On the upper floors, nurses were unable to clean the wards or even change the sheets in a bed where a patient had died. 'We've got no give in the system, ' said one doctor. 'If any one of my colleagues went off, I think we'd crash and burn' This chaos would shame a third-world country, but it was plainly the norm in Liverpool. 'If any one of my colleagues went off, I think we'd crash and burn. ' The successful treatment of a three-year-old named Charlie, gravely ill with a brain tumour, gave some reason for optimism but overall this was grim viewing.
GET YOUR HAIR CUT! ' Yes, Corp! The training is probably barely different from the National Service era. There aren't many modern options, after all, when you're brewing up at 5am with a teabag and a billy-can on a frozen moor. This was back-to-basics soldiering, the 'make-a-man-of-you' variety that with the right recruits works infallibly. There were none of the 'snowflakes', 'phone zombies' and 'selfie takers' demanded by recent Army posters. he recruits are taken on exercises in extreme weather including heavy snow The documentary didn't try to do anything different either. It followed the tried-and-tested format of shadowing three recruits, switching back and forth between them. South African 18-year-old York was desperately out of place, signing up in the hope of making his disciplinarian father proud when what he really wanted was to be a professional singer. He belonged on a documentary about cruise ship entertainers, not paratroopers, though it took him a few weeks to face it. Alex, 31, the father of a toddler, was more psychologically complex, but the star was 17-year-old Kojo, who fell over his own boots constantly in his eagerness to succeed.
Two great British institutions took centre stage on opposite channels. One was faring a good deal better than the other. The Paras: Men At War - ITV Rating: The Paras: Men At War (ITV) followed 40 new recruits, many of them lads of just 17 or 18, as they underwent brutally effective basic training at Catterick in North Yorkshire. Stripped of their civilian identity, the boys — there were no females — were all dubbed 'JOE', an acronym for Joined On Enlistment. They tackled assault courses and forced marches in sub-zero conditions, learned to keep their kit pristine and to obey orders without thinking, and rapidly discovered whether their dreams of serving in an elite combat unit were a realistic vocation or an immature fantasy. Parachute Regiment training team with Lieutenant Dan Lovegrove (fourth from the left) It started within an hour of stepping off the train onto a freezing Doncaster platform. An apoplectic Para corporal, eyes on stalks, screamed: 'Some of youse here are looking like One Direction.
The Paras: Men of War features unprecedented access to the elite Parachute Regiment, after its doors were opened to a UK network broadcaster's cameras for the first time in a generation. Show Info Network: ITV (2019 - now) Schedule: Thursdays at 21:00 (60 min) Status: To Be Determined Show Type: Documentary (waiting for more votes) Previous Episode Jan '19 24 Thu The third and final programme provides a vivid insight into how Paras need to be ready to fight at all times, their perspectives on being first into conflict - and how they face up to the prospect of death either during a battle, or in making dangero … Previous Episodes View full episode list »
Season 1 10 Jan. 2019 Episode #1. 1 Forty-one raw recruits arrive at Catterick barracks in North Yorkshire to begin to learn the very basics of being a paratrooper - going into the field to get into the mindset of a soldier and being taken on exercises in extreme weather. 17 Jan. 2 The remaining recruits are subjected to the most physical and psychologically challenging part of the course yet as they endure the Army's toughest selection process - P Company. 24 Jan. 3 The Parachute Regiment take part in a major international joint exercise alongside the U. S. Airborne Division parachuting along the Latvian border. Season 1
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Kojo couldn't strip a gun or fold a map. He struggled even to eat his breakfast. But the sergeants could see he was a good lad and gave him a second chance, sending him back to restart the course. 'I just don't want to fail because if I fail I've got nothing to go to, ' he pleaded to the camera. Several million viewers will be rooting for him as he tries again next week. Hospital - BBC2 Rating: Much of the NHS infrastructure in Hospital (BBC2) harked back to the past too. But unlike the fighting Paras, the doctors and nurses at Liverpool's Royal were catastrophically failing to cope. Liverpool's Royal Hospital's ancient water pipes had burst for the tenth time in a year and the ground floor was awash As the documentary series returned, more than a dozen patients were stranded in ambulances in the Royal's car park, prevented from coming in for treatment by a flood. The hospital's ancient water pipes had burst for the tenth time in a year and the ground floor was awash. Water was pouring down through the lift shafts, making the lower storeys hazardous.