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The Sound Of Movie Musicals With Neil Brand
Episode 3
In this final episode, Neil Brand asks how the movie musical survived in our modern age.\n\nBy the 1970s the whole landscape of cinema had shifted; the biggest movies were no lo ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Episode 20-11-2022
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. Her original compositions and soaring ...
20-11-2022
BBC 4
Black Hollywood: 'they've Gotta Have Us'
Series 1: 1. Legends And Pioneers
Episode one opens at the Oscars with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde themselves) announcing that Damien Chazelle's beloved musical La La Land had won. However, ...
01-10-2022
BBC 2
Inside Classical
Series 1: 1. Women’s Words And Voices
Georgia Mann presents a programme of contemporary classical music, written and inspired by women composers and poets. The BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Bramw ...
22-05-2022
BBC 4
Storyville
The Trial Of Ratko Mladic
The Trial of Ratko Mladic, the worst times in Europe since the Second World War and the man at the heart of them.\n\nOn the 22nd of November 2017, the Bosnian Serb general, Ratk ...
16-05-2022
BBC 4
Inside Cinema
Series 1: Meet The Family
Meet the Family, voiced by Kathy Burke (Nil by Mouth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), puts cinematic families on the analyst's couch for a deep dive into what makes some of the most ...
27-01-2022
BBC 4
Paloma Faith: As I Am
Episode 16-10-2021
Paloma Faith has sold well over a million albums with number ones all over the world, headlined Glastonbury and sung to tens of thousands every week, but now she has taken on he ...
16-10-2021
BBC 2
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: 2. Sussex
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic and unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rs ...
01-02-2025
BBC 3
Carole King And James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name
Episode 25-01-2025
Documentary feature with live performances of the songwriting partnership between multiple Grammy Award-winning artists Carole King and James Taylor. \n\nLegendary director film ...
25-01-2025
BBC 2
Maria Callas: The Final Act
Episode 05-01-2025
Known around the world for her glamour and fiery temper as much as her voice, Maria Callas was the great classical diva of modern times. \n\nThe myth of Callas is that she tragi ...
05-01-2025
BBC 2
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: Durham
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic and unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rs ...
01-01-2025
BBC 3
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: 4. Surrey
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic and unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rs ...
29-12-2024
BBC 3
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: Glasgow
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic and unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rs ...
25-12-2024
BBC 3
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: 1. Liverpool
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic & unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rsqu ...
24-12-2024
BBC 3
Jojo & Gran Gran
Autumn: 2. It's Time To Make A Film
When JoJo hears the announcement of a new Captain Chloe film on the radio, she is disheartened to learn that it won't be available to watch for some time. Luckily, Gran Gran has ...
18-12-2024
CBeebies
Movies With Ali Plumb
The Film Fan's Guide To…: 6. Norfolk
BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb explores the UK’s most iconic and unexpected film locations. Ali provides film lovers with a guide to this ‘film location nation&rs ...
13-12-2024
BBC 3
Peter Sellers: A State Of Comic Ecstasy
Episode 06-10-2024
Peter Sellers was one of the 20th century's most astonishing actors. His meteoric rise to fame - from his beginnings with Spike Milligan on BBC Radio's The Goon Show in the 1950 ...
06-10-2024
BBC 4
Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered The World
Episode 04-08-2024
An intriguing investigation into the extraordinary life of Gershwin's classic composition, Summertime. One of the most covered songs in the world, it has been recorded in almost ...
04-08-2024
BBC 4
The Secret Army
Episode 02-04-2024
The true story of a strange, lost film. In 1972, the IRA allowed an unusual documentary crew to film its members carrying out attacks. Right at the bloodiest point of the Northe ...
02-04-2024
BBC 4
The Story Of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
Episode 15-03-2024
In 1980, two Cork outsiders, Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan, met at a New Year's Eve party. Bonding over music, a friendship and songwriting partnership was ignited; the ...
15-03-2024
BBC 4
Great Railway Journeys
Series 3: 1. Crewe To Crewe With Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood makes a round trip to the north of Britain from Crewe, taking in both the east and west coasts.\n\nAlong her way, Victoria stops off at Carnforth station, location ...
03-03-2024
BBC 4
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
Episode 18-02-2024
Birds of paradise are one of David Attenborough's lifelong passions. He was the first to film many of their beautiful and often bizarre displays, and over his lifetime he has tr ...
18-02-2024
BBC 2
Hilary Mantel: Return To Wolf Hall
Episode 19-11-2023
Made across six months in the run-up to publication of The Mirror and the Light, the final book in Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning Tudor trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromw ...
19-11-2023
BBC 4
Janet Baker - In Her Own Words
Episode 20-08-2023
In her first documentary for more than 35 years, great, British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her lif ...
20-08-2023
BBC 4
Tails You Win: The Science Of Chance
Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight
Smart and witty, jam-packed with augmented-reality graphics and fascinating history, this film, presented by professor David Spiegelhalter, tries to pin down what chance is and ...
31-05-2023
BBC 4
Storyville
Welcome To Chechnya: The Gay Purge
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge lays bare the Russian Federation republic's deadly war against its gay citizens. Countless victims have been killed and hundreds more are miss ...
23-05-2023
BBC 4
Discovering...
Series 1: 3. The Bridge On The River Kwai - Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Arnold was a prolific composer of music in many genres. Over five decades his output included concertos, ballet music, dance suites, overtures and nine symphonies. H ...
