TV guide

TV Times - 4 - 10 October 2008

This week's pick is a documentary expose of the appalling and impossible situation troops on active service are placed in.

Other highlights are an examination of Russia's renewed impact on the world political stage and an investigation into the expansion of, and services provided, by lap dancing clubs. Also the extreme tactics used in American political circles to bring about wanted election results are examined by profiling one such influential individual.

TV Times - 27 September - 3 October 2008

This week's pick is a powerful documentary exposing how paedophiles operate in an institutional setting and how the effect of their abuses live on for decades in the minds and lives of their victims.

Other highlights examine how "free love" can operate in practice and also the political significance of hefty donations recently received by David Cameron's party. Two films of political and community significance also have their terrestrial premieres.

Sunday 28 September - 9 - 11.15pm - Channel 4 - Pan's Labyrinth

TV Times - 20 - 26 September 2008

This weeks pick is a Storyville documentary on the global significance of the events of 1968.

Other highlights feature the focused disillusionment of ex-Labour voters, the rise of data trailing, a satire on life in the Israeli army and a disturbing portrayal of the Purity movement in the US heartland.

Monday 22 September - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: Let Down By Labour

TV Times - 16 - 22 August 2008

This week's highlight is Richard Dawkins heated attempt to convince religious opponents of the fact of evolution and of the need for science teachers to be unafraid to assert such to their pupils.

In a week of varied political programming, other topics explored include the NHS "postcode lottery", Solzhenitsyn's exile from Russia and return and why so many people die alone.

Sunday 17 August - 7 - 8.00pm - Channel 4 - Make Me A Christian - 2/3

TV Times - 9 - 15 August 2008

This weeks pick is the exploration by Richard Dawkins of the consequences for human society both in theory and as actualised by often unscrupulous others of his pivotal finding of the existence of the process of natural selection.

Other highlights include explorations of the regimes of Sudan in the 1980's and Uganda in the 1970's and policing methods from this latter decade also.

Sunday 10 August - 7 - 8pm - Channel 4 - Make Me A Christian - 1/3

TV Times - 2 - 8 August 2008

This weeks pick is a telling documentary which presents reels of amateur video footage shot in Europe in the 1930's which innocently and unknowingly charts the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism.

Other selections continue to tell the stories of the evolution of the car bomb, of Saddam Hussein's household history and indeed of evolution itself. Mooted prostitution reform laws and press freedom or otherwise at the coming Olympics in China form some of the other topics for discussion and investigation.

Sunday 3 August - 7 - 8pm - Repeated 4.20am - Channel 4 - Car Bomb - 2/2

TV Times - 26 July - 1 August 2008

This weeks pick begins a two part exploration of the evolution of the car bomb, commencing with its first use by an alleged anarchist to kill more than 40 Wall Street workers in the 1920's.

Other highlights include an analysis of alternatives to fossil fuels, a study of the practice of female circumcision in Kenya and the beginning of a four part dramatised telling of Saddam Hussein's murderous rise to power.

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Sunday 27 July - 7 - 8pm - Channel 4 - Car Bomb - 1/2

TV Times - 19 - 25 July 2008

This week's pick is a documentary on the removal of ethnic Germans from their Czech homes in 1945, shown in homage to veteran BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler who recently died.

Other highlights include an investigation into the hypocrisy of the governments position on green issues, the history of the impact of oil on the Scottish economy since 1975, and an exploration of possible genetic and environmental factors in determining sexual orientation.

Monday 21 July - 8.30 - 9pm - BBC1 - Panorama - Friends in High Places

TV Times - 12 - 18 July 2008

This week's pick examines how the Koran has been used to justify acts of war and terrible suppression, against the wishes of most ordinary Muslims.

Other documentaries examine the role of the Chinese arms trade in funding the massacre of civilians and how the atrocities of the death camps were made known and subsequent political responses.

Sunday 13 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 5 - Auschwitz - the Great Escape: Revealed

TV Times - 5 - 11 July 2008

This weeks pick examines the role that sports can play in political matters by examining the events that took place in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico in 1968 which culminated in two medal-winning athletes giving Black Power salutes from the podium.

Other political programming this week explores issues such as intolerance of the Muslim community, the encroaching impact of privatisation within the NHS and the reaction of even those traditionally seen as conservative to it and the latest scheme to attempt to reduce youth crime.

Monday 7 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: It Shouldn't Happen To A Muslim

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