Sunday 18th
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Catching the Gun Runners - "For two years, Dispatches has followed an undercover police operation as it tracked a criminal gang trying to smuggle guns into Britain.
The painstaking work of Lancashire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit culminated in the seizure of a vehicle in Dover containing drugs, weapons and ammunition, and led to the successful conviction of over 20 people involved in this international crime ring.
Operation Greengage exposed the trade in illegal weapons in one northern town. In Catching the Gun Runners, Dispatches examines the shocking proliferation of guns on Britain's streets."
Tuesday 20th
BBC4 - Britain by Bike - new 6-part series - "Clare Balding sets out on a two-wheel odyssey to re-discover Britain – from the saddle of a touring cycle.Clare follows the wheeltracks of compulsive cyclist and author Harold Briercliffe whose evocative guide books of the late 1940s lovingly describe by-passed Britain - a world of unspoiled villages, Cycle Touring clubs and sunny B-Roads…Carrying a set of Harold’s Cycling Touring Guides for company – and riding his very own bicycle – Clare embarks on six iconic cycle rides to try and find the world he described. If it’s still there."
BBC4 - Britain Goes Camping - "Featuring the evocative memories and unseen archive of generations of enthusiasts, a documentary which tells the intriguing story of how sleeping under canvas evolved from a leisure activity for a handful of adventurous Edwardian gents to the quintessentially British family pastime that it is today."
More 4 - The Cove - "With the help of Richard O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer who has since recanted and become the mammal's strongest ally, filmmaker Louis Pshihovos sets out to expose the illicit slaughter of large numbers of dolphins at Taijia, a rural Japanese cove.
The pair have to contend with bureaucratic obduracy, police surveillance and attacks by the fishermen. Forced to film undercover and underwater, they use Industrial Light and Magic's latest technology to capture the heartrending massacres.
Psihovos links events at Taija to wider concerns: the lucrative global aquarium industry, which needs trained dolphins; the impotent regulatory checks in place; and a whaling industry that is flexing its muscles again.
And there is an ironic coda to the slaughter; the dolphin meat is relabelled as whale meat and is particularly popular in children's lunchboxes. The meat is high in poisonous mercury toxins."
Wednesday 21st
Channel 4 - My Weird and Wonderful Family - "Ten years ago, gay British millionaires Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow hit the headlines when their two children, Saffron and Aspen, were born to a surrogate mother in the US, using donor eggs and the couple's sperm. The pair were accused by some of "going against nature" and "shopping for the ultimate gay accessory". Brother Orlando was born four years later, using a frozen embryo. A decade on, award-winning documentary film-maker Daisy Asquith films the family for Cutting Edge over the course of a year, as Tony and Barrie try for more babies."
Thursday 22nd
BBC Radio 4 - Voices from the Old Bailey - 2/4 - Wicked Women - "Four-part series in which Professor Amanda Vickery presents dramatised extracts from gripping Old Bailey court cases from the 18th century and discusses with fellow historians what they reveal about the society and culture of the period. Wicked Women. Amanda listens to the voices of criminal women in the Old Bailey - with fellow historians Judith Hawley, Peter King and Jeremy Barlow - on location in a crowded 18th-century lodging house. The first is a shoplifter who pilfers a pair of silk gloves. The second is a con-woman, and her case tells us a lot about the vulnerability of men in the 18th century. The last is an abused wife who chooses the ultimate way out: murder. But once she has murdered her shopkeeper husband, she has great trouble disposing of the body."
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