Tonight's TV highlights

Silk 9pm, BBC1 Tonight, Martha (the excellent Maxine Peake) gets some surprising news, and clerk Billy sets her up in opposition to smug Clive in a rape trial. Meanwhile, Niamh (it should be Naive) is sent to make a bail application for last week's über-villain on another charge of burglary. Martha's post-work life remains a mystery but still mainly seems to consist of kicking off her heels in her beige flat and drinking 10 bottles of beer while poring relentlessly over case notes lit by a moody anglepoise. Every night. But the aforementioned surprising news hints at other goings on. Julia Raeside Heston's Mission Impossible 9pm, Channel 4 In tonight's instalment, Heston Blumenthal – suspecting that Cineworld is only interested in profit and not food – ventures to the High Wycombe branch in an attempt to revolutionise what cinemagoers eat. Treating staff to a unique sensory experience, he comes up with a range of new foods in keeping with the cinema theme to go head to head with audience favourite – popcorn. Candice Carty-Williams Neighbourhood Watched 10.35pm, BBC1 This fly-on-the-wall series follows housing officers in the Greater Manchester area as they try to help association tenants. This week's episode finds a pretty good "cycle of tenancy" story to tell: Owen, recently arrived in the UK, is struggling in homeless accommodation and desperate to find a flat, which he does using the "bid" system. Meanwhile Steve has turned his property into a home for exotic pets and seems to be actively asking for eviction. It's sensitively made, though seems a little voyeuristic in spite of its best intentions. John Robinson Paul Merton And Nicholas Parsons: Me & Arthur Haynes 9pm, BBC4 From the 1950s to 1966, Arthur Haynes was the biggest name in British television comedy. He followed the usual path for comedians from this era, working variety shows and joining the army entertainment division before finding stardom on independent television. His comedy dealt with puncturing the pomposity of the ruling classes. Paul Merton talks to Haynes's old comedy partner Nicholas Parsons, about him. Phelim O'Neill Justice: The Good Citizen 8.30pm, BBC4 Another lecture with Michael Sandel, the drily witty professor of government at Harvard, before a live – and very engaged – student audience. This week, Aristotle's theory of justice, and how it cannot leave room for individual freedom (he believed, for example, that some people were meant to be slaves). Interestingly, the debate further segues into a discussion about a modern-day golfing controversy. Ali Catterall The Listener 9pm, FX In theory, this series should have been laughed out of the first pitch meeting ("It's about a Canadian paramedic who can discern people's thoughts, and … " SECURITY!). However, while self-evidently preposterous, The Listener is beautifully shot, relatively plausibly acted and wryly written. In this first episode of the second series, psychic ambulance jockey Toby Logan rescues a drowning woman who proves to be suffering from amnesia – a challenge for a mind-reader. Muddying matters further, a canny police detective starts to notice that Logan knows more about the unfolding case than he should. Andrew Mueller