First-time director Jamie Balment’s First Cut documentary explores the extreme lengths to which some British homeowners will go to defend their property from burglars and intruders. Joe Weston-Webb from Soar Bottom in Nottinghamshire is defending his property with a 30ft catapult (which he built in 1976 to fire his wife across the River Avon) loaded with chicken shit. Mark Kahl has spent £20,000 securing his three-bedroom semi in Milton Keynes with 13 CCTV cameras. And he is now installing a “smoke screen” (in his shed) and making an inquiry about a panic room.

Friday 20 February 2009
7:35pm, Channel 4