His killing by the IRA in 1979 is the focus of a moving and powerful documentary. Plus: the return of classic sitcom Stath Lets Flats. Here’s the evening’s best TV
9pm, BBC Two Director Sam Collyns’s powerful film about the events surrounding the IRA’s assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten in Sligo in August 1979 is a respectful masterpiece, which uses Mountbatten’s death as a springboard to discuss the other lives taken by the terrorists that fateful day in revenge for Bloody Sunday: three others aboard his boat Shadow V and 18 British soldiers murdered in Northern Ireland.
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