Sunday 22nd
ITV 1 - Flight of Faith: The Jesus Story - "Unique programme capturing the geography of the Holy Land from an aerial perspective, following in Jesus's footsteps and focusing on the familiar places connected with his ministry. The journey takes in his birthplace in Bethlehem, as well as Galilee, Nazareth, Cana and the lakeshore villages of Bethsaida and Capernaum - places intimately connected with much of the Messiah's early teaching. Including a journey over the Mount of the Beatitudes where he delivered his famous sermon, and the desert where he was tempted by the devil - revealing a landscape that remains unchanged since Biblical times. Plus the route of Jesus's last journey, culminating in his fateful visit to Jerusalem - scene of his arrest, crucifixion and resurrection. Narrated by Laurence Vulliamy."
Monday 23rd - Dispatches: Return to Africa's Witch Children - "
In 2008 a Bafta and Emmy Award-winning Dispatches told the story of how children in Africa's Niger Delta were being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families.
The film, which prompted international outrage against a practice conducted in the name of Jesus, forced the Nigerian authorities and the UN to act.
Child rights legislation came into force making it illegal to brand children as witches and some pastors were arrested. Financial support also poured in to assist a small British charity (Stepping Stones Nigeria) providing the only safe refuge for hundreds of youngsters attacked after claims that they were possessed by the Devil.
In Return to Africa's Witch Children, Dispatches reveals what happened to some of the children and church leaders who originally featured, and discovers that even now children as young as two are still being stigmatised as witches and treated as outcasts.
Gary Foxcroft of Lancaster-based charity Stepping Stones also returns to Nigeria and discovers that since his last visit the rescue centre that houses many of these children was the target of an attack. He also learns that the number of children living there has in fact risen.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Ellin is one such child. She was found at the side of the road, her body having been severely burnt with boiling water. Nwanakwo Udo Edet, around eight years old, wasn't so fortunate. He had acid poured over him after being labelled a wizard and later died."
BBC 1 - Panorama: Lethal Enterprise - "Who are your children hanging around with, and what would happen if a fight started? Because of a little-known law called joint enterprise, anyone caught up in a serious incident could face the same jail sentence as the person wielding the boot, knife or gun.
The police say it helps to curb gang violence, but Panorama investigates whether this catch-all policy is also leading to miscarriages of justice."
Tuesday 24th
BBC 2 - This World: An Iranian "Martyr" - "On June 20th, a young Iranian woman was shot in the street in Tehran. The video of her death, filmed on a mobile phone, was seen by millions around the world.
This World tells the story of Neda Agha Soltan, with exclusive accounts from those who really knew her. Many young Iranians have claimed her as a 'martyr' for Iran's protest movement; but the Iranian regime has tried to blame the West."
Wednesday 25th
More 4 - Terror Attack: Mumbai - "On 26 November 2008, ten young Pakistani men sailed into Mumbai, India's thriving financial heart, armed with AK47s, grenades and plastic explosives, as well as satellite phones and global positioning systems connecting them to their controllers.
They spread out across the city, killing more than 100 people in just an hour. But this was just the beginning.
Terror Attack: Mumbai brings together candid and personal accounts from the people who were caught up in the siege. Transcripts of phone calls between the gunmen and their commanders, intercepted by Indian intelligence, and CCTV footage from the hotels, give a chilling edge to their stories.
The film also explores the dramatic role that modern communications played: mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour television news gave vital information not just to those in hiding, but to the killers hunting for them."
More 4 - White Tribe - parts 1-3 - "When Darcus Howe came to England from Trinidad 40 years ago, he found a people who were certain of themselves and who knew what it was to be English. Now, as we enter a new millennium, as Scotland and Wales seek a semi-detached relationship to England, and with Europe looming ever nearer, Darcus discovers a people in the throes of an identity crisis. "The old England of self-confidence, of people knowing who they are, knowing where they have come from, that's dead¿the whole of England is in a flux." They are lost, confused and even ashamed to admit they are English, argues Darcus who, in this new, three-part series, travels the length and breadth of the country to discover why the English don't seem to want to be English anymore... "
Thursday 26th
BBC 2 - Natural World: Bringing Up Baby - "Natural World investigates the vital bond between animal mothers and their babies. The more we study animals the more we realise just how emotional they are, and all mothers are faced with tough choices as they struggle to bring up babies in a difficult and dangerous world, constantly balancing their own needs with those of their infants. Yet there are many ways to raise your brood, from the fish who looks after her young in her mouth to the extended childhoods of gorillas or orang-utans."
More 4 - Who You Callin' A Nigger? - "Darcus Howe sees trouble ahead for Britain's ethnic population. In this authored film, he travels the country expressing his views on a netherworld of unreported violence and prejudice, not between blacks and whites, but between Britain¿s increasingly divided ethnic minority groups."
Friday 27th
Channel 4 - Unreported World - The Battle for Israel's Soul - "The foreign affairs documentary series looks at how the growth in the number of Jewish 'fundamentalists' in Israel is allegedly threatening peace deal negotiations with Palestine."
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