Dog Tales: The Making Of Man’s Best Friend
BBC4, Tuesday 8 September, 9pm
The needlessly complex title conceals a pretty straightforward two-part doc about the history of dogs – where they literally came from and why they are often such good boys. We see how dogs improve the prison lives of violent criminals in America; learn the secrets of why we bond so well with our pooches, and see a 30,000-year-old Belgian wolf skull that some reckon marks the first change from wolf to dog. HHHH Jason Arnopp