Saturday 7th April 2012
| Unreliable Evidence |
Radio 4, 10.15pm - 11.00pm
In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests discuss the controversial law of joint enterprise under which people can be convicted of murder even if they didn't physically participate in an assault or strike the fatal blow.
Francis Fitzgibbon QC, who has defended people in joint enterprise cases, argues that this complex and unwieldy law is being applied indiscriminately to combat gang violence, and is leading to miscarriages of justice.
Solicitor Simon Natas calls for the law to be changed to make it necessary to prove that a defendant intended that someone should be killed or seriously injured.
But Mark Heywood QC who has prosecuted in the trials of people accused of murder following the death of a young man during a knife attack by a gang in Victoria Station, defends the way joint enterprise law is currently being applied.
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Sunday 8th April 2012
| Hairspray |
Film 4, 6.35pm - 9.00pm
(2007) Adam Shankman's comedy musical, set in Baltimore in 1962, stars Nikki Blonsky as teen Tracy Turnblad, who yearns to appear on a TV dance show. With John Travolta and Queen Latifah.
| Passion in Port Talbot: It has Begun |
BBC 4, 10.30pm -11.30pm
At Easter 2011, actor Michael Sheen (Twilight, Frost/Nixon) returned to his hometown of Port Talbot to direct and star in a modern, secular retelling of the Passion of Christ. This film captures the highlights of three days of drama played out in the streets, beach and shopping centre of the South Wales industrial town.
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Monday 9th April 2012
| Grease |
(1978) Films for Life: The classic 50s high school summer romance with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, with great songs and a scene-stealing performance from Stockard Channing.
| Kung Fu Panda |
BBC 3, 7.35pm - 9.00pm
Computer-animated comedy. A layabout panda changes his lethargic ways and learns to defend himself when his homeland comes under attack from a fearsome snow leopard. Featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen and Angelina Jolie.
| Gregory's Girl |
BBC 2, 12.00pm - 1.30am
Witty and unsentimental coming-of-age comedy about a boy (John Gordon Sinclair) who falls hopelessly in love with a girl who becomes the new star player on the school football team. Writer-director Bill Forsyth's screenplay vividly portrays the experience of growing up in urban Scotland.
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Tuesday 10th April 2012
| Four Lions |
(2010) Films for Life: Chris Morris's farce about home-grown British jihadis. Riz Ahmed and Kayvan Novak star. Contains strong, possibly offensive, language and some violent scenes.
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant |
Family fantasy about a boy who, after encountering a real vampire at a freak show, finds himself employed as his apprentice and involved in an ancient grudge against another clan.
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Wednesday 11th April 2012
| The Unforgettable Dick Emery |
In the 1970s, Dick Emery was one of the country's best-loved and most innovative comedians, creating a dazzling array of larger-than-life characters and catchphrases such as 'Oooh you are awful - but I like you!'. Friends and family - including his ex-wife, last girlfriend and two children - remember this charismatic, funny charmer. A renowned womaniser in private, he was married four times, and earned the nickname Emery the Eighth. The programme features some rare home movie footage of the man himself.
| Little Dieter Needs to Fly |
BBC 2, 11.20pm - 12.30am
Born in Germany, Dieter Dengler lived as a child through the Allied air raids. After the war, he emigrated to America, and became a fighter pilot. He was shot down over Laos, and captured. After a first escape attempt he was tortured - but he escaped again, marching for ten days through the jungle until he was spotted by an American plane and taken to safety.
| Che Part One (1/2) |
Film 4, 11.05pm - 1.40am
(2009) Films for Life: Benicio del Toro stars in Steven Soderbergh's epic biopic of the Argentinian doctor who turned global revolutionary. This first part recounts the Cuban revolution.
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Thursday 12th April 2012
| Are Your Kids Contagious?: Tonight |
ITV 1, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
As childhood diseases such as measles and whooping cough appear to be making a comeback in the UK, Fiona Foster investigates why parents are deciding not to immunise their children. What is being done to protect the health of future generations?
| Ivory Wars: Out of Africa |
BBC 1, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
With wildlife crime now thought to be second only to drugs in terms of profit, Rageh Omaar goes on the trail of the ivory poachers, smugglers and organised crime syndicates to investigate the plight of Africa's elephants.
| Vests and Leotards: The Great British Workout or How We Got Fitter |
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Bench presses, barbells, rowing machines and electric shock mittens - just some of the tortures revealed by Mark Benton in this funny look at the British way of keeping fit.
| Che Part Two (2/2) |
Film 4, 11.10pm - 1.45am
(2009) Films for Life: Benicio del Toro and Franka Potente star in the concluding part of Steven Soderbergh's epic biopic, which recreates Che Guevara's ill-fated Bolivian adventure.
| Who's Angry Now |
Radio 4, 11.30am - 12.04pm
Broadcaster and journalist John Harris was in his teens at the height of the Thatcher years and protest-song obsessed. He feasted on the work of Billy Bragg, The Style Council and The Redskins, three Trotskyists who wrote jaunty soul numbers about the history of socialism.
| Dreams That Money Can Buy |
Film 4, 1.45am - 3.35am
(1947) Films for Life: A rare chance to view this surrealist classic, directed by modern art luminaries Hans Richter, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp.
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Friday 13th April 2012
| Sweet Home Alabama |
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
An epic 1970s tale about a group of rebel rock bands who rose up from one of the most unpopular, marginalised parts of the USA - the Deep South - and conquered the world.
| Notting Hill |
ITV 2, 10.00pm - 12.30am
Romantic comedy about the relationship between a famous American movie actress and an unassuming British book shop owner. When the pair meet by chance in the Notting Hill area of London, love immediately blossoms. However, the pressures of fame threaten to scupper their romance, and it takes the intervention of the man's scruffy but kind-hearted housemate to set them on the right path.
