2010

Starts 8pm, Tuesday August 17th

In a series which celebrates Britain’s love affair with baking, the search is on for the country's top home baker.

Ten passionate bakers travel the country and each week undertake three challenges in a different discipline, after which the least successful leave the bake-off. They’ll be baking cakes in the Cotswolds, tackling biscuits in Scotland, bread in Sandwich, Kent, puddings in Bakewell, Derbyshire, and pastry in Cornwall before a grand final in London.

Our lives are over-run with experts handing out advice on everything from food to fashion.
But what happens when you take two experts from the same field, who fundamentally disagree with each other's practices, and challenge them to test their theories against each other?

Starts 8pm, Monday 12th April on Channel 4

Meet Ben, 12, Mollie, 11, Andrew, 17, Jozsef, 11, Alexander, 16, Jonathan, 12, Claire, 19, Lea, 13 and Alex, 20. These nine young people are all autistic. With the support of their families and two professional theatre directors who have never properly encountered autistic individuals before, they will attempt the apparently impossible feat of producing a stage production at the Hammersmith Lyric theatre.

Almost 2 and a half million people are unemployed in Britain today. Four famous volunteers go to four unemployment black spots to discover what it's like to be jobless. Out of work, out of money and out of their comfort zones, Larry Lamb, Meg Matthews, Emma Parker Bowles and Diarmuid Gavin grapple with the reality of living on £10 a day and looking for a job when there aren’t any.

Five WAGs leave their pampered lives behind to experience a side to South Africa their partners, competing in the glittering World Cup competition, will never see.

Rolling up their sleeves to live and work in the country’s most deprived neighbourhoods with orphans, the homeless, prostitutes and women and children with Aids, they’ll witness the reality of life for many young people in a country with the second highest murder rate in the world and where 11 per cent of the population is HIV positive.

Four MPs spend eight days and nights on four of the toughest council estates in the country.

What happens when those who have the power to make a difference finally confront the harsh reality of the Britain they’ve helped create?

“You have to do a bit of bopping from time to time” David Cameron

“Listening to The Arctic Monkeys really wakes you up in the morning" Gordon Brown

What do you do if you really want a girl but just keep on giving brith to boys?

Keep trying, like the Bowens have, for 21 years?

Forty-three year old Wendy Bowen has eight boys but is still desperate for a daughter. Her biological clock ticking has turned into an obsession.

She's not alone. Michelle Priestley is pregnant for the fifth time, she's even scheduling sex for a particular day in the hope she'll get the daughter she's waited for so long.

Follow four couples as they embark on a journey to try and achieve the impossible.

Around one in three British young people will lose their virginity before their sixteenth birthday.

Despite clear warnings about high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, never before have so many of our young  people started having  sex so young.

These programmes offer a frank and uncensored young person's view of one of Britain's most controversial dilemmas, as they and their families negotiate the minefield that is underage sex.