A Prophet 11.45pm Channel 4 (Jacques Audiard, 2009) This extraordinary crime film charts a French-Arab inmate's progression, over the course of a six-year prison sentence, from terrified 19-year-old to fully fledged gangster. It's set apart from other such dramas by its anthropological attention to the texture, detail and racial demarcations of prison culture, as well as by its sweaty-palmed intensity. Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup star. ***** Sunday The Birds 9pm ITV3 (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)...
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