Dalì is among the artist suspects in This Is Not a Murder Mystery. Plus: the story behind the 2018 Salisbury poisonings. Here’s what to watch this evening
8pm, U&Drama
A period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing host to the hottest artists of the day, including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found, staged like Magritte’s The Lovers – prompting the arrival of Stephen Tompkinson as acerbic DCI John Thistlethwaite. The clever visual references and arch dialogue make it hard not to love. Jack Seale
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