TV guide

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pick of the Week
Sunday 27 July - 7 - 8pm - Channel 4 - Car Bomb - 1/2

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

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

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