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61	Taboo (2017) #979 TV DRAMA Special Created by Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight. With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin. Adventurer James Keziah Delaney builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s. 8x1 hour. BBC. 1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal. 1/8 James Delaney returns to London to claim a mysterious legacy left to him by his father. 2/8 As James Delaney assembles his crew, an unexpected arrival threatens to disrupt his plans. 3/8 James Delaney finds himself alone with the mysterious Dr Dumbarton. 4/8 Blacklisted, James Delaney sets out to protect his business by any means necessary. 5/8 After a duel at dawn, James Delaney is blackmailed into a dangerous mission. 6/8 The Company declares war on James, whilst a revelation drives him to dark, haunted places. 7/8 A devastating betrayal puts James Delaney's freedom in jeopardy. 8/8 The Crown unleashes one final plan to destroy James.
62	Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics (2017) #988 DOCUMENTARY Main 2x1 hour. BBC. Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the sounds we're familiar with and the sounds that we normally can't hear. She begins by exploring the simplest of ideas: what is a sound? At the Palace of Westminster, Helen teams up with scientists from the University of Leicester to carry out state-of-the-art measurements using lasers to reveal how the most famous bell in the world - Big Ben - vibrates to create pressure waves in the air at particular frequencies. This is how Big Ben produces its distinct sound. It's the first time that these laser measurements have been done on Big Ben. With soprano singer Lesley Garrett CBE, Helen explores the science of the singing voice - revealing in intimate detail its inner workings and how it produces sound. Lesley undergoes a laryngoscopy to show the vocal folds of her larynx. At University College London, Lesley sings I Dreamed a Dream inside an MRI scanner to reveal how her vocal tract acts as a 'resonator', amplifying and shaping the sound from her larynx. Having explored the world of sounds with which we are familiar, Helen discovers the hidden world of sounds that lie beyond the range of human hearing. At the summit of Stromboli, one of Europe's most active volcanoes, Helen and volcanologist Dr Jeffrey Johnson use a special microphone to record the extraordinary deep tone produced by the volcano as it explodes - a frequency far too low for the human ear to detect. Helen reveals how the volcano produces sound in a similar way to a musical instrument - with the volcano vent acting as a 'sound resonator'. Finally, at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, Helen meets a scientist who has discovered evidence of sound waves in space, created by a giant black hole. These sounds are one million billion times lower than the limit of human hearing and could be the key in figuring out how galaxy clusters, the largest structures in the universe, grow.
63	Britain at War: Imperial War Museum at 100 (2017) #992 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. 2017 marks the centenary year of the establishment of Imperial War Museums. It was founded while the First World War was still raging - and over the past century, IWM has expanded hugely, with five sites including the Churchill War Rooms and HMS Belfast. It shares stories of those who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth. This programme, presented by Falklands veteran and charity campaigner Simon Weston CBE, looks at ten key objects from the IWM's collection. Each of the objects has a special advocate to explore what it reveals about the story of conflict - Bear Grylls ventures onto HMS Belfast, Al Murray looks at a Spitfire at Duxford, and the artists Cornelia Parker and Steve McQueen discuss how they have responded to war and loss in their work. Kate Adie tells the remarkable tale of the typewriter in the Churchill War Rooms, Dame Kelly Holmes meets the extraordinary Johnson Beharry VC to hear about his experiences in the Iraq War, and Anita Rani explores the incredible heroism of one soldier in the British-Indian Army.
64	Britain in Focus: A Photographic History (2017) #993 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour. BBC. Series in which Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country. 1/3 Exploring how the new art of photography developed in 19th-century Britain. 2/3 Eamonn traces the emergence of photojournalism in the early 20th century. 3/3 How the colour boom and digital revolution have shaped modern British photography. [Including Peter Mitchell's 'Planet Yorkshire' at Impressions Gallery Bradford.]
65	Buddy Holly: Rave On (2017) #999 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. He was lanky, he wore glasses and he sang as if permanently battling hiccups. Aesthetically, Buddy Holly might have been the most unlikely looking rock 'n' roll star of the 1950s. But he was, after Elvis Presley, unquestionably the most influential. It was an all-too-brief career that lasted barely 18 months from That'll Be The Day topping the Billboard charts to the plane crash in February 1959 in Iowa that took Holly's life. That day was immortalised in Don McLean's 1971 song American Pie, and has become known as 'the day the music died'. This film tells the story of Buddy Holly's tragically short life and career through interviews with those who knew him and worked with him. This combined with contributions from music fans paints a picture of an artist who changed music. Rock 'n' roll started with Elvis, but pop music started with Buddy Holly and The Crickets. In an age of solo stars, Holly also led the first recognisable 'pop' group, The Crickets, who in name alone inspired The Beatles. As a songwriter, he revolutionised rock 'n' roll by introducing dynamic new rhythms and unpredictable melodies beyond its traditional blues roots. In his songs, written and recorded in the late 50s, we can already hear the beat group sound of the 1960s and beyond. Buddy Holly's story remains one of the most dramatic tales in rock 'n' roll, one which nearly 60 years after his breakthrough hit That'll Be The Day, deserves to be told again for a new generation. His life was tragically short. His legacy is triumphantly infinite.
