What’s on TV and radio tonight: Tuesday, December 1
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For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplanner
Viewing guide, by Ben Dowell
The Dam Busters: A Daring PlanChannel 5, 9pmIn May 1943, 133 extraordinarily brave men set off on a top-secret mission that ensured 617 would become the most famous squadron number in RAF history. Dan Snow’s gripping three-part series counts down from the 60 days before they took off for the Ruhr dams to the nail-biting account of the action itself. It profiles key personalities, including Barnes Wallis, the inventor of the bouncing bomb (whose ingenuity rather put paid to Joseph Goebbels’s reported claim that the British had never invented anything original) and, of course, the charismatic mission leader Guy Gibson, already an RAF star before the raids. Snow gets