TV Guide PBS America Monday

Paul Murton explores the Isle of Mull and its satellite islands to discover why they have become boltholes from the hustle and bustle of the modern world. He begins on the tidal island of Erraid, which inspired famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, then hops over to Ulva, the final resting place of Lachlan MacQuarrie, one of the first governors of New South Wales. He then explores Mull itself, being given a whistlestop tour of the island by rally driver Louise Thomas, then travels to the mysterious little island of Inch Kenneth, where he hears the story of Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford. He ends his tour at the remote Treshnish Islands, where he experiences a spot of 'puffin therapy'

An in depth look at Chris Bonington's 1975 expedition to climb the South West face of Mt Everest and put the very first British mountaineers on the summit. In the face of overwhelming odds, dwindling oxygen supplies, freezing Jet Stream winds, avalanche, frostbite, widespread public negativity and the press reporting that failure was almost inevitable - a British team succeeded - where all others had failed

Examination of the Allied campaign in Italy during early 1944. Unable to break through Nazi lines, troops were stalled in the mountains below Rome during the long winter months and into the spring. Elsewhere too, the invasion was going badly, as the landing at Anzio ended in failure with thousands of soldiers exposed to enemy fire and penned in by German forces

Documentary about filmed messages made by British soldiers serving in Burma during the Second World War, which were recently recovered in a Manchester Town Hall basement. The footage features messages from the soldiers to their families at home, including a father speaking to a daughter he has not met, a decorated veteran troubled by the thought of killing, and a gunner longing to return to the woman he loved