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Inside the Medieval Mind: Episode 3: Belief

Episode 3

Episode 3: Belief

Inside the Medieval Mind

Belief

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Robert Bartlett examines the way we thought during medieval times.

Robert Bartlett examines the way we thought during medieval times. As the church's grip on their beliefs increased, people came before religious courts and many were killed.

Leading authority on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett, presents a series which examines the way we thought during medieval times. Our forebears believed they shared the world with the dead and that angels and demons battled for control of human souls. As the church's grip on our beliefs increased, men and women were dragged before religious courts and multitudes were killed in the name of God.

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A series which examines the way people thought during Medieval times.

Professor Robert Bartlett, a leading authority on the Middle Ages, presents a series which examines the way we thought during Medieval times.

3/4. Belief. Professor Robert Bartlett investigates the popular spiritual credo of the Middle Ages.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives: Episode 5: The Knight

Episode 5

Episode 5: The Knight

The Knight

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Knights were more interested in profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry.

Terry Jones gives a tour of the Middle Ages. Knights were more interested in the fine art of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry.

Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages. Knights were more interested in the fine art of killing people and profiting from war than romantic notions of chivalry.

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.

Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast Terry Jones tours the Middle Ages.

Terry Jones's Medieval Lives

An exploration of the image of the knight in shining armour.  
8.30 The role of women in the Middle 
Ages is examined.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives: Episode 3: The Damsel

Episode 3: The Damsel

The Damsel

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A look at the world of the medieval damsel, an unexpectedly independent women.

Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast, Terry Jones, takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages.  In this episode, a look at the world of the medieval damsel.

Monty Python star and medieval enthusiast, Terry Jones, takes us on a tour of the Middle Ages, destroying old myths and discovering extraordinary stories of real people. A look at the world of the medieval damsel; not the shy, demure creatures we imagine today but strong independent women who ran businesses, led armies and, when they felt like it, even abducted the lovers of their choice.

Dear Television

Dear Television: Episode 3

BBC Four - Dear Television, Episode 3

Letters cataloguing the preoccupations of television viewers over the last five decades.

Letters cataloguing the preoccupations and passions of television viewers over the last five decades.

Washes Whiter

Washes Whiter: Episode 5: The Getaway People

Episode 5: The Getaway People

The Getaway People

BBC Four - Washes Whiter, The Getaway People

How advertising in post-war Britain can be viewed as a measure of shifts in national mood.

Series on the history of British television advertising discusses how advertising in post-war Britain can be viewed as a barometer of shifts in national mood.

Series on the history of British television advertising discusses how advertising in post-war Britain can be viewed as a barometer of the pendulum shifts in national mood and the way we perceive ourselves .

Series on the history of British TV commercials.

5/5. How adverts can be used to measure the national mood.

Mad Men

Drama series set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York.

Drama series which takes an unflinching look at the world of advertising in 1960s New York.

Mad Men: Series 1

Mad Men: Series 1: Episode 10: Long Weekend

Episode 10

Episode 10: Long Weekend

Series 1

Long Weekend

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Don loses an important account so Roger attempts to cheer him up.

Drama series set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York. Don loses an important account so Roger attempts to cheer him up with the aid of twin models.

Drama series set in the world of advertising in 1960s New York. Don loses an important account so Roger attempts to cheer him up with the aid of twin models. But things end badly and Don, in shock, finds comfort in the arms of Rachel. Joan's roommate makes an unnerving confession.

Mad Men: Long Weekend

10/13. Roger attempts to restore Don's confidence by inviting him to a liaison with a pair of twin models. Starring Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss.
(See panel) (For cast see page 80)
(Repeated on Tuesday at 11.20pm on BBC2)
Stuart Maconie on music from the Mad Men era: page 28
Why I Love ... Mad Men: [website address removed]

James Taylor: One Man Band

02/05/2008

BBC Four - James Taylor: One Man Band

Singer-songwriter James Taylor showcases material from the past 40 years.

Singer-songwriter James Taylor showcases material from the past 40 years including You've Got a Friend, while interviews and archive footage tell the stories behind the songs.

Singer-songwriter James Taylor showcases material from the past 40 years including You've Got A Friend and Sweet Baby James in a series of concerts at the Colonial Theatre in the Berkshires, while interviews and rare archive footage tell the stories behind some of Taylor's most beloved hits.

A retrospective of the singer/songwriter's 40-year career. <s)

Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles

08/01/2007

BBC Four - Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles

Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture.

Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, telling how LA become the hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s.

Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s. 

Alongside extensive and never before seen archive footage, the programme features comprehensive first-hand accounts of the key figures including musicians (David Crosby, Graham Nash, J. D. Souther, Bernie Leadon and Bonnie Raitt, music industry bosses (David Geffen, Jac Holzman, Ron Stone and Peter Asher) and legendary LA scenesters including Henry Diltz, Pamela Des Barres and Ned Doheny. 

The film explores how the socially-conscious folk rock of young hippies with acoustic guitars was transformed into the coked-out stadium excess of the late 1970s and the biggest selling album of all time.

Hotel California: from theByrds to the Eagles

An exploration of the music of 1960s and 70s California.

In Concert

Recordings of the cream of the music world

In Concert: James Taylor

28/06/2007

James Taylor

BBC Four - In Concert, James Taylor

A classic concert from 1971 by American singer-songwriter James Taylor.

From Ranch to Raunch

14/01/2007

BBC Four - From Ranch to Raunch

How the 1970s California swinging scene created a new design aesthetic.

Documentary looking at how the 1970s California swinging scene, when wife-swapping became a reality amid a new, sexually liberated way of life, created a new design aesthetic.

Documentary looking at how the 1970s California swinging scene, when wife-swapping became a reality amid a new, sexually liberated way of life, created a new design aesthetic. Captured in all its glorious excess and tastelessness by the movie Boogie Nights, Los Angeles was a land of bachelor pads where conventional suburban homes - ranch houses - were transformed with the addition of shag pile carpet and new inventions like the waterbed and the Jacuzzi, into sensual, swinging party houses.

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