“Mum, Heroin and Me was a very good film by Jane Treays, who has a habit of making good films.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Mum, Heroin and Me, C4
“Mum, Heroin and Me was a very good film by Jane Treays, who has a habit of making good films. Beautifully human ones, too.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Mum, Heroin and Me, C4
“Treays is absolutely brilliant at capturing the everyday small stories that emblemise the larger. She is a natural burrower for detail, a nosy parker.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Mum, Heroin and Me, C4
“More than anything, though, this was a film overflowing with love: a mother's overwhelming, agonising love for her daughter. A love that, sadly, sometimes seemed all too open to exploitation. A love doomed to remain powerless in the face of heroin's greater enslavement.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Mum, Heroin and Me, C4
“All the way through this programme, one just kept on thinking, "What and who is this for?”
Deborah Orr, The Independent

Mum, Heroin and Me, C4
"This film should be shown in schools and colleges across the nation - its simple truths hit harder than a hundred posters."
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

River Cottage Autumn, C4
“It's official, Fearnley-Wearnley works, even without the right ingredients, and it's more pleasant to cook along with him than with Gordon.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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