Release the Hounds
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Series 1 (7 episodes)
Starts Sunday 3 July at 21:00
In this horror game show, hosted by Reggie Yates, three candidates have to enter a forest at dusk in a quest to unlock chests full of prize money.
In order to win the jackpot, they must escape the forest, but the cash is protected by a pack of angry dogs. Can they outrun the howling hounds and bag the cash?
The last episode of the series is a special edition, in which members of the UK dance group 'Diversity' enter the forest in a quest for prize money. Can they get hold of the cash prize for their chosen charity and avoid the cantankerous canines?
Frontline Fighting: Battling ISIS
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Friday 8 July at 20:00
This documentary tells the inside story of three untrained British volunteers with no family connections to the Middle East who heeded the call to take up arms with Kurdish fighters to reclaim Rojava from the ‘Islamic State’ group.
The self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ brutally besieged Rojava - the Kurdish region fresh from fighting for Syrian independence. The Kurdish YPG militia used social media to recruit foreign volunteers. Their call on Facebook was to ‘defend the civilised world against barbarism’ - and thousands responded.
Unprecedented access to these ordinary British fighters intimately explores their motivations and visceral experiences on the frontlines. They engage the enemy in intense sniper battles, close-range mortar strikes and face counter-attacks from ISIS. But the men are unprepared for the raw atrocities of combat, the fierceness of battle and the death of their Kurdish co-fighters. Together they have a single-minded mission: fight to free the ‘Islamic State’ strong hold of the Abdulaziz Mountains.
The pairing of double BAFTA winner editor Mark Towns and five-time BAFTA winner, executive producer Dan Reed, turns kinetic, unique combat footage into unforgettable scenes with a cinematic feel and skilfully draws the characters of the foreign volunteers from the UK, Germany and USA, as they venture deeper into the heart of the ground war against ‘Islamic State’.
Welcome to the Mosque
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Friday 15 July at 20:00
With unprecedented access, documentary filmmaker Robb Leech enters Europe's biggest Muslim community, in the heart of London's East End.
Leech first came to the East London Mosque with his stepbrother, who had converted to an extreme brand of Islam, and in 2013 was convicted of preparing terrorist acts and jailed for six years.
Now the mosque has invited Robb back, to find out what life is really like inside for some of the two million people who attend every year. 'After years of trying to make sense of extremism, I want to understand the lives of ordinary Muslims, to go behind the walls and dispel the mystery and suspicion felt by non-Muslims on the outside', says Leech.
Robb finds a diverse group of individuals hidden from public view behind the Mosque's brick walls. He captures key moments, from the rituals of washing before Friday prayers to preparing Muslim couples for marriage at the centre's match-making service. Robb discusses British values with young Muslims at the Mosque's school. Older community members tell him about the racism they experienced growing up in the East End. He witnesses segregation, attempts to understand its cultural value and meets younger community members fearful of the dangers of free-mixing with the opposite sex.
During filming, the story breaks about the London schoolgirls who fled Britain to join Isis jihadists in Syria. Robb explores the Mosque's response to events that shocked the community. Whether capturing the frantic first phone call to the Mosque's media manager from a distraught sister of one of the girls or travelling to Istanbul with the girls' families to try and track them down, Robb's hand-held camera gives an intimate feel to the events.
Gadget Man
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Continues from Monday 18 July at 21:00
Director, author and BAFTA-winning actor Richard Ayoade returns as 'Gadget Man'. Richard has always used gadgets to shield him from the stresses and strains of everyday life, but in this series he's going to be using them to help make other people's lives better, too, as he tackles four of the most pressing problems of the 21st century.
Aided and abetted by celebrity companions, Richard will be tackling the myriad challenges involved in staying safe, surviving the endless grind of work and the even worse grind of the weekend, as well as helping people find love in the digital age. He'll be using a gobsmacking array of gadgets to do it: from research robots, to prototypes, to the latest ready to buy gadgets from all over the world.
The Super-Rich and Us
PREMIERE
2 episodes
From Thursday 28 July at 20:00
We were always told the superrich would make us richer, so why hasn't that happened, and what does the arrival of their astronomical wealth really mean for the rest of us?
In this two-part series, Jacques Peretti looks at how the super-rich first exploited an obscure legal loophole to make Britain the most attractive tax haven on earth. This was no accident. Wooing the super-rich was a deliberate strategy by government to reconfigure the British economy, under the belief their wealth would 'trickle down' to the rest of us. But it didn't.
The OECD now say the British economy would have been 20 per cent bigger had we not pursued the super-rich. So who sold us the fallacy of trickle down and why? Jacques meets the super-rich themselves - from those buying premiership football clubs to the billionaires who are breaking ranks to criticise the decisions that made them richer - and society more unequal.
Jacques challenges the architects of these policies, as well as tracking down the foreign multi-millionaires who are buying up Britain and turning us from a nation of property owners to a nation of renters. He uncovers new research that shows growing inequality has been driven by the key factor of unaffordable property, and the far-reaching effect this will have on every aspect of our lives. Inequality is reshaping Britain into two simple classes: the 99 per cent and the one per cent.
This is the story of how it happened and what it means for all of us.
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