8pm BBC2 "Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time"
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Worth a watch this, according to the Radio Times:
This is a terrific war story, grippingly told by Clarkson. Anyone who saw his Victoria Cross programme in 2003 will know he has a fine knack of spinning a Boy's Own tale of wartime derring-do. And they don't come much more derring than the 1942 commando raid on St Nazaire. With Britain losing the Battle of the Atlantic, Churchill wanted to knock out the Germans' giant dry dock on the Atlantic coast of France. So he called in the new commando special forces, who devised a plan so wildly ambitious that the scene where Clarkson talks us through it using charts and models verges on the blackly comic. The veterans' own accounts of how the raid unfolded are equally jaw-dropping. ("I remember Johnny Proctor lying with his leg blown off, cheering us on."
Their toughness and incredible sang-froid bring a tear to the eye and offer, for older children, an inspiring history lesson.
This is a terrific war story, grippingly told by Clarkson. Anyone who saw his Victoria Cross programme in 2003 will know he has a fine knack of spinning a Boy's Own tale of wartime derring-do. And they don't come much more derring than the 1942 commando raid on St Nazaire. With Britain losing the Battle of the Atlantic, Churchill wanted to knock out the Germans' giant dry dock on the Atlantic coast of France. So he called in the new commando special forces, who devised a plan so wildly ambitious that the scene where Clarkson talks us through it using charts and models verges on the blackly comic. The veterans' own accounts of how the raid unfolded are equally jaw-dropping. ("I remember Johnny Proctor lying with his leg blown off, cheering us on."
Their toughness and incredible sang-froid bring a tear to the eye and offer, for older children, an inspiring history lesson. 
ing awesome. I think Clarkson made that show. It wouldn't have been the same without his enthusiasm.
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