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Action - Thursdays @ 6.00 am and 6.00 pm
Action is a new weekly programme that goes behind the headlines to look at the work done by charitable and voluntary groups, nationally and internationally. Action is news from the volunteering frontline.
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29 Sep - 5 Oct - Community Arts Week
 A Healthier Me
Watch behind the scenes as thirty aspiring artists are empowered to write, record and promote their own album for an independent release under expert guidance, resulting in the compelling album Inferno and a feature length music video for an urban generation.
Inferno: A Hip Hop Opera - Sat 4 Oct @ 9.30 pm
London Urban Collective, the acclaimed youth music project that turns inner city kids into rising stars of the British music industry, returns with its most ambitious project to date – an original Hipopera that sets Dante’s Inferno in modern day London.
The Making of Crafta Webb - Sun 5 Oct @ 7.00 pm
A documentary tells the story of the making of Crafta Webb a community film project to discover the mystery of the ancient town of Crafta Webb. This behind the scenes programme features interviews with the cast and crew.
 Masai MD
The Rural Media company and over 120 people from Hereford villages embark on this ambitious community film project to discover the mystery of the ancient town of Crafta Webb and its resounding legacy. The result is a powerful new drama that challenges traditional perceptions of rural community. A separate documentary tells the story of the making of Crafta Webb, featuring interviews with the cast and crew. Watch the trail.
6 - 12 October
A Healthier Me - Fri 10 Oct @ 8.30 pm
A Healthier Me is about two people who took life changing decisions about how they lived their lives as a result of suffering a mental breakdown. Watch the film online
My Passion - Fri 10 Oct @ 8.45 pm
This programme looks at the experiences of two individuals whose mental wellbeing has been helped by getting involved with particular leisure activities -- surfing and gardening. Watch the film online
McConville Reports - Sat 11 Oct @ 8.30 pm (repeated on Sun 12 Oct @ 6.30 pm)
Charge reporter Lee McConville has been on the path of political leaders at all the main party conferences. In this special programme he finds out from Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and others, what politics offers young people.
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13 - 19 October - International Week
Masai MD - Wed 15 Oct @ 7.00 pm
This film documents Masai teenager Sitatian Kaelo's journey from life in her remote Kenyan village to her travels halfway across the globe to study medicine in Chicago. Sitatian’s story offers an intimate snapshot of a Masai family, and in doing so captures the beauty of their ancient traditions of music, costume and culture. Watch the trail.
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Charge - Wed 15 Oct @ 8.00 pm
This week, social issues video website TrueTube returns to Charge with the question: “Do we really need a Black History Month?” With comments from rap stars Asher D and Akala, and Nathalie Emmanuel from Hollyoaks. Watch the programme.
Arthur Balfour & Me - Thurs 16 Oct @ 7.45 pm
Fatima, a Palestinian refugee, reflects on her exile and her family's troubles and lays the blame on the British Foreign Secretary of 1917 Arthur Balfour whose 'declaration' laid down the ground rules for the political map of Israel and Palestine today. She believes his actions have caused the death of her own father and other relatives.
Unwritten - Thurs 16 Oct @ 8.00 pm
A one hour programme in which sports presenter Rob Walker takes a group of five teenagers on a journey of self-discovery through Kenya and Uganda. Over two weeks Walker and the group of five Princes Trust teenagers teach in schools, paint orphanages and immerse themselves in African culture. The experience changes their lives. Watch the programme.
Lincolnshire Living - Sat 18 Oct @ 6.30 am
A magazine programme looking at local characters, events and happenings from in and around the Lincolnshire area. Find out more about Lincolnshire Living
Visioning Tibet - Sat 18 Oct @ 9.30 pm
This film chronicles the passion of ophthalmologist Marc Lieberman, founder of the Tibet Vision Project. His mission: to end preventable blindness in Tibet - which has the highest rate of untreated cataract blindness in the world - by 2020. The film follows the stories of two Tibetans as they make the arduous journey to a remote clinic in the hopes of having their sight restored by Tibetan doctors trained by Lieberman. Watch the programme
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 October 2008 )
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