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281 Dan Cruickshank: Resurrecting History: Warsaw (2015) #893 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. Dan Cruickshank returns to his childhood home of Warsaw for the first time in almost 60 years. In a personal and moving film, he recalls his boyhood memories to explore the memories of the city and the memories of its people. No city in Europe suffered so much destruction in the Second World War, no city rose up so heroically from the ashes. The Nazis had razed Warsaw to the ground, but after the war the people fought hard to bring their city back from the dead in one of the greatest reconstruction jobs in history. As a boy, Cruickshank lived in the rebuilt old town and it inspired his love of architecture and made him the man he is today.
282 Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore (2015) #897 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain's history.

1/3 Conquest. Simon explores Spain's early years and its emergence as the battleground of empires.
2/3 Reconquest. Simon uncovers the truth about El Cid and investigates the Spanish Inquisition.
3/3 Nation. Spain's golden age under Philip II through to the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.
283 Imagine: My Curious Documentary (2015) #898 DOCUMENTARY Main
80 mins. BBC. Since opening at the National Theatre in 2013, the stage production of Mark Haddon's bestselling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has gone on to win seven Olivier Awards, and the Broadway production recently took New York by storm. The story in both the book and the play is told by a 15-year-old boy who finds other people frightening and confusing, and it has helped transform our understanding of a neurological condition that affects one in a hundred children. Imagine meets those involved in the play, from early rehearsals and research to stage performances in both London and New York. This is interwoven with moving testimony from other children and families on the challenges they face as they live with autism.
284 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (2015) #901 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.

1/3 The Georgian age saw courtship rules being rewritten, as romantic love was glamorised.
2/3 Lucy Worsley discovers how medieval chivalry shaped Victorian courtship.
3/3 Lucy Worsley concludes her series by looking at attitudes to romance in the 20th century.
285 Face of Britain by Simon Schama (2015) #902 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episdoes. BBC. Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.

1/5 The Face of Power. Simon explores the external power of portraiture.
2/5 Faces of the People. Simon explores how every face has its own story to tell.
286 Face of Britain by Simon Schama (2015) #903 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC. Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.

3/5 The Face of Fame. Simon examines what the celebrated faces of Britain's past and present tell us.
4/5 The Look of Love. Simon explores how portraits allow us to keep the ones we love close to us.
287 Face of Britain by Simon Schama (2015) #904 DOCUMENTARY Main
1x1 hour episode. BBC. Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.

5/5 The Face in the Mirror. Simon Schama explores the complex motivations behind Britain's famous self-portraits.
288 Britain Beneath Your Feet (2015) #907 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC. Dallas Campbell reveals why we can only understand the familiar world around us by discovering the hidden wonders beneath our feet.

1/2 Building Britain. Dallas Campbell reveals the hidden wonders beneath our feet.
2/2 On the Move. Dallas Campbell explores how what goes on underground keeps our country on the move.
289 The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (2015) #908 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data security - they even help us travel the world, find love and save lives.

Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. By showing us some of the algorithms most essential to our lives, he reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even programme themselves.
290 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.
291 All Aboard! The Canal Trip (2015) #911 DOCUMENTARY Main
2 hours. BBC. A two-hour, real-time canal boat journey down one of Britain's most historic waterways, the Kennet and Avon Canal, from Top Lock in Bath to the Dundas Aqueduct. Using an uninterrupted single shot, the film is a rich and absorbing antidote to the frenetic pace and white noise of modern life.

Taking in the images and sounds of the British countryside, underpinned by the natural soundscape of water lapping, surrounding birdsong and the noise of the chugging engine, this is a chance to spot wildlife and glimpse life on the towpath while being lulled by the comforting rhythm of a bygone era.

Along the journey, graphics and archive stills embedded into the passing landscape deliver salient facts about the canal and its social history.
292 Napoleon (2015) #913 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Historian Andrew Roberts journeys through the history and geography of Europe to bring the story of Napoleon vividly to life as he retraces the footsteps of the legendary leader himself.

1/3 Charts Bonaparte's rise from lowly Corsican Army officer to leader of the French nation.
2/3 Charts Bonaparte's rise from lowly Corsican Army officer to leader of the French nation.
3/3 Andrew Roberts charts the fall of Napoleon, a defining moment in global history.
293 Light and Dark (2015) #914 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC. In this mind-bending series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.

