Delphine Okafor

An ambulance station at night; The Night Desk is set across a single shift in an East of England control room.

TV & radioThe Night Desk review – a Radio 4 drama that proves 999 calls are the last great theatre

★★★☆☆ Five 15-minute episodes set in an ambulance control room in Chelmsford are tense and beautifully performed, but a bolted-on love story lets them down

3 min read

TV & radioThe Reckoning Room review – a Hull crime drama with a brain and a conscience

★★★★☆ This six-part series about an inquest into a trawlerman’s death takes a form usually reserved for courtroom procedurals and makes it strange, slow and gripping

4 min read

Allotment sheds on a plot in the West Midlands; the series was filmed on a real site outside Walsall.

TV & radioAllotment review – a Walsall sitcom that finds comedy in a shed

★★★★☆ Channel 4’s new comedy about a plot committee at war over a water butt is the funniest thing the broadcaster has made in years

4 min read

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TV & radioThe Night Desk review – a Radio 4 drama that proves 999 calls are the last great theatre

TV & radioThe Reckoning Room review – a Hull crime drama with a brain and a conscience

TV & radioAllotment review – a Walsall sitcom that finds comedy in a shed