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Look Out FOUR: Fanny Hill

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A look ahead to the BBC's updcoming period drama, Fanny Hill.

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

Preview of Andrew Davies 's raunchy new drama.

Batman

Classic adventure series following the adventures of the dynamic duo in Gotham City.

Classic adventure series following the adventures of dynamic crimefighting duo Batman and Robin in Gotham City.

Batman: Series 1

Batman: Series 1: Episode 8: Rats Like Cheese

Episode 8

Episode 8: Rats Like Cheese

Series 1

Rats Like Cheese

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Mr Freeze has frozen Batman in a block of ice, and the Boy Wonder to the floor.

Mr Freeze has frozen Batman in a block of ice, and the Boy Wonder to the floor. Can the dynamic duo thaw out in time to make the criminal feel the heat?

Mr Freeze has frozen Batman in a block of ice, and the Boy Wonder to the floor. Can the dynamic duo thaw out in time to make the cold-hearted criminal feel the heat?

The caped crusader sacrifices himself to Mr Freeze to secure the release of a hostage.

Michael Palin's New Europe

Michael Palin's New Europe: Episode 3: Wild East

Episode 3

Episode 3: Wild East

Wild East

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Michael travels from the tiny state of Transdniester through Transylvania to the Danube.

Michael Palin journeys from Transdniester to the rolling hills of Moldova, across the Carpathian Mountains of northern Romania and through Transylvania to the Danube.

From the tiny, breakaway state of Transdniester to the rolling hills of sunny Moldova, across the Carpathians mountains of Northern Romania and through Transylvania to the Danube, this is a journey into some of the poorest and most beautiful parts of south-eastern Europe.

Moved by Tatiana's theatre group, who warn teenagers of the dangers of people trafficking, to lunch with Olga and her mum in the sunny south of Moldova, Michael then passes the Byzantine painted churches of Bucovina, eats pork fat and brandy with lumberjacks in the forests of Maramures, and delights in the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta where the painted tombs are witty celebrations of life.

In Saxon Sighisoara and the imposing Bran Castle, made famous by Bram Stoker's Dracula, the truth behind the Transylvanian hero is unravelled.

In Bucharest he sees for himself Ceausescu's legacy in the People's Palace, but discovers a people who have survived the communist rule and are embracing the freedoms within a united Europe. 

Tennis ace Ilie Nastase gives him a very personal view of that period, before National Theatre actor Dan Badarau takes him up the Danube through the famous Iron Gates towards the very heart of Europe.

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

3/7. The explorer visits Transdniester, Moldova and Romania. 
See choice, page 84. 
Shown on Sunday at 9pm, BBC1

The Protestant Revolution

The Protestant Revolution: Episode 4: No Rest For The Wicked

Episode 4

Episode 4: No Rest For The Wicked

No Rest For The Wicked

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Tristram Hunt reveals how capitalism and anti-globalism developed out of Protestantism.

Documentary. From Calvin to the industrial age, Tristram Hunt reveals how capitalism and the anti-global movement developed out of Protestantism.

Four-part documentary series exploring the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. Through an examination of Calvinism, Puritanism and the Industrial Revolution, historian Tristram Hunt reveals how capitalism and the anti-global movement developed out of Protestantism and how these two great opposing legacies of Protestantism continue to battle it out.

Series exploring scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism.

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism.

New. A look at how Jean Calvin 's ideas were a powerful force behind the development of capitalism.   BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE: the September issue has an article by Tristram Hunt on the Protestant legacy. Out now, priced E3.60

Return to Lonesome Dove

Return to Lonesome Dove: Episode 4: The Passing

Episode 4: The Passing

The Passing

BBC Four - Return to Lonesome Dove, The Passing

The prospect of a range war puts Captain Call's companions in grave danger again.

Four-part epic based on the westerns of Larry McMurtry. The prospect of a range war puts Captain Call's companions in grave danger again.

Four-part epic based on the westerns of Larry McMurtry. The prospect of a range war against the forces of Gregor Dunnegan puts Captain Call's companions in grave danger again - and a familiar enemy joins the battle. Oblivious of the casualties, Newt considers his inheritance.

