Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, Channel 4, 9pm
There’s nothing like an authored documentary to really get a debate started, so it’s to be hoped that this opinionated and hard-hitting programme will prompt some answers to the questions it poses. The “author” in question is broadcaster, writer and sometime politician Trevor Phillips, also a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality. Here, Phillips unflichingly tackles a range of racial stereotypes, talks to UKIP leader Nigel Farage about whether it was Britain’s attempt to embrace multi-culturalism which gave rise to his party in the first place, and asks Tony Blair what happened to New Labour’s attempts to bring more diversity and equality to British life.
