PICKP OF THE DAY

AMBULANCE,A 9PM, BBC1

‘ ‘I NEVER realised how cruel the world actually was.’ Having always wanted to be a paramedic, at the age of just 21, Tash (pictured (pictured) is living the dream. But having ‘naively’ imagined she’d be patching people up, Tash is discovering that much of her work involves dealing with patients who are ‘broken and destroyed’. In this powerful episode, she is called to the scene of a horrific car crash in Birmingham that has already claimed four lives, with more in the balance. It’s a stark reminder of the truly terrible situations paramedics must deal with — whatever their age.