AMBULANCE BLACK CAKE
BBC1, 9pm
Under more pressure than ever, at a time of incredible uncertainty for the NHS, this series is back, looking at the work of the North West Ambulance Service.
Across the UK, more than 14 million 999 calls are made every year and the Manchester service takes a new call every 20 seconds.
As the stress builds, with rising waiting lists and a battle by the staff for pay rises, this is, as ever, a moving insight into the struggles of our frontline services. As the series kicks off, the bomb squad is dispatched to reports of an unexploded device.
The suspect package is close to a primary school and a nursery, so a 100m cordon is put in place as they prepare for a controlled explosion.
In the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, these threats are taken incredibly seriously.
The team, including student paramedic Kyle, helps evacuate a school playing field of kids near by.
Elsewhere, paramedics Andy and Matt rush to help a 92-year-old lady who has fallen in stormy weather.
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Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, this decade-spanning drama is adapted from the bestselling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson.
The eight-part drama starring Mia Isaac, Simon Wan and Chipo Chung, is about family, but it’s wrapped up in a murder mystery that makes it all the more gripping.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride called Covey disappears off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive, on the run for her husband’s murder. In present day California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two children, Byron and Benny, with a voice recording that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America.
Eleanor says she has a lifetime of secrets that she had promised to take to her grave, not wanting to burden them with the weight of it.
And she was true to her word. At the will reading, the recording is revealed and the secrets come flooding out. But how many more remain hidden?