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Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan

24/09/2008

BBC Four - Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan

Greg Dyke takes a bus tour through Wales and the life of Labour politician Aneurin Bevan.

Greg Dyke takes a bus tour through the Welsh Valleys and the life of Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, who was responsible for launching the National Health Service in 1945.

Greg Dyke takes a bus tour through the Welsh Valleys and the life of Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, pronouncing him 'one of the outstanding men of the 20th Century'. 

In 1945, Bevan simultaneously launched the National Health Service and set about rebuilding a bomb-damaged Britain, in one of the most remarkable double acts a politician has ever been asked to achieve. 

Dyke visits the coalmines where Bevan began to hew coal at the age of 13 and explores the Tredegar Medical Aid Society, which was the blueprint for the NHS.

He also reveals the close friendship between Bevan and the black American civil rights campaigner and world-renowned opera singer Paul Robeson.

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The life of Nye Bevan , the founder of the National Health Service.

Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Boy who Never Grew Up

01/11/2007

BBC Four - Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Boy who Never Grew Up

Nick Danziger examines the work of photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Nick Danziger examines the work of Jacques Henri Lartigue, one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century.

One of the 20th century's greatest photographers, Jacques Henri Lartigue worked in virtual obscurity until 1962, when a chance meeting revealed his work to the world. To coincide with the first ever British retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London, photographer Nick Danziger explores some of the staggering 250,000 images he took over nine decades.

Jacques Henri Lartigue -the Boy Who Never Grew Up

Nick Danziger explores some of the 250,000 images created by the photographer.

James Ravilious: A World in Photographs

15/11/2007

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Documentary about James Ravilious, one of the great unknowns of British photography.

Documentary about James Ravilious, one of the great unknowns of British photography, who took more than 80,000 photographs of a small area of Devon from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Alan Bennett narrates a documentary about James Ravilious, one of the great unknowns of British photography. 

Son of the renowned water-colourist and engraver Eric Ravilious, he dedicated his art to a small area of north Devon, where over a period of two decades he took more than 80,000 photographs. 

This collection has become one of the most comprehensive and poignant archives in the country, documenting an English world and way of life most people had thought long gone.

James Ravilious: a World in Photographs

Alan Bennett narrates a documentary about one of the great unknowns of British photography.
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The Photographer, his Wife, her Lover

04/01/2006

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Paul Yule's film uncovers the life of O Winston Link, a giant of contemporary photography.

Paul Yule's film uncovers the private life of celebrated photographer O Winston Link. Behind the veneer of success and recognition lurks a tragic story of deceit, lies and greed.

Paul Yule's film uncovers the private life of O Winston Link, a giant of contemporary photography whose images, made in the 1950s and depicting the last days of steam, have become icons of 20th century Americana. However, behind the veneer of success and recognition is a tragic story of deceit, lies and greed - together with an unexpected and sordid twist.

The Photographer, His Wife andHer Lover

Documentary revealing the story of deceit, lies and greed behind the work of 0 Winston Link, a giant of contemporary photography in the 1950s.

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: Robert Capa - In Love and War

23/08/2004

Robert Capa - In Love and War

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A look at the life, loves and career of iconic war photographer Robert Capa.

Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40.

Profile of iconic war photographer Robert Capa, whose career spanned five epic conflicts across three continents before his untimely death at the age of 40. The film traces Endre Freidman's transformation from a young Jewish boy in Budapest to his becoming Robert Capa, the most famous war photographer in the world.

Robert Capa: in Love and War- Storyville

A profile of Robert Capa , from his beginnings as Hungarian Jewish refugee Endre Freidman , to his transformation into the world's most famous war photographer.

The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith

25/10/2005

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The story behind W Eugene Smith's lost photographs of the 1950 general election.

In 1950 the American photo-journalist W Eugene Smith came to Britain to cover the general election, but his photographs were never published. Professor Dai Smith tells the story.

In 1950 the American photo-journalist W Eugene Smith came to Britain to cover the general election for Life Magazine, but his photographs were never published. Welsh writer and broadcast Professor Dai Smith goes in search of these lost pictures and discovers how the magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government caused them to suppress Smith's work.

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The Lost Pictures ofEugene Smith

Dai Smith searches for the missing photographs taken by American W 
Eugene Smith for Life magazine during the 1950 general election.

The Thirties in Colour

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 1: A World Away

Episode 1

Episode 1: A World Away

A World Away

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Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the 1930s.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s looks at the work of Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were patented and brought to the market. 

This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker, Rosie Newman, who used her high society contacts to secure extraordinary access to the social elite. Between 1928 and her retirement in the 1960s, Newman criss-crossed the globe and shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the period. 

Some of her colour films have been seen before, but this programme features some of Newman's work that has never been broadcast and has not been seen publicly for over 70 years.

Four-part series using photographic archives to give surprising insights into the 1930s.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s.

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 2: Wright Around the World

Episode 2

Episode 2: Wright Around the World

Wright Around the World

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Industrialist Harry Wright and his brother Bolling's images from around the globe.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s. Industrialist Harry Wright and his brother Bolling's images from around the globe.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were brought to the market.

Together with his younger brother Bolling, the American industrialist Harry Wright was wealthy enough to indulge his twin passions for travel and filmmaking. Both siblings collected and shot films that captured the world at a pivotal time in history. 

They captured astonishing images acquired and filmed in the islands of the South Pacific, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, as well as South Africa, Morocco, Palestine, and several countries in Europe, including Britain. These destinations were visited during the golden age of ocean travel, when the well-off could escape the Great Depression and travel the world on luxury cruise ships. 

The sea had become a playground but it would soon become a battleground, as the world lurched towards the bloodiest war in history.

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 3: Adventures in the Americas

Episode 3

Episode 3: Adventures in the Americas

Adventures in the Americas

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Harry Wright's colour films of the indigenous peoples of Africa and Central America.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s looks at Harry Wright's colour films of the indigenous peoples of Africa and Central America.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial colour film and photographs to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s. 

One of the most prolific collectors of colour film in the period was the American industrialist Harry Wright. A self-made millionaire with a passion for film, he acquired and commissioned hundreds of films, which he screened for guests at the private cinema he had built in his home in Mexico City. 

The programme examines Wright's extraordinary colour films of Africa and Central America, including his so-called Ethnographic Series of Unknown Mexican Indians, a unique visual record of the lives and customs of indigenous peoples living in the remote rural regions of Mexico.

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 4: End of an Era

Episode 4

Episode 4: End of an Era

End of an Era

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Features amateur film shot by travellers in Europe, including Berlin in red swastikas.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s. Features amateur film shot by travellers in Europe, including the streets of Berlin decked in red swastikas.

Last in the four part series using rare, private and commercial colour film and photographs to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s. 

It was Golden Age for international travel, a decade when advanced transport systems allowed people to journey all over the world. Travellers with the means recorded their experiences by using the new colour film technologies. Often unintentionally, their home movies captured defining moments at a time when the nations of Europe were about to be plunged into the disaster that was the Second World War.

The final episode features colour films shot by travelling film-makers in Europe, including footage shot on the streets of Berlin decked in red swastikas at the time of the Olympic Games, rare pictures of the Jewish quarter in Warsaw just weeks before the Nazi invasion and, in London, tourists wearing gas masks amid fears of imminent bombing raids by the German Luftwaffe.

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