Wednesday

Channel U

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SUNDAY

ITV

12.15AM: Faith and Music Mica Paris: Mica Paris shot to fame aged just 17. Tonight, she discusses spirituality, her life and career - and her campaigning to end gun crime after her younger brother's murder.


MONDAY

ITV1

8PM: Mummy, Stop Drinking: Tonight In a unique experiment, the drinking habits of three mums are filmed by their children, and medical experts give their opinions on their alcohol consumption.


Channel 4

8pm: The Fake Trade Two-part documentary about counterfeiting, the fastest growing crime of modern times, revealing how fake goods came to dominate global markets and how brands are struggling to fight back.



BBC 1

8.30PM: Panorama Taking Back the Streets: As the police struggle to solve the problem of anti-social behaviour, Richard Bilton looks at the concept of social capital and sees how it has transformed one community



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.



WEDNESDAY


BBC 1

8PM: Whistleblower A revealing report on just how far an undercover reporter with no experience or relevant qualifications can get in the world of childcare, putting the welfare and safety of kids at risk.


BBC 2

9.50PM: Wonderland The Woman Who Bought a School For Her Son: Series about unusual drama in everyday places. When her son didn't fit in at his ninth school, Annabel set up her own private school for him.



FRIDAY


BBC2

7PM: E-mail Is Ruining My Life The Money Programme's Libby Potter asks does e-mail help or hinder workplace performance, and shows how to control e-mail rather than letting it control us.


Channel 4

7.35pm: Unreported World Bangladesh: The Drowning Country: How recent flooding caused by climate change has made ten million homeless in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest and most densely populated countries.



ITV1

8PM: Council Tax Cover-Up: Tonight After reports that the Labour government knew that thousands of homes were in the wrong council tax band more than two years ago, Martin Lewis looks at the ramifications.




BBC2

9PM: Last Orders Henry Singer tells the story of the Wibsey Workingmen's Club in Bradford. The club faces a struggle to survive, and members' worries for the beloved institution mirror larger anxieties.

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.

MONDAY


BBC Three

West 10 LDN



Next on: 10 Mar 2008 21:00-22:00 BBC Three



Youth drama from Kidulthood creators Noel Clarke and Menhaj Huda, delving into the intense lives of the teenagers who live on a West London housing estate. When best friends Orin and Will find a kilo of hash in the park they decide to sell it on. But will this lucrative find come between Will and Orin and how will the boys avoid the hash's real owners? On his travels Orin meets Elisha, a feisty new girl on the estate with a secret to keep and a mission of her own.


BBC - BBC Three Programmes - West 10 LDN

SATURDAY

National Geographic Channel

8pm:Cain And Abel :Brothers At War Ancient rivalry, conflict between brothers and a tale of murder and punishment, but how does the Koran's version of Cain and Abel differ from that of the Old Testament?


10pm:SAS Jungle Rescue In August 2000, twelve British soldiers were captured by rebel militia in Sierra Leone. After tense negotiations failed, Special Forces mounted a daring rescue mission.


SUNDAY


Channel 4

1.50am:Fade to Black Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren's film captures the farewell concert of one of hip-hop's biggest artists, rapper Jay-Z in 2003.


3.40am: The Fighting Temptations (2003) When Cuba Gooding Jr inherits $150,000 from his aunt, he's overjoyed. But there's a catch - he has to create an award-winning gospel choir from scratch in this tuneful comedy.



National Geographic Channel

6pm:Rivals Of Jesus Rivals Of Jesus: There was more than one Messiah and, just like Jesus, the others were said to heal the sick, raise the dead and were called the Sons of God. So why were they forgotten?




BBC 2

7pm: Cooking in the Danger Zone Cameroon and Ethiopia: Food writer Stefan Gates investigates the appetite for bushmeat thats wiping out endangered species in Cameroon, and the shocking aid crisis in Ethiopia



Channel 4

7pm:Dispatches: Iraq's Lost Generation Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees who have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed.




History Channel

9pm:Not Forgotten New. Women: Ian Hislop finds out how WWI affected women. As nurses, ambulance drivers or munitions workers, the Great War was the first time that women had served near the front line.



10pm:Victorians Uncovered Sex And The Empire: As Britain's influence in India grew, once relaxed attitudes to interracial relationships hardened, particularly after the Indian Mutiny of 1857.



MONDAY


History Channel

7pm:Ireland's Nazis War veteran Cathal O'Shannon investigates Ireland's muted welcome to WWII soldiers, refusal to admit Jewish holocaust survivors and harbouring of Nazi war criminals. (Part 1 of 2)



Channel 4

8pm:Dispatches: Iraq: The Betrayal Dispatches assesses the effects of the Iraq invasion five years on. Political journalist Peter Oborne accompanies the Foreign Secretary David Miliband as he travels across Iraq.





