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World News Today: 27/08/2008

27/08/2008

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BBC News Channel

An impartial and independent news service offering breaking news, analysis and insight.

A 24-hour impartial and independent news service offering breaking news, analysis and insight. It provides fast and comprehensive coverage of local, UK and international events.

Pop Go the Sixties

Colourful nuggets of pop mined from the BBC's archive.

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 2

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 2: Episode 1: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

Episode 1

Episode 1: Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

Series 2

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

BBC Four - Pop Go the Sixties, Series 2, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity

Julie Driscoll sings Bob Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire with Brian Auger's Trinity.

Recorded in 1968, Julie Driscoll sings to the accompaniment of Brian Auger's Trinity on Bob Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire.

Pop moments from the BBC's sixties archive. Recorded in 1968 for Top of the Pops, Julie Driscoll sings to the smoking hot accompaniment of keyboard wizard Brian Auger's Trinity on their hit version of Bob Dylan's This Wheel's On Fire.

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.

Batman

Classic adventure series following the adventures of the dynamic duo in Gotham City.

Classic adventure series following the adventures of dynamic crimefighting duo Batman and Robin in Gotham City.

Batman: Series 2

Batman: Series 2: Episode 56: Caught in the Spider's Den

Episode 56

Episode 56: Caught in the Spider's Den

Caught in the Spider's Den

BBC Four - Batman, Series 2, Caught in the Spider's Den

The dynamic duo find themselves in a tangled web when the Black Widow hits town.

Action adventure series. The dynamic duo find themselves in a tangled web when the Black Widow hits town.

The Black Widow ensnares Batman and Robin in a deadly web.

Life in Cold Blood

Life in Cold Blood: Episode 2: Land Invaders

Episode 2

Episode 2: Land Invaders

Land Invaders

BBC One - Life in Cold Blood, Land Invaders

David Attenborough looks at metre-long salamanders, show-off newts and marsupial frogs.

David Attenborough reveals the bizarre adaptations which have helped amphibians break their ties with water as he meets marsupial frogs, show-off newts and giant salamanders.

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. From steamy jungles to dry deserts, amphibians have taken their first footsteps onto land using their bizarre life histories to break their ties with the water and invade the earth. 

This episode delves into the extraordinary and intimate lives of the soft skinned amphibians. This includes the marsupial frogs, a peculiar species where the father carries his young in pouches and then gives birth. It also features warring giant salamanders over a metre long and show-off newts that offer displays just like underwater birds of paradise.

BBC One

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

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the lives of reptiles and amphibians

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. These animals are as dramatic, as colourful and as tender as any other animals.

2/5. David Attenborough explores how amphibians first took to dry land, taking clues from the Australian lungfish and the Japanese salamander.

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery: Episode 2: Bleeding Hearts

Episode 2: Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding Hearts

BBC Four - Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery, Bleeding Hearts

Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat.

The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breathtaking operation and meets a man with no heartbeat.

Series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery continues with a look at the development of heart surgery, which produced some extremely reckless experiments. 

With a family history of heart problems, presenter Michael Mosley takes a personal interest in these pioneers, who teetered on the scalpel-edge between saviour and executioner. Michael has a go at heart surgery, meets a man with no heartbeat and witnesses an operation where the patient is cooled until their brain stops and has all of their blood sucked out.

Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.

2/5. As he looks at the history of heart surgery, Michael Mosley has a go at surgery, meets a man with no heartbeat and witnesses the latest operation, in which patients have their blood sucked out. See page 80.

Requiem

BBC Four - Requiem

A Catholic student believes she is possessed and her devout parents seek an exorcism.

Drama in which a Catholic student's unwillingness to take her epilepsy medication leads her to believe she is possessed and her devout parents to seek an exorcism.

Drama which follows student and devoted Catholic Michaela Klinger as she moves away to college and at first blossoms, despite her inhibitions and epilepsy. But an unwillingness to take her medication leads to complications and soon, as her life is spiralling out of control and she is convinced she is possessed, her devout parents fear she needs an exorcism.

