Timewatch - Young Victoria - "Timewatch tells the story of how an unassuming little girl rose to be the most powerful woman in the world. At her birth few believed Princess Victoria would ascend the throne, but a number of untimely deaths and the failure of her uncles to father any children meant that Victoria became heiress to the throne of England. The battle between her and her mother the Duchess of Kent, however, was to become one of the fiercest mother-daughter struggles of all time, as the Duchess schemed to share in the power and riches that would one day be Victoria's."
Violent Women: Tonight - "With recent figures showing 240 women are arrested for violent crimes every day, the programme investigates the reasons behind this rise in aggressive behaviour. Former Big Brother contestant Alex de Gale, who was removed from the house for intimidating other contestants, tries a variety of anger-management therapies to curb her temper."
Channel 4 Education -
What's So Good About Jamila Gavin? (ages 7-11)
What's So Good About Roald Dahl? " "
What's So Good About JK Rowling? " "
We Are From Croatia (ages 9-12)
Imagine: A Love Story - "What makes a great love story? Imagine looks at the great books, films and pop songs that have tackled the thorny issues of love, pain and desire. Lancelot and Guinevere, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Lady Chatterley's Lover, 24 Hours from Tulsa, Casablanca, Brief Encounter and Lolita are all great love stories, but what makes them special?
According to Pulitzer prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides, "A great love story has to have a fly in the ointment." Other contributors include best-selling authors Sarah Waters, Helen Fielding, Jane Austen's biographer Claire Tomalin, Burt Bacharach's lyricist Hal David, screen doctor Robert McKee, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, and literature professor John Sutherland"
1914-1918 - "Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict." Parts 1-2 of 7.
True Stories: No End In Sight - "A searing indictment of the Iraq War, representing a full analysis of Iraq's descent into civil war... Based on over 200 hours of footage, the shocking story of post-invasion Iraq is told via interviews with high-ranking Bush Administration officials including General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the reconstruction before being replaced by L. Paul Bremer; Ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was placed in charge of the Baghdad embassy; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of the State Department; Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff; Col. Paul Hughes, who worked in the ORHA and then the CPA."
Mum, Heroin and Me - "This is a film about what happens when your daughter becomes a heroin addict. Shot over the course of a year by award-winning documentary-maker Jane Treays, the film follows Kate (49), her 20-year-old heroin-addicted daughter Hannah (pictured) and Hannah's boyfriend, Ricky (31). As Hannah moves from pavement, to hostel, to bedsit, the film provides a moving portrait of a mother and daughter trying to love one another through the fog of heroin addiction."
British Transport Films – A Nation On Film Special - "... reviews the work of Edgar Anstey and his team of film-makers in the state-owned British Transport Films Unit after the Second World War. The archive features beautiful documentaries and travelogues, but did they strike the right balance between truth and propaganda?"
Elizabethan Express - "'Elizabethan Express' is an example of a widely released British Transport Film (BTF) film which focussed directly on rail travel, this film features the express locomotive Silver Fox which travelled from London’s King’s Cross to Edinburgh – a distance of 393 miles in six and a half hours."
Greart Railway Journeys of the World: Euston, London to Kyle of Lochalsh, western Scotland - "Avid trainspotter Michael Palin fulfils a boyhood dream as he travels from Euston in London to Kyle of Lochalsh in Scotland. Part of The Golden Age of Steam season."
Unreported World: South Africa Body Parts for Sale - "Channel 4's acclaimed foreign affairs strand returns with an eye-opening, and horrifying, investigation into "Muti Murder" in South Africa. While the country is modernising fast, Unreported World reveals how hundreds of people, including children, have been killed for body parts destined for the booming practise of traditional medicine and talks to a "healer" who claims he tortures and kills people for his trade."
Unreported World: India: God's own Country - "Kerala is apopular tourist destination in southern India where thousands of pilgrims seek slavation from the growing number of gurus in the region. However, as Jenny Kleeman reports, many of these so-called godmen now face allegations that range from fraud to sexual abuse."
Radio Programmes
Wayfarers All: a Hundred Years of Wind in the Willows - (5-part series) To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Kenneth Grahame's iconic children's novel, The Wind In The Willows, BBC Radio 4 has commissioned five authors to write short stories inspired by the names of the book's main characters. The line-up includes: Rat by Candia McWilliam; Toad by Beatrice Colin; Mole by David Almond; Weasel by Zoe Strachan; and Badger by Mark McNay.
Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe - (3-part series) "Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists who crossed the English Channel for different reasons. Examining the differing fortunes of Oscar Wilde and the painter Walter Sickert during their time in the French town of Dieppe. Wilde arrived at Dieppe in May 1897 in disgrace, following his release from Reading Gaol, but quickly moved on. Sickert enjoyed a long and happy association with the resort, beginning with childhood holidays there and including an affair with one of the local fishwives."
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