Masters of Money
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 17 Sep
Season 1 Episode 1 of 3
Keynes New series. Stephanie Flanders explores the ideas of three influential thinkers who transformed international economics, and examines how their influence has shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. She begins by profiling John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge-born economist whose ideas revolutionised the approach of Western governments to financial crises during the Great Depression and the Second World War, and explains why the world's leaders drew on his teachings as the global meltdown took hold in 2008
Food Unwrapped
Channel 4 8:30pm-9:00pm (30 minutes) Mon 17 Sep
Season 1 Episode 2 of 8
Reporters Matt Tebbutt, James Watt, Martin Dickie and Kate Quilton travel the globe to reveal more secrets about the manufacture of mass-produced food. Matt and Kate investigate the significance of the wax that can be found on lemons grown in Spain and Thailand, and the programme also features a report on how formed ham is made in the UK
The Thick of It
Season 4 Episode 3 of 7
BBC2 London 9:55pm-10:25pm (30 minutes) Sat 22 Sep
Peter reluctantly spends a very long weekend at a remote country house hotel with Stewart, who is holding a seminar on creative thinking as part of a bid to reinvigorate the party - with no phones, computers or ties allowed. Back at the office, Glenn continues to toil on the Fourth Sector project, as Fergus and Adam have a meeting with an attractive young economist who wants to start a bank. However, everyone's plans are thrown into disarray when a shocking story hits the headlines.
The Clintons
Season 1 Episode 2 of 3
BBC2 London 10:25pm-11:25pm (1 hour ) Sat 22 Sep
Enemies: The story of Bill Clinton's presidency continues by reflecting on how conflicts in Rwanda, Somalia and Bosnia provided a stern test of his foreign policy skills. Back in the USA, an investigation into an Arkansas company partly owned by the Clintons once again turned the spotlight on his family's affairs - while his Republican rivals, including House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, gathered momentum among the electorate and prepared to launch an attack on the Democrats' budget
Primary Colors (1998)
BBC2 London 11:25pm-1:35am (2 hours 10 minutes) Sat 22 Sep
A talented political aide reluctantly joins the staff of a smooth-talking American presidential candidate, but finds himself in the firing line as his employer's alleged indiscretions are brought to light. Satirical drama, starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester and Billy Bob Thornton
Andrew Marr's History of the World
BBC1 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Sun 23 Sep
Season 1 Episode 1 of 8
Survival New series. The journalist examines 70,000 years of human history, tracing the global migrations that followed man's early beginnings in Africa and the agrarian and urban developments that led to the first civilisations. Marr considers extraordinary handprints found in European caves, contemplates the ingenuity required to invent devices that are still with us today and reveals how everyday life in ancient Egypt bears more than a passing resemblance to that experienced by characters in a contemporary soap opera
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