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World News Today: 16/10/2007

16/10/2007

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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.

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Pop Go the Sixties

Colourful nuggets of pop mined from the BBC's archive.

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 1

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 1: The Who

The Who

Series 1

BBC Four - Pop Go the Sixties, Series 1, The Who

A colourful nugget of pop by The Who, mined from the BBC's archive.

Pop Goes the 60s

A mindbendingly colourful nugget of pop mined from the archive.

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 9: Zelda the Great

Episode 9

Episode 9: Zelda the Great

Zelda the Great

BBC Four - Batman, Series 1, Zelda the Great

The Dynamic Duo take on a world-famous magician and escape artist who commits a robbery.

60s comic-book-hero series. The Dynamic Duo take on a world-famous magician and escape artist who commits a bank robbery on the same day every year.

Master escape artist Zelda the Great steals $100,000 from the First National Bank on April Fool's Day. Believing the cash to be counterfeit, she kidnaps Aunt Harriet and suspends her over a vat of boiling oil for ransom.

Legends

A look at some true legends from the world of music.

Legends: Matt Monro - The Man With The Golden Voice

21/10/2005

Matt Monro - The Man With The Golden Voice

BBC Four - Legends, Matt Monro - The Man With The Golden Voice

The story of Matt Monro, who became one of the world's most popular ballad singers.

Documentary telling the story of Matt Monro, the young Londoner who became one of the world's most popular ballad singers.

Neil Pearson narrates a documentary telling the story of Matt Monro, the young Londoner born Terry Parsons who became one of the world's most popular ballad singers. The programme gives a fascinating insight into working class life and popular culture since the Second World War. Contributors include Paul Gambaccini, Don Black, George Martin, John Barry and Monro's family.

Legends: Matt Monro - The Man with the Golden Voice

Ripping Yarns

Michael Palin and Terry Jones's much-loved spoof. Spectacular tales of derring-do.

Michael Palin and Terry Jones's much-loved spoof. Spectacular tales of derring-do and derring-don't, from Tomkinson's Schooldays to Across the Andes by Frog.

Ripping Yarns: Series 1: Episode 4: Murder at Moorstones Manor

Episode 4

Episode 4: Murder at Moorstones Manor

Murder at Moorstones Manor

BBC Two - Ripping Yarns, Series 1, Murder at Moorstones Manor

Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country.

Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country. But their tophole weekend turns out to be longer than they thought.

Ripping Yarns: Series 1

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 plays a range of characters in a series created with Terry Jones.

Michael Palin plays bizarre characters, including Eric Olthwaite and Major Errol Phipps, in a series of parodies on tales of heroism and life up north. By the Python duo of Palin and Terry Jones.

4/6. Spoof whodunit set in spooky Moorstones Manor.
Michael Palin's New Europe is tomorrow at 8pm

Flight of the Conchords

Sitcom about two Kiwi folk musicians as they to try to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in New York.

Flight of the Conchords: Series 1

Flight of the Conchords: Series 1: Episode 4: Yoko

Episode 4: Yoko

Yoko

BBC Four - Flight of the Conchords, Series 1, Yoko

Bret's relationship with fellow sign-holder Coco causes tension in the band.

Comedy series about two Kiwi folk musicians in New York. Bret's relationship with fellow sign-holder Coco causes tension. Jemaine has to go with Murray on his bandstand tours.

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York. 

Bret's relationship with fellow sign-holder Coco causes tension in the band. When Jemaine is asked to stop joining them on their dates, he has to go with Murray on his bandstand tours. Features the songs If You're Into It and Tape of Love.

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians trying to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York

New. 4/12. Bret starts dating but won't let Jemaine join him. The rejection leads him and Murray to decide the new girlfriend is intent on breaking up the group. See panel.

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

Charlie Brooker's acerbic take on recent TV

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe: Series 3

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe: Series 3: Episode 4

Series 3

BBC Four - Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Series 3, Episode 4

Charlie Brooker sees what 'Yoof TV' has to offer today's teenage viewers.

Charlie Brooker takes an irreverent look at all aspects of life on the small screen, including reviews of the week's highs and lows. He sees what 'Yoof TV' has to offer.

Charlie Brooker takes an irreverent look at all aspects of life on the small screen, including capsule reviews of the week's highs and lows. He sees what 'Yoof TV' has to offer today's teenage viewers and gives his view on Tara Palmer Tompkinson.

An irreverent sideswipe at the world of television by the misanthropic TV critic

Storyville

Amazing, shocking, inspiring and award-winning - the best in international documentaries.

Amazing, shocking, inspiring and award-winning - the best in international documentaries, shining a light on untold stories from across the globe.

Storyville: Etre et avoir

19/06/2005

Etre et avoir

BBC Four - Storyville, Etre et avoir

Documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in France's Auvergne.

Nicolas Philibert's documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in the remote hills of France's Auvergne.

Nicolas Philibert's documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in the remote hills of France's Auvergne. A dedicated and inspirational teacher guides a class of just 13 pupils, aged from four upwards, through the delicate process of learning and growing up.

Etre et Avoir

Storyville documentary in which a teacher reflects on his two decades at a tiny school in Auvergne as he prepares for retirement. In French with English subtitles. Review page 58. 
Director Nicolas Philibert (2002. U)

Storyville: Children of the Chinese Circus

29/05/2007

Children of the Chinese Circus

BBC Four - Storyville, Children of the Chinese Circus

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school.

Documentary about the Shanghai Circus school, where gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world.

Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. 

Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way.

Storyville documentary providing an insight into the circus's training for youngsters. See panel

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