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[Part 2] Dubbed the "Bangkok Hilton" by the West, Thailand's Bangkwang jail is one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Until now, the reality of life in Bangkwang has remained a secret. But after two years of negotiations between the BBC and Thai officials - and for the first time ever - television cameras were allowed inside.The film tells the human stories of prisoners struggling to stay sane in the jail's cramped conditions, and the Thai staff struggling to cope with the ever-increasing number of inmates.

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[Part 1] Filmmaker Joseph Bullman uncovers the nation's ancient heritage of binge-drinking, rudeness, violence, hooliganism, slaggishness, consumerism and bigotry in The Seven Sins of England.

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[Part 1] Thrown too young into a seedy grown up world, these runaways and castaways survive, but just barely. Rat, the dumpster diver. Tiny, the teen prostitute. Shellie, the baby-faced blonde. DeWayne, the hustler. All old beyond their years. All underage survivors fighting for life and love on the streets of downtown Seattle.

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[Part 1] Cutting Edge tells the audacious story of the pensioners from Lancashire who conned the art world with a series of fakes sold to museums, galleries and collectors from all over the world. Masterminded by 84-year-old George Greenhalgh and his wife Olive, 83, their son Shaun, 47, faked paintings, sculptures and ancient artefacts in the garden shed of their shared council house in Bolton.

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[Part 1] Joel from Salford is 13. He has been smoking since he was eight. Filmmaker James Routh delves into Joel's world to get behind the shocking image of a child smoker. The film also follows Joel's mother as she tries to kick her own habit in a bid to help her son. Child Chain Smoker explores extreme underage smoking in a distinctive observational style. The film also includes contributions from Joel's teachers, friends and family in a bid to understand the circumstances that led him to take up such an addictive drug at such an early age

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[Part 1] Charming documentary following the number 31 London bus route from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, examining scenes and characters on the way.

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[Part 1] Anyone who has been to a kid's birthday party has wondered about children's entertainers. Why do they do it? Isn't it, you know, a bit weird? What must they be like in real life? Here's the film to answer those questions with a brilliant, light-footed portrait of three manic men (they are mostly men). As with all the best observational docs, the subjects reveal more about themselves than they probably meant to. There's Potty the Pirate with his ukelele and wide, desperate eyes, whose mother bemoans the fact that he's still single. Very different is Tommy Tickle, who effs and blinds and shoves a cricket box down his oversized trousers to protect himself against five-year-old boys. "I was supposed to become the landlord of a pub," he explains. "I used to catch fare evaders on the London Underground. Then I fell into this." What these characters convey is hard to pin down, but it carries a whiff of desperation, as well as anger, delusion and a nice way with balloons.

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[Part 1] Savantism is a rare disorder in which sufferers of developmental disabilities, often autism, are capable of acts of genius that far outstrip their expected level of ability. In Flo and Kay's case, they each have extraordinary memories for facts and dates. Through interviews with several medical professionals, the film attempts to expose the truth behind this misunderstood condition.

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Make Me Normal meets four students at Spa School, one of Britain's largest state schools for autistic children. Filmed over several months, the teenagers reveal what it is like to grow up with a condition affecting more than 500,000 people in the UK. Moneer, 12, has a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. When he loses his mother to cancer, the teachers struggle to help him deal with his feelings and manage his violent behaviour. Roxanne, also 12, just wants to be a normal teenager, but her realisation that autism is for life is extremely painful. Roy, 18, is trying to make sense of the world during his last year at school, but what he really wants is a girlfriend. And Esther, also 18, has a special gift for explaining the autistic world.

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[Part 2] Cutting Edge tells the audacious story of the pensioners from Lancashire who conned the art world with a series of fakes sold to museums, galleries and collectors from all over the world. Masterminded by 84-year-old George Greenhalgh and his wife Olive, 83, their son Shaun, 47, faked paintings, sculptures and ancient artefacts in the garden shed of their shared council house in Bolton.

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