TV highlights 25/04/2012

Our Food | Queen Victoria's Last Love | Beautiful Minds | Justified | Mountains Of Ice | Turtle Boy: A Bodyshock Special
Victoria And Albert, Queen Victoria's Last Love
Lovelorn … Queen Victoria with Prince Albert in 1854, seven years before his death. Photograph: Roger Fenton/Getty Images

Our Food
8pm, BBC2

Even Giles Coren, who tends to treat "hands on" presenting with a look of deep suspicion, can't suppress his delight when he gets to stoke the fire aboard a steam locomotive. "That's basically the most exciting thing I've ever done in my life," he gushes. Coren's aboard the train to explain how the coming of the railways to Scotland meant hitherto local delicacies could get to market further south. This foodie version of Coast concludes with tales of venison, salmon and the humble spud. Jonathan Wright

Queen Victoria's Last Love
9pm, Channel 4

Victoria's lengthy widowhood was relieved by relationships with charismatic males in her service, most famously John Brown. However, in her old age Victoria became smitten by a young Indian servant, Abdul Karim, whose tales of the subcontinent so charmed her that she promoted him to be her "munshi" or teacher. Their relationship horrified her court: for a member of the lower races to enjoy parity with them was unthinkable in the 19th century. As this drama-documentary shows, a confrontation ensued before the Diamond Jubilee. David Stubbs

Beautiful Minds
9pm, BBC4

Professor Richard Dawkins is the most influential evolutionary biologist of his generation but is as well known these days for his outspoken attacks on religion. Here, he talks about his childhood in Africa and how his first encounters with Darwin's work initially left him underwhelmed, his scientific influences, and his campaigning days at Berkeley. It's all a lead up to his seminal work, The Selfish Gene, which turned evolutionary theory on its head and made him into a science superstar, but also flamed a controversy that's followed him ever since. Martin Skegg

9pm, 5USA

This show has perhaps television's finest rogues' gallery, from nightmarish stone-cold killers down to comical (but dangerous) buffoons. Tonight we get them all. Hapless stooge Dewey Crowe loses something close to his heart, while Dickie Bennett is not happy with his depleted "inheritance". Meanwhile, an understaffed Boyd faces off to city slicker Quarles and there are signs that Devil is getting far too ambitious. That's a lot of crime for one small county. Phelim O'Neill

Mountain Of Ice
9pm, PBS

The Vinson Massif is well-named. It's the highest mountain in Antarctica, and this documentary records the first attempt to ascend it from its eastern side, with the climb team lugging a less-experienced film crew and an unspeakable amount of scientific kit along with them. Although this expedition took place in summer 2001, the beauty and hazards of the terrain haven't dated. Along the way, the team dispense their views on previous expeditions: claiming, for example, that Scott's disastrous polar expedition of 1912 failed entirely due to the leader's hubris. Spectacular, and informative too. John Robinson

Turtle Boy: A BodyShock Special
10pm, Channel 4

Six-year-old Didier lives in a hamlet in Columbia. He and his family are forced to live in isolation due to an extremely rare condition called congenital melanocytic nevus. This caused a mole to grow on his body to the extent that it covered 40% him; it looked like a shell, earning him the nickname Turtle Boy (the superstitious villagers blamed his mother for conceiving him during an eclipse). This documentary follows Didier as he prepares for an operation which, though risky, may give him the chance of a normal life. MS

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