Saving Lives at Sea
REAL LIFE 8PM, BBC2
As the series about RNLI volunteers returns, it’s worth remembering two things: first, that they are actually volunteers who are performing these heroic rescues, and second, that they have their own cameras, so they’re able to provide a unique viewpoint of their life-saving call-outs. This seventh series begins at Newhaven on the south coast, one of the first places in the UK to have a purpose-built lifeboat. It’s Christmas Eve and the crew are looking forward to getting home when they’re paged to help two people who have got into trouble while paragliding off the cliffs. They’ve been cut off by the tide and one of them is injured – but between them and the crew’s inflatable boat there’s an awful lot of dangerously jagged rocks… ★★★