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World News Today: 20/04/2009

20/04/2009

BBC News Channel - World News Today, 20/04/2009

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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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.

Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury

Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury: Episode 5: Harbouring History

Episode 5

Episode 5: Harbouring History

Harbouring History

BBC Four - Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury, Harbouring History

Julia Bradbury discovers a railway that ran from Weymouth across Chesil Beach to Portland.

Julia Bradbury follows the trail of Britain's lost rail empire on a line from Weymouth and across the unique coastal features of Chesil Beach and Portland.

The backstreets of Weymouth seem an unlikely spot to explore railway history, but Julia discovers there was once a short railway that ran south from Weymouth and across the unique coastal features of Chesil Beach and Portland. The walk is the ideal platform for learning about the history of Portland Harbour and the tied isle's most famous export, Portland stone.

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Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following Britain's lost rail empire.

Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire.

Railway Walks

Following a short railway that ran from Weymouth, across the coastal features of Chesil Beach and Portland.

Dorset Days: A Year in the Life of Longhorn Jim

16/04/2009

BBC Four - Dorset Days: A Year in the Life of Longhorn Jim

Documentary about Falklands War veteran Jim Armstrong's new life as a Dorset farmer.

Documentary about Falklands War veteran Jim Armstrong, who is now a farmer in Dorset. The film follows Jim as he helps to raise a herd of Longhorn cattle and a flock of sheep.

Documentary about Falklands War veteran and ex-firefighter Jim Armstrong, who is now a farmer in Dorset.

The film follows Jim through 2007 as he helps to raise a herd of traditional Longhorn cattle and his own flock of sheep. Sad echoes of his war experiences 25 years earlier resurface at times, but they never dent his optimistic spirit or his delight in selling meat locally and spending his days in the great Dorset outdoors.

Dorset Days - a Year in theLife of Longhorn Jim

Portrait of Falklands War veteran and former firefighter Jim Armstrong, who has turned his hand to farming and is seen helping to raise sheep and traditional longhorn cattle.

The Weather

The Weather: Episode 2: Snow

Episode 2

Episode 2: Snow

Snow

BBC Four - The Weather, Snow

Taking a scientific journey into the microscopically tiny world of the snow crystal.

A journey into the world of the snow crystal, as science explains a notorious episode in British Rail's history and why a British company is the world's leading snow producer.

Documentary series about the weather. This episode looks at snow, that most fleeting and beautiful of elements which endlessly fascinates us. 

Using rare footage, we journey into the microscopically small world of the snow crystal, finding out how a snowflake forms and why it is always six-sided. 

The science of snow tests British Rail's claim that the snow that crippled their rolling stock in 1991 really was the 'wrong type of snow', and explains how, thanks to a scientific discovery, a British company became the world's leading producer of snow.

Series taking a scientific look at different aspects of British weather

RT CHOICE  New. 2/3. The second of three programmes about the weather explores the formation of snowflakes using rare film footage, and examines the effect that snowfall had on British Rail's rolling stock in 1991. See panel.

Spiral

There's no one idea of justice. Laure Berthaud and her team of detectives face the brutal world of organised crime, and none will remain unscathed. Dark, unsettling French drama.

Spiral: Series 1

Spiral: Series 1: Episode 7

Episode 7

Series 1

BBC Four - Spiral, Series 1, Episode 7

Pierre Clemente finally resolves to have his friend Benoit Faye arrested.

French crime thriller series. Pierre Clemente finally resolves to have his friend Benoit Faye arrested in connection with the Andrescu case, putting Benoit's life in danger.

French crime thriller series. Pierre Clemente finally resolves to have friend Benoit Faye arrested in connection with the Andrescu case, unwittingly putting Benoit's life in danger. Meanwhile, lawyer Josephine Karlsson is called in to defend a young man accused of rape, while blackmailed Gilout is compromised.

The murder of a young woman reveals a network of corruption spread throughout Paris.

The mutilated body of a young woman is discovered on a Parisian rubbish dump. The investigation into her past reveals a network of corruption that taints even the justice system.

7/8. Pierre Clemente unwittingly endangers Benoit Faye 's life when he decides to have her arrested in connection with the Andrescu case. Starring Gregory Fitoussi and Caroline Proust. 
10.50 8/8. With Benoit Faye in intensive care following an assassination attempt, the prosecution in the Andrescu case has lost its main witness. In French with English subtitles.

Spiral: Series 1: Episode 8

Episode 8

BBC Four - Spiral, Series 1, Episode 8

Benoit Faye is in intensive care following an assassination attempt.

French crime thriller series. With Benoit Faye in intensive care following an assassination attempt, the prosecution in the Andrescu case has lost its main witness.

French crime thriller series. With Benoit Faye in intensive care following an assassination attempt, the prosecution in the Andrescu case has lost its main witness. The shady events leading up to the double murder of the Andrescu sisters are reconstructed through Benoit's memories - from his relationship with beautiful Elina to the involvement of debauched ministerial advisor Arnaud Laborde.

Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere

07/08/2005

BBC Four - Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere

Drama about the discord caused by the return of a long-missing father to the family home.

French drama about a successful gerontologist whose life is thrown into turmoil by the reappearance of his absentee father who abandoned the family decades earlier.

French drama about the return of a long-disappeared father to the family home, and the discord that arises from his observations of what he finds. With his father entering his world again Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, is forced to face his own life story and also to learn how to forget and forgive.

E*** Taut psychological drama starring Michel Bouquet and Charles Berling. A neglectful father is forced to leave the African country in which he has been working as a doctor for 20 years and re-enters the lives of the two sons he abandoned years before. In French with English subtitles. Review page 40. 
Director Anne Fontaine (2001,15)

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