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A Seaside Parish

Documentary series following Rev Christine Musser in her Cornish parish

A Seaside Parish: Series 1

A Seaside Parish: Series 1: Episode 7

Episode 7

Series 1

BBC Two - A Seaside Parish, Series 1, Episode 7

Husband Brett has an unusual Christmas present in store for Christine.

Documentary series following Rev Christine Musser in her new Cornish parish. Chris performs a double baptism on a father and son and the town prepares for a musical extravaganza.

Documentary series following Rev Christine Musser in her new Cornish parish. Husband Brett has an unusual Christmas present in store for Christine. She continues to surprise by performing a double baptism on a father and son, and the town prepares for a musical extravaganza.

BBC Two

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.

7/8. The Rev Christine Musser surprises the locals when she performs a double baptism. First shown on BBC2

We Want the Light: The Jews and German Music

29/01/2005

BBC Four - We Want the Light: The Jews and German Music

Investigation into the complex relationship between the Jews and German music.

Christopher Nupen's award-winning film investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music, from Mendelssohn to Wagner.

Christopher Nupen's award-winning film investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music, from Mendelssohn to Wagner. The heroine of the film is pianist Alice Sommer Herz, who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp and is convinced that it was music that kept her, and many others, alive in those unimaginable circumstances.

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.

We Want the Light: the Jewsand German Music

Insight into Jewish influence on German classical music during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the roles played by. Mendelssohn and Wagner.

Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story

09/04/2007

BBC One - Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story

Profile of The Carpenters, one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the 1970s.

Documentary about brother and sister duo The Carpenters, one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the 1970s, but one with a destructive and complex secret that ended in tragedy.

The Carpenters were one of the biggest selling pop artists of the 1970s, but what seemed on the surface as the perfect, wholesome brother and sister duo hid a destructive complex truth that was unknown to the world. 

Featuring behind the scenes footage, interviews with brother Richard, family and friends, this documentary traces the story that ended in tragedy with sister Karen's untimely death aged just 32.

BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

Only Yesterday: the Carpenters'Story

Documentary about the lives of the 1970s pop duo, whose wholesome brother-and-sister image hid a destructive secret. Includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and family. Two 1970s performances follow. See p114.

The Carpenters

BBC Four - The Carpenters

1971 concert featuring the Carpenters performing many of their early hits.

1971 concert featuring the Carpenters performing Close to You, Help, Love is Surrender, Superstar, And When He Smiles, Rainy Days and Mondays, Sacre Bleu and many others.

1971 concert featuring the Carpenters performing Close to You, Help, Love is Surrender, Superstar, And When He Smiles, Rainy Days and Mondays, Sacre Bleu, A Bacharach and David Medley, For All We Know, Sometimes and We've Only Just Begun.

An archive performance by the duo recorded during their first visit to the UK, originally screened in 1971.

The Carpenters: A World in Music

The Carpenters: A World of Music

BBC Four - The Carpenters: A World of Music

Songs include Superstar, I Need to be in Love, Close to You and Top of the World.

Karen and Richard Carpenter in concert from 1976. Songs include There's A Kind of Hush, Close to You, Top of the World, Only Yesterday, Superstar and Yesterday Once More.

Karen and Richard Carpenter concluded their 1976 British tour with this specially-recorded programme. Songs include There's A Kind of Hush, I Need to be in Love, Close to You, Strike up the Band, Top of the World, Only Yesterday, I Won't Last a Day Without You, Hurting Each Other, Superstar, Goodbye to Love, We've Only Just Begun and Yesterday Once More.

The Carpenters: World of Music

A concert by the duo recorded at the New London Theatre in 1976, featuring the hits Yesterday Once 
More and Top of the World.

The Avengers

Classic adventure series, with John Steed and his able assistants keeping Britain safe

Classic 1960s adventure series. John Steed and his succession of able assistants fight for crown and country

The Avengers: Series 5

The Avengers: Series 5: Episode 20: Dead Man's Treasure

Episode 20

Episode 20: Dead Man's Treasure

Series 5

Dead Man's Treasure

BBC Four - The Avengers, Series 5, Dead Man's Treasure

While Steed rallies around, Mrs Peel drives for her life, racing to retrieve information.

1960s crime drama series. While Steed rallies around, Mrs Peel drives for her life, racing to retrieve hidden information.

Sixties-style action with bowler-hatted sleuth Steed and his glamorous female sidekicks.

Sixties-style action adventure, with bowler-hatted sleuth Steed and a slinky succession of glamorous female sidekicks

The Avengers: Series 5: Episode 21: You Have Just Been Murdered

Episode 21

Episode 21: You Have Just Been Murdered

You Have Just Been Murdered

BBC Four - The Avengers, Series 5, You Have Just Been Murdered

A mock murder leads Steed and Emma to a gang of master blackmailers.

60s cult action series. A mock murder leads Steed and Emma to a gang of master blackmailers.

Jews

Jews: Episode 1: The Prisoner

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Prisoner

The Prisoner

BBC Four - Jews, The Prisoner

How a Hasidic Jew with drug-smuggling convictions set about rebuilding his life.

The story of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jew Samuel Leibowitz, who has multiple convictions for drug-smuggling.

The story of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jew Samuel Leibowitz, who has multiple convictions for international drug-smuggling. Filmmaker Vanessa Engle follows him as he comes out of prison and returns to his community, documenting his re-entry into ultra-orthodox life to discover whether he can overcome his transgressions and live once again as an observant Hasidic Jew.

Documentary series giving an unprecedented insight into Jewish life in Britain.

Jews: Episode 2: The Next Generation

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Next Generation

The Next Generation

BBC Four - Jews, The Next Generation

How children of Holocaust survivors still find themselves carrying the inherited trauma.

How the children of Holocaust survivors still find themselves carrying the inherited trauma.

Looking at the psychological inheritance of the Holocaust. It may have taken place over half a century ago, but the children of refugees and survivors still find themselves carrying the inherited trauma from the past in their everyday lives. A reflection on the second generation experience which explores how the past informs the present and how history lives on inside our heads.

Jews: Episode 3: Keeping the Faith

Episode 3

Episode 3: Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith

BBC Four - Jews, Keeping the Faith

How a philanthropist is trying to reverse the decline in the observant Jewish population.

Philanthropist Jonathan Faith's attempts to reverse the decline in the observant Jewish population.

The story of 52-year-old millionaire philanthropist Jonathan Faith. Former owner of high street chain Faith shoes, he retired from the business to devote himself to trying to reverse the decline in the observant Jewish population, which is currently a mere 270,000 people. He spends his fortune not on yachts, but on a mission to prevent religious Jews in Britain from becoming extinct.

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