One to Watch- Race and Intelligence

Monday night Channel 4 9pm.

In 2007, Nobel Prize winning US scientist James Watson was quoted referring to research suggesting that black people were less intelligent than other races. His comments caused a storm of controversy. In response to this Rageh Omaar meets scientists who believe that there is research to support the view that races can be differentiated in terms of intelligence. In the course of the program Omaar discovers that there are inequalities in society that are leading people with different backgrounds to perform differently and succeed differently. The idea that this is linked especially to race and intelligence is proven to be complete nonsense. It does however show that there are important issues within our society that need to be addressed.

This should make fascinating viewing (not least in light of the controversy surrounding Nick Griffins appearance on Question Time). click here for the link to the channel 4 website and here for an article discussing the issues in the Guardian newspaper