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341	The Secrets of Quantum Physics (2014) #830 DOCUMENTARY Main 2x1 hour. BBC. Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.
342	37 Days (2014) #835 TV DRAMA Main 3x1 hour. BBC. Revealing the complex behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I. 1/3 One Month in Summer. The British Foreign Office receives news of an assassination in the Balkans. 2/3 One Week in July. The German military command conspires to force the kaiser's hand. 3/3 One Long Weekend. Events in Britain reach a crescendo as Germany issues its ultimatum to Belgium.
343	Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau (2014) #837 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour. BBC, Series which looks at how the Art Nouveau movement flourished in the burgeoning cities of Europe at the end of the 19th century. 1/3 Paris. Cultural correspondent Stephen Smith explores the objects of Parisian Art Nouveau. 2/3 British Cities. Stephen Smith unearths the bright, controversial but brief career of Aubrey Beardsley. 3/3 Vienna. How Vienna's artists brought their own highly sexed version of art nouveau to the city.
344	Imagine: The One and Only Mike Leigh (2014) #838 DOCUMENTARY Main 105 mins. BBC. In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.
345	Ten Pieces (2014) #842 MUSIC Main BBC. John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1st movement) Britten: 'Storm' Interlude from 'Peter Grimes' Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from 'Peer Gynt' Handel: Zadok the Priest Holst: Mars from 'The Planets' Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement) Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1911) (Finale) Anna Meredith: Connect It
346	Congo Calling: An African Orchestra in Britain (2014) #842 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Documentary following the inspirational Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste and choir as they make their debut visit to the UK. It captures the latest step in an extraordinary odyssey for the world's first all-black orchestra, formed 20 years ago from a group of self-taught church musicians in Kinshasa, the capital city of the turbulent DRC. From the moment the 100-strong party led by conductor Armand Diangienda touches down at Manchester Airport, we follow them night and day as they work side by side with the Halle orchestra and choir and later at the Southbank in London with members of the National Youth Orchestra, BBC orchestras, Southbank Sinfonia and more. Amongst the hectic schedule of instrument repairs, seminars, rehearsals and performances, they still find time for a visit to Manchester United's Old Trafford ground, and down south take a trip to the Proms and a flight on the London Eye that turns into a joyous spontaneous singalong. The climax is a concert at London's Royal Festival Hall, with a programme embracing the rousing ode to brotherhood of Beethoven's 9th, along with a symphony written by members of the orchestra. From the inside out, Congo Calling charts the pride and the passion - and the joie de vivre - of an orchestral community abroad. It is an eye-opening exchange of experience and ideas between European and African musicians, between seasoned professionals and ever-passionate amateurs.
347	Human Universe (2014) #844 DOCUMENTARY Main 5x1 hour episodes. BBC. Professor Brian Cox explores the most precious, most wonderful thing in the universe, us. 1/5 Apeman - Spaceman. Brian Cox charts our story from apes to the birth of civilisation and then to the stars. 2/5 Why Are We Here? Brian Cox tackles the question that unites Earth's seven billion people - why are we here? 3/5 Are We Alone? Brian considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist, and will we ever find it? 4/5 A Place in Space and Time. Brian Cox looks at how we came to understand we are not at the centre of the universe. 5/5 What Is Our Future? Professor Brian Cox concludes his exploration of our place in the universe.
348	The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour (2014) #845 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1hour episodes. BBC. Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings. 1/3 Liberty Diversity Depravity. How the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature. 2/3 The City and the Soul. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of science getting out of control. 3/3 Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global. How the language of Gothic increasingly came to encapsulate the 20th century's horrors.
349	Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 TV DRAMA Main Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes.
