Lynn Alleway

Weekly current affairs show

Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.

Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.

An intimate insight into the world of the Hutterites, a Christian community who believe living communally and separate from what they call 'the world' is the route to heaven. But living like this is not easy. With exclusive access, the film follows one young man secretly running away from his community.

Follow a young Mormon as he gives up 2 years of his life and goes off to convert the people. For 20-year-old Josh Field, it's an emotional journey full of sacrifice.

The film focuses on the political issues and conflicts that led to the assassination of India's leader.

This documentary profiles some of the 15,000 people across America who raise monkeys, not just as pets, but as surrogate children.

A British lesbian couple with one child and looking to get pregnant again partner up with two gay men to make their expanding family a reality,

With astonishingly intimate and unique access, this film tells the dramatic, unfolding story of the demise of one of Britain's best-known charities and the ultimate fall from grace of its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh.

Four unruly youngsters aged 12-14 have been sent to the local council pupil referral unit (PRU), which hasten weeks in which to improve their behaviour so that they can return to mainstream schooling and avoid permanent exclusion. This film follows the boys during their time in the PRU, and at home.