TUESDAY TELEVISON CHOICE

Hawking

9pm BBC2

A dramatisation of two years in the life of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking, written by Peter Moffat, who also penned Cambridge Spies. This collaboration between BBC Drama and Horizon stars Benedict Cumberbatch (above), in a well-judged performance, as the young scientist in the early Sixties when he first became afflicted with motor neurone disease.

Daring Raids of World War II

7.30pm Five

Major Gordon Corrigan and his military moustache continue their pocket- sized series of profiles of successful missions. Tonight, he is in Bordeaux, recounting the attack by the "cockleshell" raiders, who paddled 60 miles up river in flimsy canoes to blow up Axis ships with limpet mines. Only two survived; those who were caught were executed, after Hitler decided that commandos were not bound by the Geneva Conventions.

Las Vegas

10pm Sky One

Slick US drama, with James Caan as Big Ed Deline, a former CIA operative who heads the surveillance team at a big Las Vegas hotel casino. He's been grooming a new protege, Danny (Josh Duhamel), but as the series starts, discovers the youngster in bed with his daughter. As punishment, Danny is assigned some tough tasks, including finding a missing high-roller, who flew into town and then disappeared.

So What Do You Do All Day?

11.20pm BBC2

In this series where he shadows business and political leaders for a day, Adrian Chiles is in Bucharest, tagging along with Quinton Quayle, the British ambassador to Romania. Chiles keeps an eye on him as he meets the country's prime minister and attends the opening of the latest UK business there. The two also have time to mull a shared passion - West Bromwich Albion. SP

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