New Voices Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• The 7th Day

  Investigation into how cultural changes and a relaxation of trading laws have eroded Sunday's traditional role as a day of rest

• Beats of the East

  Cameras follow three culturally diverse groups as they prepare for Luton Carnival, the biggest one-day event of its kind in Britain

• Before I Die

  Another short film by an up-and-coming director, about a man with a list of things he wants to do before he dies, including extreme sport, dying his hair blue and swimming with sharks

• Buying Back the Base

  Documentary looking at the history of RAF Bentwater from the original compulsary purchase of the land during World War Two to the quest to buy it back today

• A Dream for Sizewell

  New series of documentaries by up-and-coming directors. Writer and poet Boni Sones returns to Sizewell, where she grew up in the shadow of nuclear power

• Geno's Journey

  Singer Geno Washington visits Ipswich, the town he has thought of as his spiritual home ever since he recognised his remarkable talent while serving there as a GI in the 1960s

• Girls with Balls

  Exploring ladies football, the country's fastest growing sport, focusing on Hitchin's new female team as they prepare for their first season. Last in series

• The Great British Citizen Test

  New series of documentaries on a wide variety of issues, beginning with Max Fisher's look at the life of Kurdish refugee Adil, as he delivers his own version of the citizenship test to the people of Great Yarmouth

• Lesbian Love Bites

  Six lesbians from very different walks of life speak frankly about love, revealing what they want from relationships and discussing the experiences which helped shape their needs

• My Baby

  First-time director Carol Aleatha Cumberbatch's film My Baby, the tale of a pregnant single woman struggling to turn her life around after she becomes homeless. Last in series

• Not In My Backyard

  A film by Adam Giles, exploring controversial moves to set up a new traveller site, and following John Day's quest to stop the media portraying travellers in a negative light

• Pluck Me : Women and Their Body Hair

  New series of documentaries by up-and-coming directors. The first examines the social, sexual and historical significance of female body hair, looking at hair-removal techniques and revealing why some women prefer to keep it

• Seekers

  Documentary by up-and-coming film-maker Teri Whittaker, in which she examines attitudes toward asylum-seekers in Bedford

• Sex, Dyes and Bondage Tape

  A look at the many strange desires and devices driving Bedford's Goths to create their own bizarre world, donning dark clothing, stylised make-up and favouring fetishism as a fashion statement

• Slick and Fugitive

  Rajesh Thind's documentary charting the efforts of Luton duo MC Slick and DJ Fugitive as they attempt to release their first record

• Smack Heads

  First-time film-maker Tony Roberts' documentary exploring the world of 'smacks' - traditional fishing boats - focusing on the conflict between those who want them preserved, and others who want to see them updated for racing