Saturday 9th
BBC2 - Timewatch: The First Blitz - "In January 1915, in a Zeppelin raid on the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth, Sam Smith became the first British civilian to die as a result of aerial bombing.
In the words of those who lived through it, Timewatch tells the forgotten story of the 'First Blitz'. It was a three-year terror campaign which would claim the lives of many hundreds of people and whose psychological effect was every bit as powerful as that of the Blitz of World War II."
Sunday 10th
BBC2 - Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos - "On the streets of Lagos, it is not the police who wield power but gangs of fight-hardened young men known as Area Boys. Louis spends time with several outfits, joining them as they patrol their turf, clash with local rivals and keep the peace in a brutal and haphazard fashion. The main income for the Area Boys is an arbitrary and unofficial form of taxation, extracted from local businesses and commercial drivers. Louis gets to know the rich and glamorous Area Boy leader MC, a former street youth himself, who has now become a friend of the most powerful men in the city. Taken under MC's wing, Louis experiences the top levels of the Area Boys' world from the inside, complete with a tour of MC's grand residence and extensive shoe collection, and ending in a chaotic mini-riot with gunshots, blood and mayhem.
On the side of the law, Louis rides with KAI, the government's Kick Against Indiscipline paramilitary task force, as they storm different city districts. With bulldozers and arrest warrants, KAI use their own strong-arm tactics, and are in their way as feared as the Area Boys.
In Law and Disorder in Lagos, Louis wrestles with life in a world in which the forces of law and the forces of disorder are not always readily distinguishable and nothing is quite what it seems."
Monday 11th
BBC2 - Horizon: What Happened Before The Big Bang? - "They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang."
Channel 4 - The Real Vikings: A Time Team Special- "Tony Robinson, Mick Aston and Phil Harding follow digs around the UK that uncover a vast array of archaeology and provide fascinating insights into our Viking past.
Three centuries of Viking occupation left an indelible print on the British Isles. Their legacy has shaped the Britain we live in today and the Vikings have had a huge influence on our culture; from the way we live to the words we use.
The Vikings are notoriously known as fearsome, axe-wielding warriors who relished their reputation as bloodthirsty invaders, and the discovery of mutilated skeletons in this Time Team Special does little to alter this reputation. However, they were also successful global traders, technological pioneers and world-wide mariners.
The Team report from excavations across the country, from Orkney to the south coast, but it is in Hungate, York that the biggest discoveries are made. This huge dig uncovers the thousand-year-old Viking remains of streets, houses and a trading centre.
Using all this research, Tony and the Team paint a new and much more complex picture of these skillful and enterprising people.more complex picture of these skillful and enterprising people."
ITV1 - Real Crime with Mark Austin: The Black Cab Rapist - "Real Crime: The Black Cab Rapist tells the shocking story of the search for a sexual predator who hid behind a trusted profession to drug, rape or assault over 100 women. Presented by Mark Austin, the programme includes brand new interviews with victims, the police, lawyers and other professionals involved to provide a compelling insight into this complex and disturbing case. 2002 marked the beginning of a series of attacks on the streets of London, which went undetected for five years. It would result in the conviction of Britain’s most prolific serial sex attacker, John Worboys, the black cab rapist. Sarah Craigie tells the programme what happened to her, after hailing a cab in London, following an argument with her boyfriend. “As we were driving out of London he (the driver) told me he’s won at the horses, and did I want to help him celebrate? He had champagne, vodka and whisky but I asked for a soft drink and he gave me a can of coke. He passed it through the window and it was already open. I started feeling very nauseous, very sick. I knew something wasn’t right. I texted my boyfriend and said, ‘I know we’ve had an argument but I need you to meet me, something’s not right.’” Real Crime recounts how the driver stopped the cab and got into the back with a bottle of champagne, telling Sarah he wanted to celebrate his win, but when she shouted at him he got back in the driver’s seat and drove towards her house where her boyfriend was waiting for her. Sarah had a lucky escape, but like many victims she didn’t report the incident at the time. DI Dave Reid tells the programme: “The vast majority of women he picked up, he picked up late in the evening or in the early hours. He came up with a similar sort of patter saying, ’You’re my last job of the evening, I’m going your way anyway,’ and often offering a reduced fare or sometimes no fare... "
Tuesday 12th
BBC4 - A Time To Remember: A Woman's World - "Newsreel footage and original 1950s Time to Remember voiceover by Joyce Grenfell and Dame Edith Evans offer an insight into the ways women's roles in society changed through the first five decades of the 20th century.
Featuring footage of suffragette protest, including Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby; working women during the First World War; Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis; and something of the fashions of the 20s and 30s."
More4 - True Stories: Murder in Mexico - Presumed Guilty - "Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's chilling film examines the reality behind Mexico's judicial system. The country, currently embroiled in what amounts to a war with the drugs cartels, has a conviction rate of 90% for all defendants no matter what they plead since its legal system has no presumption of innocence.
One of them is Antonio Zuniga, sent to prison for 20 years for murder despite pleading innocent. The only witness didn't mention his name until his third statement with which, he admits, he was `helped' by the police; others place him elsewhere at the time of the shooting and there is no forensic evidence between him and the murder weapon.
Hernandez, a law student as well as a filmmaker, joins with fellow law student Layda Negrete to unpick the case and with Antonio granted a rare re-trial, follow the unfolding events which may or may not see Antonio freed."
Friday 15th
Channel 4 - Unreported World 3/10 Philippines: The City With Too Many People - "Manila is one of the world's most overpopulated cities.
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Richard Cookson find the Philippine capital stretched to breaking point, with mothers four to a bed in maternity wards, primary schools with 1,000 children in each year, and graveyards with no more room to bury the dead.
As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, Manila provides a vision of what might become ordinary in the not too distant future.
The team begin their trip at the biggest maternity hospital in the city. It operates on an industrial scale, with four mothers and their babies sharing each bed. The ward is at double capacity when the team arrive, and it's so overcrowded that the nurses have to patrol it to make sure no one is sleeping on their babies and suffocating them.
Kleeman learns that women often have eight children or more here, and some of the mothers say it's hard to make ends meet with such large families. But the Filipino government doesn't promote contraception as it fears losing the Catholic vote.
Kleeman spends the night with a family of nine in Baseco, a shanty town where 90,000 people share just half a square kilometre. A third of Manila's 20 million residents live in squatter settlements like this. New homes are being built every day; wherever there's space another family will fill it. There is no sanitation and the children grow up surrounded by rubbish.
Like everything else in Manila, the water supply can't meet the demand of the number of people who want to use it, and contagious diseases spread fast. Jennifer, the mother of the family, has tuberculosis. She tells Kleeman her children have persistent rashes but she can't afford to take them to a doctor for treatment."
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