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Current affairs dominate BBC Two winter lineup
Published Thursday, Dec 4 2003, 13:59 GMT | By Neil Wilkes
A season of current affairs programming is to dominate BBC Two's programming lineup this winter, the corporation announced today.
BBC Two controller Jane Root said: "The world has changed beyond recognition since the events of 9/11 and we now know that audiences crave intelligent and revealing documentaries and current affairs programming that explain the issues. This season BBC Two delivers just that."
Porgrammes include Who Killed PC Blakelock?, a review of the events of 6 October 1985 when PC Blakelock was brutally murdered on Broadwater Farm Estate; Third World War, an account of the secret war between the Western intelligence agencies and Al Qaeda's networks; and The Miners' Strike, following five young men from an ordinary Yorkshire mining village thrown into an extraordinary conflict in 1984.
This World will be the replacement for axed international current affairs series Correspondent.
A follow-up to the successful What The World Thinks About America will examine religious beliefs around the globe: What The World Thinks About God will be hosted by Jeremy Vine and feature the results from an international poll of 10,000 people.
Following on from Michael Portillo's week as a single mum, former Overseas Development Minister Clare Short will sample life as a geography teacher in a South London comprehensive. Conservative libertarian Alan Duncan will get a rougher ride when he becomes a youth worker for a week, taking a group of children from one of the UK's largest council estates on an outward bounds course.
BBC Two controller Jane Root said: "The world has changed beyond recognition since the events of 9/11 and we now know that audiences crave intelligent and revealing documentaries and current affairs programming that explain the issues. This season BBC Two delivers just that."
Porgrammes include Who Killed PC Blakelock?, a review of the events of 6 October 1985 when PC Blakelock was brutally murdered on Broadwater Farm Estate; Third World War, an account of the secret war between the Western intelligence agencies and Al Qaeda's networks; and The Miners' Strike, following five young men from an ordinary Yorkshire mining village thrown into an extraordinary conflict in 1984.
This World will be the replacement for axed international current affairs series Correspondent.
A follow-up to the successful What The World Thinks About America will examine religious beliefs around the globe: What The World Thinks About God will be hosted by Jeremy Vine and feature the results from an international poll of 10,000 people.
Following on from Michael Portillo's week as a single mum, former Overseas Development Minister Clare Short will sample life as a geography teacher in a South London comprehensive. Conservative libertarian Alan Duncan will get a rougher ride when he becomes a youth worker for a week, taking a group of children from one of the UK's largest council estates on an outward bounds course.
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