“It was difficult, but also original and powerful.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

My Zinc Bed, BBC2
 “It was difficult, but also original and powerful.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

My Zinc Bed, BBC2
 “I can't work out if it is a depressing testament to the debasing effects of the junk-television diet we habitually follow that the heightened language of My Zinc Bed - unashamedly writerly writing - felt like an affectation and distraction, or if it is simply a sign that the intimate medium of television does indeed require a less mannered form of language, lest it overwhelm rather than serve the piece. Perhaps when the BBC is brave enough to commission an ideas play written specifically for television we will find the answer.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

My Zinc Bed, BBC2
“This wasn't a drama that displayed any anxiety about theatricality, as television adaptations of stage originals sometimes do. It is, in fact, self-consciously melodramatic in its style.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

My Zinc Bed, BBC2
"Unfortunately, translating David Hare's stage play straight to the small screen was about as bad as handling gets."
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
“The programme did its usual sterling job of illustrating great swathes of socio-political history by the light of one ancestral line.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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