18-12-2022
BBC 4
Arena
James Joyce’s Ulysses
One hundred years after its publication, this film reveals the tawdry, shocking, poetic, uplifting and gloriously kaleidoscopic humanity of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulys ...
07-09-2022
BBC 4
Dark Matter: A History Of The Afrofuture
Episode 03-07-2022
The arc of black history shares an uncanny resemblance to the plot points of classic sci-fi including ‘alien’ abduction, enslavement and rebellion. It’s this u ...
03-07-2022
BBC 4
The Golden Age Of Canals
Episode 03-05-2022
Most people thought that when the working traffic on canals faded away after the war, it would be the end of their story. But they were wrong. A few diehard enthusiasts and boat ...
03-05-2022
BBC 4
Love And Hate Crime
Series 1: 2. Murder In Mississippi
When a black man is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi, an FBI investigation uncovers a campaign of attacks by local white kids. But what is the true role of one 18-year-old girl? ...
19-04-2022
BBC 1
Upstream
Episode 06-02-2022
Upstream is a new film by the writer Robert Macfarlane and the director Rob Petit. The film, which is shot entirely from the air, follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland ...
06-02-2022
BBC 4
John Berger: The Art Of Looking
Episode 10-01-2022
Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday, this is an intimate portrait of the late writer and art critic whose groundbreaking work on seeing has shap ...
10-01-2022
BBC 4
Arena
Painted With My Hair
Painted with My Hair is inspired by the paintings, poetry and letters of Donny Johnson, an exceptionally intelligent and talented US lifer, who has been locked away inside his c ...
31-10-2021
BBC 4
David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Series 1: Episode 5
There was nothing predictable about David Bowie. Everything was designed to intrigue, to challenge, to defy all expectations. But perhaps no period in David Bowie's extraordinar ...
08-01-2021
BBC 2
Earth: One Amazing Day
Episode 28-11-2020
This feature-length film tells the story of life on earth in the course of one single day, narrated by Robert Redford and made by BBC Earth Films.\n \nFilmed using cutting-edge ...
28-11-2020
BBC 2
Bbc Children In Need
2020: Life In Lockdown
Emma Willis narrates a special film for BBC Children in Need, a powerful, uplifting and touching portrait of how resilient children and young people can be in the face of a glob ...
17-11-2020
BBC 1
Inside Cinema
Black History Month: 1. Jordan Peele
Documentary that explores the work of Jordan Peele, an era-defining horror auteur, incisive social critic and influential media mogul. Peele, who started out as a comedian with ...
12-10-2020
BBC 4
My Life
Series 9: 7. Locked-in Boy
This informative, moving film is authored by Jonathan, an extraordinary, smart, funny, ten-year-old, who for the first eight years of his life was 'locked' in his body - unable ...
09-08-2020
CBBC
Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
Episode 03-05-2020
Angela Carter's surreal imagination produced some of the most dazzling fiction of the last century. Pioneering her own distinctive brand of 'magic realism,' works like The Magic ...
03-05-2020
BBC 2
Dwarfs In Art: A New Perspective
Episode 22-04-2020
This documentary explores the lives of dwarfs through centuries of representations in art and culture, revealing society's shifting attitudes towards people with dwarfism.\n\nPr ...
22-04-2020
BBC 4
Johnny Kingdom's Year With The Birds
Episode 2
Johnny Kingdom, gravedigger-turned-amateur film-maker spends a year recording the bird life in and around his home on his beloved Exmoor.\n\nJohnny has spent three years creatin ...
04-09-2019
BBC 4
Japan's Secret Shame
Episode 19-08-2019
This film tells the moving story of 29-year-old Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, who in May 2017 shocked Japan when she went public with allegations that she was raped by a well- ...
19-08-2019
BBC 2
Horizon
2018: 1. My Amazing Brain: Richard's War
Horizon follows the story of Richard Gray and his remarkable recovery from a life-changing catastrophic stroke. The film shows the rarely seen journey back to recovery. Recorded ...
08-04-2019
BBC 2
What Do Artists Do All Day?
Anoushka Shankar
As part of the Big British Asian Summer season, What Do Artists Do All Day? celebrates prominent Asian artists and performers.\n\nIn 2017, internationally renowned sitar player ...
26-02-2019
BBC 4
The Joy Of Logic
Episode 10-01-2019
A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning The Joy ...
10-01-2019
BBC 4
Horizon
2018: 12. Diagnosis On Demand? The Computer Will See You Now
Could a machine replace your doctor? Dr Hannah Fry explores the incredible ways AI is revolutionising healthcare - and what this means for all of us. This film chronicles the in ...
29-11-2018
BBC 2
Saying Goodbye
Episode 01-12-2017
Every day in the UK over a hundred children face the death of their mum or dad. Behind this statistic are many untold and heart-rending stories. Saying Goodbye, a special film f ...
01-12-2017
BBC 1
Mark Kermode's Secrets Of Cinema
Series 1: 5. Horror
Mark Kermode continues his fresh and very personal look at the art of cinema by examining the techniques and conventions behind classic film genres, uncovering the ingredients t ...
01-04-2025
BBC 4
Dreaming Whilst Black
Series 1: 6. The Premiere
Kwabena and Amy have finally made their film. Kwabena is now focused on getting agents to come to the screening, with the hope of being signed.\n\nKwabena is riding high after f ...
24-03-2025
BBC 3