2/10. What are the hot topics in global media?
Javotte's elderly French grandmother was abandoned by her mother. Can her family lay this troublesome ghost to rest?
International reports. Followed by Weather
4/6 The 1930s boom in amateur film-making was set against a backdrop of massive social change - but the majority of aspiring producer/directors chose to record the minutiae of their daily lives.
Archive performances by 60s British jazz luminaries, including John Dankworth and Cleo Laine , Victor Feldman with Ronnie Scott , the Tubby Hayes Big Band, Annie Ross with the Tony Kinsey Quartet, the Johnny Scott Quartet and Bill Le Sage 's Directions in Jazz. Presented by Steve Race.
2/3. The late 60s and early 70s saw British jazz step out from America's shadow and find a distinct voice in jazz-rock fusion. Contributors include Jack Bruce, Mike Westbrook, Peter King, Mike Garrick, John Surman and John McLaughlin. Terence Stamp narrates.
A profile of the superstar jazz trumpeter. who turned 75 in January.
During China's Cultural Revolution, two young intellectuals from the city are sent to the remote Phoenix Mountains for re-education, where they fall for forbidden fruit. Dai Sijie directs this 2002 comic drama. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
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