Don’t miss tonight’s screening of Ellen MacArthur’s gripping story of her recent transatlantic record attempt aboard her 75ft trimaran B&Q.

The programme, on terrestrial TV’s BBC1 at 1900, is a 50-minute documentary on how MacArthur narrowly missed breaking the current record set by Laurent Bourgnon in 1994 see record attempt news story here .

With eight on-board cameras filming the entire seven-day voyage, expect some emotional scenes as MacArthur stuggles with her battle against exhaustion in some of the worst weather she’s ever experienced.