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Four interconnected stories surrounding the escape from prison of a notorious serial killer.

A compelling and never-before-scene look at Chris Brown's controversial life and career.

Hull is the UK's City of Culture for 2017. Hull-born comedian Lucy Beaumont, writer and star of the Radio 4 sitcom To Hull and Back, looks at the cultural treats that will be taking place in her home town - and whether being City of Culture will transform Hull forever.

Learning how to survive on an increasingly crowded planet is probably our ultimate challenge. But there is one place, home to over a sixth of the world's population, which is already making a good shot at adapting: welcome to India. This observational series casts aside the usual preconceptions about the sub-continent, and lets a few of India's 1.2 billion show how their world really works.

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.

Wo landet eigentlich der Elektronikschrott, der tagtäglich in Europa produziert wird? Die alten Handys, Fernseher, Computer, die Smartphones, die zwar noch funktionieren, aber nicht mehr aktuell sind? 250.000 Tonnen dieses Schrotts landen jährlich auf der Mülldeponie Agbogbloshie, die in Accra, der Hauptstadt Ghanas, liegt. Meist kommt der Müll auf illegalen Wegen. In Agbogbloshie leben und arbeiten 600 vor allem junge Menschen, sie zerlegen und verbrennen den Schrott. Sie sind die Verlierer der digitalen Revolution.

In the pristine Bavarian Alps, Mama Flora's hotel - once a popular tourist destination - has become a home for refugees. Cafe Waldluft is a rustic hotel in the picturesque Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, near Hitler's former mountain retreat. Over the past few years, tourist numbers and the business have started to decline, so when Flora Kurz, the cafe owner, was approached by the German authorities to house refugees, she decided to fill her rooms with asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.

Learning how to survive on an increasingly crowded planet is probably our ultimate challenge. But there is one place, home to over a sixth of the world's population, which is already making a good shot at adapting: welcome to India. This observational series casts aside the usual preconceptions about the sub-continent, and lets a few of India's 1.2 billion show how their world really works. With astonishing access into the densest districts of Kolkata and Mumbai, it celebrates the impressive resourcefulness, resilience and absolute pragmatism of those living and working there, and reveals the psyche needed to get ahead in the biggest of crowds.

South African musician Hugh Masekela celebrates his 70th birthday and reflects on his career in performance and interview, from first picking up a trumpet in the 50s through the apartheid years, exile and stardom in America, his return to South Africa on Nelson Mandela's release, and concluding with his vision of the future for his country. The programme also features performances from his 70th birthday concert at the Barbican in London in December 2009, where he was joined by the London Symphony Orchestra, their Community Choir and guest South African singers.

Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, LCD TVs, notebooks and the likes become useless and "out" relatively soon and end up in Ghana where children and adolescents dismantle them in toxic smoke. A "clean" business for some, a poisonous routine for others.