Week 29 4oD highlights

6 July 2012

Thelma's Gypsy Girls

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/thelmas-gypsy-girls/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Dressmaker Thelma Madine, from Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, has decided she wants to give something back to the people who put her on the map. In this new series she takes the decision to employ ten new trainees, all of whom are gypsies or travellers. For the gypsy girls it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But for existing staff it feels like a serious upheaval, and for Thelma it could be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

 

Undercover Lover

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-lover/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Chris, 24, is a self-made millionaire. He admits that in the past he has relied on his wealth and material objects to succeed in the dating world, but now he wants to find love with a woman who loves him for who he is and not what he has. Undercover Lover follows the millionaire bachelor disguised as an average cash-strapped guy as he goes on a series of dates to find a woman who will fall in love with him rather than his wallet.

 

Beauty and the Beast: Ugly Face of Prejudice

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/beauty-the-beast-ugly-face-of-prejudice/4od

In the first episode of the second series 21-year-old beautyholic and drama student Gary Thompson meets 47-year-old Reggie Bibbs from Houston Texas. Gary has spent up to £31,000 in the last five years on looking good and almost sacrificed his studies due to non-payment of student fees. Reggie has one the world's most extreme cases of neurofibromatosis, a condition where tumours grow all over the body.

 

Show Me Your Money

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/show-me-your-money/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Discussing salaries is one of the biggest taboos in the workplace. Everyone is curious about how much their workmates earn but would never dare to ask. In this remarkable TV experiment one of Britain's top bosses, Charlie Mullins, the Managing Director of Pimlico Plumbers, takes it upon himself to encourage a more open working environment by asking his workforce to reveal how much they are paid. When the reveal exposes huge pay discrepancies, creating a terrible atmosphere, Charlie challenges them to come up with a new pay scheme that's fairer for everyone. But will the experiment result in a better and more productive working environment for everyone?

 

Bank of Dave

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bank-of-dave/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Businessman David Fishwick is so fed up with the way that the banks are treating people he's decided to see if he can open his own tiny bank to serve his local community in Burnley, and help the people the banks have turned down. Dave's plan is to open an old fashioned bank and be a hands-on bank manager giving good rates to borrowers and savers alike. And instead of bankers bonuses, Dave plans for any profits to go to local charities. In the first of this two-part series Dave goes about learning how banks operate - despite almost everyone in banking telling him to forget the idea...

 

The Angelos Epithemiou Show

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-angelos-epithemiou-show/4od

Angelos Epithemiou presents his own six-part studio entertainment show with best mate and side kick Gupta (Adeel Akhtar). Gabby Logan also appears throughout the series as Angelos's love interest. To kick off the first show, Angelos interviews Embarrassing Bodies' host Dr Christian Jessen and Gupta asks Christian to take a close look at his own personal problem. And teenage pop sensation Conor Maynard becomes involved in a crazy quick-fire challenge in order to earn the right to sing his latest single.

 

Summer Daze

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/summer-daze-with-blackberry/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Reality show following a group of colourful characters around the summer festivals. In this first episode, the mix of festival veterans and newcomers are at Blissfields in Hampshire.