Saturday 13 June
BBC4 - Ten Days To War - "Series of short dramas marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War."
BBC4 - The Fallen - "A powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq talk openly about their loved ones and their grief. Epic in scale and spanning seven years of war, this landmark three-hour film gives a rare insight into the personal impact and legacy of this loss.
Alongside intimate testimonies from families who have lost loved ones, The Fallen names every single serviceman and woman who has died while serving with the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
Made by acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Matthews, The Fallen takes us across Britain and into the homes of those who have lost loved ones. The film also uses cherished personal home movie footage featuring those who have died as well as archive footage, leaving a lasting impression of their lives both inside and out of the armed forces."
BBC4 - The Fallen: Legacy of Iraq Update - "After six years, British military operations in Iraq have ended and the last troops are now packing up and leaving Basra. 179 servicemen and women will not be returning home though, having lost their lives whilst serving with the British Armed Forces.This is a powerful and timely documentary in which friends and family of some of those who died during the conflict explore the deeply personal and lasting legacy Iraq has for them."
More4 - The Secrets of Stonehenge: A Time Team Special - "Stonehenge is the nation's most famous monument. For centuries, its age and purpose have been subject to speculation, excavation and fantasy. But over the last six years, a huge new team of archaeologists have been digging not just the monument but the entire prehistoric landscape that focuses on Stonehenge, to reveal the truth about this near-mythical place and crack its secrets.
Time Team's cameras have been with the dig through those six summers. During their excavations the team discovered the biggest Neolithic settlement in Northern Europe, which suggests they have found the place where the people who built Stonehenge were based. But the digs also reveal that Stonehenge was just part of a vast ritualistic landscape where ancient peoples celebrated life and death in great man-made structures."
Sunday
BBC4 - Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link - "Documentary, written and narrated by David Attenborough, telling the story behind what could be one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 21st century."
Monday
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War - "Tom Roberts looks at how US-Afghan relations have been affected by military airstrikes in light of the recent US assault on the Farah province of Afghanistan, which resulted in 140 civilian casualties and an apology from the US army. Roberts also studies a similar attack on the village of Azizabad in 2008 which claimed the lives of dozens of women and children - deaths which the US army continue to deny they caused."
Tuesday
BBC2 - Citizenship and Surveillance - "Twelve short clips exploring various complex viewpoints in favour of and opposed to the UK's surveillance culture."
Wednesday
Five - Megastructures: Sellafield Demolition - "Gripping documentary series that explores huge engineering projects from all over the world. This instalment follows the elaborate and dangerous demolition of four obsolete cooling towers at Sellafield power plant. A family-run company from America with specialist expertise in demolition has been selected to dismantle the 90m-high towers. The team must plant 4,000 sticks of dynamite in such a way that the structures do not hit nearby buildings when they collapse."
BBC4 - Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer? - "King Henry VIII had a fascinating and enlightening relationship with art. He came to the throne as the renaissance swept across Europe, yet England's new King never lost sight of the medieval chivalry of his forefathers.
In the first of a two-part documentary, architectural historian Jonathan Foyle looks at the palaces, tapestries, music and paintings created in the King's name and questions whether the art he commissioned compensates for the religious treasures he would come to destroy."
BBC4 - The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Revolutionaries - "Series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.
The opening part explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned."
BBC4 - Hidden Histories - "A series looking at the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales celebrating its centenary year. Huw Edwards and the history detectives discover a lost church, search for the oldest castle gate in Europe and find out how the great engineer Thomas Telford built the highest aqueduct in the UK."
BBC4 - Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil - "Series combining archive footage and eye-witness accounts to tell the story of North Sea oil and gas from the 1960s to the present, offering a fresh perspective on British politics and society and an insight into the state of our economy today. 40 years ago, Britain was poised on the brink of an extraordinary discovery - billions of gallons of oil deep beneath the North Sea. This edition gives a voice to some of the men who made that discovery and who risked their lives to get the oil ashore."
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