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The Guardian - UK
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Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Toxic Town; Small Town, Big Story; Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October; Dope Girls – review

Norma Percy BBC Two Chris ODowd Christina Hendricks Condoleezza Rice David Frost Hamas Jodie Whittaker Paddy Considine United States
‘Respect for its subjects pours from the screen’: (l-r) Toby Eden, Jodie Whittaker and Matthew James Hinchliffe in Toxic Town
‘Respect for its subjects pours from the screen’: (l-r) Toby Eden, Jodie Whittaker and Matthew James Hinchliffe in Toxic Town. Photograph: Ben Blackall/Netflix/PA Wire

Toxic Town (Netflix)
Small Town, Big Story (Sky Max)
Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7 October (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Dope Girls (BBC One) | iPlayer

Sometimes TV drama has a job to do: drag skeletons out of closets and let them rattle. So it is with Toxic Town, the four-part Netflix real-life drama from Jack Thorne, initially set in the mid-1990s, about industrial poisonings in 1980s/90s Corby, Northamptonshire that led to birth defects, including missing limbs.

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