With Kirsty Lang.
Followed by Weather
This introductory documentary about the BBC film Akenfield looks at how it was made, and what has happened to the people and countryside since then.
Akenfield Revisited 9.00pm BBC4
A beautiful portrait of English rural life over 70 years of the 20th century, 1974's Akenfield (9.40pm) was a real one-off. Directed by Peter Hall from Ronald Blythe's bestselling book, it features a cast of Suffolk villagers who play themselves, their parents and grandparents. What it lacks in dramatic terms it more than compensates for with its evocation of the villagers' close relationship with the land and the seasons. Nostalgic and beguiling it may be, but cosy it isn't.
Showing both before and after, Akenfield Revisited reunites the cast and crew who reminisce about the making of Akenfield.
(Geoff Ellis)
To act the life of a community, director Peter Hall used the inhabitants of a Suffolk village as his cast. The cast improvised their dialogue, based on Ronald Blythe's script of his own novel. The first British film to open the London Film Festival, 14 million viewers tuned in to see its UK TV premiere in 1975.
From post-Soviet Georgia to the centre of Salisbury Plain, this is the story of how a lost village came back to life. In 1943, citizens were evacuated from the Wiltshire village. But after the war, hopes of returning faded.
7/10. Recalling the first discovery of a dinosaur and the "Piltdown Man" hoax.
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1.55 Mutant Mouse
From the development of penicillin to transplant surgery, research on mice has been pivotal.
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2.55-3.35am as 9pm
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