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17 November 2000 : TV / Radio listings

Saturday 18 November

6.55 – 7.40pm BBC 2
Correspondent
When Peace Died: Jane Corbin talks to the families of the two Israeli reservists lynched by a Palestinian group in the Middle East and asks negotiators whether Jews and Arabs will ever be able to live peaceably together.

Sunday 19 November

10.15 – 10.55pm BBC 1
Panorama
In the wake of the most severe storms in Britain since 1987, Panorama investigates what underlies these conditions and how it will affect our lives in the future.

Tuesday 21 November

6.00 – 6.30am BBC 2
A Vulnerable Life
Luck and judgement dictate the fortunes of families in rural India.

8.00 – 8.40pm BBC Radio 4
File on 4
Maurice Walsh reports on the reception that General Pinochet has received in Chile and asks whether the Chileans have been inspired to confront the past.

Wednesday 22 November

9.10 – 10.00pm BBC 1
State of the Planet
David Attenborough examines the ways in which human activities are damaging the biodiversity of our planet, including pollution, overharvesting and the introduction of alien species.

Thursday 23 November

11.00 – 11.30am BBC Radio 4
Crossing Continents
Several months after the coup that shook Fiji’s population, Julian Pettifer investigates the struggle which still affects the country’s two largest ethnic communities, the indigenous Fijians and the Indo-Fijians.

9.00 – 10.45pm BBC Knowledge
Storyville: A Cry from the Grave
Documentary investigating the ‘week of horror’ in the Balkans when thousands were massacred by Bosnian Serb troops under the eyes of the UN. What has been done to bring those involved to justice?