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Graham Hill: Driven

26/05/2008

BBC Four - Graham Hill: Driven

Portrait of the eccentric, charismatic British motor racing legend, Graham Hill.

Portrait of the eccentric, charismatic British motor racing legend Graham Hill, a man who lived and died during a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous.

Emotive documentary portrait of a sporting legend who lived and died during a time when sex was safe and motor racing was dangerous!

Graham Hill was an eccentric, charismatic Englishman from a bygone era of sporting endeavour. With great determination he won the Formula 1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and the Le Mans 24 hours race, thereby achieving the 'triple crown' of motor racing - a unique feat that remains unmatched to this day. Graham also won the glamorous Monaco Grand Prix five times during an era when drivers routinely met violent death. Away from the circuit, he was a raconteur of hilarious proportions, a dashing figure with a keen eye for the ladies. He was an irrepressible free spirit who simply didn't know when to quit.

Ultimately, it was to be his undoing.

Graham's illustrious racing career spanned three decades, which at its height saw him routinely slugging it out with fellow F1 champions Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Close friends yet intense rivals on the track, they were the 'Three Musketeers' during a golden era of motor racing. But what was the truth behind Graham's popular public image? 30 years on from his death, his family, close friends and former colleagues paint an intimate, revealing and entertaining portrait of a sporting hero tragically killed in a plane crash in 1975.

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.

An intimate portrait of motor racing star Graham Hill , the only man to win the Formula One championship, Indy and Le Mans 24-hour race.

Queens of British Pop

Queens of British Pop: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC One - Queens of British Pop, Episode 1

The series looks at stars including Sandie Shaw, Suzi Quatro and Siouxsie Sioux.

Documentary charting the highs and lows of Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and Kate Bush, looking at their influence on music.

Queens of British Pop and narrator Liza Tarbuck offer a celebration of six female pop stars, singers and icons that lit us up from the early 60s to the late 70s.

Programme one tells the story of Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and Kate Bush - some of the female artists that emerged alongside some of Britain's defining musical movements, from the swinging sixties through to glam rock and punk.

The programme gives an insight into the lives of these top female artists, offering first-hand or eyewitness accounts of the highs, the lows and the obstacles they had to overcome. The selected artists have pushed boundaries, played around with gender roles and had their private lives overshadow their success, but it is their experiences that have helped change the face of British pop as we know it today.

Includes new interviews with Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and contributions from Tom Jones, Lulu, Burt Bacharach, John Lydon, Martha Reeves, Nancy Sinatra, Mark Radcliffe, Henry Winkler, Marc Almond, Peter Gabriel, Claire Grogan, Jarvis Cocker, Kiki Dee, Nigel Havers, Lily Allen and Adele, to name but a few.

BBC One

Documentary celebrating female pop stars and icons who have influenced British pop music.

Documentary celebrating female pop stars, singers and icons who have influenced British pop music.

1/2. Celebrating the female singers who have most influenced British pop music over the past 50 years, including Sandie Shaw. Starting a night of British female pop programming.  
9.05 2/2. More contemporary artists such as Annie Lennox , Alison Moyet , Kylie Minogue, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis come under the spotlight. See panel. 
First shown on BBC1

Queens of British Pop: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC One - Queens of British Pop, Episode 2

A celebration of the queens of British pop as it journeyed from post-punk to The X Factor.

Documentary celebrating the careers of Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis, who took us from post-punk to The X Factor.

A celebration of six queens of British pop music, and a look at their impact between 1980 and 2009. 

This programme profiles Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis. These female stars take us from post-punk to The X Factor, with a slice of girl power along the way. 

Narrated by Lisa Tarbuck, with contributors including Annie Lennox, Dawn French, Dave Stewart, Alison Moyet, Pete Waterman, Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis, Lily Allen, Adele, Marc Almond and more.

Dusty

Dusty Springfield hosts her 1960s variety show series, with special guests.

Dusty Springfield hosts her 1960s variety show series, with special guests, originally broadcast on BBC One.

