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Wednesday 8th July 8.00pm

The historical documentary series continues. New research indicates that the audacious plot to rob Fort Knox in the James Bond story ‘Goldfinger’ may have been based on real-life events. In 1914, the fledgling British secret service worked to foil an attack on the Bank of England, masterminded by an influential German spymaster.

In Ian Fleming’s story ‘Goldfinger’, the ingenious villain of the title attempts to steal the gold reserves at Fort Knox. Fleming’s tale, immortalised in the 1964 film starring Sean Connery, may have its basis in a little-known incident from the early days of the British secret service.

Breast Cancer claims the lives of more women in the UK than any other disease. 1 in 9 women will contract it at some point in their lives. 12,000 women die from it each year. In My Breasts Could Kill Me writer and TV presenter Dawn Porter embarks on a very personal and emotional journey that explores the nature of breast cancer and the treatments, stigmas and genetics connected to the illness. Dawn's own mother and great-grandmother died as young women from the disease and in these two films, Dawn will discover whether she herself is genetically predisposed to developing it.

Friday, July 3 on 4

Directed by Ellena Wood, this quirky documentary explores the world of personalised car number plates and some of the people who spend thousands to own the right combination of numbers and letters; among them several people with the name Nigel, who crave the same ultimate number plate: N1GEL. UR S0 V4IN is the latest in the new run of the acclaimed First Cut strand of half-hour documentaries, which features the brightest new directing talent around.

Monday, June 29 on 4

This month Malawi's Supreme Court of Appeal overturned an earlier ruling and granted Madonna's adoption of Mercy James. Ahead of the verdict journalist Jacques Peretti travelled through Malawi to find out why Madonna's bid to adopt Mercy has polarised opinion in Malawi and around the world. This documentary looks at the future for Mercy as she prepares to move to New York with the pop star and asks what's best for Mercy?

Sunday, June 28 on M4

Half Ton Son follows the journey of 19-year-old Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas. Weighing 60 stone and reported to be the world's heaviest teenager, Billy has spent the past three years living in a chair as his mother cooks for, cleans and feeds him. But Billy has made the decision to turn his life around in the hope that one day he may be able to move out of his mother's home. After being fed up to 8,000 calories a day, Billy has to change his diet not only in order to gain his independence from his mother, but if he is to live into his twenties.

Saturday, June 27 on M4

From Coca-Cola to Levi's to the iPod, TV advertising campaigns have launched or re-launched some of the most successful pop singles ever and spawned a lucrative love affair between TV advertising and pop music. TV Adverts' Greatest Hits tells the story of the hits and misses and takes a look at those who made their names in the music business off the back of a TV advert.

Friday, June 26 on 4

A new run of the acclaimed First Cut documentary strand featuring the brightest new directing talent. Philip Sessarego was a soldier of fortune who had fought in Afghanistan and trained the Sri Lankan army. In 1993, he walked out on his family and was, apparently, killed soon after. To the family's astonishment, he appeared on television in 2001, as an expert pundit on the mujahaddin. Then, in November 2008, his body was found in Antwerp. This emotional film, directed by James Ross, follows Claire and her brother Paul, as they travel from to Belgium to collect their father's remains.

Sunday, June 21 on M4

In the winter of 2006 something extraordinary began to unfold on the streets of a town in rural Suffolk. One by one, the small community of sex workers that worked the dark streets around Ipswich Town's football stadium began to disappear. At first it was a barely reported story of missing prostitutes, but then the bodies of five murdered women began to turn up in the brooks and woodland of the surrounding countryside. What unfolded over the next 20 days had a profound and lasting impact on everyone involved: on the surviving sex workers, on the families of the murdered women, and on the small Suffolk Constabulary confronted with the fastest serial killings in British criminal history.

Friday, June 19 on M4

No doubt about it, society celebrates the big penis. Meet the men, including the man claiming to have the world's biggest penis, who reveal there is a bittersweet side to nature's gift.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Spain is the land of year-round sunshine, endless beaches and where life is all about living. It's a favourite destination for the British living abroad.

Over a million Britons now call Spain home, escaping the foul weather and the daily grind in the UK, for a life in the sun.

Wednesday, June 17 on 4

Originally shown as part of the True Stories strand on More 4, this film is a behind-the-scenes look at the first-ever 'World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant' in Las Vegas and the six women who will finally realise their diva dreams. With the dramatic competition to win the crown and a starring role in a sensational new Vegas Revue as a high-stakes backdrop, the film explores the personal and moving stories of its contestants through provocative hometown profiles as well as interviews that document the often humorous journeys of the contestants.

Friday, June 12 on M4

In 1993 one short brutal act guaranteed John Wayne Bobbitt a notoriety that he can never shake off. Film-maker Vicky Hamburger went to find out what happened to the man with the world's most famous penis.

Thursday, June 11 on C4

In her home town of Nagpur in India, 16-year-old Jyoti Amge is a normal teenager in many ways: she enjoys going to school and socialising with friends, and dreams of dancing in Bollywood movies. But Jyoti is only one foot 11 inches tall, and will never grow any taller, crippled by brittle bones. This Bodyshock special meets this extraordinary girl to discover her story and explore what her future holds.

This fascinating documentary follows the elaborate and dangerous demolition of four obsolete cooling towers at Sellafield power plant. A family-run company from America with specialist expertise in demolition has been selected to dismantle the 90m-high towers. The team must plant 4,000 sticks of dynamite in such a way that the structures do not hit nearby buildings when they collapse.

At Sellafield nuclear power plant on the Cumbrian coast, four cooling towers are scheduled for demolition. The 90m-high towers, each with a circumference of 183 metres, stand just a short distance away from buildings that house nuclear reactors and nuclear processing equipment. The structures must be brought down in a narrow drop zone facing away from the power plant, with the minimum amount of flying debris and shockwaves.

Monday, 8 June 2009, 9:00PM - 10:00PM

“We can’t cope without sleep. It’s getting to a point where we can’t function. It could split the family up. It is a horrible, horrible thing – sleep deprivation. I think it’s like torture.”

Laura Moncrieff (Mum to three-year-old Keira)