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- In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.
- One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist.
- The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
- Bettany Hughes searches for the truth about the 'Golden Age' of Ancient Athens, investigating how a barren rock wedged between the East and West became the first democracy 2,500 years ago. Democracy, liberty and the freedom of speech are trumpeted as the bedrock of western civilization, but what was Athens really like? Bettany goes deep underground to explore a treasure trove of prehistoric bones and ancient artifacts. In silver mines and tombs she uncovers evidence for what this society was really like. This was a democratic city built on slave labor, manipulated by aristocrats, where women wore the veil and men pursued a bloody foreign policy, slaughtering thousands in the pursuit of the world's first democratic empire. The program reveals amazing, sophisticated voting systems but also a society where smooth-talking politicians used spin, and where those who didn't vote were known as 'idiotes'. This first episode charts the epic story of Athens' victory in one of the greatest sea battles of the ancient world, when the Athenian triremes defeat Xerxes' mighty Persian fleet at Salamis, and reveals the real story of the building of the greatest monument of this first democracy - the Parthenon - as a symbol of Athenian power.
- After a young apprentice turns away from his father out of disappointment, he seeks paternal closeness with his instructor. He crosses a boundary and gets to know himself a bit better.
- Becoming Alexander provides a radically different way of exploring one of history's greatest figures. We follow Hollywood actor Colin Farrell as he prepares to play Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's epic biopic. As we watch the transformation unfold, our understanding, knowledge and appreciation of the dramatic life of Alexander become clear.
- Eight children all born the day the Berlin Wall came down prepare to celebrate their 16th birthdays. This feature length film reveals the differences and similarities between a group of children from very different backgrounds and looks at the difficulties facing teenagers in the 21st century.
- The biography of entrepreneur Gianfranco Librandi from entry into politics to the election in Parliament until the creation of the group reformist.
- A 12-year-old boy has always and will always fight for his dreams. He's a baker's helper, and little by little, while working, he build his story, a structure, a meaning for his life. He'll find his future soon enough and will become one of the most famous Italian manager.
- A team of courageous celebrities take on a Sport Relief challenge like no other, as they trek and cycle across the Namib desert in Namibia, to raise money to help change lives for Sport Relief.
- Gianfranco recognizes Life is filled with contradiction.But it's only on the brink... that people find the will to change. Now the child has grown up and exercised his political commitment as an postulate: he applied in public life the principles of his private religious practice.
- The International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, featuring the West End production of Kiss Me Kate, RWCMD's production of Merrily We Roll Along and Stanwell School's show Jesus Christ Superstar.
- The Art of Cornwall - Writer and lecturer James Fox tells the remarkable story of Cornwall's unique contribution to British art. For a period in the 20th century, Cornwall was the home of the avant garde, eclipsing London, Paris and New York, as a group of super-talented individuals sought refuge and inspiration in the West Country. From painter Kit Wood, who brought the surrealist influences of Twenties Paris, to Barbara Hepworth's Modernist sculptures, James traces Cornwall's evolution to the hub of a new international art movement, and explores its sudden fall after the mid-Sixties. The Art Of Cornwall also covers the work of artists Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and sculptor Naum Gabo.
- In February 1991, the unsuspecting and remote Scottish island was hit by co-ordinated dawn raids, police and social workers swooping without warning on four Orkney families and taking their nine children into care. Extraordinary allegations of Satanic ritual abuse had been made and an extraordinary fight ensued to have the children returned and the families' names cleared.
- A documentary paying homage to America's First Family of Fright.
- Greg James' Sport Relief Heroes is a documentary which looks at some of the most incredible challenges celebrities have completed to raise money for Sport Relief over the years, in advance of Sport Relief 2020 on Friday 13th March. Featuring challenges undertaken by Davina McCall, Zoe Ball, David Walliams, Eddie Izzard, John Bishop and, of course, Greg himself, this one hour special shows how big-hearted celebrities continue to push themselves to the absolute mental and physical limits to raise millions for causes they care deeply about.
- Documentary which takes an eclectic group, including artists, critics and academics, into the countryside to look at how we have depicted our landscape in art, discovering how the genre carried British painting to its highest eminence and won a place in the nations heart. From Flemish beginnings in the court of Charles I to the digital thumbstrokes of David Hockneys iPad, the paintings reveal as much about the nations past as they do the patrons and artists who created them.
- The world is born in the heart of child. In the Scuola Rodari born the dream of world. The spiritual nature of a human being is immortal. This interaction between man and nature is coming back into fashion. It's about how we can change the relationship between man, buildings and nature.
- A sort of contemporary version of Pasolini's "Comizi d'Amore (Love Meetings, 1964)" which investigates how Immigrants live their love life in Rome, Italy. Harvinder Kapil Singh is the Indian guide who introduces the audience to the lives, the opinions and the feelings of three immigrant women: Navanpreet Kaur, 20, intern at CGL union, from India; Welly Marguerite Lottin, 50, cultural mediator from Camerun (Africa); and Neda Shafiee Moghaddam, 40, painter, photographer and sculptress from Iran.
- Dream city, Sin City, a mirage in the desert, Las Vegas is a film set in its own right, a piece of pop art, an outdoor museum of American culture. What is the story behind the neon lights and fantastical buildings? What will its future be in these tough times? Alan Yentob takes a mob tour and talks to producers and performers about the golden days when Sinatra and Dino held the stage, and the wise guys called the shots.
- Space exploration is increasingly becoming an international collaboration and Italy is one of the leading nations playing a vital role in a long lasting cooperation with the United States. From the first liquid propellant rocket to Mars exploration, through the success of Mariner 10 mission and the venture of Cassini, the video traces the major technological, scientific and programmatic milestones of the Italian quest for space and the collaboration with the USA in this magnificent, never-ending journey.
- From unique musical heritage to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina - a reflection on New Orleans, the city, its soundtrack, its influence and its resilience. Irma Thomas, arguably the star of Jools Holland's Hootenanny on New Year's Eve, is among those presenter Alan Yentob meets as he ponders the legends (Dr John, Louis Armstrong, etc) who have hailed from New Orleans and the rich variety of musical forms pioneered and perfected there. Holland inevitably pops up, too, together with Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, to offer perspectives from this side of the Atlantic.
- This is the bizarre tale of the making of perhaps the greatest book in the English language, which took 60 years to create, the Oxford English Dictionary. From murderers in Broadmoor to little old ladies in Bognor, the book was compiled by a bunch of remarkable characters, eccentrics, scholars and recluses who worked together to create this massive repository of the meaning of our language which continues to evolve right up to the present day. Imagine tells this story of Victorian achievement through reconstructions and interviews.
- Arts and culture program. Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, is both 'hostess' and 'alien' - the hostess, who presents a public face to the world, and the private person who writes, dreams and 'experiments with her life'. Alan Yentob meets the feisty 88-year-old whose 'myth country' is still the African bush where she was brought up. All her life she's been fighting her mother - a relationship she explores in her latest book.
- Alan Yentob pays a visit to Louise Bourgeois's studio where they discuss her life, work and inspirations.