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World News Today: 30/06/2009

30/06/2009

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Yellowstone

Yellowstone: Episode 3: Autumn

Episode 3

Episode 3: Autumn

Autumn

BBC Two - Yellowstone, Autumn

Elk move down from the mountains, and beavers repair their dams in preparation for winter.

Series following wildlife in Yellowstone. Winter approaches, and the animals have two months to get ready. As the snow and ice return, many move away from the national park.

Over the summer, Yellowstone has flourished - in late August there are more living things here than at any other time of the year. But winter is around the corner, and there are just two months for all Yellowstone's animals to get ready or get out. 

An early dusting of snow is a sign for elk to start moving down from the mountains to focus on finding food in the valleys. Although the wolves are waiting for them, the male elk are distracted, their haunting bugle call boasting that they are fired up and ready to fight each other to the death for the right to breed. 

As temperatures fall further, beavers get busy in a rush to repair dams and stock underwater larders before ice freezes their ponds. Yellowstone's forests - the aspens, cottonwoods and maples - start to shut down for the winter, their colours painting the park a blaze of red and gold. Meanwhile, another tree is coming into its own, the whitebark pine. It offers up a bumper crop of pine nuts which fatten grizzly bears and squirrels alike. But its nuts are meant for another animal - the Clark's nutcracker, a small bird with a colossal memory and one that will reward the tree's efforts well by carrying its seeds far and wide, and even planting them.

As autumn ends, the snow and ice return and many animals now move out from the heart of Yellowstone and away from the protection of the national park. Their fight is not only to survive the cold, but also to find what little wild space remains in the modern world. All around Yellowstone, the human world is encroaching - it is now that the true value of the 'world's first national park' becomes clearer than ever.

Mike Kasic is a local sound recordist who got many of the natural sounds for the series, but in his spare time he dons snorkel and fins, and jumps into the raging waters of one of the USA's wildest rivers to explore Yellowstone from the point of view of the unique Yellowstone cut-throat trout. Whilst his exploits might seem strange to the other park users - fly fishermen and bison alike - in becoming a fish, Mike not only uncovers an enchanting hidden Yellowstone but finds out that things are not what they used to be for the cut-throat trout.

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A natural history portrait of a year in Yellowstone.

Following the fortunes of America's wildlife icons as they face the challenges of one of the most extraordinary wildernesses on Earth.

A natural history portrait of a year in Yellowstone, following the fortunes of America's wildlife icons as they face the challenges of one of the most extraordinary wildernesses on Earth.

3/3. Autumn. The park teems with more life in late August than at any other time. But an early dusting of snow is a sign for elk to start moving down the mountains. First shown on BBC2

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites: Episode 3

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How the Pre-Raphaelites outgrew the avant-garde and began to embrace fame and fortune.

Series examining the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement, looking at how the artists began to embrace fame and fortune with art designed to please the masses.

Three-part series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art. 

The final part looks at how the Pre-Raphaelites had outgrown the avant-garde in their later years and began to embrace fame and fortune with art designed to please the masses. In so doing, they attained riches and celebrity and became the forefathers of the commercial modern artist.

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.

Series examining the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement

Series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century

The Pre-Raphaelites:

Victorian Revolutionaries 
New. 3/3. How the Brotherhood outgrew its penchant for the avant-garde and began to produce art designed to please the masses. See panel. 
Repeated tomorrow at 7.30pm

TV's Believe It Or Not

TV's Believe It Or Not: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Four - TV's Believe It Or Not, Episode 2

Comedian Sean Lock returns for a second helping of extraordinary television.

Comedian Sean Lock looks at some extraordinary television.

TV's Believe It or Not

2/2. Sean Lock presents more outrageous and hilarious TV clips.

The Chaser's War on Everything

The Chaser's War on Everything: Episode 2

BBC Four - The Chaser's War on Everything, Episode 2

Includes a trailer for the sophisticated French remake of American Pie.

Australian series featuring satirical sketches and comedic publicity stunts. Shopkeepers are not pleased when Chris elects to wear a stocking over his head as a fashion statement.

Comedy team The Chaser launch a real-life assault on everyone and everything.

Shopkeepers are less than pleased when Chris elects to wear a stocking over his head as a fashion statement. Julian steals the identity of an identity theft expert, and there's a trailer for the sophisticated French remake of American Pie.

The sketch-and-stunt series was nominated for the Rose d'Or, probably due to a bureaucratic error. And, in its native Australia, it won a swag of awards which the Chaser team is adamant are very prestigious.

Australian series featuring satirical sketches and comedic publicity stunts

The Chaser's War onEverything

New. 2/6. Julian Morrow steals the character of an identity-theft expert, and Chris Taylor terrorises shopkeepers by wearing a stocking over his head. 
Repeated on Friday at 11pm  9734108 COMEDY OF THE WEEK

Flight of the Conchords

Sitcom about two Kiwi folk musicians as they to try to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in New York.

Flight of the Conchords: Series 2

Flight of the Conchords: Series 2: Episode 8: New Zealand Town

Episode 8

Episode 8: New Zealand Town

Series 2

New Zealand Town

BBC Four - Flight of the Conchords, Series 2, New Zealand Town

The prime minister of New Zealand wants to create 'New Zealand Town' in New York.

The prime minister wants to create 'New Zealand Town' between Chinatown and Little Italy. The boys want to play at the grand opening but aren't cool enough.

The prime minister of New Zealand wants to create 'New Zealand Town' in the bit between Chinatown and Little Italy. The boys want to play at the grand opening but he wants someone more cool - so Murray gets hold of some hair gel.

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians trying to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York

8/10; series two. New Zealand Town The prime minister creates New 
Zealand Town between Chinatown and Little Italy, but when the Conchords ask to play at the opening, he insists the event deserves a cooler guest. See panel. 
Repeated on Friday at 11.35pm   No laughing matter: page 63

Wallander

Swedish drama series about a maverick detective.

Swedish drama series about a maverick detective, based on the novels by Henning Mankell. (In Swedish with English subtitles.)

Wallander: Series 1

Wallander: Series 1: Episode 6: Mastermind

Episode 6

Episode 6: Mastermind

Series 1

Mastermind

BBC Four - Wallander, Series 1, Mastermind

Wallander investigates a local murder and the disappearance of a policeman's daughter.

Swedish detective series. Investigating a grisly local murder and the disappearance of a policeman's daughter, Wallander begins to suspect the two are connected.

Investigating a grisly local murder and the disappearance of a policeman's daughter, Kurt Wallander and his colleagues at the Ystad station begin to suspect the two are connected. As the investigation proceeds it seems that the criminal knows every move they will make and is practically controlling them. So begins a struggle to outwit a master criminal.

In Swedish with English subtitles.

Mastermind. The disappearance of a policeman's daughter is connected to a grisly murder, and it seems the killer has knowledge of Wallander's investigation. 
In Swedish with English subtitles.

The Pre-Raphaelites: Episode 1

Episode 1

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A look at the origins of the Brotherhood and some of the movement's key early works.

Series examining the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement. This programme explores its origins, some early works and the criticism faced by the Brotherhood.

Series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art. 

The opening programme explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned.

Victorian 
Revolutionaries: all three episodes

The Pre-Raphaelites: Episode 2

BBC Four - The Pre-Raphaelites, Episode 2Search BBC

How they transformed landscape painting by microscopically examining the natural world.

Series examining the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement looks at how they transformed landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world.

Three-part series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art. 

This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten years before the French Impressionists.

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