~ UK TV LISTINGS ~

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Gardens of Faith

First in a five-part series examining the relationship between different faiths and the natural world by looking at their gardens. Peter France visits an Islamic garden in the centre of London to explore how its cultivation and the notion of paradise are inextricably linked, and how Islam views its responsibilty to the natural world.

Time: 05:45 to 06:00 (15 minutes long).
When: Saturday 21st July on BBC Radio Four





Dealing With Race

In inner city schools there's a new kind of racial conflict - between ethnic groups. Dealing with Race looks at how schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets tackle the problem.

Time: 10:00 to 10:30 (30 minutes long).
When: Saturday 21st July on Teachers TV





Warrior Empire: The Mughals Of India

The bloody and tumultuous story of the Mughal dynasty who ruled South Asia from the 16th to the 19th century. How did the fearsome warriors change the face of an entire continent?

Time: 18:00 to 20:00 (2 hours long).
When: Saturday 21st July on History Channel





Face the Facts

John Waite investigates the dangers faced by local interpreters who work for British and US forces in Iraq. Seen as collaborators by some of their compatriots, more than 300 have been killed. Some are in hiding for fear of their lives, claiming that their pleas for help remain unanswered.

Time: 21:00 to 21:26 (26 minutes long).
When: Sunday 22nd July on BBC Radio Four





Courting the East

Author and historian Jerry Brotton uncovers the complex history of relations between England and the Islamic world. They can seem constantly embroiled in animosity and misunderstanding, yet the records of the court of Elizabeth I tell a very different story, with a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and the English Queen that leads all the way to Shakespeare's Othello.

Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long).
When: Sunday 22nd July on BBC Radio Three





Guns For Hire

For the security contractors replacing soldiers, Iraq is a goldmine. But in an insurgent's gunsights, professionals and private contractors look the same: every mission could be the last.

Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long).
When: Sunday 22nd July on National Geographic





Afghanistan's Deadliest Snipers

For five years, US Special Forces have hunted Al Qaeda fighters and Taliban loyalists in the mountains of Afghanistan. Their fierce battles are profiled.

Time: 16:00 to 17:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 23rd July on History Channel

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Anyone happen to see that Richard Littlejohn thing on Monday night about Anti-Semitism? The Guardian rather drolly pointed out that it was interesting to see him doing a show about one of the few groups he isn't bigoted against



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The Tower

Documentary about life on a Lewisham estate. With newcomers Saima and Usman now in Pakistan for their arranged wedding, any room for doubt is rapidly running out. However the summer of love on the estate is abruptly disrupted. The 7/7 bombings send their own shock waves through the community.

Time: 22:35 to 23:25 (50 minutes long).
When: Monday 23rd July on BBC 1





Globe Trekker: Pakistan

Today Neil Gibson journeys to Karachi, Pakistan's most manic metropolis. From here he heads north to Multan, where he has his fortune told by a bird, his turban stuffed with onions and rides a camel to the Derawar Fort. Next stop is Lahore where Mark visits the Khyber Pass and takes a three day trek into the Hunza valley and the stunning views from Rush Peak.

Time: 11:00 to 12:00 (1 hour long).
When: Wednesday 25th July on Travel Channel





Talking to Terrorists

Brian Hanrahan explores the debate over talking to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. He talks to experts on political Islam, and to those who believe there should be no talks with groups they regard as terrorists.

Time: 20:45 to 21:00 (15 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 25th July on BBC Radio Four





Iraq, My Country

A journey into Iraq after the American invasion, as told by an Iraqi refugee returning to his homeland after 10 years in Australia. Hadi Mahood has been living in Melbourne, having fled Iraq in the first Iraq war, a refugee from Samawa in Iraq's Shiite south. Watching the news broadcasts in Australia about the war in his country, he has many unanswered questions about the war and decides to return to the city of his birth.

Time: 23:45 to 00:45 (1 hour long).
When: Wednesday 25th July on RTÉ 1





Shadow Warriors

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1981, American CIA operatives entered the country covertly to train rebels in the fight against Communism.

