BBC4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/ Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were brought to the market. This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age. Charles Wheeler presents a documentary uncovering how Czechoslovakia drove millions of ethnic Germans from their homes in 1945, a mass expulsion sanctioned by wartime Allies and costing thousands of lives. Adaptation of Michael Frayn's award-winning drama, based on a pivotal meeting in 1941 between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, whose work together had paved the way for the building of the atomic bomb but who now found themselves on opposite sides in the war. Paul Rose tells the true story of an eventful voyage as he explores how Captain James Cook's discoveries changed the world. In 1768, Cook set sail to observe the Transit of Venus - at least, that's what the Portuguese were told. Instead, his real mission was to discover the vast southern continent that, it was believed, `balanced the Earth'. vijesti Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Britain's inoffensive pop conquerors of America, who anticipated the sound that the Monkee's would later call their own, perform Something is Happening on The Wednesday Show in 1968. Peter Noone leads the band on the song that made number 6 in the Swiss charts. More tongue-in-cheek action with the caped crusader and his faithful sidekick. Can the Duo escape from the cakey quicksand? With the aid of Batrockets they might. Meanwhile, the Riddler has captured a general and the molecular deconstructor. What will he do with it? Series charting a trek across the Sahara Desert. After a brief stopover in cosmopolitan Senegal, Michael endures two nights aboard the train to Bamako, where he meets up with the renowned kora player Toumani Diabete. Meanwhile, the Dogon people of West Africa introduce Michael to some of their origin myths, and a trip down the River Niger turns out to be far from plain sailing. It's fortunate for us that American steel magnate brothers Harry and Bolling Wright loved to travel and take photos. The resulting footage of their trips to Papua New Guinea, Australia and around the Mediterranean offer a poignant view of how tourism has changed the world. RT reviewer - Jane Rackham In the 1980s, Chuck Connelly's paintings sold for thousands of dollars. He was even the inspiration for a segment of Martin Scorsese's New York Stories. But Chuck sabotaged his own career - mainly because he never knew when to shut up, and alienated most of his supporters. Now, despite a prolific output, he has trouble paying the bills. Jeff Stimmel's portrait, for Storyville, filmed over five years when Connelly was at an all-time low, is difficult viewing: Chuck rages and swears, especially when drunk, a Documentary examining the links between Scotland's modern history and oil. BBC Scotland News business reporter Hayley Millar attempts to separate the myths from facts as she charts Scotland's economic progress since the first barrel of oil was pumped from the North Sea onto the country's shores more than 30 years ago. Series in which three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in 1927. Over the next 3 weeks we discover whether the community will survive without a microwave, mobile, fast car or fast food. Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were brought to the market. This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age. Documentary exploring the contradictions and passions of painter Chuck Connelly. Riding the same 1980s wave as Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Connelly seemed destined for art-world stardom. But unable to straightjacket his strong opinions and unorthodox behaviour, Connelly sabotaged his career and squandered his talent. Through interviews, intimate family videos and lively representations of Connelly's work, director Jeff Stimmel vividly captures the paradox of Connelly's repellant yet compellin Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were brought to the market. This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age. vijesti This superb series delights with a clutch of extreme birders. One counts reed warblers, while others count puffins on a Scottish rock. Plus DUP politician Jim Wells stalks peregrine falcons. What could be better than watching our wildlife and the enthusiasts who care most for them? Extraordinary. RT reviewer - Geoff Ellis First in a three-part documentary series on how holiday and travel programmes have changed the British public's attitude to other countries and cultures over the years. Including clips from shows such as Richard Dimbleby's Passport, Cliff Michelmore's Holiday in 1969, and from the reports of Alan Whicker. Why do people travel to inhospitable places? It's pure curiosity, according to Eric Newby, author of the classic travel book, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. He's the first of three restless adventurers whose journeys are celebrated by Benedict Allen, a man who's been to a few places himself. Here, he travels in Newby's footsteps into the mountains of Afghanistan. The journey starts like a biography but, with the help of Newby's widow Wanda, and travelling companion Hugh Carless, it soon becomes a colourfu Iain Stewart tours the perilous and spectacular landscape of the Pacific Rim to discover how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped human history. In this edition, he visits the world's most awesome volcanoes in Indonesia. One huge eruption may have wiped out up to three quarters of the world's population. Other mighty