Body Parts Cost Arm and Leg on the Black Market

By BRIAN McIVER

Horizon

BBC Two, 9.00pm

IF this show is right, we can all forget about making a will – just enjoy spending what you have right up till the last moment, then have your family sell your remains for a whopping post-mortem bounty.

Horizon explores the revolutions in medicine that have fuelled the demand for human tissue and have caused the value of a corpse to rise to as much as pounds 120,000.

Society undoubtedly benefits from the medical advances made through the use of human tissue, but in some parts of the world – notably the US – it has led to a grisly blackmarket trade in body parts worth millions.

River City

BBC One Scotland, 8.00pm

BEFORE meeting Jamie to go to the Oyster Cafe, Nicki is led astray by Amber who encourages her to join in a drinking session.

Jamie is angry with Nicki when the girls cause a commotion and are thrown out.

When Amber goes home to attend a Murdoch family dinner, she is drunk, causing a furious Lenny to promptly ground her when he discovers she’s been slipping vodka into her soft drink.

Elsewhere, when Douglas asks Eileen for financial help so he can move out of Malcolm’s flat, Gina is upset.

And that forces her to wake up to the fact she does have feelings for him after all.

The Diets That Time Forgot

Channel 4, 9.00pm

FORGET all the new eating fads which can supposedly change your figure and your life.

Sir Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, thinks history holds the answer to the obesity epidemic.

To prove it, he’s transformed a country house into a health spa where groups of volunteers are put on old diets. The Victorians are on a forerunner of the Atkins diet, which consists almost entirely of meat. The Edwardians eat whatever they want, buthave to chew every mouthful 32 times.

Bionic Woman

ITV2, 9.00pm

THIS new series isn’t quite a Buffy or Smallville, but there is definite promise here, especially with the appearance of the second, and evil, bionic girl last week.

Now getting used to her new powers, Jaime (Michelle Ryan) commits to working for the secret agency for the greater good. But she struggles to balance this with looking after her wee sister.

Rageh Omaar: The Iraq War By Numbers

ITV, 11.05pm

THE former BBC man was one of the most recognisable faces of the invasion of Iraq five years ago.

To mark the anniversary of the war, the reporter, who is now with ITN, goes back to the shattered nation.

He looks at the shocking statistics and facts and figures that not only describe the incidents and impact of the last five years in the Middle East, but that have defined the occupation of Iraq for the world.

Terry

BBC Two, 10.30am

DRAMA based on the true story of a young man who lost his leg, but attempted to run across Canada on his new prosthetic limb. Shawn Ashmore and Ryan McDonald star.

Sword Of Sherwood Forest

Channel 4, 1.30pm

RICHARD GREENE dons the Lincoln green tights and jerkin for this amiable adventure. With Peter Cushing.

Perry Mason: The Case Of The Skin-Deep Scandal

Five, 3.10pm

MYSTERY starring Raymond Burr. A cosmetics company owner is dispatched to that great beauty parlour in the sky, leaving Perry to discover whether the culprit was her husband, or a disgruntled employee.

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