*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.
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Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
BBC1, 8:20-9:20pm
There are more images of Elizabeth II than any other historical figure, but how to paint a queen is one of the trickiest of artistic challenges. Alastair Sooke looks at the depiction of Britain's female rulers, from Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria and our current monarch, and discovers how queenly portraits reveal Britain's changing ideas about women and power.
Factual; Travel; Documentaries
BBC4, 10:30pm-12:00am
When British writer Richard Grant moved to the USA more than 20 years ago it wasn't just a change of country. He soon found himself in a world of travellers and the culture of roadside America - existing alongside, but separate from, conventional society. In this film he takes to the road again, on a journey without destination.
In a series of encounters and unplanned meetings, Richard is guided by his own instincts and experiences - and the serendipity of the road. Travelling with loners and groups, he encounters the different 'tribes' of nomads as he journeys across the deserts of America's south west.
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Sunday 3rd June 2012
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Drama-documentary in which art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of the greatest cultural controversy of the last 200 years. He explores the history of the Elgin Marbles, tells the dramatic story of their removal from Athens and cites the arguments for and against their return to Greece.
Drama-documentary in which art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of the greatest cultural controversy of the last 200 years. He explores the history of the Elgin Marbles, tells the dramatic story of their removal from Athens and cites the arguments for and against their return to Greece.
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Monday 4th June
BBC4, 8:00-9:00pm
As the author of Kidnapped and Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson was known and celebrated across the world, but his family – who pioneered the building of lighthouses across Scotland – were the people he admired. He once wrote with pride: “Whenever I smell saltwater, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors.”
This new documentary charts the work of the Lighthouse Stevensons over the course of generations from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, creating lighthouses on some of the most storm-lashed and inaccessible outcrops of Scotland imaginable. Stunning aerial photography of many of the locations demonstrates that creating these buildings would be a difficult job now, never mind then.
The family tradition was started with Edinburgh man Thomas Smith, who installed his first light on Kinnaird Castle, near Fraserburgh, in 1787. He passed the baton on to his son-in-law (and stepson) Robert Stevenson, who founded a dynasty of lighthouse engineers including sons, Allan, David and Thomas (father of RLS), and in turn David’s sons David Alan and Charles and finally Charles’s son, David Alan.
Lighthouse aficionados prepare to celebrate the 200 years since the first light was lit on the famous Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, on February 1, 1811.
Built before the age of steam, on a rock that was submerged much of the day, the Bell Rock light was an engineering masterpiece and the wonder of the age. Regarded as the first major project for Robert Stevenson (in tandem with John Rennie), it is a fitting backdrop in the documentary for an interview with author of The Lighthouse Stevensons, Bella Bathurst.
Factual; Documentaries
BBC4, 10:00-11:25pm
Documentary telling the double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. With rich imagery the film connects financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind itself. The film explores how we are repeatedly destroyed by 'progress traps' - alluring technologies which serve immediate need but rob us of our long term future. Featuring contributions from those at the forefront of evolutionary thinking such as Stephen Hawking and economic historian Michael Hudson. With Martin Scorsese as executive producer, the film leaves us with a challenge - to prove that civilisation and survival is not the biggest progress trap of them all.
Documentary telling the double-edged story of the grave risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress. With rich imagery the film connects financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind itself. The film explores how we are repeatedly destroyed by 'progress traps' - alluring technologies which serve immediate need but rob us of our long term future. Featuring contributions from those at the forefront of evolutionary thinking such as Stephen Hawking and economic historian Michael Hudson. With Martin Scorsese as executive producer, the film leaves us with a challenge - to prove that civilisation and survival is not the biggest progress trap of them all.
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Tuesday 5th June
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves - the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It will start just after 11pm of the 5th of June 2012 - and won't happen again for more than a century.
Joined by solar physicist Dr Lucie Green and oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski, Liz will reveal everything that to know about the transit of Venus, delving into its past and finding out how the transit is being used in our hunt for life on distant planets hundreds of light years away. She explains why the transit of Venus is such a rare event and reveals how Venus and Earth's orbits mean that the planets are only aligned twice every one hundred years. Liz also explores dramatic new evidence that life on Earth can be supported even in a cloud and finds out how Venus is transforming our understanding of the extremes of life on our planet.
Also in the programme, Dr Lucie Green charts the incredible story of Captain James Cook's dramatic 1769 voyage to successfully record the transit for the very first time. They knew that if they reached Tahiti in time to observe the transit they would achieve something scientists had been grappling with for centuries - a figure for the size of our solar system. Then at the SETI Institute in California, Lucie finds out how Venus has transformed our hunt for exoplanets and our search for alien life. Dr Helen Czerski discovers what Venus has to tell us about life on Earth. Although Venus and Earth both exist in the Goldilocks Zone - theoretically able to host liquid water and support life - the two planets differ dramatically.
