| 81 |
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. |
| 82 |
Testament of Youth (2014) #978
FILM
Main
Directed by James Kent. With Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West. A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. |
| 83 |
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. |
| 84 |
Ambassadors (2013) #558
COMEDY
Main
With David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan. The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tajbekistan. 3x1hour. Episodes 1,2,3 |
| 85 |
Educating Yorkshire (2013) #565
DOCUMENTARY
Main
With Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Burton, Ryan Ward, Mr. Steer. "Educating Yorkshire is a British documentary television series broadcast on Channel 4. The eight-episode first series was first broadcast on 5 September 2013. It follows the everyday lives of the staff and students of Thornhill Community Academy, a secondary school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. A Christmas special entitled Educating Yorkshire At Christmas was aired on 19 December 2013." Copied ... 50 mins. Channel 4. Final Episode |
| 86 |
The Great British Year (2013) #572
DOCUMENTARY
Main
With Joseph Fiennes. 2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC. |
| 87 |
The Great British Year (2013) #573
DOCUMENTARY
Main
With Joseph Fiennes. 2x1 hour. Summer, Autumn. BBC. |
| 88 |
The Railway Man (2013) #611
FILM
Main,Disk
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. |
| 89 |
Rupert Murdoch - Battle With Britain (2013) #744
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. In the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused of corrupting British media and contaminating politics. Yet the caricature image of him as the 'Dirty Digger', the sinister head of a global media empire, in fact obscures deeper, more significant truths - not least about Britain itself. Rupert Murdoch can be seen as an agent of change, a revolutionary almost, who has been a vital part of the transformation of Britain over the last 45 years. He rode the wave of social change that swept a gloomy postwar country into the modern world and his ability to understand what people wanted and give it to them made him rich and powerful. Yet his part in this cultural, political and industrial revolution also brought Rupert Murdoch into conflict with the establishment and vested interests in all their guises. It may even have ultimately cost him his life's ambition - to see the business he has built carried on inside the family by one of his children. Steve Hewlett tells the story of Rupert Murdoch's 40-year battle with Britain. |
| 90 |
Imagine: McCullin (2013) #760
DOCUMENTARY
Main
95 mins. BBC. imagine... presents McCullin, a powerful documentary portrait of legendary British war photographer and photojournalist Don McCullin. Told through a series of searingly honest and often graphic interviews, McCullin recounts a life lived in the theatre of war - from his first assignment with the violent teenage gangs on his home turf of Finsbury Park, to capturing international conflicts of the past 50 years. The film lays bare McCullin's disgust for the destruction of human life, juxtaposed with the adrenaline rush of a life spent under enemy fire. |
| 91 |
National Theatre Live: This House (2013) #1273
FILM
Main
Directed by Jeremy Herrin. With Reece Dinsdale, Charles Edwards, Phil Daniels, Julian Wadham. This House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament. |
| 92 |
Restless (2012) #108
FILM
Main
Directed by Edward Hall. With Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon. A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since. |
| 93 |
Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain (2012) #724
DOCUMENTARY
Main
BBC. 3x1 hour episodes. Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history. |
| 94 |
The Story of Musicals (2012) #732
DOCUMENTARY
Main
3x1 hour episodes. BBC. Series which tells how the British musical became a driving force behind musical theatre around the world - a tale of shows, daring, rivalries, talent and fortunes set in just a single square mile |
| 95 |
A Ventriloquist's Story: Her Masters Voice (2012) #733
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven, the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his prodigy in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before. Nina Conti's funny, highly original and poignant documentary, takes us on two journeys. A personal journey, and a professional one, through the strange, surprising and often hilarious world of ventriloquism. When Nina was just another twenty-something wannabe actress, Ken presented her with a teach-yourself ventriloquism kit. This set her on a path to becoming a sell-out act in Britain and abroad, with a clutch of major awards. On the road, Nina brings all the puppets to life as struggles to meet the conflicting demands of her old acerbic partner Monkey, and the new characters she has been bequeathed. But one puppet remains silent. Ken's doll of himself sits mournful and judgemental in the hotel bedroom. Nina cannot find her master's voice and until she does, she will not be able to lay her old life to rest. Never has watching someone talk to themselves been this interesting. |
| 96 |
The Christmas No.1 Story (2012) #750
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. This hour-long documentary takes us on a journey back through 60 years of British Christmases via the pop songs we put at the top of the most important chart of the year. From The Beatles to Mr Blobby, Harry Belafonte to the Human League and Benny Hill to the Military Wives, the Christmas number one is unpredictable to say the least and tells its own unique story of the past half-century of British pop culture. This show looks back through the decades at the personalities and circumstances that gave rise to these, songs immortalised by their competition in the race for Christmas number one. Expect wars, charity, stupidity, nostalgia and some cracking good tunes jingling along the way... With contributions from the artists themselves including Rolf Harris, Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Boney M, Johnny Mathis, Midge Ure, Shakin' Stevens, Sir Cliff Richard, Jason Donovan, East 17 and Alexandra Burke. Also featuring a select cast of commentators including Pete Waterman, Rev. Richard Coles, Tony Blackburn and Edith Bowman. |
| 97 |
The Grammar School: A Secret History (2012) #777
DOCUMENTARY
Main
2x1 hour episodes. BBC. 1/2 Personal stories and archive footage reveal the secret history of British grammar schools. 2/2 A look at the golden age of grammar schools in the 1950s and 60s and their sudden demise. |
| 98 |
Make Bradford British (2012) #781
DOCUMENTARY
Main
2x1 hour episodes. Channel 4. |
| 99 |
A Ventriloquist's Story: Her Masters Voice (2012) #785
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to Vent Haven, the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his prodigy in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before. Nina Conti's funny, highly original and poignant documentary, takes us on two journeys. A personal journey, and a professional one, through the strange, surprising and often hilarious world of ventriloquism. When Nina was just another twenty-something wannabe actress, Ken presented her with a teach-yourself ventriloquism kit. This set her on a path to becoming a sell-out act in Britain and abroad, with a clutch of major awards. On the road, Nina brings all the puppets to life as struggles to meet the conflicting demands of her old acerbic partner Monkey, and the new characters she has been bequeathed. But one puppet remains silent. Ken's doll of himself sits mournful and judgemental in the hotel bedroom. Nina cannot find her master's voice and until she does, she will not be able to lay her old life to rest. Never has watching someone talk to themselves been this interesting. |
| 100 |
The Iron Lady (2011) #88
FILM
Main
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown. An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene. |
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