Time: 18:00 to 19:00 (1 hour long).
When: Thursday 26th July on History Channel





1973 Middle East

Peter and Dan Snow unravel the complex history of conflict in the Middle East. Known in the West as the Yom Kippur War, the fighting that broke out in 1973 was the biggest military clash between Arabic nations and Israel. State-of-the-art graphics are used to illustrate how the Egyptians stunned the Israelis in their surprise attack whilst Dan, with the help of the British Royal Marines, experiences how small teams of Egyptian foot-soldiers used the latest technology to stop the Israel tanks in their tracks.

Time: 03:00 to 04:00 (1 hour long).
When: Friday 27th July on BBC 1





Letters from Partition

During Indian partition in 1947 a Muslim and a Hindu complete strangers help each other to survive.

Time: 14:05 to 14:30 (25 minutes long).
When: Saturday 28th July on BBC World Service Radio





Fair Trade & Child Labour

How do students respond to the experiences of workers in Pakistan and India? Find out in two inspirational programmes.

Time: 07:00 to 08:00 (1 hour long).
When: Sunday 29th July on Teachers TV





An Introduction to Islamic Art

Curators of the V&A's new Jameel Gallery highlight some of the treasures of the collection, including the world's oldest dated carpet, and explore their place in the history of Islamic art.

Time: 01:10 to 02:00 (50 minutes long).
When: Monday 30th July on Sky Arts

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Paradise Found (Part 1 of 2)

This programme explores Islam's rich and significant contribution to western art and culture. Waldemar Januszczak sets out on an epic journey bringing the story of Islam to the British public.

Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 27th August on Teachers TV





Paradise Found (Part 2 of 2)

Waldemar Januszczak continues his journey across the Muslim world from Central Asia to the heart of the Middle East, discovering items that have previously received little if any televisual attention.

Time: 23:00 to 00:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 27th August on Teachers TV






Amir Khan's Angry Young Men

Amir Khan is a boxing sensation and a British Muslim role model. Now he faces his toughest fight yet as he tries to help six troubled young men whose violent and antisocial behaviour is spiralling out of control. Over four intensive weeks, Amir and his team use the discipline of boxing to try to turn these young men's lives around.

Time: 00:50 to 01:40 (50 minutes long).
When: Tuesday 28th August on S4C


Divorce - Iranian Style

From Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini comes the first ever footage of a matrimonial court in the heart of Tehran.

Time: 22:00 to 23:35 (1 hour and 35 minutes long).
When: Tuesday 28th August on more4





Reinventing the Taliban

Follow Sharmeen Obaid, a young secular Pakistani woman, as she travels to see how events are playing out in Pakistan's borderlands with Afghanistan and The North-West Frontier Provinces (NWFP).

Time: 23:00 to 00:00 (1 hour long).
When: Tuesday 28th August on Teachers TV





The Making of The Jameel Gallery

Behind the scenes of the V&A's dazzling new gallery, created for their collection of Islamic art from the Middle East, as staff prepare for the grand opening by the Prince of Wales.

Time: 00:00 to 00:50 (50 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 29th August on Sky Arts





Saudi Arabia: Under The Veil

This documentary looks at wealth and oil, human rights, the "free besieged" life of the young, religion and terrorism... as seen through the faces of ordinary people and the country's VIPs.

Time: 23:00 to 00:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes long).
When: Wednesday 29th August on Teachers TV





The Bedouin of Israel

The ancient culture of the Bedouin Arabs of Israel is rooted in a life on the plains of the Negev Desert. These proud people have become Israel's new underclass. As Jon Leyne reports, the Bedouin have become the poorest of the Jewish state.

Time: 10:30 to 11:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Thursday 30th August on BBC World





Terror's Children

Terror's Children is a personal journey of a Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid. For ten weeks in the summer of 2002, she followed the lives of eight Afghan refugee children in the city of Karachi.

Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long).
When: Thursday 30th August on Teachers TV





The Song Of The Missing Men

Iraqi filmmaker Layth Abdul Amir examines the common roots of Iraq, an often mistreated and misunderstood country. His camera captures the cultural, social and historical heritage of the nation.

Time: 23:00 to 00:00 (1 hour long).
When: Thursday 30th August on Teachers TV





Saira Khan's Pakistan Adventure (Part 2 of 2)

Former Apprentice contestant Saira Khan's journey through Pakistan takes her from the city of Lahore and through the isolated mountains of the north. She encounters the painter-laureate of Lahore's red light district and a whirling Sufi drummer, and meets the country's President as well as one of his opponents, the former national cricket captain Imran Khan. She ends her journey at her family home in Kashmir, where she has an emotional reunion with relatives and prays at her father's grave.

Time: 01:15 to 02:15 (1 hour long).
When: Friday 31st August on BBC 1





What the Ancients Did for Us: The Islamic World

Examining the innovations and inventions of ancient civilisations. Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the most extraordinary inventions from the early Islamic World. From soap to torpedoes and from water pumps to windmills Adam shows the lasting effect the culture has left on the technology we use today. Also, reporter Amani Zain tells us the stories behind the golden age of Islamic discovery.

Time: 12:00 to 13:00 (1 hour long).

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Dubai's Dream Palace

With its oil reserves dwindling, Dubai switched its sights to 21st-century tourists, building the Burj al Arab, an amazing 60-storey hotel shaped like a sail.

Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long).
When: Saturday 1st September on National Geographic





Afghanistan... A Country On The Edge

Hostage-taking and bus bombs on the streets, insurgency and foreign troops struggling to keep the peace. John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out whether the country is on the brink of becoming another Iraq.

Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Saturday 1st September on BBC News 24





How Am I Different: Seeking Asylum

14-year-old Sara is an asylum seeker from Kosovo. She wants to be civil rights lawyer. This film covers her struggle to escape her past and get a place in an English school.

Time: 10:00 to 10:30 (30 minutes long).
When: Sunday 2nd September on Teachers TV





Combat Hospital

Since the beginning of US operations in Iraq, more than 20,000 US soldiers have been killed or wounded. Examine the work of the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.

Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 3rd September on National Geographic





Guns For Hire

For the security contractors replacing soldiers, Iraq is a goldmine. But in an insurgent's gunsights, professionals and private contractors look the same: every mission could be the last.

Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long).
When: Monday 3rd September on National Geographic





Teacher's Guide to Islam

Essential resources for RE teachers.

Time: 14:00 to 15:00 (1 hour long).
When: Tuesday 4th September on Teachers TV





HARDtalk: Nawaf Obaid

Saudi Arabia's rulers have expressed mounting alarm about the civil conflict inside Iraq. The Saudis didn't want the Americans to go in; now they are warning Washington not to beat a hasty retreat. Nawaf Obaid is a Saudi strategic affairs adviser who has suggested that Saudi Arabia would arm Iraq's Sunni militias in the wake of a hasty US pull-out. Those words got him into trouble in Riyadh, and Stephen Sackur asks him if he stands by those words now?

Time: 23:30 to 00:00 (30 minutes long).
When: Tuesday 4th September on BBC News 24





Switched: Nadia & Ashlea

Middle America meets the Middle East when small-town girl Ashlea swaps lives with Nadia, a politically progressive New Jersey Muslim. Ashlea experiences a Mosque, working at a department store in Queens and cooks a Pakistani dinner. Nadia finds time to pray while performing as a clown and going to camp for a treetop ropewalk.

Time: 04:50 to 05:10 (20 minutes long).
When: Thursday 6th September on E4

[Bent_Bladi]

okay... i think i have the national geographic channel and the BBC world channel on satellite --- haha, i'll finally get to watch something relevant!

[HOUDA-K]

okay... i think i have the national geographic channel and the BBC world channel on satellite --- haha, i'll finally get to watch something relevant!

Excellent BB ~ you can now give us your comments on the programmes !