7 Psychological drama starring 
Sandra Huller. A Catholic becomes convinced she is possessed by evil spirits while attending a university. In German with English subtitles. Review page 32. Director Hans-Christian Schmid (2006, 12)

Coal House

Living history reality series set in Wales.

Coal House: Series 1: Episode 7: Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 7: Episode 6

Series 1

Episode 6

BBC One - Coal House, Series 1, Episode 6

For the children of Coal House, exams at school are just around the corner.

Three Welsh families time-travel back to face the hardships of life in a 1927 mining community. For the children of Coal House, exams at school are just around the corner.

Deep in the Welsh Valleys three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in 1927. 

For the children, exams at school are just around the corner, while the men live the reality of the 1927 coalfield where pit closures were the norm and poor wages all too common. 

Can the Griffiths, Cartwright and Phillips mams keep the fires burning, and more importantly, keep smiling?

Coal House: Series 1

BBC One Wales

Three families are transported back to the south Wales coalfield of the 1920s.

Exams at the 1927 school put extra pressure on the children.

Coal House: Series 1: Episode 8: Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 8: Episode 7

BBC One - Coal House, Series 1, Episode 7

Washing, baking and cleaning has taken over the lives of the mothers and daughters.

Three Welsh families time-travel back to face the hardships of life in a 1927 mining community. In the final week the heat is on as the families fight for survival.

Deep in the Welsh Valleys three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in 1927. 

In the final week the heat is on as the families fight for survival. Washing pit clothes, baking and cleaning has taken over the lives of the mothers and daughters and the fathers and sons are exhausted and struggling at the coal face to earn a crust. 

But the community keeps their spirits high as they look forward to their return to the 21st century.

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Medical Mavericks

An exploration of how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine

An exploration of the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves

Medical Mavericks: Series 1

Medical Mavericks: Series 1: Episode 1: Anaesthesia

Episode 1: Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia

BBC Four - Medical Mavericks, Series 1, Anaesthesia

Dr Michael Mosley charts the development of pain-free surgery.

Michael Mosley explores the work of the pioneering doctors who laid the foundations of modern medicine. He begins by charting the development of pain-free surgery.

Series telling the incredible stories of the guinea-pig doctors who transformed medicine. Presenter Dr Michael Mosley explores the curious and sometimes fatal ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves. 

In this first episode, Dr Mosley charts the development of pain-free surgery. He starts with the 18th century chemist Humphrey Davy, who inhaled up to 50 pints of laughing gas a day and yet missed its true significance. Conman-turned-dentist Dr William Morton slept with a skeleton by night and experimented with ether by day, 19th century Scottish national hero James Young Simpson's reckless enthusiasm for chloroform led to numerous deaths and Sigmund Freud's experiments with cocaine transformed anaesthetics. 

Mosley also undergoes some of the historical experiments himself and meets researchers who are continuing the tradition of self-experimentation today.

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine

Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On: Episode 1: The Radiologist's Tale

Episode 1: The Radiologist's Tale

The Radiologist's Tale

BBC Four - Doctors to Be: 20 Years On, The Radiologist's Tale

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of young doctors. Radiologist Nick Hollings faces a worrying future as the Health Department makes tough decisions.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers. Dr Nick Hollings has devoted half of his life to the NHS, from an ambitious 18-year-old seeking a place at St Mary's Medical School, through 100 hour weeks as a junior doctor and 14 years of exams to become a consultant. Now an established consultant radiologist, Nick faces a worrying future. With long waiting lists for scans, the Department of Health is making tough decisions in the name of efficiency.

Doctors to Be: Twenty Years On

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On: Episode 2: The Surgeon's Tale

Episode 2: The Surgeon's Tale

The Surgeon's Tale

BBC Four - Doctors to Be: 20 Years On, The Surgeon's Tale

Update on the 1980s series about a group of young doctors. This edition looks at Mark George, who after years of hard work and deprivation became a top surgeon.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers. Mark George was 17 when he set off on a path to become a consultant surgeon. He had to study hard, endure long hours, take exams into his 30s and sacrifice much of his life outside medicine. His hard work paid off and he is now a consultant colorectal surgeon in a top hospital, while also developing a lucrative private practice.

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