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Saturday 18 June
For generations, the Kennedy family held America and the whole world in thrall. The entire clan - grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren - were part of a dynasty JFK's father had planned would last forever. But as tragedy struck again and again, the children would have to cope with death and disaster.
Based on private home movies and the memoirs of the nannies who looked after them, this is the inside story of growing up in one of the twentieth century's most powerful families.
Discussion/Debate
9:45-10:45pm BBC2
SynopsisIn the 50th anniversary year of the inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United State, Jonathan Freedland chairs a Culture Show discussion on our enduring fascination with the man, his short-lived administration and the extraordinary political family from which he came.
Historian Professor Tony Badger, veteran newsman John Sergeant, political commentator Anne McElvoy and Sarah Bradford, biographer of Jackie Kennedy, will debate the myths and the realities of JFK as well as the controversies surrounding the new American miniseries 'The Kennedys'.
In an accompanying short film, Joel Surnow, executive producer of 'The Kennedys', talks about the making the miniseries and the controversy that engulfed it.
Drama / Biographical
10:45-11:25pm BBC2, 1&2/8
Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes star as President John F Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, in this gripping drama series, charting the triumph and the tragedy of the first couple.
Monday 20 June
Documentary
Born To Be Wild
7:30-8:00 BBC4 Mammals -1/6
Series in which amateur naturalists explain their passions. In the first part mammal watchers come under the spotlight - dedicated people, since most of our furry creatures are extremely difficult to see. We go with them into the rafters of a haunted mansion to spot bats, into the depths of a wood to discover a sleepy dormouse and stand out in the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of a brown hare. Thanks to these amateurs, Britain has the best known wildlife of any country on Earth.
Documentary
Dispatches: Conservation's Dirty Secrets
8:00pm-9:00pm, Channel 4
Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction which is engulfing the planet, has got some of its conservation priorities wrong.
The film examines the way the big conservation charities are run. It questions why some work with polluting big businesses to raise money and are alienating the very people they need in order to stem the loss of species from earth.
Conservation is massively important but few dare to question the movement. Some critics argue that it is in part getting it wrong, and as a consequence, some of the flora and fauna it seeks to save are facing oblivion.
Documentary
Four Of A Kind
9:00pm-10:00pm ITV1
The Carles household is home to one of Britain's most extraordinary families: Meet Ellie, Georgie, Jessica and Holly - the UK's only identical quadruplets.
The Carles quads are miracles of nature, conceived against odds of 1 in 64 million. They are identical, monochorionic quadruplets - super rare babies formed when one fertilized egg splits four times creating four identical embryos all sharing the same placenta. The odds of their survival are so small that just one other set of identical monochorionic quads is known to be alive in the world today.
Over a period of months, the Carles family allow cameras into their Bedfordshire home to follow these miracle girls in the run up to their fifth birthday, sharing with them some of the milestones of their lives from Christmas, to their first swimming lesson to their first day of term.
The programme also explores how the girls are growing up and changing, and using psychological testing it examines how different the quads really are. And for Mum Julie, a trip to America to meet some teenage identical quads gives her a glimpse of what the future holds.
“I think as they grow, they develop, and their differences become more different, I think our lives will probably be busier, maybe more complicated,” says Julie when she comes back from visiting the teenage quads. “The homework, how are we gonna do four different sets of homework? There’s the wanting to look different, the peer pressure from other friends, the different friends they might have, boys, oh my God! Boys!”.
This is an intimate portrait of an extraordinary family that tries to answer the big question - what's it really like to be Four of a Kind?
Documentary
Vatican: The Hidden World
BBC4 19:00-11:00pm
To mark the papal visit to the UK, a camera crew has spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world's smallest sovereign state.
Archivists reveal the Vatican's secrets, including the signed testimony of Galileo recorded by the Inquisition. A cardinal journeys deep below St Peter's Basilica to inspect the site claimed to be tomb of the saint himself, and curators share a private viewing of Michelangelo's extraordinary decoration of the Sistine Chapel.
An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions.
