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World News Today: 03/03/2009

03/03/2009

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The latest news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

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

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Coal House

Living history reality series set in Wales.

Coal House at War

Coal House: Coal House at War: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC One - Coal House, Coal House at War, Episode 3

The women struggle to impress at the factory and the children find it tough at school.

Three Welsh families time travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life in World War II. The women struggle to impress at the factory and the children find it tough at school.

Three Welsh families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life in World War II. It's not just the coal-mining men who are finding it hard to reach their targets. The women are struggling to impress at the factory and the children find it tough to keep the school standards.

Coal House: Coal House at War

BBC One Wales

Three families in the Welsh valleys face the hardships of life in World War II.

Series following three families deep in the Welsh valleys as they give up their 21st century creature comforts and time travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life in World War II.

3/9. The women struggle to make an impression at the factory. 
First shown on BBC Wales

Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans

BBC Four - Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans

How the bitter rivalry between Disraeli and Gladstone changed British politics forever.

Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between prime ministers Disraeli and Gladstone, whose bitter personal rivalry dominated British politics for 40 years.

Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, whose bitter personal rivalry dominated British politics for 40 years. 

Disraeli  was a peacock with an elegant wit and an outsider who made it to the top, while Gladstone was an insider and a stern moralist who chopped down trees and saved fallen women, and the two of them drove each other onwards and changed the face of British politics.

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Gladstone and Disraeli - Clashof the Titans

New. Huw Edwards investigates the rivalry between two of the Victorian era's most prominent politicians, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. See panel.

Early Doors

Classic sitcom series written by Craig Cash and set in a Manchester pub.

It's the regulars who make local boozer The Grapes what it is, with bittersweet stories of love, lock-ins and temporary traffic lights. The classic sitcom from Craig Cash.

Early Doors: Series 2: Episode 2

Episode 2

Series 2

BBC Two - Early Doors, Series 2, Episode 2

Ken the landlord is laid up with the flu as the police arrive to celebrate a drugs bust.

Comedy series set in a small Manchester public house. Ken is laid up with the flu as the police arrive to celebrate a successful drugs bust. Duffy is in no mood for celebrating.

Comedy series set in a small Manchester public house. Ken the landlord is laid up with the flu as the police arrive to celebrate their successful drugs bust. Duffy is in no mood for celebrating and faces up to the prospect of single life, seeking solace in the bottom of his beer glass.

Early Doors: Series 2

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.

Second series of Craig Cash's sitcom, set in a small Manchester public house.

2/6; series two. The cops celebrate a successful drugs bust.

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 2

Mad Men: Series 2: Episode 4: Three Sundays

Episode 4

Episode 4: Three Sundays

Three Sundays

BBC Four - Mad Men, Series 2, Three Sundays

Roger Sterling is taken by the 'wife' of a client and wants to see more of her.

Drama series set in the 1960s New York advertising world. Sterling Cooper staff are called in over the weekend to prepare for their American Airlines pitch.

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

Sterling Cooper staffers are called in over the weekend to prepare for their American Airlines pitch. Peggy's family hosts lunch for their church's new priest. Roger Sterling is taken by the 'wife' of a client and wants to see more of her.

Mad Men: Three Sundays

New. 4/13; series two. Peggy's family hosts lunch for a visiting priest. Starring Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss. See page 76.
(For cast see BBC2, page 88)
(Repeated tomorrow on BBC2)
(Simulcast in HD on BBC HD channel)

Party Animals

Drama series about young researchers and advisors in Westminster

Drama series about the young researchers and advisors working behind the scenes in Westminster

Party Animals: Series 1

Party Animals: Series 1: Episode 4

Series 1

BBC Two - Party Animals, Series 1, Episode 4

It's Jo's 40th and she asks Danny and Kirsty to organise a dinner for close friends.

Drama series set in the high stakes world of party politics. It's Jo's 40th and she asks Danny and Kirsty to organise an intimate birthday dinner for close friends.

Drama series taking a look at Westminster from the ground up - the young researchers and advisers shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world.

It's Jo's 40th and she asks Danny and Kirsty to organise an intimate birthday dinner for close friends. Kirsty has bigger ideas and uses the occasion as an excuse to network. 

Scott is asked to help prevent a wealthy Russian client from being extradited and finds that he has bitten off more than he can chew. He resorts to desperate measures to get himself out of trouble.

4/8. Danny attempts to prove he isn't in love with Kirsty by arranging a date over the internet.

We Need Answers

Anarchic comedy game show in which two celebrity guests answer questions set by the public

Comedy game show in which two celebrity guests answer questions set by the public

We Need Answers: Series 1

We Need Answers: Series 1: Episode 3: Wine

Episode 3: Wine

Wine

BBC Four - We Need Answers, Series 1, Wine

Celebrities compete in wine-related quiz in which the audience sets the questions.

Comedy quiz show with a difference, as Jilly Goolden and Jay Rayner compete to answer a series of wine-related questions provided by members of the public.

Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne lead a comic quiz show with a difference, adapted from their award-winning Edinburgh show. Jilly Goolden and Jay Rayner take part in a knock-about quiz to find out which one of them is the smartest, the funniest and the best at surreal physical challenges. All the questions come from the audience members and text-messaging services and are on the subject of wine.

Anarchic comedy game show in which all the questions are sent in by members of the public

Comics Tim Key , Mark Watson and Alex Home present the quiz.

Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock

28/02/2009

BBC Four - Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock

Paul Merton uses clips and interviews to explore Alfred Hitchcock's British films.

Documentary in which Paul Merton explores Alfred Hitchcock's early British films, using clips and archive interviews with Hitchcock and those who worked with him.

Documentary in which Paul Merton explores Alfred Hitchcock's early British films. 

These moody features - some silents such as The Lodger and others talkies like Blackmail - provided the essential cinematic DNA for his rise to prominence as Hollywood's 'master of suspense'.

Merton sees Hitchcock as a man immersed in the visual language of cinema, who understood how to use camera movement and lighting for dramatic effect. For Hitchcock, heavily influenced by the German expressionist cinema, the pictures would always be more important than the dialogue.

Using clips and previously unseen archive interviews with Hitchcock, Merton weaves together a playful narrative of the director's early career and macabre world, revealing a man with a great sense of humour. 

He talks to those who knew and worked with Hitchcock, including actress Anna Massey, director Roy Ward Baker, Hitchcock's official biographer John Russell Taylor and the great cinematographer Gil Taylor, the latter about working on two Hitchcock films at either end of his career - Number Seventeen in 1932 and Frenzy in 1972.

Paul Merton Looks at Alfred

Hitchcock   1.05 Bartok and Van Goqh : Partners In Art

Partners in Art

Partners in Art: Episode 1: Bartok and Van Gogh

Episode 1

Episode 1: Bartok and Van Gogh

Bartok and Van Gogh

BBC Four - Partners in Art, Bartok and Van Gogh

Two of Bartok's concertos are performed against a backdrop of artworks by Van Gogh.

Audio-visual concert in which Bela Bartok's Concerto for Two Pianos and Concerto for Orchestra are performed against a backdrop of paintings and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh.

Innovative audio-visual concert presentation by David Robertson, the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor, at the Barbican in London. 

Performances of two 20th century works by Bartok, his Concerto for Two Pianos and Concerto for Orchestra, and images of paintings and drawings by Van Gogh are heard and seen together to illustrate the parallels that can be traced between Bartok's folk-derived music and the organic patterns and proportions of the natural world used in Van Gogh's art.

Innovative audio-visual concert presentation at the Barbican in London

Innovative audio-visual concert presentation by David Robertson, the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor, at the Barbican in London

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