Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 277,868 playable programmes from the BBC

Great British Railway Journeys

Series 9

Episode 7: Pontyclun to Ebbw Vale Town

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four

Michael Portillo strikes gold at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, where after much frisking, he gains access to the inner vaults. Show more

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2021

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Playwright Tom Stoppard tells Alan Yentob the extraordinary story of his life and his latest play, Leopoldstadt, in which he faces up to the pain and loss in his past. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Yentob
Director:
Jill Nicholls
Producer:
Jill Nicholls
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson
Series Editor:
Alan Yentob

Duration: 1 hour, 54 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

William Shakespeare is out of ideas. That is, until Viola de Lesseps, the stage-struck daughter of a wealthy merchant, attends auditions disguised as Thomas Kent. Show more

Contributors

Director:
John Madden
Viola De Lesseps:
Gwyneth Paltrow
William Shakespeare:
Joseph Fiennes
Philip Henslowe:
Geoffrey Rush
Lord Wessex:
Colin Firth
Ned Alleyn:
Ben Affleck
Queen Elizabeth:
Judi Dench

Handmade in Bolton

Series 1

Rock Crystal Bottle

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four

Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the almost impossible task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-century Egyptian Fatimids. Show more

Great British Railway Journeys

Series 9

Episode 7: Pontyclun to Ebbw Vale Town

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four

Michael Portillo strikes gold at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, where after much frisking, he gains access to the inner vaults. Show more

The Art of Japanese Life

Series 1

Episode 2: Cities

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

James Fox explores how the artistic life of three Japanese cities shaped the country's attitudes to past and present, east and west, and helped forge the very idea of Japan itself. Show more

BBC Four

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