Dusty: Series 2: Episode 4

Episode 4

Series 2

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Vintage episode of Dusty Springfield's 1960s TV series, featuring special guest Tom Jones.

Vintage episode of Dusty Springfield's 1960s TV series, featuring special guest Tom Jones. Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Margaret Stredder supply the backing vocals.

Dusty: Series 2

Dusty Springfield hosts a second series of her 1960s variety show, with special guests.

An episode of Dusty Springfield's TV series from 1967, featuring Tom Jones as a special guest and backing vocals by Madeline Bell , Lesley Duncan and Margaret Stredder.

Cilla

Vintage variety series hosted by Cilla Black

Cilla: Series 2: Episode 8

Episode 8

BBC Four - Cilla, Series 2, Episode 8

With Georgie Fame, Dusty Springfield, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden.

Edition of Cilla Black's 1960s TV series, with guests Georgie Fame, Dusty Springfield, Tom Ward, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden.

Edition of Cilla Black's 1960s TV series. Cilla sings Step Inside Love and Pass Me By, and performs duets with Georgie Fame on For Once in My Life and Dusty Springfield on If You're Ever (Friendship). Dusty and Georgie also take the mic for solo numbers.

Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden do a Top of the Form take-off and a ritual Japanese wrestling act, while comedian Tom Ward does a drunk act.

Cilla: Series 2

Variety series with Cilla Black and guests

A vintage 1968 episode of Cilla Black's TV show. She sings "Step inside Love", "For Once in My Life" and "Liverpool Lullaby". With musical guests Georgie Fame and Dusty Springfield.

The Sandie Shaw Supplement

The Sandie Shaw Supplement: Episode 2: Quicksand

Episode 2: Quicksand

Quicksand

BBC Four - The Sandie Shaw Supplement, Quicksand

1960s show in which Sandie Shaw performs music on the theme of transport and travel.

Archive footage of the barefoot 60s chanteuse, in which Sandie introduces a show on the theme of travel. Songs include Route 66, Homeward Bound and Day Tripper.

1960s show in which Sandie Shaw performs music on the theme of transport and travel. She is filmed riding a horse on a Welsh beach, in a racing car, on a Marylebone station platform and in the studio, singing Route 66, Do you Know the Way to San Jose, Homeward Bound, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Girl Don't Come, Got to Go, Planes and Boats and Planes, Day Tripper and Ticket to Ride.

1960s series in which Sandie Shaw performs songs on a specific theme

1960s series in which Sandie Shaw performs songs on a specific theme.

The Sandie Shaw Supplement- Quicksand

The singer performs songs on the theme of travel as she visits a Welsh beach and Marylebone Station and sings classics such as Route 66 and Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

Lulu's Back in Town

Lulu's Back in Town: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Four - Lulu's Back in Town, Episode 3

Edition of Lulu's 1960s TV variety show, with guests Les Dawson and the Everly Brothers.

Edition of Lulu's 1960s TV variety show, in which she sings solo numbers and duets with guests Les Dawson and the Everly Brothers.

Variety show from the 1960s featuring singer Lulu.

In an edition of the Scottish singer's 1960s TV variety show, she performs 
Trolley Song, Suddenly You Love Me and Lulu's Back in Town. Also featuring the Everly Brothers and Les Dawson.

Kate Bush at the BBC 1979

25/04/2009

BBC Four - Kate Bush at the BBC 1979

1979 Christmas special featuring Kate Bush and guest star Peter Gabriel.

1979 Christmas special featuring Kate Bush. She performs Them Heavy People, Madrigal, December and Man with the Child in His Eyes, and duets with guest star Peter Gabriel.

1979 Christmas special featuring Kate Bush. She performs Gymnopedie No 1, Symphony in Blue, Them Heavy People, Madrigal, December, Wedding List, Egypt, Ran Tan Waltz, Man with the Child in His Eyes and Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbreak. 

Guest star Peter Gabriel sings Here Comes the Flood and duets with Kate on Another Day.

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