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Thursday, March 25, 2010televisiontv and radioculture

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Total Recall: The Toyota Story 9pm, BBC2 Having purred nicely along for decades on a reputation for reliability and customer satisfaction, Toyota must be wondering what on earth has hit them in recent months. The company has fallen victim to a manufacturing flaw that left cars prone to what was euphemistically termed "sudden unintended acceleration", and was forced to recall 8.5m vehicles. This special edition of The Money Programme talks to key corporate players, insiders and experts and, for some irritating reason, Sir Richard Branson, as it asks if it is safe to climb back into a Toyota. The Air Hospital 9pm, Channel 4 When a battlefield is as remote and unforgiving as Afghanistan, there is a limit to what medics on the spot can do: seriously injured soldiers need to be delivered quickly to modern hospitals. This absorbing Cutting Edge film meets the people who do that: the RAF's 99 Squadron, whose vast C17 Globemaster aircraft function as the world's highest, fastest intensive-care unit. Cameras join the plane on its shuttle between RAF Brize Norton and Afghanistan. It is not necessary to support the war to be humbled by these matter-of-fact heroics. In Search of the Perfect Loaf 9pm, BBC4 In which Tom Herbert, a fifth-generation baker from the Cotswolds, sets out to bake a loaf of such mouthwatering magnificence it will immediately convince the judges at the National Organic Food Awards to award him first prize. But, before that happens, a history lesson about bread-making: in Cornwall, Herbert finds out how our ancestors might have tackled the art of bread-baking; in Gloucestershire he visits a medieval water mill; and in Salford he drops in on Brackman's Jewish bakery to learn how to make challah. Archer 10pm, Fiver Now the opening getting-to-know-you episodes are out of the way, it's time to let these characters rip. Super-hairy supervillain Skorpio is at large, so Malory and Agent Lana are dispatched. What follows is a bizarre mix of secret-agent intrigue and workplace comedy; with Malory away the unsupervised spies turn a mountain of files into a play area – "Your authority is not recognised at Fort Kick-Ass!" Great vocal talent here, with Jessica Walter, Arrested Development's Lucille Bluth, adding another fantastically poisonous mother to her CV.

Source: The Guardian ↗

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