explosions caused famine in Europe and the US and influenced all aspects of society. Series of unique concerts featuring musicians from around the world. This edition features American singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash, who reflects on her 25-year musical career. Her acclaimed album Black Cadillac confronts the recent losses of her father Johnny Cash, her mother Vivian Liberto and her stepmother June Carter Cash. The concert features songs from Black Cadillac, 80s country hits and covers of Johnny Cash's Tennessee Flat Top Box and Big River. Four amateur naturalists get to grips with Britain's birds. One devotee wades through acres of reed beds, up to twice his height, in pursuit of a tiny, brown, long distance flier. Another scales the heights, clambering up mountains and scouring quarries to study the Peregrine falcon. Two men journey to an uninhabited rock, 40 miles off the North coast of Scotland, to research puffins. Another walks hundreds of miles around local farms, scouting them out for bird life. Benedict Allen follows the travels of quintessential British amateur traveller Eric Newby. Born in suburban Hammersmith between the Wars, Newby was dismissed by his public school as 'not clever', and his life became a catalogue of challenges. As a teenager he went to sea to serve as a deck hand, sailing around Cape Horn. During the Great War he joined the Special Boat Squadron, where he was captured and escaped from an Italian POW camp during which time he met his wife of 60 years, Wanda. Newby itched to d Iain Stewart tours the perilous and spectacular landscape of the Pacific Rim to discover how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped human history. In this edition, he visits the world's most awesome volcanoes in Indonesia. One huge eruption may have wiped out up to three quarters of the world's population. Other mighty explosions caused famine in Europe and the US and influenced all aspects of society. Four amateur naturalists get to grips with Britain's birds. One devotee wades through acres of reed beds, up to twice his height, in pursuit of a tiny, brown, long distance flier. Another scales the heights, clambering up mountains and scouring quarries to study the Peregrine falcon. Two men journey to an uninhabited rock, 40 miles off the North coast of Scotland, to research puffins. Another walks hundreds of miles around local farms, scouting them out for bird life. Benedict Allen follows the travels of quintessential British amateur traveller Eric Newby. Born in suburban Hammersmith between the Wars, Newby was dismissed by his public school as 'not clever', and his life became a catalogue of challenges. As a teenager he went to sea to serve as a deck hand, sailing around Cape Horn. During the Great War he joined the Special Boat Squadron, where he was captured and escaped from an Italian POW camp during which time he met his wife of 60 years, Wanda. Newby itched to d vijesti Documentary series following Rev Christine Musser in her Cornish parish. Events leading up to the flash flood on 16 August 2004 that devastated the village and its aftermath. Three-part series looking at British classical musical life from the end of World War Two to the present day. The immediate post-war years were two decades of change characterised by rivalries between composers of genius, by the rise of extraordinary and influential performers and by an audience hungry for new experiences in a country searching for a peacetime identity. A feature-length documentary on the record label that, almost by accident, became home for an army of soul legends. The story's familiar, so how well told is it? No preview DVD was available, but contributors include Elvis Costello, Pete Townshend and Justin Timberlake. Guaranteed to be worth watching is what follows at 10.55pm: a film of Stax's travelling revue, captured in Norway in 1967 and featuring Otis Redding, Arthur Conley and the incandescent Sam and Dave. RT reviewer - Jack Seale Classic concert filmed in Norway during the 1967 Stax tour featuring performances from the soul legends signed to this famous US record label. Includes live sets by Booker T & The MGs (Green Onions and Red Beans And Rice); Arthur Conley (Sweet Soul Music and In The Midnight Hour), Sam and Dave (Hold On and I'm Coming), Eddie Floyd (Raise Your Hand), the Mar-Keys (Philly Dog and Last Night) and a barnstorming, five-song set by Otis Redding that includes Try A Little Tenderness, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 60s-style action adventure. Steed discovers size does matter when tackling a scientist's devious deputy. Adventure series. An amnesiac agent leads to Emma's disappearance and Steed's reliance on an enthusiastic new recruit, Tara King. The swansong episode for Emma Peel. A look at the decisive moments of the latter 20th century through the eyes of the late Charles Wheeler. One of journalism's most dedicated yet modest professionals, Wheeler was at the forefront of world news reporting for over 50 years. Contributors include Jeremy Paxman, John Simpson and son-in-law Boris Johnson. Charles Wheeler presents a documentary uncovering how Czechoslovakia drove millions of ethnic Germans from their homes in 1945, a mass expulsion sanctioned by wartime Allies and costing thousands of lives. Three-part series looking at British classical musical life from the end of World War Two to the present day. The immediate post-war years were two decades of change characterised by rivalries between composers of genius, by the rise of extraordinary and influential performers and by an audience hungry for