1/2 Light. Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we used light to reveal the cosmos.
2/2 Dark. Prof Jim Al-Khalili investigates the 99 per cent of the cosmos that is hidden in the dark.
294 Imagine: Frank Gehry: The Architect Says (2015) #915 DOCUMENTARY Main
75 mins. BBC. A fascinating look at the colourful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his eighties remains one of the world's most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry's buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to be broken.

Alan Yentob explores Gehry's remarkable journey from poor outsider in Toronto to global 'starchitect' and follows the construction of a characteristically audacious new Gehry building in Sydney - his first in Australia.
295 Missed Warnings: The Bradford City Fire (2015) #918 DOCUMENTARY Main
30 mins. BBC. 30 year commemoration.
296 Joan of Arc: God's Warrior (2015) #919 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever we are acutely aware of the power of faith to drive actions for good or ill.

Since her death, Joan has become an icon for almost everyone - the left and the right, Catholics and Protestants, traditionalists and feminists. But where in all of this is the real Joan - the experiences of a teenage peasant girl who achieved the seemingly impossible? Through an astonishing manuscript, we can hear Joan's own words at her trial, and as Helen unpicks Joan's story and places her back in the world that she inhabited, the real human Joan emerges.
297 The Plantagenets (2015) #920 DOCUMENTARY Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Professor Robert Bartlett tells the extraordinary story of England's most dysfunctional, yet longest ruling, royal dynasty.

1/3 The Devil's Brood. Henry II forges a mighty empire encompassing England and much of France.
2/3 An English Empire. A clear sense of English nationhood emerges and parliament is born.
3/3 The Death of Kings. In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are deposed and murdered.
298 Je t'aime: The Story of French Song with Petula Clark (2015) #921 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. "I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words." - Edith Piaf

This unique film explores the story of the lyric-driven French chanson and looks at some of the greatest artists and examples of the form. Award-winning singer and musician Petula Clark, who shot to stardom in France in the late 1950s for her nuanced singing and lyrical exploration, is our guide.

We meet singers and artists who propelled chanson into the limelight, including Charles Aznavour (a protégé of Edith Piaf), Juliette Greco (whom Jean-Paul Sartre described as having 'a million poems in her voice'), Anna Karina (muse of Jean-Luc Godard and darling of the French Cinema's New Wave), actress and singer Jane Birkin, who had a global hit (along with Serge Gainsbourg) with the controversial Je t'aime (Moi non plus), and Marc Almond, who has received great acclaim with his recordings of Jacques Brel songs.

In exploring the famous chanson tradition and the prodigious singers who made the songs their own, we continue the story into contemporary French composition, looking at new lyrical forms exemplified by current artists such as Stromae, Zaz, Têtes Raides and Etienne Daho, who also give exclusive interviews.

The film shines a spotlight onto a musical form about which the British are largely unfamiliar, illuminating a history that is tender, funny, revealing and absorbing.
299 Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal (2015) #927 DOCUMENTARY Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC. Author Ben Macintyre explores the truth behind one of the most famous double agents in modern history - Harold Kim Philby.

1/2 Ben Macintyre argues against the caricature of Kim Philby as the gentleman spy.
2/2 Kim Philby faces interrogation as suspicion grows that he is a Soviet agent.
300 Nina Conti Clowning Around (2015) #928 DOCUMENTARY Main
1 hour. BBC. Award-winning ventriloquist Nina Conti and her much-loved puppet Monkey are a huge hit in comedy clubs around the world and stars of Live at the Apollo. But now she wants to put her skills to a more meaningful end on a much more difficult stage - entertaining children in hospitals.

This film follows Nina as she trains as a giggle doctor with Theodora Children's Charity, beginning with her trying to find her clown persona, who might be Scottish... or might not. Devastated by the discovery that Monkey can only perform in hospitals if he can be boil-washed, Nina tries to go it alone with only a red nose, a few misshapen balloon animals and some slightly disappointing magic tricks. Not to mention her professional snobbery rearing up as she finds herself turning into a baby-voiced children's entertainer. Then there are the difficulties she encounters when faced with clown phobia.

Following her directorial debut with Her Master's Voice which won a Grierson Award and a BAFTA nomination, Nina Conti brings us another frank and intimate documentary about her eventful two-year stint as a hospital clown. Join her to discover whether Nina raised a laugh amongst sick children or whether she cried the tears of a clown.

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