“I fear quite a lot of people will have got out and walked, but if you stayed it eventually shaped itself into something distinctive and even moving.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Arena: Cab Driver, BBC4
“Director Zimena Percival did a fairly atrocious job of letting her subjects speak for themselves, so intrusive were the incessant jump-cuts.”
Andrew Pettie, The Daily Telegraph

Arena: Cab Driver, BBC4
“[A] perfect documentary by Zimena Percival.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Arena: Cab Driver, BBC4
“[A] fine film.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Arena: Cab Driver, BBC4
“I fear quite a lot of people will have got out and walked, but if you stayed it eventually shaped itself into something distinctive and even moving.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Car Bomb, C4
“By the end, it was difficult not to feel short-changed - as if, perhaps, a bigger and better programme embracing the entire history of terrorism was on the cards, but the budget had suddenly been booby-trapped.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Car Bomb, C4
“In each case, just as we got to grips with the specific protagonists and their motivations, Robert Baer whisked us on to the next case study.”
Andrew Pettie, The Daily Telegraph

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