New 54 Hours Saturday BBC4 Hd, 9pm

An infamous bungled robbery turned hostage crisis, which unfolded over 54 hours in Germany in 1988, gripping the nation, is the basis of this real-life German thriller. After a bank raid in Gladbeck goes wrong, the two armed robbers flee with two hostages and later hijack a bus full of passengers. The disastrous police operation and media circus that follows inevitably ends in tragedy.