“There is a seam of pure TV gold running through the story of Dinnington Colliery Band.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

A BAND FOR BRITAIN, BBC2

“Lacked the tension this formula requires; you always knew everything would be fine.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“There is a seam of pure TV gold running through the story of Dinnington Colliery Band.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

DISPATCHES: CAMERON UNCOVERED, CHANNEL 4

“A sturdy and thoughtful examination of David Cameron, his party and his policies, although I didn’t think Cameron was quite uncovered by it.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“Rawnsley let his interviewees do the skewering, either forensically (Peter Mandelson) or unwittingly (Ed Vaizey).”
Brian Viner, The Independent

WOMEN, BBC4

“This film hurried through some of the real changes effected by feminism, but it seemed more interesting in asking personal questions of its contributors than getting them to weigh up what they’d won and lost.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“An important piece of television… It’s about time we were made to squirm for the injustices men have perpetrated on women through the ages.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

“I would have liked a little socio-political analysis about why that mass suddenly formed but, as one of the movement’s beneficiaries might have put it, just rejoice that it did.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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