Reviewed: A Place in the Sun; Surgeons: at the Edge of Life It’s a must-do holiday ritual for some, peering into estate agents’ windows, wondering what it might be like to live there for longer. Your very own home from home whenever you fancy. Then you realise it’s enough of a faff getting to Aldi once a week, never mind Alicante, and so the dream fades. But not for the plucky sorts who sign up to A Place in the Sun. For 21 years now this Channel 4 regular has cheerily held the hands of nervous UK buyers as they wave ta-ra to their savings. If A Place in the Sun had run the Remain campaign Brexit would never have happened.