Jack Thorne

As BBC Two drama Then Barbara Met Alan reveals the direct action that led to the Disability Discrimination Act, stars Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes, and writers Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr, take us inside the story of an unsung British civil rights struggle.

A new weekly round-up of the best television – starring Skint, a brilliant new series of monologues about poverty on BBC4.

Channel 4’s Help, starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, is a Very British Horror Story, writes TV Editor Adrian Lobb