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SATURDAY

BBC2

9PM: Rivers of Blood Part of White season. Documentary about Enoch Powell's infamous speech. Surviving fragments of the filmed speech are assembled and Powell's argument is examined in detail. Some strong language


National Geographic Channel


9pm:The Tuskegee Airmen Inspirational drama based on the real-life experiences of a band of African-American pilots during WWII. Starring Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr and Andre Braugher. (1995)



SUNDAY

BBC2

11PM:Last Man Standing The six challengers are in South Africa to take on Zulus in the deadly sport of stick fighting, an event where bloodshed and death are never far away. Strong language.


ITV1

12.10AM: The Muslim Jesus The story of Jesus in the Islamic tradition, with commentary from scholars who highlight the similarities and differences between the Jesus of the Gospels and in the Quran.



MONDAY


BBC2

8PM:Unknown Africa: Comoros Saba Douglas-Hamilton travels way off the beaten path to the Comoros Islands - a lost world of volcanoes, living fossils and legendary flying foxes.



Urban TV

8PM: Thomas Sankara Documentaries about people and places that have severely impacted the urban culture


ITV1

8PM:The Taxman Cometh: Tonight Jonathan Maitland uncovers widespread chaos in the tax department and meets some of the over one million people who have received the wrong tax bill from the Inland Revenue.



Channel 4


8pm: The Fake Trade The second programme about counterfeiting continues through South East Asia, Africa, America and Britain to reveal counterfeiting's hidden victims.




BBC1

8.30PM:Panorama Shaken Babies? Last year childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking a baby to death. Her friends and family say she couldn't have done it, but medical experts suggest otherwise.



BBC2

9PM:White Girl Part of the White season. Two very different cultures collide when an 11-year-old white girl and her family relocate to an entirely Muslim community in Bradford. Strong language.



Channel 4

9pm: Stephen Hawking: Master of the......Universe Prof Stephen Hawking explores the mysteries of physics by taking us on a two-part journey through the universe and looking at how far our understanding of it has developed.



BBC 2

10.30PM: 10 Days to War A drama set in the Foreign Office. While Tony Blair faces a TV grilling by a group of anti-war women, one of the government's senior lawyers plans her resignation.



TUESDAY


BBC 2

9PM: The Poles Are Coming! Part of White season. Tim Samuels looks at immigration in Middle Britain by exploring the biggest migration to Britain in centuries - the arrival of approximately one million Polish people.

10.30PM: 10 Days to War $100 Coffee: The ambitious, innovative series of short dramas about the Iraq war continues with the story of Iraq's government-in-waiting.




WEDNESDAY

Urban TV

7PM: 500 Years Later The authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage - collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.


BBC 2

7PM: The Primary Part of the White season. Following the headmaster and pupils of Welford Primary School, Handsworth, Birmingham, a thriving school that has pupils from 17 different ethnic backgrounds

10.30PM: 10 Days to War Eight days left to war, and this series of short films about the countdown to invasion gathers pace. Stephen Rea plays General Tim Cross, a man with a mission.




THURSDAY


BBC 2

10.30PM: 10 Days to War Why This Rush? Series of films marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. Patrick Malahide and Tom Conti star in the story of a diplomatic poker game where the fate of the UN is at stake.




FRIDAY


Channel 4

7.30pm: Unreported World Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed: This report comes from Darfur, where the team secured unprecedented access to a key arab armed group accused of being part of the infamous Janjaweed militia.




ITV1

8PM: Fuel's Gold: Tonight As the price of petrol rises ever higher, Quentin Willson tests six ways of improving fuel efficiency, and reveals how savings can be made by driving energy-efficient vehicles.




BBC2

9PM: All White in Barking: Storyville Part of BBC TWO's White season. Marc Isaacs' provocative and humorous film examines life in Barking, an area of London that has witnessed some of the highest levels of immigration in Britain.


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