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WEEKLY UK TV & RADIO
PROGRAMME GUIDE

[13-03-06]


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Holy Hot Spot

Emmy Award-winning producer and director Simcha Jacobovici travels to the Middle East to uncover the archaeological treasures of the Biblical world. Jews, Christians and Muslims alike regard the Temple Mount, or Al-Haram al-Sharif, as one of the most sacred spots on the planet. Their competing claims make it one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the Middle East.

Time: 19:00 to 19:30 (30 minutes long).
When: Monday 13th March on UKTV History


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Secret Wars (Part 1 of 2)

In this two-part series. The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera investigates the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Time: 19:05 to 19:30 (25 minutes long).
When: Monday 13th March on BBC World Service Radio


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The Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantanamo is based on first-hand interviews with the Tipton Three, the three male British prisoners released in spring of last year from Guantanamo Bay, and was filmed in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The feature-length factual award-winning drama directed by Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross tells the story of four friends who set off from Tipton, their West Midlands home town, in September 2001 for a wedding and a holiday in Pakistan.

Time: 21:00 to 22:50 (1 hour and 50 minutes long).
When: Monday 13th March on more4


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Night Waves: New breed Islamic Entrepreneurs?

Starting a special week of programmes devoted to exploring the resurgence of religion across the globe, Isabel Hilton goes to Central Anatolia in Turkey to meet the new breed of Islamic entrepreneurs. They quote Max Weber whilst creating a radical new hybrid of Islam and Calvinism.

Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long).
When: Monday 13th March on BBC Radio Three


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Europe's Angry Young Muslims (Part 2 of 3)

Are Muslims becoming part of Europe's multi-cultural fabric? Or are they a community apart? Recent events have all made the position of Europe's Muslims a hot and emotive topic. Roger Hardy takes a look at these big issues.

Time: 19:05 to 19:30 (25 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 15th March on BBC World Service Radio


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Night Waves: Evangelical Christianity

Philip Dodd visits Middle America to meet those battling for the heart of Evangelical Christianity. He talks to those who believe that the Biblical prophesy that heralds the end of the world is brought ever closer by the conflict in Iraq and tracks their attempts to influence foreign policy in the Middle East. But he also meets Evangelicals who are pushing for a more earth-bound Christian activism that cares as much about environmentalism as abortion, homosexuality and Armageddon.

Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 15th March on BBC Radio Three


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Desi DNA

An exclusive interview with Pakistani ex-cricketer Imran Khan as he talks about politics, religion and Jemima Khan.

Time: 23:20 to 23:50 (30 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 15th March on BBC 2


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Night Waves: Religious and Secular Jews

Philip Dodd and guests continue the week of exploration into the resurgence of religion across the globe. They discuss Israel and the tensions that exist between religious and secular Jews regarding the direction of its future.

Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long).
When: Thursday 16th March on BBC Radio Three


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Islamic Monuments of The World (Part 7 of 13)

Quba' and Qiblatain Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia; Charminar, in Hyderabad, India; and the historical city of Chellah, Morocco.

Time: 12:10 to 12:40 (30 minutes long).
When: Friday 17th March on Artsworld


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The Road to Guantanamo

This drama from multi award-winning film director Michael Winterbottom created huge international impact and won the prestigious Silver Bear for Direction for Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross in competition at The 56th Berlin International Film Festival in February.

Time: 21:10 to 23:05 (1 hour and 55 minutes long).
When: Saturday 18th March on more4


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Munich: Mossad's Revenge

In September 1972, at the Olympic Games in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed after being taken hostage by Palestinian terror group Black September. In the following year 11 men with links to the Palestinian cause were mysteriously murdered. Members of Mossad, and the assassins who carried out their state-sanctioned murders, tell the story of their country's response to the Munich massacre.

Time: 03:40 to 04:40 (1 hour long).
When: Sunday 19th March on Channel 4


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Arthur's Trip

Documentary following 12-year-old Arthur Duncan as he travels with his father Peter to Jordan to discover what life is like as a Bedouin in the Jordanian desert. Surrounded by Iraq, Israel and Saudi Arabia, Jordan may sound like a hostile territory to camp in but Arthur and Peter encounter friendship everywhere. They visit Wadi Rum, dive in the Red Sea and survive a dramatic hot-air balloon landing.

