BBC Four

World News Today

The latest news and business developments.

World News Today: 15/07/2009

15/07/2009

BBC News Channel - World News Today, 15/07/2009

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.

BBC News Channel

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.

Once a Soldier

Documentary following the lives of the pensioners at the Royal Chelsea Hospital

Once a Soldier: Series 1

Once a Soldier: Series 1: Episode 2: New Boys

Episode 2

Episode 2: New Boys

Series 1

New Boys

BBC Four - Once a Soldier, Series 1, New Boys

Documentary series about the Chelsea Pensioners.

Documentary series about the Chelsea Pensioners. Ninety-year old ex-Japanese PoW Wally Hilling and 76-year-old Bill Brierley leave family and friends to join the group.

Documentary series about the Chelsea Pensioners, former British soldiers who live within the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. Every year about fifty old soldiers die at the hospital, making room for new men to join the ranks. Ninety-year-old former Japanese PoW Wally Hilling and 76-year-old Bill Brierley leave family, friends and homes to live in a small, square windowless berth and become uniform-wearing Chelsea Pensioners. How will they handle the transition from civvy to new recruit?

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 following the lives of pensioners at the Royal Free Hospital in Chelsea

Chelsea Pensioners: Once aSoldier

Wally Hilling , 90 years old and a former Japanese PoW, and Bill Brierley , aged 76, trade family, friends and homes to become uniform-wearing 
Chelsea Pensioners.

Days That Shook the World

Series focusing on some of the defining moments of history

Days that Shook the World: Series 1 (60 minutes)

Days That Shook the World: Series 1 (60 minutes): Hiroshima

01/10/2003

Hiroshima

Series 1 (60 minutes)

BBC Two - Days That Shook the World, Series 1 (60 minutes), Hiroshima

The minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing.

Documentary recalling 6 August 1945, when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, with testimony from American colonel Paul Tibbets and people caught in the blast.

At exactly 5.32am on August 6th 1945, a B29 Bomber, The Enola Gay, took off from a small island in the South Pacific on a clandestine operation. It's mission? To drop a bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, a bomb unlike any other that would change the world forever.

This film dramatises the minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing. Based on extracts from President Truman's personal diaries whick show the decision-making process reflecting America's real fear that the Japanese would never give up, Japanese eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in Hiroshima, diaries written on board Enola Gay, and the personal testimony of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the man who led the mission so secret not even his crew knew the enormity of what they were doing.

One millionth of a second after detonation, Hiroshima ceased to exist as a city. As estimated 100,000 people were killed and 47,000 buildings flattened. Nobody knows exactly how many civilians died in Hiroshima but its impact will be felt forever.

Days That Shook the World: Series 1 (60 minutes)

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

A minute-by-minute account of the events leading up to the detonation of the atomic bomb above Hiroshima in August 1945, destroying the city and killing an estimated 100,000 people.

The Trials of Oppenheimer - Storyville

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: The Trials of Oppenheimer

The Trials of Oppenheimer

BBC Four - Storyville, The Trials of Oppenheimer

Profile of Robert Oppenheimer, controversial father of the atomic bomb.

A Storyville documentary that profiles J Robert Oppenheimer, controversial father of the atomic bomb, mixing interviews with scholars and former colleagues with dramatic recreations.

J Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most celebrated scientists of his generation. Shy, arrogant and brilliant, he is best known as the man that led the Manhattan Project to spectacular success.

As the years progressed he also grew into a scientific statesman, leading a government agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, which was trying to develop ways to avoid a nuclear arms race. His attempts at politics, though, were a lot less successful than his scientific endeavours. As he grew more powerful, he started to make serious enemies amongst the establishment, particularly a friend of President Truman's - Lewis Strauss.

This film tells the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Robert Oppenheimer. David Straithairn, whose previous recreation of this era in Good Night and Good Luck was Oscar-nominated, plays Oppenheimer trying to defend himself as he was effectively put on trial for being a communist. Re-creation is mixed with expert testimony from a definitive range of commentators, ranging from Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project colleagues to academics like Martin Sherwin and Priscilla MacMillan.

