“Quite simply wonderful television. Visually stunning, immersive and mesmerising.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Nature's Great Events, BBC1
“Nature's Great Events, which came to an end last night, was quite simply wonderful television. Visually stunning, immersive and mesmerising, it examined some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth with characteristic verve and insight.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

Nature's Great Events, BBC1
“An exercise in seeing just how far your jaw could drop.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Nature's Great Events, BBC1
“This was so unbelievably shocking - by far the most surprising bit of television this week - this whole seething cauldron of birdy-herringy feeding frenzy was abruptly interrupted by the gaping mouth of a humpback whale that just lugubriously entered the shot like a lean, mean submarine and swallowed the whole lot. It was the most mind-blowing, horrific and beautiful sequence of film. Sofa neighbour and I looked at each other, opened our own gobs in shock and rewound and played it again.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's, BBC4
“Art critic Waldemar Januszczak, host of Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's, is a TV natural. He may bear a disconcerting physical resemblance to Doctor Fox, but he's a funny, engaging, enthusiastic and informative guide - basically everything you'd want from a man telling you things on BBC4.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

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