Sunday 3 May
ITV1 - Martin Clunes: Islands of Britain - new 3-part series - "Martin Clunes embarks on an epic journey to search for island paradise in a new ITV1 series, Martin Clunes: Islands of Britain Martin travels from the most northern tip of Britain to the southerly seas to visit some of the 1000 or so islands off our shores. In the three-part series the actor explores hidden Britain – the stunning, wild, curious and culturally diverse islands around our coast, and listens to the fascinating stories of what life is like away from the mainland from the people who live there."
Monday 4 May
BBC4 - A Poet's Guide To Britain - new 6-part series Part 1 - William Wordsworth - "Poet and author Owen Sheers presents a series in which he explores six great works of poetry set in the British landscape. Each poem explores a sense of place and identity across Britain and opens the doors to captivating stories about the places and the lives of the poets themselves. This episode features Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth.
In 1802, Wordsworth, the great Romantic poet of nature and the man famous for writing about the Lake District, daffodils and clouds, penned a short but electrifying poem about the stinking, filthy, heaving city of London. In fact, the poem was a captivating, sublime portrait of the city at dawn which still has the power to catch one's breath.
Sheers investigates what Wordsworth was doing when he wrote the poem on a summer morning in 1802, and uncovers a story that involves three different women. Wordsworth lived in Grasmere in the Lake District, sharing a small cottage in an unusual domestic arrangement with his sister Dorothy. In the spring of that year he decided to marry an old schoolfriend, Mary Hutchinson. However, in order to do so he first needed to clear the air with his French ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter Caroline, a nine-year-old girl he had yet to meet.
In July 1802, William and Dorothy set out from Grasmere to Calais via London on the intriguing journey that would lead them across the bridge. Sheers follows their journey, discovers how the poem came into existence and examines exactly what Wordsworth wrote. He talks to Wordsworth fans including that epitome of Northern cool, poet Simon Armitage, the writer-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Adam O'Riordan, and some of the commuters who cross Westminster Bridge every morning on their way to work."
Tuesday 5 May
Yesterday - The Age Of Terror - 4 part series - "Epic series which explores the impact and legacy of four major acts of terror from the last 30 years."
Wednesday 6 May
BBC4 - All Our Working Lives: Working The Land - "Documentary which looks at farming in England in the 20th Century, featuring an interview with a Suffolk farmworker who talks about the harsh times in the 1930s."
Friday 8 May
Channel 4 - Unreported World - Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic - "The global issues documentary series investigates the growth of witch murders in Papua New Guinea. More than fifty women accused of being witches were murdered last year in two provinces alone, and the programme reveals that the problem is now spreading from remote highland areas into the towns."
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