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Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015) #547
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Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015. |
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Solace (2015) #555
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Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer. |
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Peter Kay's Car Share (2015) #561
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With Sian Gibson, Peter Kay, Danny Swarsbrick, Gemma Facinelli. When a supermarket issues a new car share scheme. Assistant Manager John Redmond (Peter Kay) and Promotions Rep Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson) are forced to commute together every day. But will they get along? 6x30min 1/6 When a supermarket issues a car share scheme, two workers are forced to commute together. 2/6 Due to an unfortunate event at work, John and Kayleigh take the morning off. 3/6 Kayleigh is running late, but John is determined to get to work on time. 4/6 John arrives at Kayleigh's house to find her excited by the previous night's events. 5/6 It is John's nan's birthday, but he has forgotten to post her card. 6/6 Kayleigh has a lot on her mind and John is on hand to give her some unwanted advice. |
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All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride (2015) #571
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Directed by Luke Korzun Martin. 2 hours on a sleigh to the top of Sweden. |
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Sleep - Max Richter (2015) #655
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8 hours. Audio file on DVD. The audacious composer Max Richter has created an eight-hour piece meant to serve as a sleep aid. But it is more than that. For these 31 uninterrupted pieces, Richter accepts the extraordinary challenge of not only aiding sleep but also translating the act into art. If you listen while you’re awake, many of these pieces conjure dreamy states, where ideas seem fluid and flexible and the world around you seems somehow softer. |
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Bach - Six Cello Suites (2015) #656
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American cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been a regular Proms soloist for almost 40 years, and now tackles perhaps his boldest performance to date. He performs the complete Bach solo cello suites – over two hours of music – in a single concert: a feat as challenging intellectually as it is physically. Though neglected until the 20th century, the suites represent some of Bach’s greatest musical achivements – music at its purest and most profound. Ma’s relationship with them extends back over many decades and multiple recordings, generating expressive performances distinguished by their depth of emotion. |
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Bernstein – Stage and Screen (2015) #657
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2 hours. BBC Proms. John Wilson and his orchestra are an annual Proms highlight, bringing the glitz and glamour of old-time stage and screen to the Royal Albert Hall. The second of their two performances this year is all about Leonard Bernstein – America’s multitalented conductor, pianist and composer. He reinvented the musical with the anger, energy and feral beauty of West Side Story, his updated take on Romeo and Juliet. A starry cast of soloists including Proms favourite Julian Ovenden and the West End’s Louise Dearman join the John Wilson Orchestra and Maida Vale Singers for a tribute to the composer that includes Bernstein’s biggest hits as well as a selection of rarities. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e89v2m |
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The Duke And The Composer: Monteverdi In Mantua (2015) #662
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1 hour. A BBC Two documentary, The Duke And The Composer, tells the story of a Renaissance Duke and the composer who worked for him - and how their volatile relationship would create one of the most revolutionary and beautiful collections of music ever published: The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. The programme is presented by Shakespearean actor and former St Paul’s Cathedral chorister Simon Russell Beale, whose enthusiasm for choral music is matched by his gift for storytelling. Together with conductor Harry Christophers and his virtuoso choir The Sixteen, Simon explores this major turning point in Western Classical Music for the television audience. |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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The Danish Girl (2015) #797
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. |
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David Starkey's Magna Carta (2015) #833
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1 hour. BBC. We take our liberties for granted. They seem absolute and untouchable. But they are the result of a series of violent struggles fought over 800 years that, at times, have threatened to tear our society apart. On the frontline was a document originally inked on animal skin - Magna Carta. Distinguished constitutional historian David Starkey looks at the origins of the Great Charter, created in 1215 to check the abuses of King John - and how it nearly died at birth. He explores its subsequent deployment, its contribution to making everyone - even the monarch - subject to the rule of law, and how this quintessentially English document migrated to the North American colonies and eventually became the foundation of the US constitution. Magna Carta has become a universal symbol of individual freedom against the tyranny of the state, but with ever-tightening government control on our lives, is it time to resurrect it? Starkey has a special encounter with an original Magna Carta manuscript at the British Library, one of only four from 1215 to survive. He also examines other unique medieval manuscripts that trace the tumultuous history of Magna Carta, the Article of the Barons listing their demands in June 1215, and the papal bull declaring Magna Carta null and void less than two months after it was sealed. |
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Holbein: Eye of the Tudors (2015) #834
