“The best doc about marriage since My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

THIS WORLD: STOLEN BRIDES

THIS WORLD: STOLEN BRIDES, BBC2

“An argument you don’t encounter too often on television. The haunted looks of many of the bride-stealers hinted at the kinds of things they’d seen and endured during the recent war, as well as something more complicated than poor women, nasty men.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Ash’s report is taken from journalism’s top drawer.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

“The best documentary about marriage since My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

FOUR SONS VERSUS FOUR DAUGHTERS, Channel 4

“Quite moving, as the father and mother normally overwhelmed by the opposite sex rediscovered old memories.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

“This must have been one of the cheapest, if most pointless, hours of kiddie doc ever. Two stars from me, five surely from Channel 4’s accountants.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“A Cutting Edge documentary… and never has the strand been more misleadingly named.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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