SUNDAY
BBC Radio 4
11.30pm: Something Understood: Starting Over
Ugandan born journalist and BBC World Service presenter Paul Bakibinga explores the idea of loss and how to get going again after a major life setback in Something Understood: Starting Over.
The programme includes an account of his own experience of losing a baby, and explores how others have managed to restart their lives after setbacks such as contracting HIV, and an account from an Asian family who managed to get going again after being thrown out of Uganda by Idi Amin. Paul Bakibinga explains how directly experiencing adversity has given him more empathy when covering death or disaster as a journalist.
It also features an interview with South African performance poet Malika Ndlovu who reads a moving extract from her journal, “Invisible Earthquake”, which depicts her struggle to regain a sense of inner calm after her daughter was still-born.
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MONDAY
BBC Radio 4
11am:Whats the Benefit Episode 1
Large sections of the unemployed population have been accused of feigning disability and illness, they’ve been labelled as greedy and lazy, preferring to live off generous state benefits rather than contribute to society. It’s this ‘Shameless’ generation that coalition government changes to the benefits system aim to hit hard.
In a two-part documentary Tom Heap aims to get behind the tabloid headlines, meeting today’s unemployed and the companies, government agencies and charities charged with getting them back to work.
BBC World Service
1.05pm: Outlook
The mother who lost three of her children in the Haitian earthquake of 2010.
1.32pm: The Strand
Two years after the Haitian earthquake, The Strand hears about In Darknespm
ITV1
10.35pm: When Ali Came to Britain
One-off documentary marking Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday. The programme focuses on the former boxer’s relationship with Britain, and features contributions by those who met him on his many visits.
Yorkshireman Richard Dunn describes what it was like to face Ali in his prime, and talks about the hero’s welcome he received in his native Bradford after he had been soundly beaten. TV presenter Dickie Davies discusses An Audience with Muhammad Ali in 1974, which he hosted, and Mohamed Hussein recalls the time Ali and his wife had their marriage blessed at his South Shields mosque during a visit to the North East in 1977
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TUESDAY
BBC 4
10pm: Then and Now of Muhammed Ali
In a programme made in 2003, the boxer talks to David Frost about his eventful life, illustrious sporting career and deeply held ideals.
Ali reveals why he took up boxing and discusses his refusal to fight in Vietnam, conversion to Islam and battle against Parkinson’s disease.
The film also features highlights from the pair’s meeting on the TV show Frost on Friday in 1968, as well as clips from Ali’s 1974 `Rumble in the Jungle’ fight against George Foreman in Zaire
BBC 1
11.15pm: Sus (2010)
Premiere. A black man is taken in for questioning when his wife is found murdered on the night of the 1979 general election.
He comes to realise that the police have already assumed he killed her, while the racist detectives interrogating him uses increasingly brutal methods to force him into a false confession.
Drama, with Clint Dyer, Ralph Brown, Rafe Spall and Anjela Lauren Smith
