Ignore the clunky title, this documentary – which sees the Tory MP and his famous TV chef mother spar over death – is fascinating. Not least because of their weird relationship…
I personally love turning the television on and just seeing two Tories there, waiting for me – “This Morning is a British daytime magazine programme that is broadcast on ITV1” – so thank you Channel 4 for the addition of Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip (Thursday 16 Feb, 9pm), which is exactly that. Just spinning the TV idea generator wheel here, hold on: Prue Leith and … her MP son … go on a road trip … about assisted dying. Yeah, that’ll do. Does anyone have two cameras and a big van?
We should start with my Prue Leith impression, which is amazing. It works better in real life but sort of translates here: “Mm, yes – well you can certainly taste the booze.” Imagine I am wearing a really fun pair of glasses. It’s good, isn’t it? And after a tough six years of just doing that over and over again on Bake Off, she’s off to Seattle, Atlanta, Vancouver and Toronto (but, crucially, not Switzerland) to chase the hottest of hot potatoes, the assisted dying debate, across the 10 US states where it is legalised but frowned upon. Mm, yes – well you can certainly taste the pentobarbs.