new experiences in a country searching for a peacetime identity. Comedy drama originally broadcast in 1980. A time traveller from 2130 is studying the London transport system. Although his role should be strictly that of an observer, he sets off on a quest of his own and complicates matters by falling in love. Classic edition of the esteemed quiz when London cabbie Fred Housego won the 1980 title. Contenders and specialist subjects: Fred Housego - Tower of London; John Keogh - House of Godwin, 1016-66; Samuel Mortimer - Life and works of Joseph Haydn; Ingram Wilcox - The Crusades 1095-1192. This beautifully put together film, shown as part of BBC4's Cab Night, peeks inside the cab of the London taxi driver. And it's well worth the fare. There are revealing interviews with old-timers such as Roy who took his first fare in 1938 and has definite views on this solitary and much-maligned job. And with Len who, after 20 years' cabbing, stood in Trafalgar Square and apologised to London's nine million inhabitants for all the times he was rude to them. But just as entertaining are snippets from Carry Tiff Needell trawls through the archives of the car magazine programme. Jeremy Clarkson tries his hand at being a taxi driver. Steve Berry patrols the streets of Bolton in an American yellow cab. Quentin Wilson tests the TX1- London's latest taxi. Jack Rosenthal's acclaimed play about the lives of four trainee London black cab drivers. The story follows the apprentice cabbies in the pursuit of their dream. The quartet consists of a hen-pecked man pushed into it by his girlfriend, another who comes from a family of cabbies, a disgruntled middle-aged man who wants to try something different and a Romeo who uses the Knowledge to spend time with his girlfriends around London. Documentary which uncovers the rigorous training required to become a London cabbie - a process which terrifies the people who put themselves through it. Learning to recite the routes of London takes years, and the repeated appearances before the Public Carriage Office examiners are far more stressful than most job interviews. This film reveals the mysteries of an institution little changed since Victorian times. Documentary in which Jonathan Ross tries to track down and interview one of his heroes, the reclusive 80-year-old American comic book artist Steve Ditko, creator of Spiderman. Ditko has never given an interview and consistently, if politely, declines all offers to talk about his work. Ross travels to glamorous LA, exciting New York and chilly Northampton to meet with fellow fans and comic book professionals such as Alan Moore and Paul Gambaccini in order to discover more about the man. Documentary which gets to the heart of that much-maligned and stereotyped character, the London cabbie, using archive footage, music and film, as well as the drivers themselves. The series investigating great machines that refuse to die continues with a look at the FX4 London Taxi, which for over 30 years enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the streets of the capital. The arrival of a competitor, in the shape of the Metrocab, threatened to make the FX4 obsolete, until it was saved by a new Japanese engine and changes to the trim. Warren Clarke narrates the story of London's mobile landmark. Documentary which gets to the heart of that much-maligned and stereotyped character, the London cabbie, using archive footage, music and film, as well as the drivers themselves. Deep in the Welsh valleys three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in 1927. The families are beginning to settle into the punishing routine of a 1927 mining community, but the men face a tough training period to equip them for life at the coal face. The children learn how to cope with school and discipline, and the mams get to grips with mangles, ranges and the first tin bath. As part of the Messiaen centenary celebrations, Suzy Klein introduces a Prom consisting entirely of his monumental choral work La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ. Thierry Fischer conducts the seven instrumental soloists, BBC National Orchestra, Chorus of Wales and BBC Symphony Chorus. A look at the life and work of photographer Frank Hurley, who captured some of the earliest images of the world's most remote places. The cinematographer on Ernest Shackleton's doomed Endurance expedition to the Antarctic, Hurley also photographed both World Wars and explored New Guinea. But today's experts believe some of his pictures to be elaborate fakes ? was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera? Drama based on events during Captain Scott's two-year scientific mission in Antarctica prior to his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912. Three of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Dr Bill Wilson and Lieutenant 'Birdie' Bowers, faced a terrible to bring back Emperor penguin eggs which they hoped would prove an evolutionary link between reptiles and birds. The ill-equipped, under-prepared expedition nearly cost the three men their lives. Documentary telling the story of Stax, one of the most influential soul record labels ever. Founded in a black neighbourhood of Memphis by a white brother and sister in the 1960s as a studio with an open-door policy, the label went on to sign such iconic acts as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and their house band, Booker T and the MGs. Featuring interviews with Jesse Jackson, Elvis Costello, Chuck D, Justin Timberlake, Bono and Pete Townshend. Classic concert filmed in Norway during the 1967 Stax tour featuring performances from the