The last instalment in Inside Obama's White House detailing the highs and lows of his presidency reveals how Obama got re-elected for a second term and tried to tackle America’s social issues - guns, immigration and race.
What to Watch:
Inside Obama’s White House 9.00pm BBC Two
The last instalment detailing the highs and lows of his presidency reveals how Obama got re-elected for a second term and tried to tackle America’s social issues - guns, immigration and race. Episode four begins with President Obama's decision to launch the special operation into Pakistan to catch Osama Bin Laden. Former CIA director Leon Panetta describes how Obama decided to go ahead despite odds no better than 50:50. Soon after his re-election, America was shocked by the Sandy Hook massacre.
Soap Choice of the Day
Emmerdale, 7.00pm, ITV
Robert finds out about Andy’s fling with Chrissie tonight on Emmerdale
Robert’s stunned when his brother Andy tells him he’s been sleeping with his estranged wife, Chrissie. But it’s not Robert that Andy should be worried about. It’s Lawrence. He’s got it into his head that Andy is sneaking around with Bernice. When Robert hears Liv has an incriminating recording of him talking to Aaron, he panics.
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Movie Choice of the Day:
Brazil, 11.45pm Film 4
A bureaucrat in an alternative Kafkaesque world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state, trying to survive in a hostile atmosphere in Terry Gillam's off-beat masterpiece. Starring Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro.
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Atonement: A Would You Believe special RTÉ Player
Shane Paul O’Doherty received thirty life sentences for his bombing campaigns in the UK. Seeing his victims in court was the catalyst that provoked his conscience and sent him on a journey of discovery which later led him to challenge the morality of armed struggle. Today he’s still atoning for his actions. "People in the Rosary bead brigade involved in armed conflict must suffer the pangs of conscience and suffer the requirements of atonement to their last breath, " says O'Doherty. "I am in that category.”
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