Four-part epic based on the westerns of Larry McMurtry.

4/4. Newt Dobbs considers his inheritance.

Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Gagging For It - TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy

Timeshift: Series 7: Gagging For It - TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy

01/10/2007

Series 7

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Investigation into the transfer of comedy classics from radio to television.

Television has long looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. What makes for a sure-fire transfer? Time Shift investigates, with clips from the archive and interviews.

Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'. Radio hits from Hancock's Half-Hour to Little Britain have become TV classics. But other long-running radio favourites have died a death on the screen. So what makes for a sure-fire transfer? Time Shift investigates, with the help of favourite clips from the archive and insights offered by Jon Culshaw, Clive Anderson, Barry Cryer, Marcus Brigstocke, and Mitchell and Webb.

Timeshift: Series 7

A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history

Gagging for It: TV's Hunger forRadio Comedy

The history of radio comedies that have made the move to TV. 
See choice, page 99.  The Alison Graham column: page 73

London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service

Documentary series which goes behind the scenes at the BBC World Service

Documentary series which goes behind the scenes at that most venerable of institutions, the BBC World Service

London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service: Winners and Losers

28/06/2007

Winners and Losers

BBC Two - London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service, Winners and Losers

Documentary series going behind the scenes at the BBC World Service.

Documentary series. The BBC World Service has filmed worldwide for 75 years, but this is the first time that cameras have been allowed inside their buildings.

The BBC World Service has filmed action all over the world for 75 years, but this is the first time that cameras have been allowed inside their buildings. Indie film maker Neil Cameron filmed internationally within the organisation for 18 months, marking a time of great upheaval. In this episode, the diminishment of Cold War hysteria means that many people in the Eastern European translation department find themselves out of a job.

London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service: The Battle for Truth

05/07/2007

The Battle for Truth

BBC Two - London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service, The Battle for Truth

Documentary on the World Service. This edition follows the BBC's Arabic Service.

Series going behind the scenes at the BBC World Service. Journalists from the BBC's Arabic Service cover the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.

Documentary series which goes behind the scenes at that most venerable of institutions, the BBC World Service. This edition follows journalists from the BBC's Arabic Service as they cover the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, in the summer of 2006. 

The Arabic correspondent in Israel, Ahmad Budeiri, has to struggle against his own Palestinian background and convictions in his task of covering the Israeli side of the story.

On the other side of the border in Lebanon, Nada Abdel Samad is stretched on all fronts as her country falls apart in an intense bombing campaign. Reporting on the ground is made more difficult by the hostile reaction she gets from people who distrust the BBC, suspecting it of bias towards Israel, and increasingly turning to al-Jazeera instead. The World Service need to take their own dramatic steps towards television if they are to beat the competition.

Producer Wissam Sayegh is on holiday visiting his family in Beirut when the war breaks out, but quickly finds himself working round the clock as a reporter. The physical danger puts a huge strain on his emotions, and when he’s one of the first journalists to reach the bombed village of Qana, it’s harder than ever to remain impartial.

Mouna Ba arrives in Britain for the first time in her life, to work at Bush House. She’s from Morocco and along with other recruits from all over the world, she has to undergo rigorous training in the BBC’s rules of balance and impartiality, tricky ground for coverage of that hot potato of a subject, the Middle East.

London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service: Changing Faces

12/07/2007

Changing Faces

BBC Two - London Calling: Inside the BBC World Service, Changing Faces

Ghanaian radio star Komla Dumor brings style to the African English language morning show.

Series about the BBC World Service. Ghanaian radio star Komla Dumor is brought in to give a populist style to the revamped English language morning show in Africa.

Documentary series which goes behind the scenes at that most venerable of institutions, the BBC World Service. Ghanaian radio star Komla Dumor is brought in by the BBC to give a new populist style to the revamped English language morning show in Africa. Jamilah Tangaza, the first African woman head of a department, has a bold project to move half her output from Bush House to Abuja, even though the Nigerian government have banned foreign news programmes.

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