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Tuesday 21 June
Documentary
Abused: Breaking The Silence
10:35pm-11:25pm BBC1
In 2009, over a hundred former pupils from two Catholic prep schools in England and Tanzania were reunited via the internet. Chatting in cyberspace, they discovered they had all suffered terrible abuse at school: mental, physical and, in some cases, sexual. As young children they were frightened into silence by their abusers.
Now, as men in their fifties and sixties, and strengthened by the group, they want the truth to come out. Twenty two men have started legal proceedings against the Rosminian Order for compensation. They want justice. But half a century has passed, and their abusers are now elderly. What will it take to repair the damage and for the victims to feel able to move on?
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Wednesday 22 June
Documentary
True Stories: Neda
12:45-2.15am BBC4
The Mentorn Media produced film, ‘For Neda’, follows the story of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot dead on June 20th 2009 on the streets of Tehran. Within hours of her death Neda’s dying moments, captured on cell phones, were appearing on computer screens across the world.
Award-winning filmmaker, Antony Thomas and undercover Iranian journalist, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, reveal who this young woman was and why she became a powerful symbol for millions. The film not only tells the plight of the Iranian citizens who peacefully fought to free their country from its current government regime but also the on-going struggle the women of Iran face every day in an attempt to live a fair and oppressed-free life.
Documentary
The Wonder Of Weeds
9.00-10:00pm BBC4
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops.
Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.
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Thursday 23 June
Documentary
Planet Of The Apemen
8:00pm-9:00pm BBC1, 1/2
Homo Erectus. In the not-too-distant past, humans shared this planet with other species of hominid. This series tells how, against all the odds, Homo sapiens survived. This episode is set 75,000 years ago in India, following a catastrophic super-volcanic eruption which forced a showdown between our ancestors and a completely different species of human, Homo erectus, who up until that point had reigned supreme.
Documentary
Unnatural Histories
11:45pm-12:45am BBC4, Amazon 3/3
Series looking at how three of the world's most iconic wild places have been shaped by man. The Amazon rainforest is the epitome of a last great wilderness under threat from modern man. It has become an international cause celebre for environmentalists as agricultural and industrial interests bent on felling trees encroach into virgin forest. But the latest evidence suggests that the Amazon is not what it seems. As more trees are felled, the story of a less natural Amazon is revealed - manmade structures, even cities, hidden for centuries under what was believed to be untouched forest. Archaeologists are discovering ancient, fertile soils that can only have been produced by sophisticated agriculture across the Amazon basin. This evidence sheds new light on long-dismissed accounts from the first conquistadors of an Amazon teeming with people and threatens to turn our notion of wilderness on its head. If even the Amazon turns out to be unnatural, what then for the future of wilderness?
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Friday 24 June
Drama / biographical
The Kennedys
9:00pm-9.45pm BBC4, 3/8
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*This applies to staff members and students at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.
7:30-8:00 BBC4 Mammals -1/6
Series in which amateur naturalists explain their passions. In the first part mammal watchers come under the spotlight - dedicated people, since most of our furry creatures are extremely difficult to see. We go with them into the rafters of a haunted mansion to spot bats, into the depths of a wood to discover a sleepy dormouse and stand out in the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of a brown hare. Thanks to these amateurs, Britain has the best known wildlife of any country on Earth.
Documentary
Dispatches: Conservation's Dirty Secrets
8:00pm-9:00pm, Channel 4
Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction which is engulfing the planet, has got some of its conservation priorities wrong.
The film examines the way the big conservation charities are run. It questions why some work with polluting big businesses to raise money and are alienating the very people they need in order to stem the loss of species from earth.
Conservation is massively important but few dare to question the movement. Some critics argue that it is in part getting it wrong, and as a consequence, some of the flora and fauna it seeks to save are facing oblivion.
Documentary
Four Of A Kind
9:00pm-10:00pm ITV1
The Carles household is home to one of Britain's most extraordinary families: Meet Ellie, Georgie, Jessica and Holly - the UK's only identical quadruplets.
The Carles quads are miracles of nature, conceived against odds of 1 in 64 million. They are identical, monochorionic quadruplets - super rare babies formed when one fertilized egg splits four times creating four identical embryos all sharing the same placenta. The odds of their survival are so small that just one other set of identical monochorionic quads is known to be alive in the world today.
