BBC Young Musician of the Year: Grand Final

BBC Two, 6pm

Highlights of the concertos played yesterday by the category winners, and this afternoon's performances, ahead of the announcement of the overall 2008 victor.

Wild China

BBC Two, 8.05pm

With the breathless speed of China's economic growth and concern about civil rights and global warming, it is easy to forget that China is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything - towering mountains, vast deserts, steaming forests, grassy plains and rich tropical seas. Now, for the first time, this six-part series examines the richness and diversity of China's wildlife, beginning with the hills and rivers of southern China. Here is a land of rock forests and mysterious caverns, where rice terraces are ploughed by water buffalo, the locals fish with trained cormorants and thousands of white cranes drop in from Siberia. Here, also, is a chance to see one of the strangest creatures on earth - the Chinese giant salamander.

Midsomer Murders

ITV1, 8.05pm

Midsomer Murders is like a painfully slow game of cricket. This is not a bad thing - it is possible to sink into a state of Zen-like calm that transcends boredom. A wicket may fall or a murder may be committed, but nothing can disturb the narcoleptic torpor. In this episode, an ex-colleague of Barnaby (John Nettles) is battered to death, while Edward Petherbridge potters around as a lovesick peer of the realm. But the star of the show is an inanimate object - a camera obscura that sits in the middle of the village green like a heritage version of CCTV. Midsomer Murders may be touted as perfect Sunday-night entertainment, but it feels more like a chemical cosh than a drama.

Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby

BBC Two, 10.05pm

Jonathan Dimbleby travels across the vast expanse of Russia, stopping off at unfamiliar places and discovering how life has changed since the Soviet era. Because the seas, lakes and rivers serve as the country's arteries, much of the journey is spent travelling by boat. He begins in Murmansk in the far northwest, and from there he goes south to Karelia and on to Moscow. Along the way, he visits an Allied war grave, a communal kitchen in St Petersburg smelling of sweat and cabbage, and gets treated by a healer for a bad back. He is an amiable travelling companion, and the programme is filled with curiosities, ending with an extraordinary scene in a Moscow bathhouse.

The Damned United: The South Bank Show

ITV1, 10.50pm

Melvyn Bragg talks to David Peace about his novel (currently being filmed) based on Brian Clough's disastrous 44-day reign as manager of Leeds United. Because Clough despised his ruthlessly efficient predecessor, Don Revie, the novel becomes a dark study of rage and paranoia. All the contributors agree it is a gripping read but, unusually for The South Bank Show, there are murmurings of dissent, suggesting Peace's Clough is an object of caricature and ridicule.

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