Unreported World | Friday Night Music | Britain By Bike | Peep Show | The Walking Dead | Shadowplay ? The Making Of Anton Corbijn
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
By way of demonstrating that the abuse of children by the divinely inspired is an ecumenical phenomenon, reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Phillips travel to Dakar, Senegal. Thousands of Senegalese children are sent by their parents to learn the Koran at a boarding school where, in between chanting scriptures, the kids are sent into the streets to beg on behalf of their teachers, and punished brutally if they don't meet their quotas. AMFriday Night Music
From 7.30pm, BBC4
A cornucopia of documentaries tonight, all of which merit viewing or re-viewing, even on pain of giving the pub a miss. Among others there's Antonio Pappano's profile of Verdi; The Man Who Recorded America, the history of the Elektra record label; 30 minutes of folk singer Judy Collins live in 1966, followed by Folk America, which explores the 1950s commercial upswing of the genre Dylan and Baez radicalised in the 1960s; No One Here Gets Out Alive, the story of Doors singer Jim Morrison; and Motor City's Burning: Detroit From Motown To The Stooges. Watch the lot. DSBritain By Bike
9.30pm, BBC2
In this series, first shown on BBC4, Clare Balding follows in the wheeltracks of Harold Briercliffe, whose Cycling Touring Guides helped fuel a boom in pedal-powered holidays after the second world war. Balding begins by exploring the north Devon coast, as well as struggling with the hills of an area known as Little Switzerland back in Victorian times. The tone is inevitably tinged with nostalgia, but amid the faded grandeur of Ilfracombe, Balding also takes time to consider how rural communities are reinventing themselves for the 21st century. JWPeep Show
10pm, Channel 4
We join Mark and Jeremy just after the end of the last series, on the maternity ward awaiting the arrival of Sophie's baby. You couldn't wish for a better set-up and not an ounce of comic potential is wasted. Each laughter egg hatches into a fully squawking, honking mirth bird; the cervical sweep gag in particular is a corker. Mark is Sophie's reluctant birth partner while Jez chats up a coma patient's girlfriend in the waiting room. And for all the foot-stamping, seal-clapping hilarity, you'll have actual tears at the end. It has no right to still be this good entering its seventh series. JNRThe Walking Dead
10pm, FX
There weren't a whole heap of zombies in last week's episode, but this week makes up for that. Grimes leads his small team back into the heart of zombie territory to retrieve a bag of guns and a handcuffed racist. His plan, such as it is, goes south quickly when they run into something that might be even more dangerous than flesh-eating, reanimated cadavers. It's incredibly tense; there's a mass zombie attack that rivals anything George A Romero or Lucio Fulci have done on the big screen. This show is ruthless. PO'NShadowplay ? The Making Of Anton Corbijn
10.30pm, Sky Arts 1
A documentary made around the release of Control, his unshowy Joy Division film, Shadowplay is a similarly unshowy profile of photographer-director Anton Corbijn. A tall, softly-spoken man from Holland, Corbin quickly unearthed a talent for dramatic black and white photography, the ominous darkness of his images conferring on the musicians he photographed a sombre and occasionally monolithic quality. Here, notable beneficiaries of that aesthetic ? Bono among them ? expound on Corbijn's talent. JR
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