Tonight's TV Pick: The House the 50s Built, Hitler's Children

TV Pick: The House The 50's Built

The House The 50s Built- Channel 4, 9pm

Post-war changes in the bedroom are explored tonight as engineer Brendan Walker looks at the key inventions that helped the 1950s child to become a teenager.

Hairspray allowed youths to style their own quiffs and the electric guitar meant they could copy their American music heroes. And not to forget the transistor radios, which allowed many youngsters to play music in their rooms for the first time.

Watch and remember how many of the inventions you were thrilled to get your hands on, or just marvel at how out-of-date they all look now.

Hitler's Children - BBC HD, 8pm

Is it possible to move on or live an ordinary life when your family's name is associated with the Nazi regime?

This documentary explores how descendants of prominent Nazi members, including military commander Heinrich Himmler and Hitler's right-hand man Hermann Goering, have coped with the weight of their ancestors' crimes against humanity.

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