BBC2

8PM:Unknown Africa: Central African Republic Even for Saba Douglas-Hamilton, who grew up among elephants in Kenya's wilderness, there are parts of Africa where she has never set foot - this is her quest to reveal 'Unknown Africa'.



ITV1

10.35PM: Rageh Omaar: The Iraq War by......Numbers Marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Rageh Omaar returns to discover the human stories behind the vast number of statistics generated in five years of conflict.



TUESDAY


BBC 2

9PM: Horizon How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?: A modern medical revolution has fuelled a market for body parts which has seen a cadaver sell for as much as $250,000.



Channel 4

11.05pm:Jon Snow's Hidden Iraq Jon Snow examines the brutal reality of life inside post-invasion Iraq, meeting its citizens, from bomb blast victims and war widows to human rights activists and politicians.



FRIDAY

BBC 2

6.30PM: Unknown Africa: Angola Saba Douglas-Hamilton takes an extreme road trip into Angola, a country just emerging from one of the world's worst civil wars, to see if any of its wildlife has survived.

SATURDAY


National Geographic Channel

4pm: Gospel Of Judas One of the most important recent finds in Biblical archaeology, and a National Geographic exclusive. This premiere examines the secret find using cutting-edge science.

6pm: Cain And Abel :Brothers At War Ancient rivalry, conflict between brothers and a tale of murder and punishment, but how does the Koran's version of Cain and Abel differ from that of the Old Testament?

8pm: Lost Kings Of Israel New. David and Solomon were both men of infinite talent and, paradoxically, infinite weakness. Were these sacred kings of the Bible real men, or are they fictional heroes?


Discovery Channel

8pm:Who Wrote the Bible? Presenters Jonathan Tubb and Sam Moorhead follow a trail of clues from antiquity and dissect the building blocks of the Bible from Genesis to Kings



BBC 2

8.30PM: Shroud of Turin Rageh Omaar sets out to discover whether the Shroud of Turin is really a fake and explores new evidence that may challenge the Carbon 14 dating done 20 years ago.



SUNDAY


History Channel

5pm :Banned From The Bible: Enigmas......of the Old Testament The Testament of Solomon embraced some biblical stories, while others were rejected. Religious scholars examine the stories that were banned from the Bible.


Channel 4

5.45pm: Secrets of the Twelve Disciples Theologian Dr Robert Beckford travels across the globe to reassess the fate of the most famous people in Christian history - after Jesus himself - the Twelve Disciples.


History Channel

6pm: 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.


Discovery Channel

8pm: Jesus: The Man Behind the Myths New. Wars have been fought in his name and millions have devoted their lives to him, but how much do we really know about Jesus of Galilee? Bible scholar Kent Dobson investigates.


BBC 1

9PM: No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Jill Scott plays Botswana's first female detective, Precious Ramotswe, in an adaptation by Richard Curtis and the late Anthony Minghella of Alexander McCall Smith's novel.



History Channel

9pm: Life After People A range of geology, climatology and archeology experts give their conclusions as to what life will be like on Earth after the human race dies out.



TUESDAY

BBC 2

9PM: Horizon How Does Your Memory Work?: Horizon takes viewers on a journey into human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill to the man with no memory




WEDNESDAY


BBC 2

9PM:The Secret Peacemaker Peter Taylor talks to a man known until now only as `the Contact', who secretly acted as a go-between, working to bring the British Government and IRA together for peace talks over the course of more than 20 years. The man discusses his meetings with British spies and IRA leaders



THURSDAY


BBC 1

10.35PM:Panorama Teenage Sex for Sale: Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are made to work as prostitutes.




FRIDAY


Channel 4

7.35pm:Unreported World Gaza: Unreported World travel across Israel, Gaza and the West Bank to discover whether Hamas's strategy is working despite Israeli assaults, a siege on Gaza and international isolation



ITV1


8PM:Parking Wars: Tonight Jonathan Maitland meets people who say issuing parking tickets based solely on CCTV evidence will lead to innocent drivers being falsely accused of crimes they haven't committed


11.40PM:Real Crime: Nailing the Nail......Bomber. Dramatic documentary about the police manhunt for David Copeland, the nail bomber who targeted three London minority groups in a series of brutal attacks during April 1999.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Sunday 23 March 2008, 9pm - 10.45pm, BBC One

A great film-drama,
set in Bostwana....who ever wrote this is a genius!!....the whole concept was wonderful from the start.

Bostwana looks beautiful........
BBC - Drama - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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

MONDAY


BBC 2

7PM:The Undercover Diplomat Jonathan Powell reveals his unique political role in the Northern Ireland peace process, where he acted in a capacity known to no-one in the Government other than Tony Blair. He reflects on his secret negotiations with Sinn Fein and his personal relationships with the central figures involved in the Good Friday agreement


Channel 4

8pm:Immigration The Inconvenient Truth Using Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a starting point, journalist Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain in this three-part series.


