14-20 May

The Truth About Tax - Panorama
BBC1 London 8:30pm-9:00pm (30 minutes) Mon 14 May
With Chancellor George Osborne recently branding aggressive tax avoidance `morally repugnant', Darragh MacIntyre investigates how some of the UK's biggest companies have been using the tax haven of Luxembourg to avoid paying millions they would otherwise owe. The programme reveals that some global firms have been benefiting from big concessions on billion-pound transactions

Inside Facebook: Zuckerberg's $100 Billion Gamble
BBC2 London 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 14 May
Emily Maitlis revisits her exploration of the social network, investigating how bosses plan to earn the billions of dollars new investors will expect when it is floated on the stock market this month. With contributions by founder Mark Zuckerberg and some of the company's senior executives, Maitlis examines how Facebook can build its advertising business from the personal information its users provide, without losing their trust

The Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Thu 17 May
The BBC business editor talks to historians, economists and politicians to shed light on the history of the euro, from Churchill's vision of a United States of Europe to the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal and Ireland. The reporter also meets workers across the continent and learns the high cost they are paying for the financial crisis, and ponders how a collapse of the common currency could affect Britain

Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (2008)
BBC4 9:00pm-11:00pm (2 hours ) Sun 20 May
The story of the formative years of the renowned emperor. The future Khan is taken into slavery as a boy, following his father's death. From his downtrodden beginnings, he rises to become a mighty leader of his people, uniting the Steppe tribes under his rule and engaging in a bitter rivalry with a former friend. Starring Tadanobu Asano and Honglei Sun. In Mongolian and Mandarin

7May-12May

This World: Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 9 May
The political commentator and eurosceptic travels to Greece and Germany to find out how the euro crisis has affected attitudes to monetary union. In Athens he wonders if there is a desire to return to the drachma, and speaks to a variety of people, including a destitute family, the former finance minister and the outgoing prime minister, about their views, some of which surprise him. In Germany he encounters taxpayers contributing to bailing out Greece while seeing angry protesters burning their country's flag, and asks whether the Eurozone is being pulled apart

30April-6 May

This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 2 May
Darragh MacIntyre investigates cases of child abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland. Decades of assaults and cover-ups have caused severe problems for the faith, and he reveals evidence of a new scandal that may be linked to prominent individuals in the Irish church's hierarchy

April 23-26th

Inside the Medieval Mind
BBC4 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 23 Apr
Season 1 Episode 2 of 4
Professor Robert Bartlett explores the complex passions of the Middle Ages, an era in which the Church preached hatred of the flesh and condemned women as the sinful heirs of Eve. Conversely, poetry of the same period celebrated love's heroes such as Lancelot and Guinevere, and songs regaling women as goddesses echoed across courtly walls

Ancient Apocalypse
BBC4 10:00pm-10:50pm (50 minutes) Tue 24 Apr
Season 1 Episode 2 of 4
Mystery of the Minoans Geologist Floyd McCoy offers an insight into the chaos caused by a massive volcanic eruption on the tiny Mediterranean island of Thera 3,500 years ago, and explores how this devastating event led to the collapse of the Minoan civilisation, which was based on the nearby island of Crete. First shown in 2001

26mar-1apr

China: Triumph and Turmoil
Channel 4 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 26 Mar
Season 1 Episode 3 of 3
Niall Ferguson examines the impact of China's growth on the rest of the world, and how criticism of the country's politics could jeopardise future investment in the UK. He also investigates how fragile economies around the world are increasingly dependent on Chinese money to bail them out, and whether a transition of global power from west to east could be accomplished peacefully. Last in the series

This World: The Mormon Candidate
BBC2 London 7:00pm-8:00pm (1 hour ) Tue 27 Mar
John Sweeney profiles US politician Mitt Romney, the leader in the race to become the Republican candidate in this year's presidential elections, and explores how his Mormon beliefs are likely to be received by voters across the country. Sweeney travels to Utah to examine the appeal of the world's fastest-growing religion, investigates the faith's practices, including rituals Romney is likely to have participated in, and talks to believers as well as former members of the Church

Horizon: Global Weirding
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Tue 27 Mar
The work of scientists trying to understand why the world's weather seems to be getting more extreme and if these patterns are a taste of what is to come. In the past few years, the UK has experienced very cold winters, drought and floods, while in Texas an unprecedented amount of rainfall has been followed by a record-breaking dry period

WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 28 Mar
Part two of two. Richard Bilton uses the diplomatic messages to explore America's foreign policy fears, including China's rising economic power, struggles with Russian aggression and the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. He tells the story of a crisis at the heart of Nato with echoes of the Cold War and investigates Kremlin corruption by meeting the sources who gave information to US diplomats, as well as interviewing Chinese dissidents and talking to those who tried to persuade America to strike against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mar18-Mar24

China: Triumph and Turmoil 
Channel 4 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 19 Mar
Season 1 Episode 2 of 3
Niall Ferguson examines how China is able to live under a communist system of government, while maintaining a thriving capitalist economy. He travels from Beijing to the birthplace of Chairman Mao at Shaoshan to discover why the former leader is revered, despite claims that he orchestrated a succession of revolutions that killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined, and tracks down survivors of his leadership

Horizon: The Truth About Fat 
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Tue 20 Mar
Surgeon Gabriel Weston explores why so many people are piling on the pounds - and learns about new ways to fight the flab. She discovers the hidden hormones that control appetite and sees the latest surgery that fundamentally changes what a patient wants to eat - by altering how their brains work

WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower 
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 21 Mar
Part one of two. Richard Bilton speaks to leading members of the US Government about the impact of the publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic messages or cables on the WikiLeaks website, founded by Australian internet activist Julian Assange. Bilton examines what the cables reveal about America's dealings with deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the decisions made by diplomats over the repatriation of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay

Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler 
BBC3 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 21 Mar
Documentary in which Alexis Conran sets out to understand why some people view gambling as a pleasurable pastime, while for others it is a compulsion that can lead to ruin. He talks to members of his family about his father's obsession with betting, which led to his incarceration, and travels round Britain and to Athens and Las Vegas to meet addicts and experts on the subject

11th - 17th March

China: Triumph and Turmoil 
Channel 4 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 12 MarSeason 1 Episode 1 of 3
New series. Niall Ferguson examines China's rapid rise as a global financial superpower, exploring how its communist government has maintained relative stability despite relying on a largely capitalist economy. He begins by looking at how the country's vast apparatus of state often requires subjugating individual freedom for the greater good

Horizon: Out of Control? 
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Tue 13 MaPeople assume they are in control of their lives, deciding what they want and when they want it - but scientists now claim this is simply an illusion. Experiments reveal that what a person does and what they think can be very different, with the unconscious mind often influencing the decisions they make, from what they eat to who they fall in love with. Horizon reveals to what extent people really do control their own destiny

Rights Gone Wrong? 
BBC2 London 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 14 MarAndrew Neil investigates human rights, in light of the controversy over the inability to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada and the banning of prayers before council meetings. He uses his inside knowledge of the corridors of power to ask whether human rights laws are equitable and searches for a way Britain can regain public support for a justice system that many feel lacks common sense