The Pawn King
7.30pm, Channel 4
In 2008, Paul Aitken founded Borro, a booming online pawnbroking firm whose appeal is its anonymity. With the credit crunch biting, the rich as well as the poor are seeking out what the firm euphemistically terms "asset" loans, and Aitken's warehouses are crammed with Ferraris and artworks as well as the usual trinkets of sentimental but small financial value. Meeting those for whom the decision to pawn is often forced by desperation, divorce or bereavement, the friendly patter of Borro's sales team leaves a slightly unpleasant taste. DS Can't Take It With You
9pm, BBC2
Apparently some 70% of us shuffle off this mortal coil without making any provisions for those we leave behind. Where there's a will there's a way to avoid this, so businessman Sir Gerry Robinson is on hand to navigate families through the process of writing their last will and testament. To a large degree it's the unwillingness to face the fact that we will all eventually die that prevents many from putting pen to legal paper but, as this show demonstrates, there are plenty of more unexpected factors at play; is
it better to leave everything to charity or to the kids? PO'N
Heston's Fishy Feast
9pm, C4
Continuing Channel 4's fish festival, food boffin Blumenthal whips up a marine banquet for some celebrities. (presumably ex-Blue Peter presenter Zoe Salmon was invited because of her name). It's all fish, even the pudding: Heston rustles up an edible coral reef, trout candyfloss and (ahem) a chocolate starfish. Jonathan Ross enjoys that joke immensely. Nevertheless, Heston's feasts are magical things indeed. JNR
Mozart Uncovered
7.30pm, BBC4
By common consent, Mozart's Symphony No 39 in E Flat Major is one of the composer's three last great symphonies, the first of a trio of masterworks written in just six weeks in the summer of 1788. This programme follows conductor and regular BBC4 classical presenter Charles Hazlewood as he analyses, rehearses, and finally performs the piece. This is followed by Chopin's Etudes, in which pianist Freddie Kempf attempts the famously terrifying Opus 10 No 1, a piece Chopin wrote precisely to test pianists to their limits. AM