BBC 1

8.30PM:PanoramaDivide and Rule: Ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, Declan Lawn visits Derry and Ballymena to see what life's like for those dealing with Northern Ireland's sectarian divisions



BBC 3

9PM Young Mums' Mansion New series. Ten single mums and their children arrive at the Mansion to settle into their new home for a month. Danielle is chosen to get the commune up and running. [


TUESDAY

National Geographic Channel

7pm:Birth Of The Solar System Over the last 50 years, advances in astronomical technology have allowed scientists to seek the truth behind the birth of our solar system


8pm:Cain And Abel :Brothers At War Ancient rivalry, conflict between brothers and a tale of murder and punishment, but how does the Koran's version of Cain and Abel differ from that of the Old Testament?


BBC 3

9PM Young Mums' Mansion New series. Ten single mums and their children arrive at the Mansion to settle into their new home for a month. Danielle is chosen to get the commune up and running



WEDNESDAY


National Geographic Channel

8PM:Lost Kings Of Israel David and Solomon were both men of infinite talent and, paradoxically, infinite weakness. Were these sacred kings of the Bible real men, or are they fictional heroes?



9pm:Samurai Sword For more than a millennium, one weapon dominated the battlefields of Japan. Explore the history and culture of this gruesome yet graceful weapon of death.



More 4

9pm Child Genius Mikhail, three, can add in thousands; Michael, five, is learning Hebrew. What makes an exceptional child and can parents have an impact on a child's development?




BBC 3

9PM Young Mums' Mansion New series. Ten single mums and their children arrive at the Mansion to settle into their new home for a month. Danielle is chosen to get the commune up and running



THURSDAY


BBC 3

9PM Young Mums' Mansion New series. Ten single mums and their children arrive at the Mansion to settle into their new home for a month. Danielle is chosen to get the commune up and running


History Channel

10pm: Executioner Pierrepoint He was Britain's most prolific hangman of the 20th century, leading more than 400 prisoners to the gallows. But what finally persuaded him to leave the family business?



FRIDAY


Channel 4

7.35pm: Unreported World In the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, the indigenous Yanomami people are being dramatically affected by illegal gold mining, itself caused by the rising price of the precious metal.




ITV1

8PM: How Do You Sleep?: Tonight As more Britons than ever suffer from sleep deprivation, self-confessed insomniac Toyah Willcox considers ways to get a perfect night's kip without turning to the medicine cabinet.



National Geographic Channel

8pm: Rivals Of Jesus There was more than one Messiah and, just like Jesus, the others were said to heal the sick, raise the dead and were called the Sons of God. So why were they forgotten?

MONDAY


ITV1

8PM: Flat Broke: Tonight As many owners of buy-to-let properties face potential bankruptcy and repossession, Jonathan Maitland examines whether this could be the final straw that bursts the housing bubble.




Channel 4

8pm:Immigration The Inconvenient Truth A Dangerous Fragmentation: Rageh Omaar reveals the results of a specially commissioned Dispatches/YouGov survey on what the British think of their multicultural society.




BBC 1

8.30PM: Panorama Feel the Pinch: Credit crunch, rising food and fuel prices and talk of recession; we've been warned of a tough year ahead, but how are we going to be affected? Declan Curry investigates



BBC 2

9PM: Am I Normal? Addictions: Clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Byron hears from those who believe we are in danger of absolving weak people from taking responsibility for their choices. Scenes of drug use.


Channel 4

9pm: Quest for the Lost Ark Professor Tudor Parfitt's search for The Ark of the Covenant, the sacred container for the stone tablets on which Moses inscribed the 10 Commandments that disappeared over 2,500 years ago.


BBC 1

10.35PM: Meet the Immigrants 1/6. The story of legal and illegal immigrants to the UK: a young woman from Latvia starts work in a Lyme Regis hotel; and a group of refugees and asylum seekers attempt to cross the Channel.




TUESDAY


National Geographic Channel

7pm:Birth Of America New. 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?



BBC 2

9PM: Age of Terror 1/4. Terror International: Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor introduces the incredible story of the 1976 hijacking of a plane by Palestinians in alliance with German Marxist revolutionaries.




WEDNESDAY

Channel 4

9pm: Child Genius The landmark series on gifted children returns with a two-part catch up with the incredible young minds introduced early last year, and a new three-year-old Child Genius is introduced.





FRIDAY


Channel 4

7.35pm: Unreported World Kenya's Human Time Bomb Aidan Hartley reports on the crisis in Kenya, exploring the links between recent violence in the country, which threatens to bring about the implosion of Africa's most stable democracy, and the fact that the land cannot sustain the current rate of population growth




ITV 1

8PM: Rip-Off Britain: Tonight Investigation into why Britons are paying over the odds for medicines and a range of consumer goods from electrical equipment to cosmetics, revealing how the public can get the same prices as continental shoppers.