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  • 25 Feb 2013
    Channel 4 Dispatches: benefit cuts and disabled people

    Channel 4 television's respected 'Dispatches' series will carry a programme on Disability Living Allowance at 8pm tonight (Monday 25 February). It is entitled, perhaps rather sweepingly and unhelpfully, 'Britain on Benefits'. Nonetheless, it will be important viewing.

  • 30 Oct 2011
    Jesus and Occupy: a bishop speaks out

    Church leaders have mostly been ducking for cover as the row over Occupy London on the steps of St Paul's has ratcheted up in recent days. The silence from Lambeth Palace until recently has been deafening.

  • 15 Jun 2011
    Responding to Sri Lanka war crimes evidence

    The Channel 4 footage Sri Lanka war crimes footage showed graphically what happens when ordinary people are regarded as mere pawns who can be sacrificed in a contest between rival commanders, says Savi Hensman, reviewing the evidence. But all human life is precious and such degrading practices must be outlawed

  • 13 Apr 2011
    Towards a non-monarchical church

    The Channel 4 television 'beliefs' slot, 4thought.tv - which unlike BBC Radio 4 'Thought for the Day' is open to both believers of all stripes and non-believers - has been asking if we should be proud of the Queen's close ties with the Church of England, or if these ties are anti-Catholic and exclude other beliefs in multicultural Britain.

  • 5 Nov 2010
    Environmentalists challenge eco-claims of Channel 4 documentary

    Calls to embrace genetically-modified (GM) crops and nuclear power in order to tackle climate change have been rejected by campaigners.

  • 22 Jul 2010
    Gay characters still stereotyped by TV, say researchers

    Despite changing attitudes to homosexuality, new research suggests “ordinary gay people” are almost invisible on programmes most watched by Britain's young people.

  • 5 Jun 2010
    The Pope and Peter Tatchell
  • 5 Jun 2010
    Channel 4 Pope documentary to be fronted by human rights critic

    Channel Four Television has announced that human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell will present an hour-long documentary on the Pope, to be broadcast before his state visit.

  • 26 May 2010
    Greening the (alternative) Queen's Speech

    The ConLib Queen's Speech, setting out the coalition's legislative programme for government looks pale and unambitious compared to the version Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas has offered to Channel 4 News.

  • 21 Apr 2009
    Injunction against TV report on G20 death fails

    A legal attempt to block Britain's Channel 4 News from broadcasting a report about the death of passer-by Ian Tomlinson at the recent G20 protest in London has failed.