66	Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall (2017) #1004 DOCUMENTARY-MUSIC Main 1 hour. BBC. Fifty years ago this week, on 1 June, 1967, an album was released that changed music history - The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In this film, composer Howard Goodall explores just why this album is still seen as so innovative, so revolutionary and so influential. With the help of outtakes and studio conversations between the band, never heard before outside of Abbey Road, Howard gets under the bonnet of Sgt Pepper. He takes the music apart and reassembles it, to show us how it works - and makes surprising connections with the music of the last 1,000 years to do so. Sgt Pepper came about as a result of a watershed in The Beatles' career. In August 1966, sick of the screaming mayhem of live shows, they'd taken what was then seen as the career-ending decision to stop touring altogether. Instead, beginning that December, they immersed themselves in Abbey Road with their creative partner, producer George Martin, for an unprecedented five months. What they produced didn't need to be recreated live on stage. The Beatles took full advantage of this freedom, turning the studio from a place where a band went to capture its live sound, as quickly as possible, into an audio laboratory, a creative launch-pad. As Howard shows, they and George Martin and his team constructed the album sound by sound, layer by layer - a formula that became the norm for just about every rock act who followed. In June 1967, after what amounted to a press blackout about what they'd been up to, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. It was a sensation, immediately becoming the soundtrack to the Summer of Love - and one of the best-selling, most critically lauded albums of all time. It confirmed that a 'pop music' album could be an art form, not just a collection of three-minute singles. It's regularly been voted one of the most important and influential records ever released. In this film, Howard Goodall shows that it is the sheer ambition of Sgt Pepper - in its conception, composition, arrangements and innovative recording techniques - that sets it apart. Made with unprecedented access to The Beatles' pictorial archive, this is an in-depth exploration, in sound and vision, of one of the most important and far-reaching moments in recent music history.
67	Broken (2017) #1012 TV DRAMA Special 6x1 hour episodes. BBC. Series 1 1/6 Father Michael helps a vulnerable parishioner while also caring for his dying mother. 2/6 A desperate parishioner and a mentally ill youth both present dilemmas for Father Michael. 3/6 Father Michael helps a police officer. 4/6 Father Michael risks breaking the seal of confession as he tries to help Roz Demichelis. 5/6 Father Michael mediates when Helen's homophobic brother clashes with her gay neighbour. 6/6 Father Michael makes a confession and Chloe wreaks a devastating revenge.
68	Stop All the Clocks: WH Auden in an Age of Anxiety (2017) #1034 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Why does the poet who began as the golden boy of the 1930s and ended up as the craggy-faced laureate-we-never-had have a greater hold on our imaginations than ever before? Thirty-five years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following Auden's surges of popularity from featuring in Four Weddings and a Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11, Low reveals how Auden's poetry helps us to have a better understanding of the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live. Writers Alan Bennett, Polly Clark, Alexander McCall Smith and Richard Curtis, and poets James Fenton and Paul Muldoon share their passion for Auden and celebrate the potent impact of his work.
69	Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution (2017) #1039 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. The Russian Revolution of 1917 is one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. Three men - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - emerged from obscurity to forge an entirely new political system. In the space of six months, they turned the largest country on earth into the first Communist state. Was this a triumph of people power or a political coup d'etat that led to blood-soaked totalitarianism? A hundred years later, the Revolution still sparks ferocious debate. This film dramatizes the 245 days that brought these men to supreme power. As the history unfolds, a stellar cast of writers and historians, including Martin Amis, Orlando Figes, Helen Rappaport, Simon Sebag-Montefiore and China Mieville, battle over the meaning of the Russian Revolution and explore how it shaped the world we live in today.
70	Tunes for Tyrants: Music and Power with Suzy Klein (2017) #1040 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour. BBC. Suzy Klein explores music's crucial role in the most turbulent years of the 20th century. 1/3 Revolution. Suzy Klein explores the politics of music following the Russian Revolution and WW1. 2/3 Dictatorship. Suzy Klein investigates how Hitler and Stalin used and abused music for ideological ends. 3/3 World War. Suzy Klein explores the fascinating use, abuse and manipulation of music in World War II.
71	Lucy Worsley: Elizabeth I's Battle for God's Music (2017) #1041 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Lucy Worsley investigates the story of the most remarkable creation from the tumultuous and violent era known as the Reformation - choral evensong. Henry VIII loved religious music, but he loved power more - when he instigated his English Reformation he dramatically split from the ancient Catholic church that controlled much of his country. But in doing so set into motion changes that would fundamentally transform the religious music he loved. Following Elizabeth I's personal story, Lucy recounts how she and her two siblings were shaped by the changes their father instigated. Elizabeth witnessed both her radically puritan brother Edward bring church music to the very brink of destruction and the terrifying reversals made by her sister Mary - which saw her thrown in the Tower of London forced to beg for her life. When Elizabeth finally took power she was determined to find a religious compromise - she resurrected the Protestant religion of her brother, but kept the music of her beloved father - music that she too adored. And it was in the evocative service of choral evensong that her ideas about religious music found their ultimate expression.
