Everyman

The first of five documentaries. With belief in the phenomenon of alien abductions growing, tonight's film hears from people who claim to have been victims of extraterrestial abductions and from academics, researchers and theologians who attempt to explain these alien encounters.

Despite their success across Europe and America, Christian rap and dance group World Wide Message Tribe still spend ten months of the year preaching their message in their home town, Manchester. This documentary follows the group as they tour the North West's schools and visit Nashville, USA, and charts the reaction to the group's brand of evangelical fervour.

A documentary that introduces the colourful characters that work for Brighton and Hove bereavement services. They are the men and woman who bury or cremate the dead and for whom humour is a saving grace and death a way of life.

The controversial religious group Nation of Islam is growing in popularity among black people on both sides of the Atlantic but its leader, Louis Farrakhan , is banned from entering the UK. This film traces the organisation's history while Farrakhan talks about his own career and the accusations of murder and racism he has faced.

This powerful and revealing Everyman special explores the experience of a number of people who, for whatever reason, have taken a human life. Using their often disturbing and frank testimony, the programme challenges perceptions of guilt, innocence, forgiveness and blame, and shows that the act of taking a life is somethingwhich could befall anyone.

On 7 June, the remains of a black male were found in Jasper, Texas. The victim, James Byrd , had been chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death. The suspects arrested forthe murder were affiliated with the Ku-Klux-Klan and Christian Identity churches. This Everyman special includes interviews with the Byrd family, the Ku-Klux-Klan, the actual leaders of the white supremacy organisations, the New Black Panthers and the FBI, and reveals that a holy race war is being planned across the States.

Sister Helen Prejean , whose story was told in the film Dead Man Walking, hoped she would never again have to watch a man being executed. Two years later Dobie Williams is scheduled to die. Sister Helen struggles to comfort Dobie as the execution approaches, while his lawyer works for a last minute stay.

Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame, some get rather more. From wannabees to has-beens, soap stars to superstars, publicists to paparazzi, this documentary turns the spotlight on the fame game, with the help of John Travolta, Bob Geldof, Michael Parkinson, Chris Eubank, Max Clifford, David Soul and many others.

In the fifties many thousands of Tibetans became CIA-trained killers to fight a brutal campaign against the Chinese who had invaded their country. But when America's political priorities changed the CIA abandoned the Tibetans' struggle.

Some peoplebelieve that it is possible to talk to the dead. The Joseph family are searching for contact with the spirit of their dead father, while Gaynor Gittos claims a 300-year-old American shares her body while she is in a trance. Everyman enters the strange world of mediums, spiritualists and psychics.

Fourdays before Christmas 1988, Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York exploded in the air five miles above the Borders town of Lockerbie. Michelle Ciulla's father was one of the victims. Ten years after the event, Michelle finally visits the site of the crash, and gains an insight into an untold story of horror, heroism and generosity. See today's choices.

Every year thousands of children lose a parent. Everyman tells the story of some of them. Charlotte was just nine when her mother died of cancer, a year after her father, but is now coming to terms with her loss; five-year-old Alistair is obsessed by illness after his father died of a brain tumour; and following his mother's suicide Ben is being encouraged to share his feelings.

Can love survive across the religious divide? Couples where each partner follows a different religion discuss the conflicts and compromises within these relationships. For some, like the Rev David Barnes and his Hindu wife Rohini, it has been possible to remain committed to their faiths and their love. But for others a difference of religion can threaten their relationship - or even their lives.