An ex-Hutu army officer, sentenced to death during the Rwandan genocide for his moderation and marriage to a Tutsi, tells his tragic tale, 10 years own, from the vantage point of his hate-inciting brother's trial for his part in the events. With unflinching flashbacks we watch in horror as events unfold, the mass murders, rapes and the bodies. Sometimes in April also reflects beyond merely the horror itself and wonders, with justifiable accusation, at the arms selling duplicity and irresponsibil find out more...

All twelve episodes from the first series of the classic satirical puppet show. No target was safe from the series' gunsights: Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, the opposition, the Liberals, Ronald Reagan, the Pope and the Royal Family could all find themselves up for a painful ribbing on any given programme. The series was worked around the current week's news stories and featured a number of famous impressionists, including Chris Barrie, Rory Bremner, Phil Cornwell, Steve Coogan, John Culs find out more...

An often witty, but first and foremost angry, look at the erosion of the UK's civil liberties since we voted in Tony Blair's New Labour back in 1997. Showing a climate of fear and paranoia, whipped up by a rabidly partial media, that has enabled an insidious political erosion of people's basic rights and with commentary from, amongst others, Tony Benn and Mark Thomas, 'Taking Liberties' is a timely, fascinating and frightening indictment of the transparent reality behind the Saville-suited baby find out more...

The Deal, with David Morrissey as Gordon Brown and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, depicts the famed political legend that the two made a pact that Blair would step down as Prime Minister so that Brown could take his place. "The Deal" begins in 1983 as the two men are first elected to Parliament and concludes in 1994 at the Granita restaurant - the location of the supposed agreement - with a brief epilogue following the 1997 general election. A fictional drama yes, but a delicious voyeuristic delig find out more...

A revealing documentary, comprising archive footage of his life and interviews with friends, family and fellow musicians, about the boarding-school boy who grew up abroad, did the hippy art-school thing, embraced Ladbroke Grove's '70s squat scene, cut his hair, fronted The 101ers and The Clash, appeared in a bunch of hip movies and then became a standard-bearer for world music. find out more...

TV news reporter Simon and cameraman Duck's careers have gone in separate directions since they last worked together. Now Duck is back in Bosnia to cover the anniversary of the war's end when luckless Simon appears saying he has tracked down Bosnia's most infamous war criminal. The two men, with little advance planning and rookie journalist Ben in tow, hurl themselves into the search. Just about everyone they meet is convinced they are a secret CIA hit squad, a big, but very dangerous, benefit. find out more...

Two little boys in 1970s Afghanistan are the best of friends, but the circumstances of class, war and childhood betrayal will tear them apart. Years later, as an adult and in an act of redemption, ex-rich man's son Amir returns from his new American home to atone for his earlier behaviour and fulfill his loyalty dues. Adapted from the best selling novel of the same name. Classy. find out more...

After the death of Princess Diana the nation dissolves into an out pouring of genuine unaffected grief, a sight that most of us will only witness once or twice in our lifetimes. But while the common man grieves many are angered by the seeming indifference of the Royal family, who shutter themselves away behind the walls of Balmoral. Helen Mirren is a stunning tour de force as the monarch struggling to come to terms with her role in modern Britain while Michael Sheen is faultless as the populist find out more...

Peter Morgan is back at it again with this craftily scripted dramatic reconstruction of the political and personal chemistry between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair from Blair's initial 1992 introduction to the Clinton political machine, through Northern Ireland, Kosovo, the Lewinsky affair to the finale with the birth of Blair's disastrous alliance with Bush.
Blair actually comes out of this rather well, his initial naivete maturing into a series of moral and political triumphs... it just al find out more...