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April 14, 2025 Vol 19

TV Tonight: The Wild Story of How Falun Gong Hacked Chinese News | Television


Storyville: Eternal Spring – the heist of China’s airwaves

10pm, BBC four
In 2002, activists from the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong were able to order a broadcast of Chinese state news to rebut what they saw as a defamation of authorities. Two decades later, comic-book artist Daxiong, who took part in the wise plot, researched the guerrilla operation that changed his life. Featuring noteworthy animation, this gripping film plays the hijack and then, along with police attacks forcing Daxiong to flee the country. Virtue of Graeme

SUPPORT -Support your life with Stacey Solomon

8pm, BBC one
Katrina Bowen, a new single mother, needs a fresh start. When he and his four children moved himself to the Welsh countryside, he called on Stacey to help him sort out the years of accumulated ownership. But “things” are not just “things”, they? These items also tell the story of a difficult several years for the bowens. Ellen e Jones

School Changing: UK to USA

8pm, channel 4

Culture quarrels … School Changing: UK to USA. Photo: Channel 4

The new documentary series has posted two groups of teenagers – one from a diverse South London secondary school, the other from a rural Arkansas High School – as they trade places. Despite a true sense of cultural dislocation, everyone’s heart seems to be in the right place as they reach the lively cheer squad and scratchy school Blazers, respectively. Gv

Waterloo Road

9pm, BBC one
Professional judgments that have been clouded by personal dilemmas, the love lives under the threat and an 8.30am breathing test -seems to be another chaotic day on Waterloo Road. After learning that her abuse ex was getting married, Amy intervened in the relationship of two of her students. Hollie Richardson

Mussolini: Son of the century

9pm, Sky Atlantic
What is particularly a surprise -amazing about this drama with the increasing power of Mussolini in Italy is how he missed the established levers of democracy. Now, as his authorities hardened, Il Duce (Luca Marinelli) uses the party list system to break political rivals. Jack Seale

Matlock

9pm, Sky Witness
Kathy Bates is very good as a lawyer on a secret mission to avenge his daughter’s death. The list of suspects in the law firm is backwards, which means Matty should consider if the answer is what she does not want. As usual, the Sunday case – a pregnant woman who seemed to be fired for trying to make it – keys wisely with that theme. JS

Live sport

Racing: Cheltenham Festival 12.45pm, ITV1. Day one of four, ending on Friday with the Gold Cup.

Champions League’s football: Liverpool V Paris Saint-Germain 8pm, prime video. The second leg of the last-16 ties.

Thora Simonis

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