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Northanger Abbey

09/11/1997

BBC Four - Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen's story of a girl whose head is full of romantic notions about the world.

Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world.

Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.

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.

Dramatisation of Jane Austen 's story, first shown in 1986. A young woman learns that marriage is not determined by true love in the society of her day. Starring Katharine Schlesinger , Peter Firth and Robert Hardy.

The Secret World of Haute Couture

06/11/2006

BBC Four - The Secret World of Haute Couture

Exploring the little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture.

Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture.

The Hard Sell

1/6. How advertisers have used sexuality to sell their products on British TV over the last 50 years.

Margy Kinmonth explores how to succeed in the fashion industry, visiting Paris, New York and LA to find out what it takes to become a part of the exclusive world.
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The Hard Sell: Episode 1: Sex

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Episode 1: Sex

BBC Four - The Hard Sell, Sex

How sex has been used in British advertising over the past 50 years.

Phill Jupitus narrates a series looking at 50 years of British TV advertising. This edition examines how sex has been used to sell, sell, sell to the public.

Phill Jupitus narrates a series looking at 50 years of British TV advertising. This edition examines how sex has been used to sell, sell, sell to the public, with contributions from Melanie Sykes, Lord Tim Bell, Sir John Hegarty and Jennifer Clulow among others.

Phill Jupitus narrates a series looking at 50 years of British TV advertising.

Sweet Smell of Success

02/04/1998

BBC Two - Sweet Smell of Successsearch

Drama. A New York gossip columnist takes drastic action to break up his sister's romance.

Dark drama starring Tony Curtis about a megalomaniac New York gossip columnist who takes drastic action in an attempt to break up his sister's romance with a young jazz musician.

Dark drama about a popular but vicious New York newspaper columnist who enlists the help of an unscrupulous press agent to break up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. The press agent, who will do anything to get newspaper coverage for his clients, enters into a sleazy alliance with the columnist, unaware that he is in danger of being double-crossed himself. With a jazz score by Elmer Bernstein.

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BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

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

Drama starring Burt Lancaster. New York gossip columnist JJ Hunsecker decides to break up his sister's romance, by forcing a press agent to help him. Review page 54. 
Director Alexander Mackendrick (1957, PG)

Emmylou Harris's 10 Commandments of Country

Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country

12/10/2007

BBC Four - Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country

Emmylou Harris presents in performance her ten rules for what makes a great country song.

Live performance, filmed in an intimate venue, in which Emmylou Harris presents her ten rules for what makes a great country song, personally chosen from her own repertoire.

Live performance in which Emmylou Harris presents her ten rules of what makes a great country song, personally chosen from her own extensive repertoire. Filmed in Los Angeles in an intimate venue, the show features songs with Emmylou accompanied by her blue grass band. Each track illustrates one of her ten commandments, with a short introduction to explain why it was chosen and what element of country music it best represents.

Emmylou Harris's TenCommandments of Country

A performance from Los Angeles in which the singer reveals what makes the perfect country song.

Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis

29/02/2008

BBC Four - Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis

Rob Brydon explores Welsh identity and creates a stand-up routine of Welsh-based material.

Comedian Rob Brydon explores Welsh identity and tries to discover what makes his patriotic countrymen so defensive. He also constructs a stand-up routine of Welsh-based material.

Comedian Rob Brydon explores Welsh identity and tries to discover what makes his patriotic countrymen so defensive. 

Along the way, he talks to a host of Welsh celebrities, including Griff Rhys Jones, Goldie Lookin' Chain and actress Ruth Jones, as he examines the national psyche, in particular questioning his own belief that the Welsh have a natural leaning toward pessimism. 

Rob also constructs a stand-up routine of Welsh-based material which he tries out in surprise appearances at comedy clubs around Wales.

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