Terror At Sea: The Sinking Of The Concordia | First Love | Behind Rebel Lines | Prisoners' Wives | Wonderland ? My Child The Rioter | Confessions Of A Nurse
Terror At Sea: The Sinking Of The Concordia
8pm, Channel 4
At the time of writing, the death toll of passengers lost on the cruise ship the Costa Concordia is 17 people, with another 16 still missing. This continues to be an evolving situation and, as such, there's virtually no pre-information on this programme, although a sober investigation of the regulations to which such ships must adhere, the general competency, sense of honour of their captains etc, is likely to be under scrutiny. John Robinson
First Love
8pm, Sky Arts 1
The conceit of First Love is that someone who is on television occasionally (in this case, actor Stephen Mangan) is reacquainted with a musical vocation they pursued as a child (in this case, guitar). They are assisted to competence by a mentor (in this case, guitarist Martin Simpson), and then undertake a redemptive public performance (in this case, encoring with the great Richard Thompson). All concerned seem nice enough, and everything flops contentedly into the template of the spurious celebrity quest as it should. A mildly diverting 15 minutes of television, then, which unfortunately goes on for an hour. Andrew Mueller
Behind Rebel Lines
9pm, Current TV
You can't move for street marches these days. Literally, if the police have kettled you in. But what causes people to finally snap and pick up their feet and banners? In this latest dispatch from Al Gore's own TV channel, the Guardian's Andrew Mueller meets UK Uncut, whose savvy campaigns against tax evasion and public sector cuts have been grabbing hearts, minds and headlines since 2010. Followed by an equally stirring look at Animal Rights activism. Ali Catterall
Prisoners' Wives
9pm, BBC1
Polly Walker leads the cast in this new drama about women left behind when their men go inside (Birds Of A Feather, but northern and without the comic intent). Walker is superb, as is Iain Glen playing her con husband, but the whole thing teeters dangerously on a trite-rope at times. The scene in which Walker and newbie Emma Rigby congratulate each other for finding a stopcock all by themselves is particularly emetic. But it marks an impressive serious drama debut for ex-Hollyoaker Rigby as a young woman joining the ranks of prison wives. Julia Raeside
Wonderland ? My Child The Rioter
9pm, BBC2
When the August 2011 riots erupted, David Cameron lamented "a lack of proper parenting". That's the Tory grandee view of the world, but what do the parents and their offspring think happened? This devastatingly straightforward documentary offers a more nuanced picture. Here are stories of frustration at being repeatedly stopped by cops, moments of madness by otherwise ordinary children, excitement, curiosity and ? in the case of one lad whose parents talk of not wanting to pass on the mistakes of their own dysfunctional upbringings ? naive political engagement. Jonathan Wright
Confessions Of A Nurse
10pm, More4
No sign of Robin Askwith perspiring and frantically pumping his forearm here, though there is a patient who persistently exposes himself, so smut is covered in one way or another. This is another portrayal of life at the coalface of the NHS, focusing on three members of nursing staff at varying levels of the hierarchy. What they have to put up with in the name of caring for us miserable, spluttering, pooping lot should line them up for sainthood. Ben Arnold
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/30/terror-at-sea-prisoners-wives
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