The Ancient Greek Olympics
Channel 4, 8 to 9pm
This summer the Olympic Games return to their spiritual home, Greece. This programme reveals the real links between the ancient and the modern games and how, as the Olympics has progressed, it has become more similar to its antecedent - both at its best and worst.
1 August
Real Life: My Mum is My Dad
ITV, 10.45 to 11.45pm
This candid documentary follows the real-life stories of families whose lives have been turned upside-down after a parent has had a sex change.
Nikki was married to Valerie for 16 years but is now having to fight through the courts to get access to her children. Mark's dad had a sex change and became Stephanie, exposing the boy to years of bullying and confusion. The film challenges preconceptions about gender and family.
3 August
Wife Swap
Channel 4, 8 to 9pm
Kate and Trevor have been married for ten years and have six boisterous children. The couple are both passionate exponents of 'good parenting' and believe in spending quality time with the children. For two weeks, Kate swaps lives with Tracey, a legal PA and mother to three-year-old Lotty.
Tracey gets up at 5am and doesn't see Lotty for 12 hours a day. How will the mothers fare with these different approaches to parenting?
All in the Mind
BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm
Dr Raj Persaud visits the child protection unit at the Metropolitan Police, the nerve centre from which the police track down paedophiles. Dr Persaud finds out what it takes to work there, and investigates what kind of treatment is available to paedophiles and whether it works.
6 August
Battlefield Britain
BBC2, 9 to 10pm
Peter and Dan Snow on the battles that shaped our nation, starting 2,000 years ago with the revolt of the Iceni, led by Queen Boudicca. Peter uses computers to reconstruct the battles, while Dan finds out what it would have been like to fight them.
