Law in Action
BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm
Courts are sentencing more people to community service. This programme examines whether this actually benefits the community, and how many people complete their sentences.
BBC Proms: First Night of the Proms
BBC 2, 7.30 to 9.45pm
Holst's trip around the solar system, 'The Planets', is the finale to this first concert in the 110th season of Proms at the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Leonard Slatkin, after other pieces by Bach and Elgar.
18 July
Real Life: Children of the Miners' Strike
ITV, 10.45 to 11.45pm
Twenty years after the miners fought the Government's pit closure programme, some former mining communities have sunk into drug ghettos. This is the story of Worksop, where heroin is robbing the town of some of its youth.
19 July
The Practice
Channel 4, 8 to 9pm
This observational programme follows seven hard-working general practitioners at a medical centre in Brighton as they grapple with the biggest reform to general practice since the inception of the NHS. The reforms are intended to make GPs more accountable, with a single centrally imposed contract that targets and measures everything they do. But, the programme asks, is 'patient choice' a realistic proposition or merely political spin?
20 July
You Are What You Eat
Channel 4, 8.30 to 9pm
Nutritionist Dr Gillian McKeith visits the Hobday family in Devon. Carl and Michelle Hobday and their two children have severe weight problems. Rhys, age ten, is bullied at school because of his size, and eight-year-old Chloe wears clothes made for 15-year-olds. The Hobdays need Gillian to get their diet and health back on track so they can start making friends and enjoying life.
From Here to Paternity
BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.35pm
This documentary investigates the increasing number of men who are having their children DNA tested to prove they are really the father.
21 July
Supernanny
Channel 4, 9 to 10pm
The last in the three-part series in which experienced nanny Jo Frost fixes families' childrearing problems. Tonight Jo tackles the Charles family, who have had trouble with four-year-old Jacob since the birth of twins 15 months ago. Jo attempts to change their sleepless nights and Jacob's jealousy.
23 July
The First Olympians
BBC 2, 9 to 10pm
A recreation of the world of the ancient Greek Olympics in 500BC using computer graphics, dramatic reconstruction and forensic science.
