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161	Horizon: Dippy and the Whale (2017) #1013 DOCUMENTARY Main 1 hour. BBC. Over the last two years, the BBC's science strand Horizon has been behind the scenes at London's Natural History Museum, following the dramatic replacement of the iconic Dippy the Dinosaur skeleton cast with the real skeleton of a blue whale - the world's biggest animal. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this special film follows the teams involved in what has to be one of the world's most unique engineering challenges. Replacing Dippy is brave and bold - it is the first thing visitors see when they enter the grand Hintze Hall, but the Natural History Museum is changing, and the installation of the colossal blue whale skeleton is the start of a new chapter. The largest animal ever to have lived, blue whales were driven to the brink of extinction by hunting and were the first species humans decided to save, telling an inspiring story of hope for the natural world.
162	Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America (2017) #1022 DOCUMENTARY Main Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest ever architect. But few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them, and the secrets of his radical Welsh background. In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture. Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century. The spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum. Wright's Welsh mother was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales, and emigrated to America with her family in 1844. Her son Frank was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin. The values he absorbed there were based on a love of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by these beliefs. He built his lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard - Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures, and of a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people. They included Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children. 150 years after his birth, Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright's belief in what he called organic architecture - buildings that grace the landscape and respond to people's individual needs - is more relevant than ever, in Wales and around the world.
163	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.
164	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.
165	Van Morrison: Live at Eden (2017) #1052 MUSIC Main 1 hour. BBC. Van Morrison and his band at Cornwall's Eden Project July 2017, performing fourteen songs including well-known hits Here Comes the Night, Moondance and Brown Eyed Girl. The Belfast-born all-time music legend Sir Van Morrison played against the world-famous Eden biomes to a sold-out arena. Van's performance was a highlight of the sixteenth year of the Eden Sessions. Sir Van Morrison was knighted in 2016 for services to music and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won six Grammys, a Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution and the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.
166	Blue Planet II (2017) #1058 DOCUMENTARY Special 7x1 hour. BBC. Wildlife documentary series, presented and narrated by David Attenborough, exploring the planet's oceans. 1/7 One Ocean: New worlds and animal behaviours are uncovered on a journey from the equator to the poles. 2/7 The Deep: A groundbreaking journey to the deepest parts of the oceans. 3/7 Coral Reefs: The ingenious ways life exists in the undersea cities of tropical reefs. 4/7 Big Blue: This vast ocean desert where sperm whales must dive 1,000 metres just to feed. 5/7 Green Seas: From enchanted forests to undersea prairies, the planet's green seas teem with life. 6/7 Coasts: Coasts are the most changeable of the ocean worlds, but they offer great riches. 7/7 David Attenborough explores the issues behind the series' most spectacular stories.
167	Beauty and the Beast (2017) #1063 FILM Main Directed by Bill Condon. With Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad. An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.
168	Kings of Swing (2017) #1065 DOCUMENTARY Main 30mins BBC, In this snap general election year BBC Parliament looks at the evolution of TV election night graphics - from the hand-painted results of the 1950s to Jeremy Vine's swingometer in a virtual Big Ben clock-tower. Featuring BBC archive and behind-the-scenes filming from the Election 2017 studio.
169	The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) #1066 FILM Main Directed by Niki Caro. With Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford. The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.
170	Logan (2017) #1067 FILM Main Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
171	Viceroy's House (2017) #1072 FILM Main Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
172	Let Me Go (2017) #1075 FILM Main Directed by Polly Steele. With Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Karin Bertling. Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother, Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.
173	Wonder Woman (2017) #1079 FILM Main Directed by Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
174	Gifted (2017) #1098 FILM Main Directed by Marc Webb. With Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer. Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
175	Dunkirk (2017) #1100 FILM Main Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
176	The Silent Child (2017) #1102 FILM Main Directed by Chris Overton. With Rachel Fielding, Philip York, Rachel Shenton, Maisie Sly. A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate. Short film - 20 mins.
177	The Pirates of Somalia (2017) #1109 FILM Main Directed by Bryan Buckley. With Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi. In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
178	Victoria & Abdul (2017) #1112 FILM Main Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
179	Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) #1115 FILM Main Directed by Angela Robinson. With Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton. The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
180	Brigsby Bear (2017) #1125 FILM Main Directed by Dave McCary. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Greg Kinnear. After being freed from his life in an underground bunker, a man sets out to make a movie of the only TV show he has ever known.

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