Kill It, Cook It, Eat It: Christmas Special

BBC Three, 9pm

Fancy some slaughter served with a large dollop of cranberry sauce? Then join Julia Bradbury in an abattoir-cum-restaurant-cum-studio, where guests watch festive birds being stunned, bled, defeathered, gutted and cooked. As they tuck in, they’re sure to be salivating with the juicy knowledge they’ve gained about how our Christmas meat-eating habits have evolved and how the tasty beasts are raised. Yummy.

Growing Babies: Baby Brainpower

BBC Four, 9pm

If newborn minds are clean slates ready to be written on, then why are young animals inherently afraid of heights? In this second, concluding Growing Babies the child psychologist Laverne Antrobus explores how babies’ knowledge develops in the womb and in early childhood and chronicles young ones’ extraordinary understanding of the world around them.

Jade

Living, 9pm

Few pendulums swing as erratically as public opinion on Jade Goody. From the kebab and East Angular comments that made her the nation’s misguided sweetheart, to the business ventures that super-stretched her 15 minutes of fame, to poppadom-gate reducing it all to rubble again.

Then, just as she entered India’s Big Brother in an attempt to reframe perceptions of her, a devastating diagnosis of cervical cancer did that for her instead. This one-off film brings us up to date with the past few months of her storm as she juggles her family and businesses with gruelling treatment.

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