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29-03-08, 02:29 PM
SATURDAY
BBC2
8PM Martin Luther King: American......Prophet Oona King looks behind King, the secular icon of human rights, to explore his mission as a Baptist pastor 'to redeem the soul of America'.
MONDAY
Channel 4
8pm: Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, Dispatches reports on the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation.
BBC1
8.30PM Panorama Jersey - Island of Secrets: Many people believe there has been a deliberate cover-up of abuse in a Jersey children's home. Panorama investigates.
BBC2
9PM:Alternative Therapies Meditation: Professor Kathy Sykes investigates the ancient practice of meditation, meeting scientists working at the very frontiers of knowledge of how the brain functions
11.20PM Ready Meals: Britain in a Box Documentary examining the increasing popularity of ready-prepared meals. The programme considers the factors that have led to their ubiquity and ponders the possible consequences, such as a decline in communal family eating and cooking skills. With contributions from journalists and food magnates
WEDNESDAY
National Geographic Channel
10pm: Birth Of America No longer is it universally accepted that the first Americans were hunters who came over the Bering land bridge around 13,500 years ago. Who really were the first Americans?
THURSDAY
BBC1
9PM Identity Fraud: Outnumbered This programme features access to the City of London's Economic Crime Unit, the UK's only specialist police unit taking on identity thieves, and explores the way that your identity can be at risk.
FRIDAY
Channel 4
7.35pm: Unreported World: Benin: Voodoo Children Evan Williams visits Benin to investigate the practice of Voodoo, officially recognised as a state religion in the African country. He reveals how young children are separated from their parents to undergo initiation rites, after which their poverty-stricken families have to pay to see them again
ITV1
8PM Lying for a Job: Tonight Jonathan Maitland investigates extreme cases of unqualified applicants who have bluffed their way into positions of responsibility, fooling interview panels with fake CVs and putting the public in danger by maintaining the fraud for long periods. A dummy interview reveals how the con-men get away with their scams
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