Monday 4th
BBC2 - Horizon: The Death of the Oceans? - "Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time - an investigation into what is happening to our oceans. He looks at whether it is too late to save their remarkable biodiversity.
Horizon travels from the cold waters of the North Atlantic to the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef to meet the scientists who are transforming our understanding of this unique habitat. Attenborough explores some of the ways in which we are affecting marine life - from over-fishing to the acidification of sea water.
The film also uncovers the disturbing story of how shipping noise is deafening whales and dolphins, affecting their survival in the future."
ITV1 - Real Crime with Mark Austin: Britain's Biggest Heist - "The story of the biggest cash robbery in British history, an operation that would take months of meticulous planning - and one night to execute. The programme takes an in-depth look at the night a gang made off with 53 million pounds, and how Kent police worked through the night to track the money and the men responsible."
Tuesday 5th
BBC1 - Panorama Special: Kids in Care - "Since the case of Baby P, there has been a 40% increase in the number of children taken into care by the state. There are now 70,000 children being 'looked after' in the system. What happens to them? Can the system offer them a better life?
Panorama follows children in the care of Coventry Social Services for six months to find out if the state can be a real parent - even though children in care are more at risk of failing school and committing crime than any other group."
Wednesday 6th
BBC4 - When Britain Went Wild - "Documentary which explores the untold story of how Britain 'went wild' in the 1960s. It shows how the British people fell in love with animals and how, by the end of the decade, wildlife protection had become an intrinsic part of our culture. Before that time people knew very little about endangered species or the natural world - the very word 'environment' was hardly recognised. But the 1960s saw a sea change.
The film discovers how early television wildlife programmes with David Attenborough, writers such as Gerald Durrell and Gavin Maxwell and pioneers of conservation such as Peter Scott contributed to that transformation."
Friday 8th
Channel 4 - Unreported World: Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts - "While the world's focus is on the fight against the Taliban, Unreported World reveals a hidden result of the conflict in Afghanistan: a huge rise in the number of children addicted to opium and heroin in a country now said to have the youngest drug addicted population in the world.
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Matt Haan discover a lost generation where babies, toddlers and teenagers are hooked on drugs as the only way to escape the pain, hunger and psychological effects of war.
Navai and Haan find around 100 addicts huddled in groups under a bridge in Kabul, injecting heroin. Each day more and more young addicts are turning up. Fifteen-year-old Ali sleeps in a local park. As he smokes heroin it becomes clear Ali is taking the drug to deal with the trauma of witnessing a suicide attack and the bombing of his village. He tells Navai he wishes he was dead.
The drug problem is so severe amongst the child population that some are taking desperate measures to feed their habits. Muqtar sells his body to an older man to earn money for heroin. Muqtar is only 13 years old, and became a prostitute at the age of nine. He says many of his friends are also addicts and do the same.
On the outskirts of the city, in a camp for internally displaced people from Helmand, Navai finds children injured in recent fighting between Taliban and government forces. With no access to doctors or adequate medicine, parents are forced to feed them opium to relieve them from the pain of their injuries.
Since losing her arm and being given opium as the only available pain relief, three-year-old Zarimeh has been hooked and her family don't know what to do. Government doctors rarely come to the camp and too few aid agencies are equipped to deal with the child addicts... "
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