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World News Today: 10/03/2009

10/03/2009

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

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

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Coal House

Living history reality series set in Wales.

Coal House: Coal House at War

Coal House: Coal House at War: Episode 5

Episode 5

Coal House at War

BBC One - Coal House, Coal House at War, Episode 5

The weekend brings with it a welcome break from work, but there are surprises in store.

Three families give up their 21st-century comforts and travel back to 1944 to face the hardships of life during the Second World War. The weekend brings a welcome break from work.

Three Welsh families give up their 21st-century creature comforts and travel back in time to 1944 to face the hardships of life during the Second World War. 

The weekend arrives, and with it, a welcome break from work. While the men go to football training, the women go to the hair salon. Just as they start to think they are adjusting to life in the Coal House, however, there are more arrivals..

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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.

4/9. The weekend provides a break from the pressures of work. 
First shown on BBC Wales

All Our Working Lives

Films in which the story of British industries are told using archive and interviews

Films in which the story of British industries are told using archive and interviews with the workers

All Our Working Lives: Series 1

All Our Working Lives: Series 1: Cutting Coal

Cutting Coal

Series 1

BBC Four - All Our Working Lives, Series 1, Cutting Coal

Documentary about the nationalisation of British coal mining after the Second World War.

Documentary about the dangerous conditions, insecurity and disputes that led to the nationalisation of mines after World War II.

Coal had powered Britain's industrial rise, with her mills and furnaces, railways and steamships depending on it. In the peak years a million men laboured in the mines, many in poor and dangerous working conditions like those contributor Dick Martin found when he began as pit boy aged 14. 

Miners and managers tell of the poor conditions, insecurity and technical backwardness that helped the case for nationalisation in 1947. But the new NCB over-estimated the future need for coal. After massive post-war modernistaion programme, too much coal was being brought up by too many miners, and with the cutbacks came more conflict.

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.

Documentary series looking at Britain at work in the 20th century

All Our Working Lives: Cutting Coal

Documentary highlighting the disputes that led to the nationalisation of Britain's mines.

My Strike

BBC Four - My Strike

Documentary looking at how going on strike became almost a rite of passage at one time.

Documentary looking at how striking became almost a rite of passage in earlier times, as the likes of Lord Tebbit, Greg Dyke and Peter Snow recall what their strike meant to them.

Documentary looking at how going on strike became almost a rite of passage in earlier times, as the likes of Lord Tebbit, Greg Dyke, Peter Snow, Eddie Shah and Anne Scargill recall just what their strike meant to them.

New. Exploring the consequences of industrial action for both sides of a dispute. With contributions from Lord Tebbit and former BBC director general Greg Dyke. See panel.

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 5: The New Girl

Episode 5: The New Girl

Series 2

The New Girl

BBC Four - Mad Men, Series 2, The New Girl

Joan finds Don the perfect secretary, while Don and Peggy bond over each other's secrets.

Drama series set in the 1960s New York advertising world. Joan finds Don the perfect secretary, while Don finds himself caught between TV comedian Jimmy and his wife.

Joan finds Don the perfect secretary, while Don finds himself in the middle of issues between TV comedian Jimmy and his wife Bobbie. Don and Peggy bond over each other's secrets and Joan gets engaged.

New. 5/13; series two. Don ends up at the police station after crashing his car. Starring Jon Hamm. See panel. For cast see BBC2, page 96 
Repeated tomorrow on BBC2   Simulcast in HD on BBC HD  Behind the scenes: page 10 
The Alison Graham column: page 53 The Inside Story: page 84 
Why I Love...: www.radiotimesxom/mad-men

Party Animals

BBC Two

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 5

BBC Two - Party Animals, Series 1, Episode 5

Danny must fend off calls from the press demanding a statement on a murder.

Drama series set in the high stakes world of party politics. Danny has to fend off calls from the press demanding a statement on the murder of a white prisoner by his Asian inmate.

Drama series based around the young political researchers and advisers in the corridors of Westminster. Danny tries to contact Jo while fending off calls from the press demanding a statement on the murder of a white prisoner by his Asian inmate. When Jo finally arrives at work, hungover from her party the night before, she lets slip that Kirsty and Scott left together. Danny is left wondering what really happened between them.

5/8. The murder of a prisoner by an inmate creates a media frenzy.  
11.35 6/8. Scott is disappointed when a potential career boost doesn't work out as planned.

Party Animals: Series 1: Episode 6

Episode 6

BBC Two - Party Animals, Series 1, Episode 6

Political drama series. Stephen tells Scott that he has been headhunted.

Drama series set in the high stakes world of party politics. James visits Ashika in Sedley as she prepares for her first big public debate.

Drama series based around the young political researchers and advisers in the corridors of Westminster. 

Stephen tells Scott that he's been head-hunted to help the flagging Labour by-election campaign. Scott's flattered and heads up to Sedley to assess the candidate only to discover that he's unimpressive and uninterested in Scott's help.

James visits Ashika in Sedley as she prepares for her first big public debate. Against his advice she comes out in support of planning permission for a local mosque. Her decisive approach makes the Labour candidate, Sullivan, look out of touch.

Kirsty receives a threatening letter from an angry constituent who continues to stalk her. She's later distraught when the police inform her that he set fire to his wife's home, injuring the whole family. She flees to Danny and Scott's flat where the hostility between her and Scott is barely concealed.

When Danny confronts Jo about her excessive drinking she reacts angrily. She later relents but refuses to seek counsel elsewhere.

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Partners in Art

Partners in Art: Episode 2: Debussy and Monet

Episode 2

Episode 2: Debussy and Monet

Debussy and Monet

BBC Four - Partners in Art, Debussy and Monet

Three of Debussy's masterpieces are performed against a backdrop of artworks by Monet.

Audio-visual concert in which three of Debussy's most evocative masterpieces - Prelude a L'apres Midi, Jeux and La Mer - are performed against a backdrop of paintings by Monet.

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

Performances of three of Debussy's most evocative masterpieces - Prelude a L'apres Midi, Jeux and La Mer - are combined with images of impressionistic painting by Monet and Japanese wood engravings by Hokusai, allowing one art form to illuminate the other and giving us a new way of hearing and seeing.

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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