Narrated by Zoe Wanamaker, whose own father experienced the virulent anti-communism of McCarthyism first-hand, it weaves Oppenheimer's biography with the dramatic events of his trial and its tragic aftermath. Emotional and compelling, it is a film that, in a time when non-proliferation is firmly back on the agenda, tells us a lot about the perils of mixing science and government.

Storyvllle: The Trials of Oppenheimer

New. Profile of Robert Oppenheimer, the controversial physicist and the father of the atomic bomb, mixing interviews with scholars and former colleagues with dramatic reconstructions. See panel.

Getting On

Darkly comic series about life on an NHS ward starring Jo Brand

Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward, starring Jo Brand as part of a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS

Getting On: Series 1

Getting On: Series 1: Episode 2

BBC Four - Getting On, Series 1, Episode 2

Pippa prepares her research paper, while Den and Kim deal with a male referral.

Dark comedy series set in a geriatric ward. Pippa prepares her research paper and Den and Kim deal with a male referral, but it is problem patient Ivy who dominates the day.

Pippa prepares her research paper and Den and Kim deal with a male referral, but it is problem patient Ivy who dominates the day. Aggressive and deeply unpleasant, she sets a chain reaction in motion that sees Hilary in tears and Kim in trouble. 

Elsewhere on the ward, life and death continues as normal, but with the MRSA statistics up it seems another crisis is just around the corner. Meanwhile, Den and Hilary are starting to bond.

Darkly comic drama series about life on an NHS ward

New. 2/3. A problem patient causes drama on the ward with her aggressive behaviour. Pippa is busy preparing her research paper and a case of MRSA threatens to kill. Starring Jo Brand and Vicki Pepperdine. See panel.  Simulcast in HD on the BBC HD channel

The Mother

27/12/2004

BBC Two - The Mother

A widow goes to stay with her daughter and starts a relationship with her boyfriend.

Drama about a widow who goes to stay with her grown up offspring. As she comes to terms with the past, she embarks on a startling new relationship with her daughter's boyfriend.

Drama about a widow who goes to stay with her grown up son and daughter. As she begins to come to terms with the past, she embarks on a startling new relationship with her daughter's boyfriend, which causes havoc in the family.

Wry romantic drama starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. Visiting their grown-up children in London, recently widowed May feels excluded by the frenetic pace of modern city life. In fact, her son's handyman, Darren, has more time for her than her own family members. Review page 43. 
Director Roger Michell (2003, 15)

Batman

Classic adventure series following the adventures of the dynamic duo in Gotham City.

Classic adventure series following the adventures of dynamic crimefighting duo Batman and Robin in Gotham City.

Batman: Series 1

Batman: Series 1: Episode 29: The Bookworm Turns

Episode 29

Episode 29: The Bookworm Turns

The Bookworm Turns

BBC Four - Batman, Series 1, The Bookworm Turns

While Batman is sent on a false trail, the Bookworm kidnaps the Boy Wonder.

Fantasy adventure series. While Batman is sent on a false trail, the Bookworm kidnaps Robin and leaves him tied to the clapper of the Wayne Memorial Clock Tower.

Batman: Series 1: Episode 30: While Gotham City Burns

Episode 30

Episode 30: While Gotham City Burns

While Gotham City Burns

BBC Four - Batman, Series 1, While Gotham City Burns

The cloaked crimebuster and his youthful assistant come up against the devilish Bookworm.

Action comedy series. The cloaked crimebuster and his assistant pit their wits against the devilish Bookworm and are trapped inside a giant cook book.

Superhero action comedy series. The cloaked crimebuster and his youthful assistant pit their wits against the devilish Bookworm and are trapped inside a giant cook book.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Batman

Series 1

Episode 30: While Gotham City Burns

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Four

About BBC Four

Appears in

About this data

About this data