Modern Times

Documentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their first meeting. The programme follows their turbulent relationship through their marriage in England and Carol's trip back to the Gambia to see if they can settle there.

Mike Emilianow , New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few hundred dollars, Emilianow offers at least certainty.

London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of private medicine's most exclusive address. But what is really on offer for those who have the means to pay?

The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife, and the doctor who agrees to administer the fatal injection.

What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to which they escape every Friday night in the hope that they will have two days of a calmer, gentler life.

Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet bereavement, visits a pet cemetery, and hears some of the stories of the bereft.

This documentary goes inside the so-called "holiday camp" of Britain's penal system - Ford Prison, the low-security jail at Arundel, West Sussex - and discovers a two-tier system.

Liz Breweris London's top society "fixer". Her clients are super-rich newcomers who want to buy fame on the glitterati circuit and in the gossip columns.

A series about the way we live now. Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London cure Billy of his obsession?

The Channel tunnel has been plagued by problems. Now, as the battle hots up between Eurotunnel and P&0 Ferries for cross-Channel business, Modern Times takes a look behind the scenes.

This film records the anti-Establishment lifestyle of the Rainbow Tribe and their confrontations with the police.

A look at the luxurious lifestyles and aspirations of the 20,000 members of the British community in Dubai, the most liberal of the oil-rich Gulf states.

In the last programme of the senes, a documentary team is allowed inside the secret world of adoption as two social workers make their decisions.

The documentary series about how we live today starts with a look at the men who pose as officials to trick their way into the homes of the elderly and the vulnerable.

In tonight's edition of the documentary series about how we live today, wives of Tory MPs talk candidly about the toll that their husbands's careers have had on them and their families

An inner city comprehensive prepares to undergo a compulsory appraisal by the government's newly privatised inspectors.

Cheryl Tooze's parents were murdered over two years ago, and her boyfriend was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. But her trauma continues as those around her "judge" the extent of her grief and her continued loyalty to her partner.

A look at British life as enacted around an "urban beach" - the Brockwell Park Lido in south London.

Seventy years ago. John Spedan Lewis gave away his store to his workers. Today, the John Lewis Partnership maintains its democratic structure, despite the pressures of a competitive market.

Three men with very different circumstances who, like thousands of other people throughout Britain, are using small ads and dating agencies to locate their perfect partner. Postponed from 22 November.