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1 hour. BBC. As Henry VIII's court painter, Hans Holbein witnessed and recorded the most notorious era in English history. He painted most of the major characters of the age and created the famous image of the king himself that everyone still recognises today. But who really was Holbein? Where did he come from? And what were the dark and unsettling secrets hidden in his art? Waldemar Januszczak looks at the life and work of an artist who became famous for bringing the Tudor age to life, but who could have been so many other things. |
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Imagine: David Chipperfield: A Place to Be (2015) #892
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75mins. BBC. The internationally renowned British architect puts substance before image, and isn't interested in a building's iconic presence on a skyline. 'How many squiggles can a city take?' he once asked. He has been described as classical, minimalist, simple, but if there is a word he would like to apply to his architecture, it is 'humane'. Alan Yentob talks to Chipperfield about his breakthrough in Berlin, his love of the city and its history and the 11 years spent on the transformation of the Neues Museum, his 'masterpiece'. After successes at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, and Turner Contemporary Margate, he is now embarking on his most prestigious project ever, a new gallery for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (2015) #901
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3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas. 1/3 The Georgian age saw courtship rules being rewritten, as romantic love was glamorised. 2/3 Lucy Worsley discovers how medieval chivalry shaped Victorian courtship. 3/3 Lucy Worsley concludes her series by looking at attitudes to romance in the 20th century. |
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Face of Britain by Simon Schama (2015) #903
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2x1 hour episodes. BBC. Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement. 3/5 The Face of Fame. Simon examines what the celebrated faces of Britain's past and present tell us. 4/5 The Look of Love. Simon explores how portraits allow us to keep the ones we love close to us. |
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All Aboard! The Canal Trip (2015) #911
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2 hours. BBC. A two-hour, real-time canal boat journey down one of Britain's most historic waterways, the Kennet and Avon Canal, from Top Lock in Bath to the Dundas Aqueduct. Using an uninterrupted single shot, the film is a rich and absorbing antidote to the frenetic pace and white noise of modern life. Taking in the images and sounds of the British countryside, underpinned by the natural soundscape of water lapping, surrounding birdsong and the noise of the chugging engine, this is a chance to spot wildlife and glimpse life on the towpath while being lulled by the comforting rhythm of a bygone era. Along the journey, graphics and archive stills embedded into the passing landscape deliver salient facts about the canal and its social history. |
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Imagine: Frank Gehry: The Architect Says (2015) #915
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75 mins. BBC. A fascinating look at the colourful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his eighties remains one of the world's most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry's buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to be broken. Alan Yentob explores Gehry's remarkable journey from poor outsider in Toronto to global 'starchitect' and follows the construction of a characteristically audacious new Gehry building in Sydney - his first in Australia. |
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Joan of Arc: God's Warrior (2015) #919
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1 hour. BBC. Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever we are acutely aware of the power of faith to drive actions for good or ill. Since her death, Joan has become an icon for almost everyone - the left and the right, Catholics and Protestants, traditionalists and feminists. But where in all of this is the real Joan - the experiences of a teenage peasant girl who achieved the seemingly impossible? Through an astonishing manuscript, we can hear Joan's own words at her trial, and as Helen unpicks Joan's story and places her back in the world that she inhabited, the real human Joan emerges. |
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The Pennine Way (2015) #925
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4x30 min episodes. Explorer Paul Rose presents a documentary on the Pennine Way, Britain's first national trail, as it celebrates its 50th birthday 1/4 Paul Rose discovers how the route has changed over the last half century. 2/4 Paul Rose visits the village of Malham in the Dales, where the Pennine Way was inaugurated 3/4 Paul Rose heads to the North Pennines and enjoys white-water rafting down the River Tees. 4/4 Paul Rose heads into Northumberland on the final stage of his Pennine Way journey. |
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Nina Conti Clowning Around (2015) #928
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1 hour. BBC. Award-winning ventriloquist Nina Conti and her much-loved puppet Monkey are a huge hit in comedy clubs around the world and stars of Live at the Apollo. But now she wants to put her skills to a more meaningful end on a much more difficult stage - entertaining children in hospitals. This film follows Nina as she trains as a giggle doctor with Theodora Children's Charity, beginning with her trying to find her clown persona, who might be Scottish... or might not. Devastated by the discovery that Monkey can only perform in hospitals if he can be boil-washed, Nina tries to go it alone with only a red nose, a few misshapen balloon animals and some slightly disappointing magic tricks. Not to mention her professional snobbery rearing up as she finds herself turning into a baby-voiced children's entertainer. Then there are the difficulties she encounters when faced with clown phobia. Following her directorial debut with Her Master's Voice which won a Grierson Award and a BAFTA nomination, Nina Conti brings us another frank and intimate documentary about her eventful two-year stint as a hospital clown. Join her to discover whether Nina raised a laugh amongst sick children or whether she cried the tears of a clown. |
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