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The Sky at Night

Iconic series exploring space science and the incredible universe all around us.

Look up! Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Professor Chris Lintott present the iconic, inspirational look at cutting-edge space science and the incredible universe all around us.

The Sky at Night: Meteor Mania

25/11/2007

Meteor Mania

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Meteor Mania

Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Brian May and Jon Culshaw to see the Perseid meteor shower.

In his garden, Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Brian May and Jon Culshaw to watch the cosmic firework display known as the Perseid meteor shower.

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.

The Sky at Night Special: Meteor Mania

Patrick Moore and guests observe the Perseid meteor shower.  The Sky at Night Special: Sputnik's Children is tomorrw at 7.30pm

Clash of the Worlds

Clash of the Worlds: Episode 1: Mutiny

Episode 1

Episode 1: Mutiny

Mutiny

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The story of the Indian uprising of 1857.

Exploring how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence. The first programme tells the story of the Indian uprising of 1857.

Exploring how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence. In the next three weeks this series looks at three great clashes between a Christian British Empire and Islam: the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Mahdi uprising in 1880s Sudan and the creation of the state of Israel in the first half of the twentieth century. The first programme tells the story of the Indian uprising in which both sides committed atrocities in the name of their faiths.

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.

Exploring past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam

Exploring how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence

Clash of Worlds

1/3. The first programme in the Iraq strand looks at the relationship between Britain and the Islamic world, beginning with the consequences of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Continues tomorrow at 8pm. See panel.

No Plan, No Peace

No Plan, No Peace: Episode 1

BBC One - No Plan, No Peace, Episode 1

How the British and American governments invaded Iraq without planning how to bring peace.

How the British and US governments invaded Iraq with no plan for bringing peace and democracy to a country with no history of either.

John Ware relates the inside story of how the British and American governments invaded Iraq but had no plan for what happened next - how to bring peace and democracy to a country of 26 million with no history of either. With testimony from British and Americans who were there, he reveals how the drumbeat to war drowned out the repeated warnings from the British Embassy in Washington and some British generals and civil servants about the 'black hole' in American post-war planning.

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How the British and American governments invaded Iraq without a clear plan to bring peace

John Ware relates the inside story of how the British and American governments invaded Iraq but had no clear plan how to bring peace and democracy

No Plan, No Peace - the Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

John Ware investigates the lack of preparation that accompanied the occupation of Iraq, using soldier testimonies and drawing on expert opinion.

No Plan, No Peace: Episode 2: The Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

The Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

BBC One - No Plan, No Peace, The Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

A former British general describes the failure to plan for Iraq's peace as a defeat.

John Ware relates the inside story of how the British and American governments invaded Iraq but had no plan for what happened next - how to bring peace and democracy to a country of 26 million with no history of either. One former British general who was part of the reconstruction team described the failure by Washington and London to plan properly for the peace as 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory'.

This World

International current affairs documentaries.

This World: Baghdad: A Doctor's Story

20/03/2007

Baghdad: A Doctor's Story

BBC Two - This World, Baghdad: A Doctor's Story

Shot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the terrible conditions of an ER in Baghdad.

Shot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the conditions of a civilian ER in Baghdad where the ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.

International investigative documentary series. Shot by an Iraqi doctor, this film reveals the terrible conditions of a civilian ER in Baghdad. Al Yarmouk Hospital is in the most dangerous area of Baghdad.  As the bomb victims come flooding in, the ambulance crews go from one dangerous mission to another.

A Doctor's Story - This World

Documentary looking at conditions at the emergency department in Baghdad's hospital.

Frontline Iraq

Frontline Iraq: Episode 1

BBC One - Frontline Iraq, Episode 1

Ieuan Jenkins and his regiment leave their German base for their most challenging mission.

Observational documentary series. We follow Ieuan Jenkins and his regiment as they leave their German base for their most challenging mission yet in Iraq.

The Queen's Dragoon Guards, otherwise known as the Welsh Cavalry, is in Iraq for the third time in three years. For 18-year-old trooper Ieuan Jenkins, however, this is his very first tour of duty and a chance to put his training into practice. 

In the first episode of this observational documentary series, we follow Ieuan and his regiment as they leave their German base for their most challenging mission yet in Iraq.

BBC One Wales

Observational documentary following events in Iraq.

1/3. Life in the Queen's Dragoon Guards, as the Welsh cavalry regiment undertake their third tour of duty in Iraq.

Frontline Iraq: Episode 2

BBC One - Frontline Iraq, Episode 2

The Queen's Dragoon Guards are having to operate in temperatures as high as 55C.

It's the height of summer in Iraq and the Queen's Dragoon Guards are having to operate in temperatures as high as 55 degrees Celsius.

It's the height of summer in Iraq and the Queen's Dragoon Guards are having to operate in temperatures as high as 55C. With the air conditioning regularly failing and cool water in short supply, trooper Ieuan Jenkins, the youngest in the regiment, struggles to cope.

Frontline Iraq: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC One - Frontline Iraq, Episode 3

The Welsh Cavalry has moved on to Baghdad and Basra for the final leg of its tour.

The Welsh Cavalry is in Basra for the final leg of its tour. This is the regiment's third tour of Iraq in as many years and by now the strains are beginning to show.

In the final episode of the series, the Welsh Cavalry has moved on to Baghdad and Basra for the final leg of its tour. This is the regiment's third tour of Iraq in as many years and by now the strains are beginning to show.

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: The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

16/10/2006

The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

BBC Four - Storyville, The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

The story of a cameraman imprisoned in Baghdad, accused of plotting to kill Tony Blair.

Mike Tucker's documentary tells the story of a freelance cameraman in Baghdad accused of planning to kill Tony Blair and imprisoned without trial for eight months.

Director Mike Tucker's documentary begins in Baghdad on 22 September, 2003. Yunis Khatayer Abbas, a freelance Iraqi cameraman, had just returned home after filming a friend's wedding party when his house was besieged by American soldiers looking for a bomb factory. Yunis was accused of planning to kill Tony Blair and carted off to prison, where he was to spend the next eight months. This film tells the story of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.

The Sky at Night Special

The Comet's Tale

BBC Four - The Comet's Tale

Modern space missions reveal what comets are really made of and where they come from.

Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where they come from.

Ancient civilisations thought comets were gods. They believed them to be bringers of life or harbingers of doom - strange, magical, mysterious things that moved through the sky, fiery streaks of light that tore across the heavens. 

Isaac Newton was the first to make sense of comets and to him they were the key to unlocking the secrets of gravity - nothing to do with an apple. Hundreds of years later, a new breed of space missions are visiting comets, travelling millions of miles to touch down on these tiny balls of rock flying through space at 20,000 mph. The spectacular images we now have are showing us what comets are really made of, where they come from, and their often surprising influence on events on Earth. 

What they reveal is that our ancestors may have been right all along and that comets and meteors really are like gods, or at least they can exert tremendous influence over our world. They have brought terrible destruction to the Earth and may one day do so again. But they also may have brought life itself to the planet.

The Sky at Night: Cosmic Debris

07/01/2008

Cosmic Debris

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Cosmic Debris

Earth is bombarded by extra terrestrial material each day, but what is this cosmic debris?

Patrick Moore investigates comet tails, meteorites and asteroids and discovers the terrible consequences of a cosmic collision with the Earth.

The Earth is bombarded by extra terrestrial material every day, but what is this cosmic debris? Sir Patrick Moore investigates comet tails, meteorites and asteroids and discovers the terrible consequences of a cosmic collision with the Earth. Also, the latest stunning images from Mars Express.

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