Time: 11:30 to 12:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Sunday 19th March on five


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School of Illumination

Writer and singer Shusha Guppy tells the fascinating story of how Islamic philosophers brought the treasures of classical Greek thought to the West.

Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long).
When: Sunday 19th March on BBC Radio Three


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Secret Wars (Part 2 of 2)

In this two-part series. The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera investigates the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Time: 22:05 to 22:30 (25 minutes long).
When: Sunday 19th March on BBC World Service Radio


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Who's Afraid of Islam?

New three part series, in which Mark Little examines modern Islam and the fears surrounding the world's fastest growing religion.

Time: 22:20 to 23:10 (50 minutes long).
When: Sunday 19th March on RTÉ 1


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Dispatches: Iraq's Missing Billions

With Iraqi society descending into civil war, Dispatches investigates what has happened to the 23 billion dollars entrusted to the British and American coalition for the rebuilding of Iraq. Reporter Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi doctor and journalist, examines whether the coalition has kept its reconstruction promises: to restore basic services such as electricity and water and build new schools and medical clinics.

Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 20th March on Channel 4


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Indian Independence

Series recalling history's defining moments. At the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947, the ruling British Empire handed over governance of India to its people. As midnight approached, celebrations across the country turned sour and fights began between warring religions, the impact of which still reverberates across the subcontinent to this day.

Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Monday 20th March on BBC 4


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The State of Russia: Terror in Moscow

One chilly Wednesday evening in October of last year, several hundred people had just settled down for the second half of a musical in a Moscow theatre when a mysterious figure arrived on the stage in paramilitary fatigues. The man, who many mistook for one of the actors, was a Chechen gunman, one of 41 to infiltrate the theatre that night.

Time: 22:00 to 23:05 (1 hour and 5 minutes long).
When: Monday 20th March on more4


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The State of Russia: Beslan

The school siege at Beslan was the bloodiest act of terrorism ever to take place on Russian soil. Yet beyond this horrible truth remain many unanswered questions. There is no agreement on who the terrorists were, how many they numbered, where they came from, how they got to Beslan, what they wanted, whether they were all killed or captured, and just how the siege, which began on September 1st 2004, ended so catastrophically.

Time: 22:00 to 23:05 (1 hour and 5 minutes long).
When: Tuesday 21st March on more4


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Culture Shock

It's Cultural Appreciation Week and Penny and the gang all have to swap households with other students and write a report on the experience. Once Penny gets past the hurdle of fasting during Ramadan with her Pakistani family, she learns to appreciate a culture she knew very little about.

Time: 22:45 to 23:10 (25 minutes long).
When: Tuesday 21st March on Disney


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Europe's Angry Young Muslims (Part 3 of 3)

Are Muslims becoming part of Europe's multi-cultural fabric? Or are they a community apart? Recent events have all made the position of Europe's Muslims a hot and emotive topic. Roger Hardy takes a look at these big issues.

Time: 19:05 to 19:30 (25 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 22nd March on BBC World Service Radio


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Analysis: The Prophet and the State

Long before the 7/7 bombings, a confidential Home Office internal report warned the government that radicalism and extremism amongst a minority of Britain's Muslim population had become a threat to security and community cohesion. Andrew Brown investigates.

Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Thursday 23rd March on BBC Radio Four


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Islamic Monuments of The World (Part 8 of 13)

Abdullah Salam Mosque, and the famous Bahia Palace of Morocco, a landmark known for its Andalusian influence.

Time: 12:00 to 12:30 (30 minutes long).
When: Friday 24th March on Artsworld


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Michael Moore's The Awful Truth

In this episode, discover the awful truth behind the US-led sanctions against Iraq, and how these sanctions are doing more harm to the children of Iraq than to Saddam's PR.

Time: 16:00 to 16:30 (30 minutes long).
When: Sunday 26th March on Reality TV


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Osama's Hideout

He's played hide and seek with US and UK special forces since 2001. Why haven't the world's best agents been able to track down public enemy number one?

Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long).
When: Sunday 26th March on History Channel


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Mind the Gap

Sarah Joseph is editor of the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel. Once a fervent Roman Catholic, she converted to Islam in what now seems like very different times before the 1989 fatwa was proclaimed against Salman Rushdie. What can be done to bridge the widening gap between religions?

Time: 23:30 to 00:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Sunday 26th March on BBC Radio Four


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