First Cut

Mitch Winehouse talks openly about the consequences of his daughter Amy's superstardom, and the issues that an ordinary family in extraordinary circumstances faces, dealing with media scrutiny and addiction. As Amy's dad, he's been an important force in her life and career and, he now hopes, in her rehabilitation. But a father's job is often a thankless task, and it's beginning to take its toll on the 58-year-old London cabbie, as director Jazz Thwaite asks what the future holds for him. (NEW SERIES: 4)

Fifteen-year-old Ambreen Sadiq is the first Muslim female boxer in the country. In June 2009 she became the ABA female national champion for her age and weight. Morag Tinto's First Cut film follows her preparations for the rematch of her championship bout against rival boxer Bobbi Clarke.

Leanne befriended Wayne while working in a jeweller's shop in Oxford. He immediately wooed her with a trip to the city's plush Randolph Hotel, where he ordered a 300GBP bottle of champagne. He then revealed to her that the source of his largesse was his work as an MI5 agent and that he was involved in a surveillance operation on the shop where she was employed, swearing her to silence. Somehow, Wayne was able to continue with this ruse for months.

Support for the British National Party is growing - last June, almost one million people voted for the far-right-wing party at the European Parliament elections, and a recent survey found that one in 20 young people would vote for the BNP. Against this backdrop, Peter Beard's First Cut documentary follows 19-year-old Kieren, as he considers joining the political party. An unhappy and difficult childhood and the lack of a strong male role model left Kieren disillusioned with society. Aged 16, he became actively involved in nationalism, which offered him a cause at which to direct his anger.

It's estimated that about one per cent of the adult population suffers from a stutter or a stammer, an embarrassing and sometimes debilitating condition. This First Cut documentary follows two sufferers, Julian Burgess and Danielle Finch, as they try out various physical and mental exercises to minimise their stammers, with the ultimate aim of feeling confident enough to speak in front of an audience.

Director Patrick Nation's First Cut film is a pop curio: an extraordinary account of the extraordinary genesis of the 1978 chart hit "Blame It On The Boogie": "This is the story of two men with the same name, performing the same song, hitting the charts in the same week, staying in the same hotel and appearing on the same edition of Top of the Pops." The men in question were the King of Pop and Yorkshireman Mick Jackson, who had actually written the song, and the press called the chaos that ensued the Battle of the Boogie.

Adults with disabilities speak out about their experiences of hate crime and question a society that continues to do nothing to protect them. Public attention was drawn to the issue of disability hate crime after the tragedy of Fiona Pilkington, a mother who killed herself and her disabled daughter in October 2007 after a decade of abuse from local teenagers. More often than not the voices of those who are persecuted because of their disability still go unheard. From low-level bullying through to violent assault and murder, many of the people in this film have been victimised their whole lives. (Producer/Director‍: Hannah Murphy) (Executive Producer: Eamonn Matthews)

At a time when many white South Africans viewed their black neighbours as inferior, conversely, millions of African women became trusted members of Afrikaner families through their roles as children's nannies. This film follows South African-born Mark Rossiter, whose family left the country in 1986 to live in Britain, as he returns in the hope of finding Susan - the 'second mother' he hasn't seen for 25 years. Armed with only a single photograph and some vivid childhood memories, his search seems futile until an advert in a local newspaper produces a promising lead. (postponed from 15 January)

In this First Cut film, Dom Joly tries to fulfill a lifelong fantasy by becoming the world-famous Belgian reporter TinTin, and attempting to retrace the steps of TinTin's British adventure: The Black Island. For the film, Joly dons the costume of his hero, complete with shorts, plus fours, a white shirt and blue jersey, and even dyes his hair ginger.

First Cut returns for a fifth run. Rachel Williams's 'First Cut' documentary tells the story of Thanos Papalexis, the British playboy-businessman who last year was jailed for murdering an intransigent sitting tenant who stood between Papalexis and a lucrative property deal. After the murder, the debt-ridden killer reinvented himself in the US, shacking up with a porn star and hosting fundraisers for the Clintons. (NEW SERIES: 5)

Ruth Kelly's 'First Cut' film is a thoughtful exploration of trichotillomania, an impulse control disorder that causes people - mostly female - to pull out their own hair. She meets three women affected by the condition.

The First Cut strand of documentaries takes a light-hearted look at the world of online romance. The programme provides a series of interviews with women who are frequent users of dating websites and follows the progress of a successful blogger as she makes her cyber-experiences public on the internet. Director: Rosie Walsh

The title of this First Cut documentary refers to a person under a train on London's underground. Lucy Bennett's film introduces us to Debbie, whose husband threw himself in front of a train one morning, before going on to consider the effects of these suicides on those involved. A coroner explains that about half of those who attempt suicide in this manner will survive, although often with life-changing injuries. And drivers tell of their initial reactions, the trauma of attending the inquest, and how the nightmares never go away.

An imaginative First Cut film directed by Toby Paton and written and narrated by poet Luke Wright, The Bed reflects on life in a busy casualty department from the perspective of an A&E trolley. The tale is told through the experiences of patients who occupy the trolley at various times, interspersed with impressionistic poetic interludes supplied by Wright - delivered over synthetic xylophone noodlings.

Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, went missing in 2009, one of the 200,000 people who do so in the UK every year. In this case, the police launched a high-profile murder inquiry because of the unusual circumstances of her disappearance. In Billy Dosanjh's 'First Cut' documentary, Lawrence's father, sister, and friends take a cathartic break from their terrible limbo to discuss how they have coped with the vanishing - and with more than a year of intense (albeit courted) press interest.

This First Cut documentary by Simon Alveranga ranks as one of the most unusual ones in the series so far, since it follows two teenagers fulfilling their dreams to work with dead people. Laura, 18, from Norwich, has been passionate about her job since doing work experience at the age of 14. We see her in her role as a trainee undertaker and in her free time as a Miss Norfolk beauty pageant contestant. Paul, 19, of Worcester, is blissfully happy in his work and is even engaged to fellow teenage undertaker Sonia, whom he met at a funeral. Tonight, we watch as he steels himself to prepare his uncle Dudley for "his final journey".

Lucy Morgan's striking 'First Cut' documentary follows the stories of four of the 50,000 premature babies who, every year in the UK, begin life in a hospital incubator. With access to a neonatal intensive- care ward, her film captures personal family moments as parents hold their babies for the first time, see them through life-saving surgery and, after months of sitting beside an incubator, get to take their children home.

Pinny Grylls's First Cut film follows Neil Clarke's attempt to discover whether or not it is possible to remember something that happened before birth. Clarke is sceptical about past life regression, but under hypnosis he begins to recount the heartbreaking story of a 19th-century landowner called Hawksworth, who loses his wife, his money and his freedom when he commits manslaughter. Clarke's wife believes that these memories could have something to do with an experience from his past that he has never dealt with. Prompted by his experiences under hypnosis, Clarke sets out to find out if Hawksworth really existed.