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Men, Women and Clothes

Men, Women and Clothes: Episode 6: Facing the Elements

Episode 6

Episode 6: Facing the Elements

Facing the Elements

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How protection from the elements has always been of secondary importance in fashion.

1950s fashion series. How attitudes to covering up changed in the 1920s, when the acquisition of a suntan became de rigueur for those serious about style.

1950s fashion series. Doris Langley Moore shows how protection from the elements has always been of secondary importance. We see how attitudes to covering up changed completely in the 1920s, when the acquisition of a suntan became de rigueur for those serious about style.

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.

Series looking at authentic clothes from the Museum of Costume at Eridge Castle, Sussex

6/6. Fashion's disregard for protection from the elements.

Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters: Episode 2

Episode 2

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As she comforts Mrs Hamley, Molly realises the declining state of the woman's health.

Period drama following the intrigues, loves and losses of young Molly Gibson. As she comforts Mrs Hamley, Molly realises the declining state of the frail woman's health.

Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel which follows the intrigues, loves and losses experienced by young Molly Gibson. 

As she comforts Mrs Hamley, who is upset about Osborne's banishment from the house, Molly realises the declining state of the frail woman's health. Molly anticipates the arrival of Cynthia, her new stepsister, and overhears Osborne's secret.

Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel following the loves and losses of a young woman

Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel which follows the intrigues, loves and losses experienced by young Molly Gibson

RT 2/3. Drama starring Justine Waddell and Penelope Wilton. Molly discovers the frail state of Mrs Hamley 's health when she comforts her over Osborne's banishment from the house. See panel. First shown on BBC1

New Town

14/02/2009

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The head of Scottish Heritage falls from a church tower in a mysterious accident.

Drama set in Edinburgh. Architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but the head of Scottish Heritage mysteriously falls from its tower.

Drama set in Edinburgh's New Town area. Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.

RT New. Two architects are drawn into a a murder mystery when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the tower of a church they have been redesigning. Drama with Mark Gatiss and Max Bremer. See panel.

Iran and Britain

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Christopher de Bellaigue explores the fraught history of Britain's relations with Iran.

Christopher de Bellaigue explores the fraught but intimate history of Britain's relations with Iran, including Britain's role in the overthrow of several Iranian governments.

Documentary in which writer and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue explores the fraught but often surprisingly intimate history of Britain's relations with Iran, and asks why Iranians think that if something goes wrong in Iran then Britain must have something to do with it. 

De Bellaigue has lived in Tehran, speaks fluent Persian and knows well the phenomenon of 'Uncle Napoleonism', the notion that the cunning British are 'out to get you' that has been a common attitude in Iranian society for 100 years. 

He looks at some key events in the relationship, notably Britain's role in the overthrow of several Iranian governments, its control of Iran's oil and the on-off support for Iran's democrats.

Meeting prominent Iranians, including Uncle Napoleon's inventor and others with direct knowledge of these events, he examines the foundations and justification for these Iranian suspicions and asks if they are still there after 30 years of isolation.

New. Journalist Christopher de 
Bellaigue explores the relationship between Britain and Iran, meeting prominent Iranians in an effort to discover why suspicions about Britain prevail in their country.

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: Prostitution Behind the Veil

02/10/2006

Prostitution Behind the Veil

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Documentary following the lives of two Iranian women who have resorted to prostitution.

Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women who have had to resort to prostitution to support their young children and their heroin habits.

Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women whose misfortunes have landed them in the same run-down building. Their husbands are serving long prison sentences, both have been left to look after their young children and both have had to resort to prostitution to support their heroin habits. 

Persson's sympathetic portrait follows them as they struggle to create a better life for themselves and their children.

Prostitution behind the Veil:Storyville

With their husbands in jail and young children and heroin habits to support, Minna and Fariba turn to prostitution as a means of survival.

Comedy Songs: The Pop Years

22/12/2008

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Documentary tracing the history of the comedy pop song from the 1950s to the present.

Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song, from the Goons through the 1960s satire boom, the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and the naff 1980s.

Documentary tracing the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium.  

We discover that George Martin was the missing link between the Goons and the Beatles, that the Barron Knights invented the parody song and that the Two Ronnies were not big fans of Not the Nine O'Clock News. 

Almost everyone appears in the comedy song's chequered history of peaks and troughs, from the 1960s satire boom to the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and Billy Connolly and on through the wilderness years of 1980s novelty naffness and the genre's redemption in alternative comedy and the likes of Victoria Wood and Alexei Sayle.

Comedy Songs - the Pop Years

A celebration of Britain's rich and ribald tradition of comic songs.

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Time Shift: Series 8

Timeshift: Series 8: The Comic Songbook

The Comic Songbook

Series 8

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Documentary which celebrates Britain's rich and much-loved tradition of comic songs.

Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie, and reveals the skill involved in creating them.

Documentary which celebrates Britain's rich and much-loved tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie, and reveals the skill involved in creating them. 

Contributors include Monty Python's Michael Palin and Terry Jones, Neil Innes, Bill Oddie, the Now Show's Mitch Benn, producer Cameron Mackintosh, Nicholas Parsons, Ed Stewart and Kit and the Widow.

Timeshift: Series 8

A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history

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