Class, war and anger on BBC2 agenda

BBC Two has unveiled its new shows for the autumn, including a three-hour documentary remembering "every single serviceman and woman" who has died with British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Fallen will focus in detail on a "significant number" of the war dead, combining testimony from family and loved ones with archive footage. Controller Roly Keating said: "It's a hugely moving and dignified account of what it means to lose someone you love to conflict and wholly worthy of the three hours of primetime television we will be dedicating to it."

In Losing It - Griff Rhys Jones On Anger, the comedian "takes a startlingly honest look at anger in himself and others". Rhys Jones "believes that anger helps him in his life and can even be creative - but how do other people react when they are on the receiving end?"

Another personal one-off will see former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott - originally seen as the face of the working class in Tony Blair's government but later pictured playing croquet - address the "current state of the British class system".

Prescott On Class will see him investigate "the dreams and aspirations of the richest and the poorest" and "grapple with political apathy, middle-class syntax snobbery and the wealth gap in modern Britain".

BBC Two will follow the US presidential race with Simon Schama in The American Future - A History. The historian will "travel through America, past and present, to reveal the big picture at a critical moment of choice - for the United States, and for the world".

Other new programmes include documentary series Oceans and Peter Moffat-written drama Einstein And Eddington.