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61 The BFG (2016) #1214 FILM Main
Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
62 Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016) #1284 FILM Main
Directed by Simon Godwin. With Paapa Essiedu, Tanya Moodie, Clarence Smith, Ewart James Walters. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world.
63 Sing Street (2016) #1286 FILM Main
Directed by John Carney. With Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor. A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
64 Woman in Gold (2015) #472 FILM Main
Directed by Simon Curtis. With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes. Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
65 The Duke And The Composer: Monteverdi In Mantua (2015) #662 DOCUMENTARY-MUSIC Main
1 hour. A BBC Two documentary, The Duke And The Composer, tells the story of a Renaissance Duke and the composer who worked for him - and how their volatile relationship would create one of the most revolutionary and beautiful collections of music ever published: The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610.

The programme is presented by Shakespearean actor and former St Paul’s Cathedral chorister Simon Russell Beale, whose enthusiasm for choral music is matched by his gift for storytelling. Together with conductor Harry Christophers and his virtuoso choir The Sixteen, Simon explores this major turning point in Western Classical Music for the television audience.
66 Sound of Song (2015) #910 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series which explores the magical elements that come together to create our favourite songs.

1/3 The Recording Revolution. How songs were first recorded and the listening revolution in the home that followed.
2/3 Reeling and Rocking. Neil Brand recreates innovative recording sessions by the likes of Elvis and the Beatles.
3/3 Mix It Up and Start Again. In the modern era, song creation was transformed by digital technology and the computer.
67 Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015) #917 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. Anita Dobson stars as Elizabeth I.


1/3 Dan Snow tells the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
2/3 The Battle for England. A look inside the court of Elizabeth as the Spanish fleet prepares for full-on invasion.
3/3 Endgame. Documents reveal a web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading.
68 Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time (2015) #1005 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. The story of the most elegant and powerful theory in science - Albert Einstein's general relativity.

When Einstein presented his formidable theory in November 1915, it turned our understanding of gravity, space and time completely on its head. Over the last 100 years, general relativity has enabled us to trace the origins of the universe to the Big Bang and to appreciate the enormous power of black holes.

To mark the 100th anniversary of general relativity, this film takes us inside the head of Einstein to witness how his idea evolved, giving new insights into the birth of a masterpiece that has become a cornerstone of modern science. This is not as daunting as it sounds - because Einstein liked to think in pictures. The film is a magical visual journey that begins in Einstein's young mind, follows the thought experiments that gave him stunning insights about the physical world, and ultimately reaches the extremes of modern physics.
69 Wolf Hall (2015) #1451 TV DRAMA Special
6 x 1 hour episodes. BBC. Historical drama chronicling the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the son of a humble blacksmith who became King Henry VIII's chief minister, as he navigated the corridors of power in the Tudor court..

1 Three Card Trick
2 Entirely Beloved
3 Anna Regina
4 The Devil's Spit
5 Crows
6 Masters of Phantoms

SEASON 2 The Mirror and the Light (2024)
The irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell - who defied and defined an era. Mark Rylance leads the acclaimed adaptation of Hilary Mantel's tales from the dark heart of Tudor history.

1. Wreckage: Thomas Cromwell steps over the wreckage of Anne's execution to a place by Henry’s side.
2. Obedience: A young nun profoundly shakes Cromwell’s view of himself and his place in the world.
3. Defiance: A religious rising in the north country puts Cromwell’s political skills to the test.
4. Jenneke: The birth of a prince gives Henry the heir that he longs for, but at a terrible price.
5. Mirror Cromwell’s marital diplomacy brings the Rhenish princess Anne of Cleves to Henry’s court.
6. Light:Cromwell is stripped of his titles and brought to the Tower on a charge of treason.
70 Walking Through History: Pembrokeshire (2014) #840 DOCUMENTARY Main
50 mins. C4. Tony Robinson
71 Art of China (2014) #859 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Andrew Graham-Dixon undertakes an epic journey to uncover the art of China.

1/3 Andrew Graham-Dixon pieces together the recent discoveries of ancient Chinese art.
2/3 A look at the period from the 10th to the 15th century - the golden age of art in China.
3/3 Andrew Graham-Dixon charts the glorious rise and calamitous fall of China's last dynasty.
72 The Men Who Made Us Spend (2014) #861 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour. BBC. Why do we buy what we buy? Jacques Peretti investigates consumerism and the people who try and shape the public's appetites.

1/3 Jacques Peretti reveals how consumerism is driven by an appetite for 'new' products.
2/3 Jacques Peretti reveals how fear is used by marketers to drive consumer spending.
3/3 We learn how selling to children makes childlike consumers of us all.
73 Hacking: Power, Corruption and Lies (2014) #864 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. In a Panorama Special, Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's former spokesman, Andy Coulson, convicted and three other News of the World News editors plead guilty.

Did politicians of all parties and police help to cover-up the hacking scandal for years because of their own close relationships with Rupert Murdoch's News International?
74 Britain's Great War (2014) #876 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC, In a landmark history series, Jeremy Paxman describes how the First World War transformed the lives of the British people, and helped shape modern Britain.

3/4 The Darkest Hour. How Germany's attempts to starve Britain into submission edged the nation close to defeat.
4/4 At the Eleventh Hour. Jeremy Paxman describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat.
75 Testament of Youth (2014) #978 FILM Main
Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
76 Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot (2014) #1045 DOCUMENTARY Main
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up king and parliament.

Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November.

The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's bodyguard and Fawkes's attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
77 Nebraska (2013) #256 FILM Main
Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
78 Twelfth Night (2013) #519 FILM Main
Directed by Tim Carroll, Tim Carroll. With Samuel Barnett, Liam Brennan, Paul Chahidi, John Paul Connolly, Stephen Fry.
Shakespeare. Globe Theatre Production.
79 Bach: A Passionate Life (2013) #641 DOCUMENTARY Main
90 mins. BBC. John Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician.

The famous portrait of Bach portrays a grumpy 62-year-old man in a wig and formal coat, yet his greatest works were composed 20 years earlier in an almost unrivalled blaze of creativity.

We reveal a complex and passionate artist; a warm and convivial family man at the same time a rebellious spirit struggling with the hierarchies of state and church who wrote timeless music that is today known world-wide. Gardiner undertakes a 'Bach Tour' of Germany, and sifts the relatively few clues we have - some newly-found.

Most of all, he uses the music to reveal the real Bach.
80 The United States of Television: America in Primetime (2013) #745 DOCUMENTARY Main
4x1 hour episodes. Alan Yentob presents the first in a series of star-studded documentaries on the history of primetime television in America. With a potential audience in excess of 300 million to please, the most popular and enduring drama series and sitcoms have had to track the dramatic changes that have transformed America since the age of mass television began in the 1950s, so this more than an entertainment history, it's a social history of the 'United States of Television'.

Man of the House traces the trajectory of the archetypal American dad from the breadwinning patriarch of the 'Honey I'm Home' 1950s to the angst-ridden, plate-spinning multitasker who has to build his home on the shifting sands of the 21st century. From the cast iron certainties and benign omniscience of Jim X (Father Knows Best) and Andy Griffith to the crippling anxieties and bad choices Tony Soprano and Homer Simpson, Man of the House takes us on the rollercoaster ride of six decades of American masculinity. Includes interviews with legendary creators, stars, writers and producers: Ron Howard (The Andy Griffith Show), David Lynch (Twin Peaks), Rob Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show), David Chase (The Sopranos), John Hamm (Mad Men). James L. Brooks (The Simpsons) and many more.

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