Pick of the day: Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly

9pm, Channel 4

Documentary in which Sophie Morgan sends a group of disabled travellers undercover to expose the shocking service they can experience when flying. Morgan also visits the White House and Downing Street, discovers an invention that could let people stay in their wheelchairs while flying, and becomes the first British female paraplegic to experience a zero-gravity flight.

The Battle to Beat Malaria

8pm, BBC Two

“Throughout our history, the mosquito has been the paramount killer of humanity,” says Dr Timothy Winegard, author of Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator. He’s got it in for the pesky bugs as have all the scientists dedicated to taking on the “complex scientific challenge” of malaria. More than 200 million people fall ill and 600,000 die of it every year, making malaria one of the world’s deadliest diseases. However, this doc shows we’re at an exciting turning point. The vaccine, dubbed R21/Matrix-M™ and developed by many of the same team behind the groundbreaking Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, aims to be the first to meet the World Health Organisation’s target of 75 per cent efficacy at preventing the disease.

Surviving The Post Office

8.30pm, BBC One

Will Mellor, who starred in Gwyneth Hughes’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, takes a journey across England to meet some of the real-life sub-postmasters whose lives have been torn apart by being wrongly accused of theft. For some, facing the past proves a troubling experience, while for others it heralds a step forward.

75 Years Of Nato: New Challenges and Chances

8.35pm, PBS America

“Is Nato still fit for purpose?” asks this documentary. Nato, which has no troops of its own, prevented war for 75 years until Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s assault on Ukraine in 2022. “We took a holiday from reality and now we’re dealing with the consequences,” maintains Ben Hodges, the commanding general of US Army troops in Europe from 2014-2017. Nato’s collective defence has faded “into the background” and “the weaknesses of the alliance are becoming clear”. The biggest current danger is a second Trump presidency, as he is fixated with leaving Nato, Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank comments.

House of the Dragon

9pm, Sky Atlantic

The fall of the Targaryen empire continues with considerable (and understandable) fallout from the three-way dragon clash at Rook’s Rest where no one really covered themselves in glory, particularly dopey knight, Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel). What will Rhaenyra do? And what’s with Daemon’s hallucinations? Is Simon Russell Beale’s Ser Simon Strong putting something funky in his venison? All in all, though, these dragon owners do make some wretched decisions.

Spent

10pm, BBC Two

Michelle De Swarte’s former catwalk model Mia, laden with awful cushions she obtained babysitting a dog, is still homeless after bankrupting herself in New York and returning to Brixton. This week, she visits her mother and the girl she’s looking after, Ella (who loathes Mia), and it’s fractious, especially as Mia has stolen Ella’s weed. Guz Khan (Man Like Mobeen) pops up in this spiky comedy held together by De Swarte’s considerable charisma.