Sunday 5th July
Channel 4 - Revelations: Muslim School - 2/8 - "Muslim School traces the lives of two girls from very different backgrounds in their first year at a Muslim faith school.
The Nottingham Islamia has opened its doors to cameras, giving a rare insight, through the eyes of two children, into what it means to have a Muslim education in Britain today.
Seven-year-old Zara is third generation Pakistani, and Aysha, 12, is a white girl from a mixed English/Pakistani family. Both have transferred from regular state schools to the Nottingham Islamia: one of some 130 Muslim faith schools in Britain.
Inside the school, boys and girls line up separately at the start of each day for a timetable of Arabic lessons, Islamic studies, prayers, and a basic national curriculum.
At lunch time, the school stage in the assembly hall doubles up as a mosque, where staff and students pray together.
Filmed over one year, the film captures Zara and Aysha's lives both at school and at home as they make choices about their identity and beliefs."
Monday 6th
BBC1 - Panorama - Whatever Happened To People Power? - "When we want to fight plans to build a waste dump in our back yard, we take to the streets in protest. But what if that results in the police filming and searching us, noting down our car registrations and keeping our details on file for up to seven years?
Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest for all but the most hardened activists."
ITV1 - Real Crime: Hannah's Killer - Nowhere to Hide - "The five-and-a-half-year investigation into the rape and murder of Southampton teenager Hannah Foster in 2003. After fleeing the country, Maninder Pal Singh Kohli confessed to the crime live on Indian TV, and despite a retraction and efforts to stop himself facing justice in the British courts, in 2008 he became the first Indian national to be extradited back to the UK. Featuring interviews, archive footage and dramatic reconstruction."
Channel 4 - Inside Nature's Giants - The Whale 2/4 - "In this episode experts dissect a 65-foot, 60-ton fin whale - second only in size to its 'cousin' the blue whale - that has died after being stranded off the coast of Ireland. It's a race against time as whale anatomist Joy Reidenberg flies in from New York before the animal's decomposition causes it to explode on the beach. Veterinary scientist Mark Evans helps investigate why the animal died and explores its extraordinary anatomy. Using whale-size machinery, Joy and the team set to work amidst gale force winds, driving rain, blood, intestines, evil smells and freezing conditions. Meanwhile, advancing tides threaten to engulf the whale, as the team struggles to complete the operation. Beneath the blubber, the whale's unique anatomy holds vital clues to its evolution. Using a combination of dissection and computer graphics, the programme discovers an animal whose closest living relative is the hippo. Meanwhile, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why the whale's ancestors may have taken to the water and the evolutionary problems that had to be overcome to transform a land-based mammal into an animal that swims among fish.
Tuesday 7th July
More 4 - True Stories: Maximum Jail - " In 1997, Jonathan Stack spent a year inside Angola Prison, Louisiana's maximum security prison, where he captured the lives of six men who, because of their sentences, are likely to die in prison.Over the years, Stack has remained in touch with them and the warden, Burl Cain, and this film reconnects with some of the characters, to witness the impact of the passing years on their spirits, body, and hopes. Do family members still visit, have they become hardened as the years roll by and have their memories of life outside faded? This revealing, moving film answers these questions."
Wednesday 8th
BBC4 - The Grandparent Diaries - Ian Batten 1/3 - "Documentary series about grandparents in Britain today introduces Londoner Ian Batten - fashion designer, father of four and grandfather of seven.
Ian takes all seven of his grandchildren, ranging from toddlers to teenagers, for a weekend by the sea for the first time. As a 1960s dad who brought his own children up in the liberal spirit of the time, his approach seems to be a hit with the children. Bedtimes are relaxed and the kids happily chip in, but do his own children recall their upbringings as similarly idyllic, and how has the free, liberal approach influenced their own views on parenting?
Through interviews spanning three generations, the family's archive footage and observation, the film looks at how the philosophies of the 1960s influence Ian as a grandfather whilst celebrating the enduring traditions of grandparenting through the 20th century."
Friday 10th
More 4 - Us Now - "Us Now is an optimistic documentary about how harnessing the power of the Internet for mass collaboration can potentially change society and power distribution. It examines forms of behaviour where people organise themselves - by voting how to distribute money within a local community, picking the players’ positions in a real football team, or lending money to particular people at low interest rates. The most commonly known example, and the one the film introduces us to the concepts through, is couchsurfing.com. Rather than a small company, with only seven employees, it’s actually a huge, self-policing organisation, which facilitates 1,500 people meeting and sleeping at each others’ houses, every night. This is a potent example to demonstrate the notion of trust as a way to protect yourself instead of hiding behind rules of entry, seeing as you literally let people into your living room... "
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