Liz Bonnin presents a Horizon special about a rare and beautiful event in our solar system, one that we should all be able to see for ourselves - the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It will start just after 11pm of the 5th of June 2012 - and won't happen again for more than a century.
Joined by solar physicist Dr Lucie Green and oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski, Liz will reveal everything that to know about the transit of Venus, delving into its past and finding out how the transit is being used in our hunt for life on distant planets hundreds of light years away. She explains why the transit of Venus is such a rare event and reveals how Venus and Earth's orbits mean that the planets are only aligned twice every one hundred years. Liz also explores dramatic new evidence that life on Earth can be supported even in a cloud and finds out how Venus is transforming our understanding of the extremes of life on our planet.
Also in the programme, Dr Lucie Green charts the incredible story of Captain James Cook's dramatic 1769 voyage to successfully record the transit for the very first time. They knew that if they reached Tahiti in time to observe the transit they would achieve something scientists had been grappling with for centuries - a figure for the size of our solar system. Then at the SETI Institute in California, Lucie finds out how Venus has transformed our hunt for exoplanets and our search for alien life. Dr Helen Czerski discovers what Venus has to tell us about life on Earth. Although Venus and Earth both exist in the Goldilocks Zone - theoretically able to host liquid water and support life - the two planets differ dramatically.
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Wednesday 6th June
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/6
Charles Booth’s vast 1886 Survey of London ranked each one of London's streets according to the class of its residents. In a major series for BBC Two, in partnership with The Open University, The Secret History Of Our Streets returns to six of those streets to discover how their fortunes have ebbed and flowed over the last 125 years.
Episode one features Deptford High Street, known in Booth’s time as the Oxford Street of South London. Today, marooned amid 1970's housing blocks, it’s one of the poorest shopping streets in London.
Featuring compelling accounts from residents, including one family who has been trading on the high street for 250 years, the film tells a story of transformation and endurance, through personal histories and the story of the street itself.
From huge extended families living together in a single street to the story of the slum clearances, old ways of life were unraveling and changes were taking place which shaped the lives of millions of British families all over the country.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Yesterday, 10:00-10:30pm
The killing of Martin Luther King. After turning his attention to the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, the civil rights leader was murdered by a mystery assassin, a crime for which James Earl Ray was convicted.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Infamous Assassinations: Lord Mountbatten - Ireland 1979
The killing of Martin Luther King. After turning his attention to the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, the civil rights leader was murdered by a mystery assassin, a crime for which James Earl Ray was convicted.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Infamous Assassinations: Lord Mountbatten - Ireland 1979
Yesterday, 10:30-11:00pm
The murder of Lord Mountbatten - the former Viceroy of India and one of the architects of D-Day - by IRA bombers while holidaying with his family in 1979.
Factual; Documentaries
Timeshift: Of Ice and Men
BBC4, 11:20pm-12:20am
Time Shift reveals the history of the frozen continent, finding out why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold on the imagination of explorers, scientists, writers and photographers.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on earth. Only a handful of people have experienced its desolate beauty, with the first explorers setting foot here barely a hundred years ago.
From the logbooks of Captain Cook to the diaries of Scott and Shackleton, from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner to HP Lovecraft, it is a film about real and imaginary tales of adventure, romance and tragedy that have played out against a stark white backdrop.
We relive the race to the Pole and the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic exploration, and find out what it takes to survive the cold and the perils of 'polar madness'. We see how Herbert Ponting's photographs of the Scott expedition helped define our image of the continent and find out why the continent witnessed a remarkable thaw in Russian and American relations at the height of the Cold War.
We also look at the intriguing story of who actually owns Antarctica and how science is helping us re-imagine a frozen wasteland as something far more precious.
Time Shift reveals the history of the frozen continent, finding out why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold on the imagination of explorers, scientists, writers and photographers.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on earth. Only a handful of people have experienced its desolate beauty, with the first explorers setting foot here barely a hundred years ago.
From the logbooks of Captain Cook to the diaries of Scott and Shackleton, from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner to HP Lovecraft, it is a film about real and imaginary tales of adventure, romance and tragedy that have played out against a stark white backdrop.
We relive the race to the Pole and the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic exploration, and find out what it takes to survive the cold and the perils of 'polar madness'. We see how Herbert Ponting's photographs of the Scott expedition helped define our image of the continent and find out why the continent witnessed a remarkable thaw in Russian and American relations at the height of the Cold War.
We also look at the intriguing story of who actually owns Antarctica and how science is helping us re-imagine a frozen wasteland as something far more precious.
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Thursday 7th June
BBC1, 8:00-9:00pm, 2/4, Thames Barge
Put Griff Rhys Jones on a sailing boat and he’s a happy man, so this second nostalgic journey suits him a treat. The idea is to re-create the journey of the 19th-century Thames sailing barges from Essex to the London docks.
