BBC Four

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Four - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Episode 1

When his father dies young, Nicholas Nickleby is forced to seek aid from a wealthy uncle.

Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale. When his father dies young, Nicholas Nickleby is forced to seek the aid of his wealthy uncle.

Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale. When his father dies young, Nicholas Nickleby, his sister Kate and his mother are forced to seek the aid of their wealthy uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Thus begins a journey of epic proportions.

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Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale.

1/9. Trevor Nunn 's acclaimed 1982 musical adaptation of the Dickens tale begins as Nicholas's sister Kate and mother are forced to seek help from a wealthy uncle. Starring Roger Rees.  
8.00 2/9. Nicholas embarks on a series of adventures. Continues tomorrow at 7pm. See page 60.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Four - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Episode 2

Nicholas can no longer tolerate Squeers's brutal treatment of Smike.

Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale. Nicholas can no longer tolerate Squeers's brutal treatment of Smike.

Adaptation of the RSC's acclaimed 1980s stage production of the epic Dickens tale. Nicholas can no longer tolerate Squeers's brutal treatment of Smike and takes a course of action that will lead to many adventures.

Lead Balloon

Sitcom about Rick Spleen, a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer

Sitcom about Rick Spleen, a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer whose career has not gone to plan

Lead Balloon: Series 2

Lead Balloon: Series 2: Episode 5: Sick

Episode 5

Episode 5: Sick

Series 2

Sick

BBC Two - Lead Balloon, Series 2, Sick

The women in Rick's house are sick, and he is forced to take over.

Sitcom about ex-celebrity comedian Rick Spleen. The women in Rick's house are sick, and he is forced to take over. Rick promises to field his partner Mel's work calls.

Rick's partner Mel is confined to bed with flu. He offers to field her work calls, but soon finds himself spectacularly out of his depth. In any case, he would rather be working on Lying Or Flying, the game show idea that he and Marty are trying to pitch to a broadcaster. Magda too is ill, but insists on turning up with some of her special home-made soup for Mel.  

Meanwhile, Michael is holding a Third World Awareness Day at his cafe, and Sam and Ben try to persuade Rick to buy a T-shirt for the same cause. But it's one of Mel's clients who provides Rick with the biggest headache.

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.

Jack Dee stars as bitter, deluded comic Rick Spleen.

5/8; series two. Rick unwisely agrees to handle all of Mel's calls.   
Episode six is on Thursday at 9.30pm on BBC2

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy: Episode 6: Ken Dodd

Episode 6

Episode 6: Ken Dodd

More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy

Ken Dodd

BBC Four - More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy, Ken Dodd

Dawn French interviews the tattyfilarious Ken Dodd about his life in comedy.

Dawn French interviews famous comedians about their lives and careers.

Dawn French interviews famous comedians about how they started, their inspirations and their careers.

Dawn French's More Boys Who Do: Comedy

Ken Dodd talks about his half-century in showbusiness.  Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy is tomorrow at 10.20pm on BBC1

Les Choristes

15/12/2007

BBC Four - Les Choristes

A failed musician begins work at a boarding school for difficult boys in post-WW2 France.

Drama set in post-WW2 France. The new supervisor at a boarding school for difficult boys sets up a singing choir and the lives of the boys are transformed by the magic of music.

Drama set in post-WW2 France. When failed musician Clement Mathieu arrives as the new supervisor at a boarding school for difficult boys, he finds a grey atmosphere of severity. The joyless headmaster Monsieur Rachin runs the institution with an iron fist and gets very little out of the pupils. Mathieu feels powerless to make his mark until he decides to set up a singing choir. Gradually, the lives of the boys are transformed by the magic of music.

The Chorus

Sentimental drama starring Gerard Jugnot as failed musician 
Clement Mathieu , who takes a job at a boarding school for difficult boys. In French with English subtitles. Review page 48. Director Christophe Barratier (2004, 12)

The Haunted Airman

31/10/2006

BBC One - The Haunted Airman

A wounded WW2 hero has a series of waking nightmares recuperating raids after Dresden.

Adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's horror novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg, in which a wounded war hero suffers waking nightmares while recuperating under the eye of a sinister doctor.

Adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's horror novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg, in which a wounded WW2 hero has a series of waking nightmares while recuperating under the eye of a sinister doctor. The living memories of the terrors he has witnessed in his raids over Dresden, and the strange behaviour of Dr Burns serve to increase his paranoia - but what greater horrors are there to come?

BBC One

Dramatisation of Dennis Wheatley 's horror story about the experiences of a combat veteran recovering from the trauma of war. See panel.

As 9.30pm

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.

Time Shift: Series 6

Timeshift: Series 6: Goodbye Children Everywhere

26/05/2007

Goodbye Children Everywhere

Series 6

BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 6, Goodbye Children Everywhere

A celebration of kid's TV and the look at the dim prospects for it's mainstream future.

Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither seen nor heard.

Documentary which celebrates the high and lows of children's TV and asks if the future of mainstream television be one where children are neither seen nor heard, as ITV cuts back on its commitment and the BBC now only makes programmes for under-11s.

Timeshift: Series 6

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