March 19, 2007
Racism: A History (Part 1 of 3)
Series looking at how racism impacts on people’s lives. This edition examines how ideas of racial difference have evolved in response to historical events.
9pm - 10pm / Wednesday 21st March on BBC 4
Question Time: Iraq
To mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war, David Dimbleby chairs a special debate from London with a panel including senior figures from Britain, the United States and the Arab World.
10:40pm to 11:40pm / Thursday 22nd March on BBC 1
Hardeep Does Race
Funny-man Hardeep Singh Kohli is proud to be British, but he is only too aware that not everybody in this country wants him to be. As a Glaswegian Sikh is he any less British than a white person? He doesn’t think so, but some people disagree. Hardeep undertakes a personal mission to ask the awkward race questions.
10pm to 10:30pm / Monday 26th March on Channel 4
Child Slavery
Documentary report by Rageh Omaar exploring the global story of child slavery today, in which 8.5 million children are estimated to be caught up.
9pm - 10:30pm / Monday 26th March on BBC 2
Desi DNA
Asian arts and lifestyle magazine. Has multiculturalism brought us closer together or has it turned Britain into an apartheid state? Writer Benjamin Zephaniah and academic Kenan Malik go head to head to air their views for and against the debate. Also featured are the Muslim artists who are using traditional Islamic influences to help them create avant-garde art.
11:20pm - 11:50pm / Thursday 29th March on BBC 2
A Village in Bangladesh
Series of educational programmes for seven-to-11-year-olds. A thematic look at village life in Bangladesh. The series starts with a journey from Dhaka to the village of Gangkul and gives a vivid insight into village life, farming and Ramadan.
10:30pm - 10:40pm / Friday 30th March on BBC 2





