WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
IN little more than four minutes I’m welling up, watching this week’s INVENTING THE IMPOSSIBLE: THE BIG LIFE FIX (8pm, BBC2). This is the series, remember, where good-natured boffiny types put their heads together, dreaming up creations to improve lives.
Greg, 26, is paralysed from the waist down. He also has speech problems. But four years ago, before the car crash that did this to him, he was a normal guy enjoying a really good social life.
When two of the boffins visit him at his assisted-living apartment in Bristol, the first thing Greg does is show them a bunch of old pictures of himself with his mates, taken before the accident. The contrast is enough to break your heart.
And what would Greg like these guys to invent for him? Nothing spectacular. Just a device to help him do everyday tasks such as press the button at a pelican crossing (“At the moment, I just have to chance it…”) or pay for stuff in shops with his credit card. BIG news in this week’s KEEPING FAITH (9pm, BBC1). Down at the docks, the police have found the abandoned car of Faith’s dodgy missing husband. So naturally she drives straight down there, and – surprise, surprise – walks straight into vindictive, pain-in-the-arse detective DI Wotsername Williams.
“I’m so sorry, this must be a dreadful shock for you,” says DI Williams, in a rare moment of sensitivity.
Just kidding. “Any idea why he might’ve driven here,” is what Williams actually grunts, “a known suicide spot..?”
So Faith shoves the cow in the water.
Just kidding again, sadly.
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