SATURDAY


BBC 4

10PM: Brasil, Brasil: A Tale of Four Cities 3/3. Part of the Brasil! Brasil! season. Examining current Brazilian music, from the experimental music of the Northeast to the new funk, hip hop and samba from the Rio shanty towns, the favelas


SUNDAY

History Channel

9pm:Secrets Of Mary Magdalene Was she a sinner and a prostitute? Or was she the secret wife of Jesus and the leader of his church? The Da Vinci Code brought this debate onto the world stage, but what is the truth?


MONDAY

National Geographic Channel

6pm:Feral Child Tales of children being reared by wild animals aren't just fiction. Scientists and behavioural experts look at the case of a boy found in Uganda who had been raised in the jungle.


History Channel

8pm: Banned From The Bible: Secrets......Of The Apostles Ancient texts shed new light on the many competing Christian sects that sprang up in the first centuries after Christ's crucifixion.


BBC 1

8.30PM: Panorama: The Battle for Basra Palace Using combat footage shot by soldiers themselves, the untold story of the last and bloodiest British fight in southern Iraq - the Battle for Basra Palace.


BBC RADIO 4

8.30PM Crossing Continents The Chinese In Angola This week's Crossing Continents travels to Angola, where tens of thousands of Chinese workers have come to rebuild a country devastated by a long civil war. The activity around the African country is fervent as the capital, Luanda, and some of the provinces become a vast construction site where blue-jacketed Chinese workers are building roads, railways and schools.

Since 2004, Angola has taken out between $8bn to $12bn in loans from China and, thanks to its huge oil deposits in the Gulf of Guinea, the former Portuguese colony has become China's biggest African trading partner. In exchange for Angola's oil, energy hungry China is helping to repair the country's infrastructure.

Lucy Corkin, an academic from South Africa, explains that a few years ago an overcrowded China decided to encourage its companies to invest abroad by creating the "Going Out" policy, with the aim of expanding excess capacity overseas and cutting unemployment at home.

Reporter Lucy Ash meets some of the Chinese workers living in Angola, who see Africa as a land of great opportunities and as their second home, and looks at the repercussions this immigration is having on the African country.

The lack of jobs for Angolans in Chinese firms is causing increasing resentment in a country suffering from chronic unemployment. It also raises the question of whether there's a need to import unskilled labour from China.

Presenter and Producer/Lucy Ash



History Channel

9pm: The Solomon Treasures In 2001, an ancient biblical tablet from the Temple of Solomon was offered for sale to the Israel Museum. But it was a fake. How did fraudsters fool expert historians?


National Geographic Channel

9pm Hunting Pablo Escobar In Colombia, the cocaine capital of the world, one man held the country in a bloody vicelike grip. Follow the hunt to capture drugs baron Pablo Escobar.


Channel 4

9pm: Dispatches: Christmas Credit......Crisis Has Britain's addiction to borrowing got out of hand? Tazeen Ahmad investigates the unsettling implications for those who've borrowed too much.


Channel 5

9PM Street Crime Live Donal MacIntyre presents a live show from Glasgow, where he explores the territorialism that has gripped the city's housing estates.


Sky One

10pm Ross Kemp: Teenage Gangs Of......South London Following the recent spate of gang related incidents in South London, Ross Kemp uncovers the stark reality of gang violence on the streets of the capital.


TUESDAY

BBC 1

10.35PM: Mr and Mrs Bin Laden Documentary looking at the unlikely relationship between Jane Felix Browne, a five-times divorced grandmother from Cheshire, and the 26-year-old son of Osama Bin Laden


BBC 4

12 Midnight: Bulgaria's Abandoned Children Kate Blewett looks at the lives of some of 75 children living at the Social Care Home in the small village of Mogilino, Bulgaria



WEDNESDAY

MORE 4

9PM China's Stolen Children China Rising season. It is estimated that 70,000 Chinese children are kidnapped or traded each year. This film shows how the One Child Policy has created a booming trade in stolen children.