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301	Richard III 2015 (2015) #931 DOCUMENTARY Main Channel 4. The Final Moments of the reburial in Leicester.
302	Hockney (2015) #934 DOCUMENTARY Main 105mins. BBC. Hockney is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of a long life. 'I'm interested in ways of looking and trying to think of it in simple ways. If you can communicate that, of course people will respond - after all, everybody does look.' His is a long-term one-man campaign against the pessimism of the world, mastering new media - whether acrylic paint or iPad digits - in the search for a picture adequate to his sense of what it is to be alive. The film chronicles Hockney's vast career, from his early life in working-class Bradford, where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema, to his relocation to Hollywood, where his life-long struggle to escape labels ('queer', 'working class', figurative artist') was fully realised. David Hockney offers theories about art, the universe and everything. But as Hockney reveals, it's the hidden self-interrogation that gives his famously optimistic pictures their unexpected edge and attack. As one of his oldest friends says of his early work, 'the pictures are not just about men fucking'. The subject matter is a way into the picture to see something else, to open our eyes and our minds. Acclaimed film-maker Randall Wright offers a unique view of this unconventional artist who is now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide, remains as charismatic as ever and at seventy seven is still working in the studio seven days a week.
303	Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance (2015) #935 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley uncover the British love affair with dancing, exploring the nation's favourite dances from the 17th to the 20th centuries. 1/3 The Devil's Work?. How dancing came to be celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th century. 2/3 Revolution on the Dance Floor. How our dance floors were revolutionised in the 19th century by faster, freer dances. 3/3 The Shock of the New. How the early 20th century saw the most revolutionary change in British dance history.
304	The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway (2015) #937 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour episodes. Series following a team of more than 10,000 engineers and construction workers as they race to build a brand new railway under London - Crossrail - London's new Underground. 1/3 Urban Heart Surgery. A look at London's Crossrail, which requires building 42km of tunnels under the city. 2/3 Tunnels Under the Thames. Engineers building Crossrail battle to rebuild a Victorian tunnel under the Royal Docks. 3/3 Platforms and Plague Pits. The engineers building Crossrail race to build ten new train stations across London.
305	Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries (2015) #938 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a story of faith, sacrifice, violence and corruption. 1/3 How monasteries evolved into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning. 2/3 How the monasteries' success and spectacular artistic achievement proved too good to last. 3/3 How the immensely rich and powerful monasteries were annihilated in less than five years.
306	Inside the Commons (2015) #941 DOCUMENTARY Main 4x1 hour episodes. BBC. Michael Cockerell presents a four-part series filmed over the course of a year with unparalleled access to the House of Commons. 1/4 Lifting the Lid. A look at the heart of British democracy in the run up to the 2015 general election. 2/4 Upstairs, Downstairs. Michael Cockerell examines what goes on backstage at the state opening of parliament. 3/4 Party Games. Is the traditional three-party system falling apart at the seams? 4/4 Reinventing the House. In the final episode, battles break out over the future of the House.
307	Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake (2015) #942 DOCUMENTARY Main 137 mins. BBC. Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is an adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.
308	Battle for Sevastopol (2015) #943 FILM Main,Disk Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy. With Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Anatoliy Kot. A woman who changed the course of history. aka Bitva za Sevastopol. Essentially true, this does have something of War and Peace about it. WWII action. Impressive. [ed]
309	The Lady in the Van (2015) #958 FILM Main Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
310	Colonia (aka The Colony) (2015) #965 FILM Main Directed by Florian Gallenberger. With Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey. A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
311	Is Britain Racist? (2015) #990 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Racism has never been more socially unacceptable in Britain - three quarters of Britons claim they have no racial prejudice whatsoever. Journalist Mona Chalabi investigates whether these statistics provide an accurate picture. To find out what is happening on Britain's streets, three reporters are sent undercover to test the public's prejudice. The results are surprising. The programme looks into people's subconscious behaviour, discovering what British people really think about their neighbours of different races and religions. And Mona puts her own beliefs under the microscope, discovering some uncomfortable truths. Finally, she asks a hugely significant question - can people be trained to lose their prejudice?
312	How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank (2015) #1000 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. The unlikely story of how one man with some ex-WWII army equipment eventually turned a muddy field in Cheshire into a key site in the space race. That man was Bernard Lovell, and his telescope at Jodrell Bank would be used at the height of the Cold War by both the Americans and the Russians to track their competing spacecraft. It also put Britain at the forefront of radio astronomy, a new science which transformed our knowledge of space and provided the key to understanding the most mind-bending theory of the beginnings of the universe - the Big Bang.
313	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.
314	Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World (2015) #1019 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero - James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only inspired Einstein, but they helped shape our modern world - allowing the development of radio, TV, mobile phones and much more. Despite this, he is largely unknown in his native land of Scotland. Scientist Iain Stewart sets out to change that, and to celebrate the life, work and legacy of the man dubbed 'Scotland's forgotten Einstein'.
315	Sweet Bean (2015) #1097 FILM Main Directed by Naomi Kawase. With Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno. The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. aka AN
316	Eye in the Sky (2015) #1127 FILM Main Directed by Gavin Hood. With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi. Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
317	Spotlight (2015) #1133 FILM Main Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
318	Brooklyn (2015) #1339 FILM Main Directed by John Crowley. With Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent. An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
319	Noah (2014) #231 FILM Main Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson. A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.
320	The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) #232 FILM Main Directed by Wes Anderson. With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody. The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

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