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Charli xcx at Glastonbury 2025
10.30pm, BBC One
You’re not bothered about not being there either, right? Why would we be when we can enjoy one of the world’s best music festivals from our living rooms, safe in the knowledge that a nice, clean loo is next door … Anyway, the BBC has coverage all day but – despite not being the headline act (Neil Young is playing the Pyramid) – Saturday night is all about lime-green queen of brat summer, Charli xcx, who’s about to send the crowd wild at the Other stage. Hollie Richardson
Jamie: What to Eat This Week
4.55pm, Channel 4
A cooling cucumber-based green gazpacho sounds like a heatwave hero for the tastebuds – so take note of Jamie Oliver’s recipe here. Other summer ideas include barbecued sweet peppers, plum sauce and crispy duck, and a showstopping sour cherry frangipane tart. HR
Michael Portillo’s Sicily
8pm, Channel 5
The irrepressible wanderer heads to the Mediterranean island for the weekend, starting in the gorgeous capital Palermo – where he, naturally, has dinner with a duchess. Also on the agenda: exploring the island’s Mafia ties, discovering ancient sites and watching the revival of a grand palazzo. HR
Gary Numan at Glastonbury 2025
8pm, BBC Four
Glastonbury still hasn’t run out of old pop giants whose aura will give an evening in the Somerset sun a whole new energy. The 67-year-old king of the Numanoids makes his festival debut on the Park stage – Cars and Are Friends Electric? will get the crowd singing, but Numan’s eccentric magnetism will be just as captivating. Jack Seale
Suspicion
11pm, ITV1
Vanessa and Scott interrogate the suspects about Leo’s kidnapping (“help convince our American friends you’re just a finance manager having a really bad day”) but come up with handfuls of air. Meanwhile, Sean travels from Ireland to England, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Then, a startling video emerges. Ali Catterall
Serena Williams: In the Arena
11.45pm, BBC One
The tennis legend’s account of her 27-year career reaches the 2000s, when the murder of her older sister, Yetunde Prince, precipitated a number of dark years, during which she dropped out of the tennis Top 100. Then came the 2007 Australian Open, and one of the all-time-great comebacks. Ellen E Jones
Film choice
Glory, 12:30am, Channel 4
Ed Zwick’s recent memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions has much to recommend it (not least the astonishing bridge-burning chapter about his involvement with Shakespeare in Love), but chief among its qualities is how much it will make you want to rewatch Glory. Zwick’s film about an African American regiment in the civil war is a true epic. The script swings for the fences. Cinematically it spills from the screen. And, let’s not forget, this is the movie that announced Denzel Washington as a major presence. He still may not have bettered this performance. Stuart Heritage
Live sport
Horseracing: Newcastle, 1.30, ITV1 With the Northumberland Plate, plus racing from York and the Curagh.
Football: Uefa European Under-21’s Championship, 7.30pm, Channel 4 The final from Slovakia.