350	The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr (2014) #847 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. On the eve of the German federal elections, Andrew Marr looks at the enigmatic Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. She is the most important politician in Europe and the most powerful woman in the world. Yet she has been criticized by some for her lack of charisma and accused by others of trying to turn Europe into a Greater Germany. Andrew Marr delves into her childhood and background to discover what has shaped her political vision and style. Growing up in East Germany, the paranoid state at the heart of the Communist Eastern Bloc, then becoming a research scientist, she only entered politics in her mid-thirties after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her political journey has been marked by caution and compromise - but with occasional flashes of ruthlessness and an unyielding commitment to European Union. In this film, Andrew Marr lifts the veil on a very unusual politician.
351	Horizon: Inside the Dark Web (2014) #849 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. . Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence - surveillance. With many concerned that governments and corporations can monitor our every move, Horizon meets the hackers and scientists whose technology is fighting back. It is a controversial technology, and some law enforcement officers believe it is leading to risk-free crime on the dark web - a place where almost anything can be bought, from guns and drugs to credit card details. Featuring interviews with the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the co-founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Horizon delves inside the dark web.
352	Ireland's Lost Babies (2014) #850 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. In 2013 the movie Philomena was shown in cinemas across the world and earned four Oscar nominations. The film was based on the true story of Philomena Lee, who was forced by the Catholic Church to give up her illegitimate son for adoption, and detailed her journey with journalist Martin Sixsmith to find her child 50 years later. In the weeks and months after the film went out, Martin was contacted by other mothers who had their own stories to tell. Now, Martin Sixsmith goes on a journey to investigate the Irish Catholic Church's role in an adoption trade which saw thousands of illegitimate children taken from their mothers and sent abroad, often with donations to the Church flowing in the other direction. In Ireland and in America, Martin hears the moving stories of the parents and children whose lives were changed forever and discovers evidence that prospective parents were not properly vetted - sometimes with tragic consequences.
353	I Never Tell Anybody Anything: The Life and Art of Edward Burra (2014) #851 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Edward Burra (1905-76) was one of the most elusive British artists of the 20th century. Long underrated, his reputation has been suddenly rehabilitated, with the first major retrospective of his work for 25 years taking place in 2011 and record-breaking prices being paid for his work at auction. In this film, the first serious documentary about Edward Burra made for television, leading art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the remarkable story of his life. Crippled by a rare form of arthritis from an early age, Burra placed art at the centre of his life from his teenage years onwards. Although his illness meant that he would predominantly only be able to work in the physically undemanding medium of watercolour, he created unexpectedly monumental images peopled by the men and women who fascinated him. The follows Burra from his native town of Rye to the jazz clubs of prohibition-era New York, to the war-torn landscapes of the Spanish Civil War and back to England during the Blitz. It shows how Burra's increasingly disturbing and surreal work deepened and matured as he experienced at first hand some of the most tragic events of the century. Through letters and interviews with those who knew him, it paints an entertaining portrait of a true English eccentric.
354	British Art at War: Paul Nash: The Ghosts of War (2014) #853 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. In the years preceding 1914, David Bomberg, Walter Sickert and Paul Nash set out to paint a new world, but, as the century unfolded, found themselves working in the rubble. On 25th May 1917, war artist Paul Nash climbed out of his trench to sketch the battlefields of Flanders near Ypres. So focused was he on his work he tripped and fell back into the trench, breaking his ribs. Stretchered back to England, Nash missed his regiment going over the top at the Battle of Passchendaele. His regiment was wiped out. Nash was scarred by the war and the ghosts of those experiences haunted his work throughout his life. A lover of nature, Nash became one of Britain's most original landscape artists, embracing modern Surrealism and ancient British history, though always tainted by his experiences during two world wars. A private yet charismatic man, he brought British landscape painting into the 20th century with his mixture of the personal and visionary, the beautiful and the shocking. An artist who saw the landscape as not just a world to paint, but a way into his heart and mind.
