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Emma

Emma: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC One - Emma, Episode 1

After attending the marriage of a friend, Emma fears that her life will now become dull.

1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about Emma Woodhouse. After attending the marriage of a friend, Emma fears that her own life will now become dull.

BBC One

1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about Emma Woodhouse.

1/6. The BBC's 1972 dramatisation of Jane Austen 's classic novel. Socially aware Emma Woodhouse (Doran Godwin ) attends the marriage of a friend and fears her own life will become boring and dull.  
7.45 2/6. Emma encourages Harriet to reject Robert Martin.

Emma: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC One - Emma, Episode 2

Emma befriends young pupil-teacher Harriet Smith.

1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about Emma Woodhouse. Emma befriends young pupil-teacher Harriet Smith and encourages her to reject the advances of Robert Martin.

1972 adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about Emma Woodhouse. Emma befriends young pupil-teacher Harriet Smith and, although an inveterate matchmaker, she encourages her to reject the advances of Robert Martin.

Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music

Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music: Episode 3: The Sound of Young America

Episode 3

Episode 3: The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young America

BBC Four - Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music, The Sound of Young America

How Berry Gordy turned raw Detroit talent into a winning pop formula at Motown Records.

How Motown's founder Berry Gordy ransacked Detroit's ghettos for the talent that his team of songwriters and producers turned into a winning pop formula.

Landmark music series continues with the story of soul music's greatest svengali - Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records. The former Detroit car production line worker was a man on a mission from an early age to produce music that would appeal equally to black and white audiences. Gordy ransacked Detroit's ghettos for the raw talent that his gifted team of Motown songwriters and producers would turn into the winning pop formula he called 'the Sound of Young America'. Motown became the original 'hit factory', launching the careers of some of the biggest soul superstars including Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. With contributions from the songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Martha Reeves, Etta James, Fontella Bass and many others.

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.

Six-part documentary series which tells the story of the rise of black popular music.

Soul Deep: the Story of BlackPopular Music

Motown's founder Berry Gordy explains how his label reflected the optimism of the early 1960s, and introduced music appealing as much to white fans as to their black counterparts.

The Hard Sell

The Hard Sell: Episode 2: Cigarettes and Alcohol

Episode 2: Cigarettes and Alcohol

Cigarettes and Alcohol

BBC Four - The Hard Sell, Cigarettes and Alcohol

Phill Jupitus examines ads that encouraged people to smoke and drink over the years.

Phill Jupitus narrates a series looking at 50 years of British TV advertising. He examines the quality of the ads that encouraged people to smoke and drink.

Phill Jupitus examines the controversy around and quality of the adverts that encouraged people to smoke and drink, how some came to be banned and how they best demonstrated the craft of British advertising. Contributors include Lord Tim Bell, Sir Alan Parker, Jilly Goolden and Melanie Sykes.

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

2/6. How advertisers used cigarettes and alcohol to sell products on British TV prior to the imposition of the stricter standards of today.

Selling the Sixties

02/03/2008

BBC Four - Selling the Sixties

How the advertising men and women of Madison Avenue came to prominence in the early 1960s.

Documentary about Madison Avenue, home of the American advertising business, a semi-mythical place where the dreams of a new, affluent society were spun in the early 1960s.

Documentary about Madison Avenue, home of the American advertising business, a semi-mythical place where the dreams of a new, affluent society were spun in the early 1960s. These were the 'days of heaven', when the country felt to many like a land of plenty and a land of hope - politics was reinvigorated thanks to a product known as new, improved JFK, consumerism was on the up and the challenges of Vietnam, feminism and the counter-culture still lay in the future.

Includes contributions from advertising legend George Lois and writer Gay Talese.

The rise of the 1960s ad men of New 
York's Madison Avenue.

Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges

07/03/2008

BBC Four - Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges

How Detroit housed a 1960s musical revolution that encapsulated a nation in upheaval.

Documentary looking at how, during the 1960s, the blue collar Midwestern city of Detroit became home to a musical revolution that captured the sound of a nation in upheaval.

Documentary looking at how Detroit became home to a musical revolution that captured the sound of a nation in upheaval. 

In the early 60s, Motown transcended Detroit's inner city to take black music to a white audience, whilst in the late 60s suburban kids like the MC5 and the Stooges descended into the black inner city to create revolutionary rock expressing the rage of young white America. 

With contributions from Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, George Clinton, Martha Reeves, John Sinclair and the MC5.

Motor City's Burning: Detroitfrom Motown to the Stooges

Examining the city's influence on music in the 1960s.

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: Standing in the Shadows of Motown

03/07/2004

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

BBC Four - Storyville, Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Documentary that tells the story of the Funk Brothers, the successful Motown musicians.

Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind the sound that defined a generation.

Documentary telling the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who were behind more number one hits that the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined. Drawn together from Detroit's jazz and blues scene, the film recounts their evolution of the Motown sound from its origins to its demise in LA during the 1970s, and reunites the surviving Funk Brothers for the first time in thirty years.

FILM: Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Documentary about session musicians the Funk Brothers. 
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