorno to the intellectual buzz of Athens.The programme that aims to be a TV version of Sophie’s World, the bestselling philosophy primer, visits Etna to relate Empedocles’s daring if fatally unsuccessful proof of his own immortality, and Syracuse to re-create the famous eureka moment when Archimedes had a brainwave while taking a rare bath. Seesaw (ITV, 9pm) Deborah Moggach’s slow-starting thriller becomes slightly more thrilling, as stroppy, spotty Hannah	turns out to have voluntarily slept with one of her kidnappers, further devastating her parents (David Suchet and Geraldine James), who are still adjusting to life minus £4m and their former high-powered jobs. Rather too much depends, however, on imagined viewer empathy with the misery of a family forced - arguably through its own mishandling of the ransom demand - to sell a suburban mansion and move to a Camden pad that much of ITV’s audience would find more than acceptable. FILM: Come On George (C4, 12.15am) A chain of events leads the comedian George Formby, who sells ice cream from his “stop-me-and- buy-one” tricycle, to riding a terrifying racehorse called Maneater in a big race. He is protected by ignorance of his mount’s fearsome reputation for destroying jockeys, but then finds out at a crucial moment.The romantic interest is supplied by Pat Kirkwood. In real life, Formby was a jockey as a lad. Co-scr/dir:Anthony Kimmins (1939) B/W FILM: The Cincinnati Kid (C4, 2.10am) It is similar in many respects to The Hustler, except that here the excitement comes not from pool but poker. Steve McQueen is the Kid, a cocky, confident player in New Orleans who takes on the Man (Edward G Robinson), a pro legend with 30 years’ experience.The nail-biting confrontation is strangely compelling. Karl Malden is excellent as the dealer who tries to manipulate the action. Dir: Norman Jewison (1965)