soul legends signed to this famous US record label. Includes live sets by Booker T & The MGs (Green Onions and Red Beans And Rice); Arthur Conley (Sweet Soul Music and In The Midnight Hour), Sam and Dave (Hold On and I'm Coming), Eddie Floyd (Raise Your Hand), the Mar-Keys (Philly Dog and Last Night) and a barnstorming, five-song set by Otis Redding that includes Try A Little Tenderness, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction As part of the Messiaen centenary celebrations, Suzy Klein introduces a Prom consisting entirely of his monumental choral work La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ. Thierry Fischer conducts the seven instrumental soloists, BBC National Orchestra, Chorus of Wales and BBC Symphony Chorus. vijesti Suzy Klein introduces a Prom which celebrates the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's 5th Symphony with a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor David Robertson. To celebrate Elliott Carter's 100th birthday, Nicholas Daniel performs Carter's single-movement Oboe Concerto, while the concert open with a full-string version of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, originally written as the final movement of one of his late string quartets. Two-part adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs. The team's success is threatened when two of its members compete for the affections of a missionary's daughter, and is further endangered by the possibility of an enemy within the group. Two-part adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel. Professor Challenger's quest to find living dinosaurs is in peril. The explorers find themselves trapped on the plateau high above the Amazon jungle, surrounded by prehistoric horrors. Benedict Allen follows the travels of quintessential British amateur traveller Eric Newby. Born in suburban Hammersmith between the Wars, Newby was dismissed by his public school as 'not clever', and his life became a catalogue of challenges. As a teenager he went to sea to serve as a deck hand, sailing around Cape Horn. During the Great War he joined the Special Boat Squadron, where he was captured and escaped from an Italian POW camp during which time he met his wife of 60 years, Wanda. Newby itched to d Documentary which gets to the heart of that much-maligned and stereotyped character, the London cabbie, using archive footage, music and film, as well as the drivers themselves. Suzy Klein introduces a Prom which celebrates the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's 5th Symphony with a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor David Robertson. To celebrate Elliott Carter's 100th birthday, Nicholas Daniel performs Carter's single-movement Oboe Concerto, while the concert open with a full-string version of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, originally written as the final movement of one of his late string quartets. Benedict Allen follows the travels of quintessential British amateur traveller Eric Newby. Born in suburban Hammersmith between the Wars, Newby was dismissed by his public school as 'not clever', and his life became a catalogue of challenges. As a teenager he went to sea to serve as a deck hand, sailing around Cape Horn. During the Great War he joined the Special Boat Squadron, where he was captured and escaped from an Italian POW camp during which time he met his wife of 60 years, Wanda. Newby itched to d vijesti A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny, which had been a hit in the UK for Cher and Georgie Fame. Adventures with the caped crusader. On the trail of counterfeit notes, Batman discovers that the chief teller at Gotham National Bank is a Joker-controlled robot raising funds for the Joker's Penthouse Publisher comic book company. Robin is captured and about to be pressed flat into a comic book. Explorer Paul Rose tells the story of his hero Fridjtof Nansen who, in 1892, announced a daring plan to be first to the North Pole, an idea considered so off-the-wall that no scientist would join him. He let his ship become stuck in the pack ice, hoping it would drift to the Pole, and then set off on foot. Nansen became the forefather of polar exploration, inventing practical techniques that today allow people to survive, travel and work in the most hostile and forbidding places on our planet. Documentary series about the leisure and tourism industry. This edition looks at activity holidays, and in particular specialist sailing company, Sunsail. It has already got the world's largest yacht fleet, now it is ploughing millions into resorts, the flagship of which is Club Phokaia on Turkey's Aegean coast. But the hotel is run down, and in some places even dangerous, so Sunsail want development manager Andy Hancock to transform it into a five star resort in just five months. Scratch beneath the surface of po-faced British respectability and you'll find a wealth of great characters. Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller star in a brand new sketch show. Drama based on the true story of an outrageous medieval heist. When Dick Puddlecote is released from a Flanders jail in 1302 to discover his friends, his livelihood and his woman are all in hock to the King, he decides to exact revenge by breaking into the vault at Westminster Abbey and stealing all the King's gold. There's just one catch - failure would earn him and his gang ruthless torture, swift punishment and potentially an eternity in hell. Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were brought to the market. This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age.