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The week ahead: boy aged 12 hunting cure for Aids
Conrad Astley17/ 3/2006
WHILE most 12-year-old boys dream of scoring a winning goal at
the World Cup, Akrit Jaswal has loftier plans.
The youngster, from a remote village in northern India, says his
"basic aim" is to find a cure for cancer, Aids, and every other
disease under the sun.
While the obvious reaction would be to give him a slap around the
chops, it seems young Akrit's ambitions may not outweigh his
talents.
He was reading Shakespeare by the age of five and operating on
burns victims by seven.
The Seven-Year-Old Surgeon: Extraordinary People
(Monday, Five) looks at the remarkable boy's story, as he travels
to London's Imperial College to put his intelligence to the
test.
His skills could be desperately needed in the NHS, if
Green
Wing (Monday to Friday, Channel 4) is to be
believed.
The sitcom showed a hospital full of sex-obsessed egomaniacs, and
re-runs are being shown in the lead-up to the second series.
For those who couldn't decide whether it was hilarious or just a
load of arty nonsense, this is another chance to make up your
minds.
Unfortunately, we're back with medicine again in
The Family
Man (Thursday, BBC1) tackling the sensitive issue of IVF
treatment.
Like many a drama hero, fertility doctor Patrick Stowe, played by
Trevor Eve, is a workaholic whose domestic life is
disastrous.
The good doctor's business is making babies, and the drama looks at
the expanding and controversial field of human genetics,
particularly how it affects four couples who come to him for
help.
Tissues and issues are guaranteed and this is unlikely to be a
piece of feel-good viewing.
Neither is
Whistleblower (Tuesday, BBC1)
particularly if you're in the middle of buying a house, about to
buy a house, or are thinking about buying a house - a list that
includes almost everyone in Britain if you believe the TV
schedules.
It's easy to have a go at estate agents - as the makers of this
docu- mentary discovered when they went undercover. Would you
believe,there are a few bad apples that spoil the otherwise perfect
batch?
The latest US comedy import is
Everyone Hates
Chris (Sunday, Five) - which may seem an obvious statement
to anyone who's watched any of Chris Rock's films.
But this sitcom - a portrait of the comedian's poor Brooklyn
childhood, in which he was bullied for being the only black kid at
school - isn't what you might expect.
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