Radio 1 Teen Awards
7pm, BBC3
Radio 1's Fearne Cotton and Nick Grimshaw present the first BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards, which took place in London last Sunday, and which aims to celebrate successful and inspirational teenagers with categories such as Teen Hero, Teen Community Hero and Teen Entrepreneur. If normal people doing good things isn't enough, there are also gongs for celebrities, as well as live performances from JLS, Katy Perryand the Wanted. RN
Wallace & Gromit's World Of Invention
7.30pm, BBC1
The greatest Lancastrian duo since Cannon & Ball continue their half-animated, half-live action look at some of the most exciting inventions in the world. This week, they're looking at inventions for the home. It's not ex-Nasa techno trousers, but Malawian mini-windmills made from spare parts and home-made fridges made out of scrap metal. There's also a woman with the world's largest Teasmade collection – something tea puritan Wallace might sniff at. WD
Edwardian Farm
8pm, BBC2
One Edwardian cider press: check. A tonne of apples: check. Time to make some Edwardian scrumpy on an industrial scale! Elsewhere, at Morwellham Quay in Devon, our jolly time travellers Alex, Peter and Ruth launch a chicken enterprise, have a crack at egg production and bring in a bull for the farm, while struggling to milk a new pair of goats – and all equipped only with old-fashioned tools and materials. This being October, the team also celebrates Halloween, in true period style. AJC Ancient Worlds
9pm, BBC2
Around 3,000 years ago, the eastern Mediterranean civilisations of the Bronze Age era suddenly collapsed, at least in part because they were overwhelmed by the violent migration of the so-called "Sea Peoples". A dark age descended. And yet, as Richard Miles explores, this ultimately left space for new powers to emerge in the early Iron Age. The Phoenicians, for example, were intrepid traders who used the sea as a "superhighway". Eventually, though, it was the Assyrians who would head up a new world order via the horribly simple expedient of violently crushing all opposition and then demanding tribute. JW
My Sex Robot
10pm, DMAX
Technological advancement is all well and good, but how can any new piece of tech truly have value if it can't be applied to the two basic human needs: can you eat it or have sex with it? Edible robots are a long way off but, unsurprisingly, lonely nerds are toiling around the clock to create the first Sexbot – although here they call them Fembots as, shock horror, it seems to be mostly men who are exploring this brave nude world. While there are plenty of issues of control and subservience it seems the real drive behind creating such "appliances" is a fear of being dumped. Still, they're not hurting anyone (at least until the Sexbots inevitably revolt). PO'N The English Surgeon: Storyville
10.45pm, BBC4
The sawbones in question is Henry Marsh, a renowned British neurosurgeon. Geoffrey Smith's much-garlanded documentary follows Marsh on one of his regular visits to Ukraine. The consequent dilemmas about the relationships between doctor and patient, and between the rich world and the poor, are focused in the case of Marian, a young man menaced by a brain tumour. To a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Marsh's efforts to save Marian represent a concrete manifestation of the creed he poses: "What are we, if we don't try to help others? We're nothing, nothing at all." AM
