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Fri 19th Mar 2010
	09:00	Tree Fellers
	09:25	Untold Stories Shorts
	09:30	Black Diamonds
	10:45	OrganicLea at Hawkwood
	11:00	Your Sport

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January Highlights

January Highlights and another chance to see our best programmes of 2009.

Don't miss The 11th Hour, an environmental blockbuster written and directed by Leonardo DiCaprio, coming later in January. And The Long March, Leon Greenman's experience of the Holocaust. Our climate change season continues in January 2010.

See the full weekly schedule.

Some Dec/Jan highlights:

The Spirit of London Awards - 29 Dec @ 7.30am/9pm
Singer Lemar and former Eastenders star Brooke Kinsella host a star-studded event celebrating young people from all walks of life. more ...

Leon Greenman - The Long March on 27 Jan at 9pm

The Hunger Inquest - 2nd Jan @ 10.30pm
Why are 1 billion people going hungry in a world that has never produced so much food? What is at the root of hunger – and can it be ended? more ...

The 11th Hour - 18 Jan @ 9pm
Written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. An eco-conscious documentary about the environmental meltdown facing our planet and the greatest challenge that ever faced mankind. more ...

Mayomi - 19 Jan @ 9.30pm
An intimate portrait of a young woman struggling to gain independence, whilst holding her troubled family together in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. more ...

Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January:

Surviving History - 7.25am/4.40pm/10pm
Seven Lithuanian Jews relive the horrifying memories of their time in the Holocaust and the inspirational ways in which they managed to survive. more ...

One Way Ticket - 8.10am/11.35am/5.30pm/8.35pm
Three short films - Arrivals, One Way Ticket and Refugee People - made by teenage refugees comparing their experiences with those of survivors of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. more ...

IDK - I Didn't Know - 1.35pm/7.30pm
In this remarkable film a group of young Londoners go to the camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and discover for themselves the brutal lessons that history provides. more ...

The Long March - 9pm
Tells the story of Leon Greenman the only Englishman to be sent to Auschwitz where he lost his wife and young son. He dedicated his life to making sure the Holocaust was never forgotten. more ...

Pig Business - 31 Jan @ 10pm
An investigation into intensive pig farming and the damaging impact it is having on the quality of our food, the environment, and the health and welfare of agricultural communities. The film goes to farms in Europe and America and confronts the biggest firm in the pig business.

Go to our Climate Change season

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 January 2010 )