What TV show did you last watch?

China's Road to Fortune or Peril
The grim life of two truckers trying to make a living by taking the dangerous route to Tibet. One is a veteran in a ton of debt, the other is his hapless very junior who ends up doing crazy things like trying to unfreeze a fuel filter with a blowtorch. Do they make it? Is it worth making? Some nice scenery, but not worth being a trucker in order to see it.

Imagine... the Academy of Armando
Alan Yentob helps push a new stage version of Dr Strangelove, so he can finally profile Armando Iannucci. Chris Langham briefly appears on screen from the early Thick Of It, but you'd be forgiven for thinking Peter Capaldi was star of that show. No mention of the Armistice years either, besides a short clip at the end. Other crapper projects get several minutes love.

The Bottom Line
Steve talks first to (deep breath) Arikana Chihimbori-Quao about her view that the end of USAID is a good thing, and then later to Vali Nasr about the US plans for the Middle East, rightly or wrongly.