The Power List - Scotland (Channel 4, Saturday, 7.00 p.m.) looks at the 100 people who wield the most power as Scotland prepares to elect its first Parliament for 300 years. Jon Snow presents the programme and profiles key people on the list. It concludes by naming the top three most powerful men or women in Scotland.

John Peel visits Darlington where the principal industries of the region have been ripped out leaving high unemployment and uncertainty over the future, in the last of his series John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs (Channel 4, Saturday, 12.25 a.m.). In Sunderland 25,000 people used to work in the shipyards, now it is just 150. Against this background of industrial desolation he meets some who have turned to music as their chance for fulfilment.

Cameras go inside EU headquarters in Brussels: Behind Closed Doors (Channel 4, Sunday, 1.45 p.m.) to see how the European Commission goes about gaining the consent of each of the 15 member-states. This second in the three-part series follows the Commission as the issue of benzene in petrol is debated.

The Pull of the City (BBC2, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 11.25 p.m.) a three-part series being broadcast over three consecutive nights as part of the Open University's Social Sciences Faculty, goes to New York, Mexico and London and explores how people survive as they are crammed together in cities which are constantly expanding.

The Last Resource (RTE 1, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m.) this week examines mining and Galmoy and local broadcaster, Sue Nunn, asks how a resource like mining can benefit a rural community. She concludes that positive long-term impact can come only from capitalising on the investment in skills and infrastructure to attract other forms of employment.

Along with the economic boom goes an increased use of cars and Dispatches (Channel 4, Thursday, 9.30 p.m.) challenges a family to do without their two cars for a week and follows them as they cope with alternative transport.

Making it (BBC2, Friday, 8.00 p.m.) this week looks at how mother of five and farmer's wife from Loch Lomond, Vivien Maxwell, leaves the family farm behind to go to the Glasgow School of Art, wins the top student design award and joins a leading London interior design company. However, co-ordinating home and work is not easy.