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World News Today: 01/10/2008

01/10/2008

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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.

Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Two - Ways of Seeing, Episode 4

John Berger analyses how advertising and publicity relate to the tradition of painting.

Influential series about the way we view painting. John Berger analyses the images of advertising and publicity and shows how they relate to the tradition of oil painting.

A BAFTA award-winning series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. In this programme, Berger analyses the images of advertising and publicity and shows how they relate to the tradition of oil painting - in moods, relationships and poses.

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.

Influential 1972 series about the way we look at paintings, presented by John Berger.

4/4. John Berger discusses how we miss the connection between advertising images and oil paintings.

A History of British Art

A History of British Art: Episode 3: My Wife, My Horse and Myself

Episode 3

Episode 3: My Wife, My Horse and Myself

My Wife, My Horse and Myself

BBC Four - A History of British Art, My Wife, My Horse and Myself

Andrew Graham-Dixon travels back to the 18th century, the golden age of British art.

Series tracing British art from 1066 to the modern day. Andrew Graham-Dixon explores art depicting the world of the 18th-century British aristocrat.

Third instalment of a six-part series tracing British art from 1066 to the modern day. Writer and presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon travels back to the 18th century, the golden age of British art. He looks at the rich visual world of the aristocracy, from art depicting the great English informal landscape garden to studies of the aristocrat's racehorse, wife, dog and mistress and explore the works of artists like Hogarth, Stubbs and Gainsborough.

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 series tracing the history of British art from 1066 to the modern day.

Six-part series tracing the history of British art from 1066 to the modern day, written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.

New. Andrew Graham-Dixon examines the rich visual world of the aristocracy, as seen through the eyes of 18th-century artists. See panel.

Omnibus

Omnibus: David Hockney's Secret Knowledge

06/11/2001

David Hockney's Secret Knowledge

BBC Four - Omnibus, David Hockney's Secret Knowledge

David Hockney reveals that cameras may have been artists' tools since the 15th century.

David Hockney reveals evidence that cameras have been a secret tool for artists since the 15th century, a discovery that solves century-old mysteries surrounding famous paintings.

Artist David Hockney reveals startling evidence which suggests that cameras have been a secret tool for artists since the 15th century, a discovery that solves century-old mysteries surrounding famous paintings. Presented by Kirsty Wark, and filmed in Bruges, Florence and a stunning Hockney-designed set in Hollywood.

The artist argues that primitive forms of photography were in use as early as the 15th century, a theory that could explain the mysteries surrounding many famous paintings.

Art of Arts TV

Art of Arts TV: Episode 3: The Landmark Arts Series

Episode 3: The Landmark Arts Series

The Landmark Arts Series

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Investigating the major landmark series fronted by some of the art world's biggest names.

Three-part series reflecting on the contribution that arts programmes have made to our national broadcasting culture. Investigating major landmark series.

For the past half century, arts programming has been one of the cornerstones of British public service television. This three-part series sees an illustrious line-up of luminaries, including David Attenborough, Joan Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Miller, Jonathan Meades, Ken Russell, Brian Sewell and Alan Yentob, reflect on the contribution that arts programmes have made to our national broadcasting culture. In the final episode, they reconsider some of the most ambitious and celebrated of all arts programmes - the major landmark series, fronted by some of the art world's biggest names, including Kenneth Clark's epic Civilisation, John Berger's cerebral Ways of Seeing, and the inimitable Robert Hughes' series The Shock of the New.

The contribution that arts programmimg has made to our national broadcasting culture.

Three-part series reflecting on the contribution that arts programmes have made to our national broadcasting culture.

The Art of Arts TV

3/3. The Landmark Arts Series. The final film in the series examining arts-based programmes from the past five decades explores the monumental cultural impact of landmark series, such as Kenneth Clark 's Civilisation from 1969. See page 88.

Arena

The gold standard for arts documentaries, from 1975 to the present day.

The gold standard for arts documentaries, from 1975 to the present day. A cultural map of the world’s greatest artists and musicians, as captured by exceptional film-makers.

Arena: The Waugh Trilogy

Arena: The Waugh Trilogy: Episode 1: Bright Young Things

Episode 1

Episode 1: Bright Young Things

The Waugh Trilogy

Bright Young Things

BBC Four - Arena, The Waugh Trilogy, Bright Young Things

Evelyn Waugh's early years are explored from his childhood to early writing success.

Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. The first episode explores Waugh's early years from his childhood and Oxford University days.

Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. In this first episode, Waugh's early years are explored from his childhood and Oxford University days through to his first failed marriage and his early writing success with classics such as Decline and Fall.

Three part profile of the writer, Evelyn Waugh.

Arena: the Waugh Trilogy

The first of three programmes about the life and career of author 
Evelyn Waugh , from his childhood and Oxford University days to his first failed marriage and early writing success with classics such as Decline and Fall.

Arena: The Waugh Trilogy: Episode 2: Mayfair and the Jungle

Episode 2

Episode 2: Mayfair and the Jungle

Mayfair and the Jungle

BBC Four - Arena, The Waugh Trilogy, Mayfair and the Jungle

Exploring Waugh's time in Africa as a journalist, World War II and his second marriage.

Series of three programmes profiling writer Evelyn Waugh. This second episode explores Waugh's time in Africa as a journalist and spans the Second World War.

Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. This second episode explores Waugh's time in Africa as a journalist and spans the Second World War. After years of negotiating with the church of Rome, Waugh is finally free to marry his second wife Laura.

Arena: The Waugh Trilogy: Episode 3: An Englishman's Home

Episode 3: An Englishman's Home

An Englishman's Home

BBC Four - Arena, The Waugh Trilogy, An Englishman's Home

The final episode examines Waugh's deteriorating health in his latter years.

Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. The final episode examines Waugh's deteriorating health in his latter years.

Series of three programmes profiling the writer Evelyn Waugh. The final episode examines Waugh's deteriorating health in his latter years. After his mental illness Waugh penned The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold, which describes horror, hallucinations and voices in the head. So accurate were his descriptions of his experiences that the work was highly regarded by psychoanalysts.

Art of Eternity

Art of Eternity: Episode 1: Painting Paradise

Episode 1: Painting Paradise

Painting Paradise

BBC Four - Art of Eternity, Painting Paradise

Andrew Graham-Dixon unravels the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era.

Andrew Graham-Dixon unravels the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era. He traces the beginnings of Christian art in Rome, Egypt and medieval France.

How should art depict the relationship between man and God? How can art best express eternal values? Can you, and should you, portray the face of Christ? For over a thousand years these were some of the questions which taxed the minds of the greatest artists of the early West. In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon sets out to unravel the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era. Why has this world been so frequently misunderstood and underrated? His journey takes him from the mysterious catacombs of ancient Rome to Coptic Egypt, to the Orthodox Christian world of Istanbul and then onwards to medieval Italy and France.

In the first episode, Andrew Graham-Dixon traces the beginnings of Christian art in the declining Roman Empire, Egypt and medieval France, and reveals the ideas which lay behind the transition from classical art to the first icons.

Andrew Graham-Dixon unravels the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era

Andrew Graham-Dixon unravels the mysteries of the art of the pre-perspective era. He traces the beginnings of Christian art in Rome, Egypt and medieval France

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