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361	John Ogdon: A Musical Tribute (2014) #865 DOCUMENTARY Main 30 mins. BBC. A piano recital with performances by Peter Donohoe. Presented by Katie Derham, this tribute concert to the late John Ogdon was filmed at the Champs Hill Concert Hall in front of a selected audience and includes performances of some of the works John was famous for, as well as his own compositions.
362	D-Day: The Last Heroes (2014) #866 DOCUMENTARY Main 2x1 hour episodes. BBC. Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history. 1/2 How two years of planning, espionage and analysis helped the Allied forces win D-Day. 2/2 The stories of those who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy.
363	Rule Britannia! Music, Mischief and Morals in the 18th Century (2014) #868 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour episodes. Series in which broadcaster and writer Suzy Klein tells the story of the composers and musicians that helped shape the musical map of Britain in the 18th century. 1/3 Suzy Klein studies music as a weapon in the fight for British identity. 2/3 As money poured in from Britain's trade empire, music became a tool for social mobility. 3/3 Music acquired a higher moral purpose. Romanticism blossomed in the search for the sublime.
364	Messiah at the Foundling Hospital (2014) #869 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Handel's Messiah is one of the most popular choral pieces in western music. It has been recorded hundreds of times and contains a tune that is as instantly recognisable as any in music. Yet few people know the extraordinary story of how this much-loved piece came to public attention - or how it helped save the lives of tens of thousands of children. Historian Amanda Vickery and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service present this one-hour drama documentary which recreates the first performance of Messiah at London's Foundling Hospital in 1750 and tells the heartrending story of how this special fundraising concert helped maintain the hospital and heralded a golden age of philanthropy. Exploring historical documents and artefacts, Amanda examines the plight of women in Georgian London, particularly how the attitudes of the time led mothers to abandon their babies at the hospital. Tom looks at the momentous trials and tribulations faced by Handel in London and discovers how the composer became involved with the Foundling Hospital alongside another philanthropist of the day, the artist William Hogarth.
365	Mark Lawson Talks To... David Bailey (2014) #873 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. In a career spanning more than five decades, photographer David Bailey has captured many of the 20th century's most iconic faces. With his first major solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery currently on show, he talks frankly to Mark Lawson about his life, loves and illustrious career.
366	The Brits who Built the Modern World (2014) #874 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x 1 hour episodes. Series telling the story of how an exceptional generation of British architects, led by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, conquered the globe with their high-tech vision. 1/3 The Freedom of the Future. The radical 1960s and 70s experiments of an exceptional generation of British architects. 2/3 The Power of the Past. In the 1980s, modern architecture was unpopular and under attack from Prince Charles. 3/3 The Politics of Power. From the late 90s onwards, iconic landmarks were created across Britain and the world.
367	Britain's Great War (2014) #875 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. 1/4 War Comes to Britain. Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the dramatic early stages of the war. ritain and the world. 2/4 The War Machine. The whole population is enlisted to turn an unprepared Britain into a war machine.
368	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.
369	Remembering the Holocaust: Defiant Requiem (2014) #880 DOCUMENTARY Main 80mins. BBC. In 1944, at the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, the imprisoned Czech conductor Rafael Schachter formed a choir of 150 of his fellow Jewish prisoners to brazenly perform Verdi's Requiem before the very Nazis who had condemned them to death. Transcending the horrors around them, night after night they rehearsed in a dark, mouldy and suffocating cellar, with a broken piano. In a calm message of defiance, each time a choir member was murdered by the SS, a new singer would replace them. The final performance took place in front of the camp's Nazi brass, visiting high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and gullible Red Cross inspectors brought in to verify that the prisoners were being well treated. This film features surviving Nazi propaganda footage of Terezin as it was perversely stage-managed during a Red Cross inspection visit to appear like an attractive Jewish commune. Shortly after the performance, both Schachter and most of his choir would be sent to Auschwitz. But through the transformation of Verdi's music into a proclamation of their unbroken spirit and warning of God's coming wrath against their captors, the prisoners had been able to sing to their captors what they dared not say. For over ten years, distinguished American conductor Murry Sidlin, who found out about the choir in the 1990s, dreamed of bringing the Requiem back to Terezin. Now, through soaring concert footage, powerful survivor recollections, cinematic dramatizations and evocative animation, their heartbreaking story is brought to life.
