Modern Times

The series opens with a look at the different approaches to parenting of two middle-class families. Amid chaotic scenes at their 17th-century Cornish manor house, Yvonne and Richard complain about their "children from hell". in London's Belgravia, Amalia and John believe they have cracked the secret of rearing well-behaved children.

On 15 July 1997, designer Gianni Versace was shot dead in Miami. As the fashion world and celebrity fans mourned the loss, the race was already on to make the movie.

As more and more people express their unhappiness through the columns of newspapers and magazines, the documentary strand listens to five top agony aunts - Deidre Sanders, Jane Butterworth, Virginia Ironside, Karen Krizanovich and Denise Robertson - discuss their varying approaches to the job.

This documentary looks at minimalist living and its conflict with the clutter and disorder of modern everyday existence.

For the dedicated minimalist, objects are out, nothingness is in, and status comes from owning only the bare essentials. But modern everyday existence is overwhelming in its clutter and disorder. What happens when art and real life come into conflict?

The Mothers' Union, rormed at the end of the last century, was founded to uphold the values of family life and marriage. Over 100 years on, its image is of middle-aged, middle-class women out of step with the world. But, with over 750,000 members worldwide, and projects that address very modern issues, the union shows no sign of becoming extinct.

In New York, people are seriously rich only when they are able to give away money. The charity party for the New York City Ballet is used as a backdrop to explore just how the absurdly affluent are persuaded to part with their millions.

A group of close-knit friends who have reached their thirties face the prospect of making difficult decisions in both their personal lives and professional careers.

The tale of Leon and Vaughan Gingell , two entrepreneurial brothers who reinvented marbles by placing pictures of footballers inside them. This film spans the two years from the birth of Flikaball to the launch and beyond.

Can a rundown council estate in Bacup, Lancashire, achieve a sense of community pride through a gardening competition among its residents? Housing officer Patrick Collins thinks so, and he plans to make sure everyone takes part. Last in the series; Modern Times returns in the autumn.

The return of the idiosyncratic social documentary series. Individuals with large alchohol consumptions use poetry and song to describe their often tragic, and sometimes amusing, relationship with drink. They include a man who drinks a minimum of ten pints of beer a night, a fashion model who drinks until she collapses, and a woman receiving detoxification treatment in a private hospital.

The documentary series meets two men charged with the job of looking after hundreds of foreign journalists who visit Baghdad to cover the crisis over non-cooperation with UN monitors. Minders Kifah and Alia provide a surprising insight into Saddam Hussein 's Iraq.

The social documentary series takes a look at the pleasure park Alton Towers and follows its transformation into a magical theme resort for the future, complete with a new £12-million roller coaster. But can the park and its new ride fulfil the expectations of both visitors and shareholders?

Jamie and Lizzie have three gay parents - two lesbian mothers and a gay father - while Molly was conceived with sperm from an anonymous donor and has two mothers but will never know her father. This film reveals the great lengths that some gay couples have to go to in order to have children and asks how easy it is to be brought up in families such as these.

The documentary series goes to Liverpool to meet 11-year-old Thomas and his friends as they follow the progress of the England football team over the course of the five weeks of last summer's World Cup. Their passion for the game, devotion to their team and daydreams of sporting glory are in contrast to the poverty that surrounds them in one of the country's poorest inner-cities.

A revolutionary policy being tested in West Yorkshire sees prostitutes counselling men caught kerb-crawling. The aim of the organisation - based on a successful American model set up in San Francisco - is twofold: to stop men from reoffending and to help women to break free from prostitution. The last in the series follows Fiona, a former prostitute who runs a self-help group, and Anna, who wishes to put her experiences to good use.