George Floyd's killing in the US state of Minnesota sparked protests about policing, privilege and a revolution in race relations. Britain boldly presents itself as a beacon of racial tolerance, but with demonstrations sweeping the country, organisers believe that they are closer than ever to changing the way British institutions and individuals treat black people across the UK. There have been multiple campaigns for equality and justice for black British communities in the past, but none quite like this.

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A selection of Timothy West and Prunella Scales' adventures along the waterways of Wales and the West Country, which have woven through their childhoods, marriage, and family life, and remain their favourite place of escape. On the Avon, they travel on the fireboat that put out the wartime fires in Tim's hometown of Bristol, and head out into the Bristol Channel by steam paddler to visit the seaside village where Pru was evacuated, and reflect on their honeymoon on the Llangollen canal.

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In a quiet corner of Cardiff, a unique driving centre transforms lives every day. Here, higher-risk drivers, who through illness or accident have been stopped from driving, have the chance to prove they're safe to be on the road. To lose the ability to drive is to lose independence, identity and sometimes livelihoods. Many drivers go to the centre with great hope of getting back behind the wheel. Others are reluctant, fearing they may be taken off the road forever. The driving assessors face huge dilemmas - they decide if people can have the freedom they desperately want but if they make the wrong decision, they could put the public at risk.

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The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius; Claude Shannon In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a "bit" and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cosmology, linguistics, and genetics. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested in showing off the gadgets he'd constructed -- juggling robots, a Rubik's Cube solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet -- than rehashing the past. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.

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Documentary about the scene in which people engage in group sex or swap sexual partners, going behind the scenes at one of Britain's most popular swingers' clubs to find out what kinds of people attend and why.

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Highlights of Jane McDonald's travels along the Mekong river, sampling the sights, sounds and cuisine of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, before visiting a floating market and the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

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In a series of remarkably frank and entertaining conversations, rail passengers travelling the length and breadth of the country share their experiences of life and their own particular view of the world they see from the window of their train.

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Nasser's Republic--Remembering the ordinary man who led Egypt to independence. What would Egypt be without Gamal Abdel Nasser? An intriguing overview of Egypt's political history in the modern age, Nasser's Republic examines the transformative influence of Egypt's twentieth century titan Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) on the Arab world. Nasser will be remembered with the fundamental irreversible innovations he introduced to his country, such as the nationalization of the Suez Canal, the construction of major dams, and the implementing of significant social rules. On the back side of the coin, though, he is blamed, even many years after his death, for taking poor foreign policy decisions and being incapable to build democracy.

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A fully dramatised reconstruction of the story of the first atomic bomb deployed in an act of war. Interviews with both the aircrew who dropped the bomb and the survivors, special visual effects and archive all bring to life the fateful mission of the Enola Gay and the devastating impact of the bomb on the people of Hiroshima.

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