He does so in a “stacky” called Dawn, a boat designed to carry haystacks. It’s a gentle but seductive journey full of odd nuggets of knowledge (they used root veg for ballast) and a seascape of shallows, creeks and sandbanks. Incidental pleasures include a sweet home movie of a young Griff in yellow jumper at the tiller of the family boat, and a lesson in how to make plum duff.
Factual; Documentaries
The London Markets
Put Griff Rhys Jones on a sailing boat and he’s a happy man, so this second nostalgic journey suits him a treat. The idea is to re-create the journey of the 19th-century Thames sailing barges from Essex to the London docks.
He does so in a “stacky” called Dawn, a boat designed to carry haystacks. It’s a gentle but seductive journey full of odd nuggets of knowledge (they used root veg for ballast) and a seascape of shallows, creeks and sandbanks. Incidental pleasures include a sweet home movie of a young Griff in yellow jumper at the tiller of the family boat, and a lesson in how to make plum duff.
Factual; Documentaries
The London Markets
BBC2, 9:30-10:30pm, 3/3, The Fruit 'n' Veg Market: Inside New Spitalfields
Behind the scenes of the capital's prime wholesale horticultural market. Once, the fruit and veg trade was a closed world dominated by street vendors selling from the back of barrows. But then London changed, as immigration brought new cultures - and more exotic fruit and vegetables became available. This documentary meets some of the vendors to hear about how life has changed at New Spitalfields over the decades, before and after 1991, when the market moved from the City to its current 31-acre location in east London.
Documentaries
The House the 50s Built
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/4
Professor Brendan Walker begins his exploration of the inventions that transformed drab post-war Britain into a Technicolor-drenched world of the future in the kitchen.
The 1950s housing revolution replaced free-standing units, mangles and larders with fitted units, twin tubs, food processors and refrigerators.
The programme hears from people who lived through the decade, including Maureen Lipman and Fay Weldon, as well as designers such as Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway, and also Kevin McCloud.
Professor Brendan Walker begins his exploration of the inventions that transformed drab post-war Britain into a Technicolor-drenched world of the future in the kitchen.
The 1950s housing revolution replaced free-standing units, mangles and larders with fitted units, twin tubs, food processors and refrigerators.
The programme hears from people who lived through the decade, including Maureen Lipman and Fay Weldon, as well as designers such as Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway, and also Kevin McCloud.
BBC4, 11:40pm-12:40am, Act Three: at Work and Play
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of some of the most remarkable women of the age, including writers, actresses, travellers and scientists.
Against a backdrop of religious and political turmoil, the rise of print culture, the rapid growth of London, the burgeoning scientific revolution and the country's flourishing trading empire, she meets a host of female mavericks who took advantage of the extraordinary changes afoot to challenge the traditional male bastions of society.
Women like Nell Gwyn, the most famous of a new generation of actresses; Aphra Behn, the first professional female writer; and Christian Davies, who disguised herself as a man to fight as a soldier - all of them gained notoriety and celebrity, challenging the inequalities of the age. As Lucy discovers, these women's attitudes, ambitions and achievements were surprisingly modern.
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Friday 8th June
Channel 4, 7:30-7:55pm
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Talya Tibbon travel to Central America to investigate the mysterious disappearance of hundreds of young Honduran women. They discover that many of them have been enticed to travel to Mexico with the promise of jobs but end up trafficked to brothels and forced to work in the sex industry.
Those fighting to save the missing girls say the official incompetence and corruption that allows the traffickers to operate has to end. There are some people working to achieve that, but they need help if they are to make a real difference.
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Talya Tibbon travel to Central America to investigate the mysterious disappearance of hundreds of young Honduran women. They discover that many of them have been enticed to travel to Mexico with the promise of jobs but end up trafficked to brothels and forced to work in the sex industry.
Those fighting to save the missing girls say the official incompetence and corruption that allows the traffickers to operate has to end. There are some people working to achieve that, but they need help if they are to make a real difference.
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 3/8, The Norman Yoke
Michael Wood's history of Britain reaches the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest, asking what life was like for the Anglo-Saxon peasantry in the decades following 1066. To find out he joins the excavation of a castle at Mount Bures, Essex, and a community dig in the Suffolk village of Lord Melford. Moving on, he looks at the beginnings of trade and industry in Bristol, Wales and the Black Country, explores the battle for rights enshrined in the Magna Carta and considers how the nation was affected by the Barons' War and Scottish War of Independence.
Michael Wood's history of Britain reaches the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest, asking what life was like for the Anglo-Saxon peasantry in the decades following 1066. To find out he joins the excavation of a castle at Mount Bures, Essex, and a community dig in the Suffolk village of Lord Melford. Moving on, he looks at the beginnings of trade and industry in Bristol, Wales and the Black Country, explores the battle for rights enshrined in the Magna Carta and considers how the nation was affected by the Barons' War and Scottish War of Independence.
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