355	British Art at War: Walter Sickert and the Theatre of War (2014) #854 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. In the years preceding 1914, David Bomberg, Walter Sickert and Paul Nash set out to paint a new world, but, as the century unfolded, found themselves working in the rubble. Walter Sickert's early career as an actor is long forgotten and he's now remembered for his art. But he never left the stage behind. Always shape-shifting between roles, Sickert's appearance never stayed still. And his art, too, was in perpetual transformation. Dazzlingly original, deeply unsettling, poised on the brink of violence. For most, proof that Sickert is the godfather of modern British art, but for a few at the fringes, evidence he's Jack the Ripper. But Sickert was no perpetrator, just an unflinching witness, notably, to the cataclysm of World War One. Too old to fight in Flanders, Sickert painted edgy, compelling, subtle pictures of those who'd been left behind. He painted people trying to get on with lives that were being shattered by the conflict. Almost alone of his generation, Sickert truly understood that the theatre of war was not confined to the trenches.
356	British Art at War: David Bomberg: Prophet in No Man's Land (2014) #855 DOCUMENTARY Main In the years preceding 1914, David Bomberg, Walter Sickert and Paul Nash set out to paint a new world, but, as the century unfolded, found themselves working in the rubble. David Bomberg is now recognised as the most startlingly original British painter of his generation, but died in obscurity more than half a century ago. A Jewish immigrant from London's east end, his early modernist works pushed art to its limits. Fighting at the Somme, David Bomberg watched the world splinter and fall apart just like the works of art he had created. Bomberg spent the rest of his life searching for order in an increasingly disordered world, and his wanderings took him as far as Palestine, before he settled at the end of his life in Ronda, Spain. When he died in 1957, embattled and in poverty, he seemed to be no more than a footnote in the history of British art. However, the works that survive David Bomberg tell their own story. Combative and iconoclastic, he remains the most elusively original British painter of the 20th century.
357	Commonwealth Games 2014: Rudisha (2014) #856 DOCUMENTARY Main Rudisha runs...
358	Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions (2014) #858 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. When Worlds Collide episode 1 of 2 This documentary reveals the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms, discovering what happens when superswarms invade people's lives and, using the latest camera techniques, going to the heart of the swarm to reveal how the creatures therein view our world. Real-life footage from camcorders and mobile phones captures the amazing impact they can have. Killer bees mount an attack on an international football match in Costa Rica. In the US, the Illinois River boils with leaping silver carp, an alien species that has hijacked the river, smashing into boats and injuring people. In South Australia a sea of mice raids farms, consuming and destroying in their millions on a scale that defies belief. The largest swarm on Earth erupts from Lake Victoria: trillions of flies blanket villages, but the locals have learnt to turn the swarm into a highly nutritious fly burger. In Rome, cameras fly alongside ten million starlings, the largest swarm in Europe. Their mesmeric waves stop many residents in their tracks, but as they roost they smother the city in tons of excrement. One man has learnt to control the ultimate swarm. He has become their 'queen bee' with startling results, learning to control what most people fear and to understand one of the most incredible forces of nature.
359	Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces (2014) #863 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour. BBC. From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many have vanished and the magic of the ones that survive. 1/3 Towards an Architecture of Majesty. Dan Cruickshank reveals the buildings which cemented the monarch's claim to the throne. 2/3 Inventing a National Style. A new style emerged as monarchs demanded that architecture proclaim their right to rule. 3/3 Opening the Palace Doors. More recent times saw restoration and conservation and the uncovering of palace secrets.
360	John Ogdon: Living with Genius (2014) #865 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Profile of Britain's greatest ever classical pianist and of one of the most successful musical partnerships of the last 50 years, that of John Ogdon and his wife Brenda Lucas Ogdon. For the first time, Brenda and her children Richard and Annabel tell the personal story of John Ogdon - the husband, father and genius. This is a story of their lives together, one that covers their rollercoaster ride from extraordinary and deserved success to tragic adversity and despair. Featuring unique archive and contemporary performance as well as candid interviews with those who knew him best, this incredible tale is a moving account of their professional partnership. A fascinating reflection on the power of the art form itself, gained from a lifetime of living, breathing, teaching and performing.

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