Over a period of months, the Carles family allow cameras into their Bedfordshire home to follow these miracle girls in the run up to their fifth birthday, sharing with them some of the milestones of their lives from Christmas, to their first swimming lesson to their first day of term.
The programme also explores how the girls are growing up and changing, and using psychological testing it examines how different the quads really are. And for Mum Julie, a trip to America to meet some teenage identical quads gives her a glimpse of what the future holds.
“I think as they grow, they develop, and their differences become more different, I think our lives will probably be busier, maybe more complicated,” says Julie when she comes back from visiting the teenage quads. “The homework, how are we gonna do four different sets of homework? There’s the wanting to look different, the peer pressure from other friends, the different friends they might have, boys, oh my God! Boys!”.
This is an intimate portrait of an extraordinary family that tries to answer the big question - what's it really like to be Four of a Kind?
Documentary
Vatican: The Hidden World
BBC4 19:00-11:00pm
To mark the papal visit to the UK, a camera crew has spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world's smallest sovereign state.
Archivists reveal the Vatican's secrets, including the signed testimony of Galileo recorded by the Inquisition. A cardinal journeys deep below St Peter's Basilica to inspect the site claimed to be tomb of the saint himself, and curators share a private viewing of Michelangelo's extraordinary decoration of the Sistine Chapel.
An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions.
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Tuesday 21 June
Documentary
Abused: Breaking The Silence
10:35pm-11:25pm BBC1
In 2009, over a hundred former pupils from two Catholic prep schools in England and Tanzania were reunited via the internet. Chatting in cyberspace, they discovered they had all suffered terrible abuse at school: mental, physical and, in some cases, sexual. As young children they were frightened into silence by their abusers.
Now, as men in their fifties and sixties, and strengthened by the group, they want the truth to come out. Twenty two men have started legal proceedings against the Rosminian Order for compensation. They want justice. But half a century has passed, and their abusers are now elderly. What will it take to repair the damage and for the victims to feel able to move on?
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Wednesday 22 June
Documentary
True Stories: Neda
12:45-2.15am BBC4
The Mentorn Media produced film, ‘For Neda’, follows the story of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot dead on June 20th 2009 on the streets of Tehran. Within hours of her death Neda’s dying moments, captured on cell phones, were appearing on computer screens across the world.
Award-winning filmmaker, Antony Thomas and undercover Iranian journalist, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, reveal who this young woman was and why she became a powerful symbol for millions. The film not only tells the plight of the Iranian citizens who peacefully fought to free their country from its current government regime but also the on-going struggle the women of Iran face every day in an attempt to live a fair and oppressed-free life.
Documentary
The Wonder Of Weeds
9.00-10:00pm BBC4
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops.
Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.
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Thursday 23 June
Documentary
Planet Of The Apemen
8:00pm-9:00pm BBC1, 1/2
Homo Erectus. In the not-too-distant past, humans shared this planet with other species of hominid. This series tells how, against all the odds, Homo sapiens survived. This episode is set 75,000 years ago in India, following a catastrophic super-volcanic eruption which forced a showdown between our ancestors and a completely different species of human, Homo erectus, who up until that point had reigned supreme.
Documentary
Unnatural Histories
11:45pm-12:45am BBC4, Amazon 3/3
Series looking at how three of the world's most iconic wild places have been shaped by man. The Amazon rainforest is the epitome of a last great wilderness under threat from modern man. It has become an international cause celebre for environmentalists as agricultural and industrial interests bent on felling trees encroach into virgin forest. But the latest evidence suggests that the Amazon is not what it seems. As more trees are felled, the story of a less natural Amazon is revealed - manmade structures, even cities, hidden for centuries under what was believed to be untouched forest. Archaeologists are discovering ancient, fertile soils that can only have been produced by sophisticated agriculture across the Amazon basin. This evidence sheds new light on long-dismissed accounts from the first conquistadors of an Amazon teeming with people and threatens to turn our notion of wilderness on its head. If even the Amazon turns out to be unnatural, what then for the future of wilderness?
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Friday 24 June
Drama / biographical
The Kennedys
9:00pm-9.45pm BBC4, 3/8
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