TV guide

Other highlights include an investigation into the hypocrisy of the governments position on green issues, the history of the impact of oil on the Scottish economy since 1975, and an exploration of possible genetic and environmental factors in determining sexual orientation.

Monday 21 July - 8.30 - 9pm - BBC1 - Panorama - Friends in High Places

Other documentaries examine the role of the Chinese arms trade in funding the massacre of civilians and how the atrocities of the death camps were made known and subsequent political responses.

Sunday 13 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 5 - Auschwitz - the Great Escape: Revealed

Other political programming this week explores issues such as intolerance of the Muslim community, the encroaching impact of privatisation within the NHS and the reaction of even those traditionally seen as conservative to it and the latest scheme to attempt to reduce youth crime.

Monday 7 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: It Shouldn't Happen To A Muslim

Other highlights concern the damaging effects of war on troops, the impact of West Indian immigration on Britain, the trangressing of class-based sexual taboos in Victorian Britain and teen violence aimed at members of harmless sub-cultures.

Saturday 21 June - 9pm - 12.30am - More4 - Warriors

Other highlights are a political appraisal of the history of the western, an exploration on the effects of Islamic extremist indoctrination on Muslim prisoners, a study of the problems in breaking free from restrictive orthodox Jewish culture and a visual study of sexual hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.

Saturday 14 June - 9 - 10.30pm - BBC4 - How the West Was Lost

Afghanistan also features in a documentary in which several members of the Grenadier Guards are interviewed.

Other highlights tells the stories of Indian sweatshop conditions, a British Nazi prince, corruption in international sport, and the profits reaped in tough financial times by bailiffs and their ken.

Sunday 1 June - 9 - 10.40pm - Channel 4 - The Devil Wears Primark

Other highlights are documentaries on the capture of a paedophile operating online, Mary Whitehouse's doomed crusade to strictly censor tv, the consequences of road rage and the class differences between, and sexualisation of, child beauty pageant contestants.

Pick of the Week
Monday 26 May - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: Warlords Next Door?

Other highlights in a week of rich and varied political programming examine the influence of Christian fundamentalists in Britain today, an analysis on the types of job vacancies filled by migrants, an exploration of the current governments approach to the provision of sickness benefit and a study of a school which is committed to educating some of the nations most violent and troubled children.

Other highlights are an investigation into the reasons for spiralling food prices, the reasons why five women chose abortion and their experiences thereof and how the perspective of some of the original radicals of the 1970's have changed over the years.

Monday 12 May - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: End of Cheap Food

Other politically slanted programmes investigate concepts of sexual normalcy, erosion of civil liberties in the UK and the undiluted focus of Christian fundamentalists in the US.

Monday 5 May - 11pm - 12 midnight - BBC2 - Am I Normal? - Sex

Other highlights include an investigation into UN corruption, an analysis of the Algiers Airport hi-jacking of 1994 and a stimulating radio discussion of the intellectual underpinnings of the revolution in Paris in 1968.

Monday 28 April - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: Bad Manners Britain

Other picks of the weeks political viewing explore issues of child criminality, organised child fights, immigration, terrorism and Forces homelessness.

Monday 21 April - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: Jail My Child

Other programmes worth watching include an analysis on the effects of the credit crunch in Britain, the tragic consequences of Kenya's population boom and a continued investigation into the cultural impact of immigration.

Monday 14 April - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Immigration: the Inconvenient Truth - 2/3

Other highlights are the beginning of a three part investigation into the consequences of immigration, a drama about the suffrage movement, an investigation into the destruction of an Amazonian tribes way of life at the hands of the global bankers, and a study on the effects on children of modern day parental anxiety.

The other picks of a fairly quiet week are investigations into institutional child abuse, the socio-economic effects of voodoo as a state religion and a financial analysis of the super-rich phenomenon.

Pick of the Week
Monday 31 March - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: Undercover in Tibet

Two other politically based dramas both feature Jewish persecution at Nazi hands and this weeks documentaries feature the contrasting subjects of the Gaza strip and adult-to-adult incest.

Pick of the Week
Monday 24 March - 11.55pm - 2.00am - BBC2 - Silkwood

An examination of events in Iraq since the incursion, the death penalty methodology and the illegal body part trade all also feature in this weeks top choices of political programming.

Sunday 16 March - 7 - 8pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: Iraq's Lost Generation

Other programmes feature the impact of Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech, the reaction to mass immigration in East Anglia, and the responsibility for the atrocities in Darfur.

Saturday 8 March - 9 - 10pm - BBC2 - Rivers of Blood

Other topics include civil rights and abortion debates in the US, the affect of climate change on Bangladeshis and the experiences of call centre workers.

Tuesday 4 March - 7 - 7.30pm - BBC2 - This World - Deep South Divide