Everyman

High in the Himalayas, Mustang is cut off from the outside world. The Dalai Lama sends an envoy to the region to bring back two boys who will learn to preserve the old ways.

Twenty-two million people in this country call themselves C of E but only use the church for weddings and funerals. With a cash crisis and falling clergy numbers, the Bishop of Durham has invited "anyone with an interest in Anglican affairs" to write to him with advice on the future structure of the Church. Everyman presents a selection of video responses to the Church of England's dilemma.

Simon Bailey is the first Anglican clergyman to carry on his ministry while suffering from Aids. As the rector of Dinnington, he is parish priest in a close-knit former pit village in South Yorkshire. Simon has kept a video diary which reflects on how he is attempting to come to terms with his terminal illness. This moving documentary also shows how parishioners, at first shocked by the revelation that their rector was gay, have been changed by sharing his burden.

Filmed on the streets of Manchester, this programme offers a beggar's-eye view of the search for a living, a home and happiness.

Liverpool was all set to have its first black mayor, 53-year-old mother Petrona Lashley. But tabloid press revelations about her convictions for prostitution brought moves to prevent hertaking office, even though the offences have been wiped from the record. Tonight she speaks openly about her life and her fight to be reinstated.

Everyman visits the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School. It looks at how the lives of the choristers compare with those of the fictional characters.

In the first programme of the human-interest series, Bruce Reynolds , who planned the Great Train Robbery, breaks a 30-year silence to tell his story as part of an examination of society's attitudes to criminals and crime.

Many of the rituals of death are shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Everyman ventures into a rarely glimpsed world to meet the mortuary technicians and cremator operators whose work starts when our lives end.

The Rev Joy Carroll provided the inspiration for Dawn French's character in The Vicar of Dibley. But the reality of her inner-city life in Streathamisfar removed from the rural idyll of the BBC comedy series, as this portrait of the outspoken churchwoman reveals.

Twenty years on, first-hand evidence recounting one of the most humiliating episodes in American history. In the final hours of defeat by North Vietnam in 1975, the USA staged a massive helicopter evacuation, fleeing South Vietnam having lost their most important engagement since the Second World War. The human interest series relives the withdrawal through eye-witness testimony from those at the US Embassy, in the cockpits, at the White House, in the streets of Saigon and also from the forgotten South Vietnamese left to face 300,000 North Vietnamese troops.

In the United States the death penalty has been extended to those who committed their crimes before they were 18. Amnesty International claims America is flouting international law, but the US plans to go ahead with 33 such executions, despite evidence that these young offenders are particularly susceptible to rehabilitative therapy.

Nearly 4,000 churches in Britain claim to have been touched by a new incarnation of God's miraculous power. One in three churches in Britain is now holding healing services. But this charismatic revival, with its belief in demons of darkness, spirits, angels and miracles, is dividing the Christian world. Everyman uncovers practices of healing and deliverances that have destroyed people's faith and shattered their lives.

Alan Bennett celebrates the talents of the late Sir John Betjeman when he introduces two films made by the former Poet Laureate.

Erotica has traditionally been the preserve of the male consumer, with the female filling the fantasy role. But now men are starting to express unease about pornographic images while women are demanding erotica of their own. This frank investigation asks if there is a post-feminist form of erotica both men and women can enjoy.

Life-threatening illnesses are not always accompanied by self-pitying outlook on life, as this poignant portrait of teenagers facing great adversity with maturity demonstrates.

he famous photograph of America's dark era of lynching was taken not in the Deep South but in the northern town of Marion, Indiana, USA, on 7 August 1930. The photograph shows two black men hangingfrom a tree, with a huge crowd of white people looking on. There should, however, have been a third man hanged that day, but at the last moment the 1 6-year-old James Cameron was, he believes, miraculously spared. Everyman goes to Marion to trace the legacy of its famous lynching and to examine race relations in the town today and visits Cameron, now 81, who talks about the events of that night.

The American Catholic Church is in crisis amid mounting evidence that many priests do not observe their vows of celibacy. Some priests are leaving the Church to marry, others are carrying on secret heterosexual or gay relationships in defiance of Church doctrine. But at the heart of this crisis is the scandal involving sexual abuse of children by priests with more than priests reported to the law in the last ten years. Everyman investigates.

At Long Lartin maximum security prison in Worcestershire, Monica Lloyd , who runs the psychology unit, heads a pioneering new rehabilitation programme.

Using miniature cameras, Everyman goes doorstopping in town and country with the Mormons. Their mission is to bring the word of God to every home in Britain. Reactions vary from the philosophical, through the bizarre to the hostile.

Over the last 13 years Sister Helen Prejean has been putting Christian forgiveness to the test as she works with murderers on death row in the American state of Louisiana. As a result she has become an icon of the anti-death penalty movement.

Ten years on from the Church of England's "Faith in the City" initiative to tackle inner city problems, this special programme confronts leading Christian voices with a nightmare vision of Britain - seen from the bottom of the social and economic ladder, where young people are trapped in a cycle of hopelessness, alienation, boredom and addiction.

For centuries the Turin Shroud - the ultimate relic - was thought to be the image of the crucified Christ. In 1988, the shroud was scientifically proved to be a fake but this has merely fuelled a new controversy. While some search for evidence to authenticate the shroud, for others the burning questions are what is it, who made it and why?