370	Ken Dodd's Happiness (2014) #884 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Arena. A tribute to Liverpudlian comic Ken Dodd, in which he discusses his 50-year career and the influences of his comedy style. Features film clips of his early performances and footage of him on tour in more recent times.
371	Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian (2014) #885 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Told by family and friends, with rare unseen archive, this documentary reflects on the career of Dave Allen, relative of poet Katharine Tynan, and a natural performer who cut his teeth at Butlins. He became a TV star in Australia in his twenties, before returning home to dominate the schedules here in Britain with his unique blend of sketches and stories in a career that took in films, plays, documentaries and chat shows, alongside award-winning comedy series. Respected, admired and with unshakeable integrity, Dave Allen fought for what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it. He was driven by simple honesty. It was this solitary and determined path that made his talents special and unusual and inspired a generation of comics that were to follow. For the first time ever this rich and compelling career is celebrated on screen, giving a chance to reflect on his many achievements and on the private life that went alongside it. With contributions from Stephen Berkoff, Stephen Frears, and Dame Maggie Smith, among others.
372	Dave Allen: The Immaculate Selection (2014) #885 COMEDY Main 1 hour. BBC. An anthology of Dave Allen's finest, funniest and most irreverent material, compiled from his time at the BBC from 1971 to 1986.
373	Mr. Turner (2014) #945 FILM Main Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
374	Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs (2014) #1018 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Documentary telling the extraordinary untold story of soldiers' photography in the First World War. The British and German soldiers marched off to war with secret 'vest pocket' cameras, determined to record what they thought would be a great adventure, but few were prepared for the horrors they were about to witness and photograph. Their photos - many never seen before in public - provide a deeply moving document of their lives in the trenches and their rapid loss of innocence. With no soldier photographer alive to tell the tale, we join their close relatives on emotional journeys of discovery as they go in search of the secrets hidden within their ancestors' photographs. This is the war viewed from a new and surprising perspective - through the eyes of the men who fought in it.
375	Sammy Davis Jr: The Kid in the Middle (2014) #1035 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Sammy Davis Jr was born to entertain. He was a human dynamo who made his debut at the age of five and by the time he was a teenager was wowing audiences across America. A gifted dancer, actor and singer, and a key member of the Rat Pack, Davis is best remembered for his unforgettable rendition of Mr Bojangles and his number one single The Candyman. However, as a black man, making his way in the entertainment business saw him struggle to overcome racial prejudice, letter bombs and death threats. Davis fought back with his talent and in the 1960s marched alongside Dr Martin Luther King. Despite his reputation as a civil rights campaigner and one of the world's greatest entertainers, Davis remains an enigma. Those closest to him tell of a man never quite comfortable in his own skin, a workaholic and spendaholic who put his career before his family and who died leaving them millions of dollars in debt. This documentary is Sammy Davis Jr's remarkable life story - his rise and his fall - told by those who knew him best. For the first time his family and friends including Paul Anka, Engelbert Humperdinck, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Ben Vereen share their memories - shedding new light on the legacy of one of the most gifted and loved performers in show business.
376	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.
377	Boychoir (2014) #1083 FILM Main Directed by François Girard. With Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McHale. Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music. aka The Choir
378	Song of the Sea (2014) #1089 FILM Main Directed by Tomm Moore. With David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan. Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.
379	Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain (2014) #1528 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise of Sir George Gilbert Scott to the very heights of success, the fall of his son George Junior and the rise again of his grandson Giles. It is a story of architects bent on a mission to rebuild Britain. From the Romantic heights of the Midland Hotel at St Pancras station to the modern image of Bankside power station (now Tate Modern), this is the story of a family that shaped the Victorian age and left a giant legacy.
380	1864 (2014) #1362 FILM Special 8x50min episodes. This is a Danish series focusing on the second Schleswig War; one of the the most traumatic events in the modern history of Denmark.

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