72	The Vietnam War (2017) #1043 DOCUMENTARY Special BBC plus. 10x1 hour. 1/10 Deja Vu (1858-1961). Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. 2/10 Riding the Tiger (1961-1963). President Kennedy and his advisors wrestle with how far to get involved in South Vietnam. 3/10 Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965). With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops. 4/10 Doubt (January 1966-June 1967). Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. 5/10 This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967). American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face North Vietnamese ambushes. 6/10 Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968). North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and bases. 7/10 Chasing Ghosts (June 1968-May 1969). Public support for the war declines. American men of draft age face difficult decisions. 8/10 A Sea of Fire (April 1969-May 1970). With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. 9/10 Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973). South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own in Laos suffer a terrible defeat. 10/10 The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward). While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese savage one another in a civil war.
73	Revolution: New Art for a New World (2017) #1047 DOCUMENTARY Main 80mins. BBC. Directed by acclaimed film-maker Margy Kinmonth, this bold and exciting feature documentary encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian avant-garde. Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers, and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian avant-garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky, Malevich and others - pioneers who flourished in response to the utopian challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years. Stalin's rise to power marked the close of this momentous period, consigning the avant-garde to obscurity. Yet the Russian avant-garde continues to exert a lasting influence over art movements up to the present day. The film confirms this, exploring the fascination that these colourful paintings, inventive sculptures and propaganda posters retain over the modern consciousness 100 years on. It was filmed entirely on location in Moscow, St Petersburg and London, with access to the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum and in co-operation with the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The film features paintings previously banned and unseen for decades, and masterpieces which rarely leave Russia. Contributors include museum directors Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky and Zelfira Tregulova, and film director Andrei Konchalovsky. The film also features the voices of Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Hollander, James Fleet, Eleanor Tomlinson and Daisy Bevan.
74	The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey (2017) #1056 DOCUMENTARY Main 90mins. BBC. Twelve billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our solar system and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. The story of Voyager is an epic of human achievement, personal drama and almost miraculous success. Launched 16 days apart in 1977, the twin Voyager space probes have defied all the odds, survived countless near misses and almost 40 years later continue to beam revolutionary information across unimaginable distances. With less computing power than a modern hearing aid, they have unlocked the stunning secrets of our solar system. This film tells the story of these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped.
75	Christmas Day Eucharist (2017) #1062 MUSIC Main 1 hour. BBC One. 10am 25th December 2017 Christmas Morning from All Saints Fulham A traditional Christmas morning family service of Holy Communion, live from All Saints Church in Fulham, west London. Families from all generations sing well-loved carols including Joy to the World, See Amid the Winter's Snow and O Come All Ye Faithful. The service is introduced by the Rev Canon Joe Hawes, who also preaches. The celebrant is the Rev Penny Seabrook, and All Saints Choir, led by director of music Jonathan Wikeley, sing Mozart's Credo Mass in C. Featuring Elizabeth Morrell.
76	The Real Doctor Zhivago (2017) #1215 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Dr Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War. The writer of the novel, Boris Pasternak, in the words of his family, willingly committed acts of literary suicide in being true to the Russia he loved, but being honest about the Soviet regime he hated and despised. Under Stalin, writers and artists just disappeared if they did not support the party line. Many were murdered. Writing his book for over 20 tumultuous years, Boris Pasternak knew it could result in his death. It did result in his mistress being sent to the gulag twice, but he had to have his say. This is the story of the writing of perhaps the bravest book ever published. It is the story before the film won Oscars and its author, the Nobel Prize. It is the untold story of the real Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak.
77	Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (2017) #1319 DOCUMENTARY Special 1 hour. BBC. Lucy Worsley explores the different houses in which Jane Austen lived and stayed, to discover just how much they shaped Jane's life and novels. On a journey that takes her across England, Lucy visits properties that still exist, from grand stately homes to seaside holiday apartments, and brings to life those that have disappeared. The result is a revealing insight into one of the world's best-loved authors.
78	Earth: One Amazing Day (2017) #1330 FILM Main 93 mins. From BBC Earth Films, the studio that brought you Earth, comes the sequel - Earth: One Amazing Day, an astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humour, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendour, Earth: One Amazing Day highlights how every day is filled with more wonders than you can possibly imagine- until now. Earth. Our home planet and the only one in the universe that can support living organisms. Earth is home to a vast array of environments and animals, but what is a single day in the life of these creatures like? In this sequel to the BBC's Earth, we take a journey across the world, investigating the lives of these extraordinary creatures, all in the course of 24 hours.
79	The Silk Road (2016) #581 DOCUMENTARY Main With Sam Willis. Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity. 3x1hour. BBC.
80	Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley (2016) #895 DOCUMENTARY Main 3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs. 1/3 Reinventing Russia. A look at the early Romanovs, from 16-year-old Mikhail in 1613 to Peter the Great. 2/3 Age of Extremes. Lucy examines the reign of Catherine the Great and the conflict with Napoleonic France. 3/3 The Road to Revolution. Lucy investigates how the family's grip on Russia unravelled in the years 1825-1918.

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