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Wodehouse Playhouse

Wodehouse Playhouse: Episode 3: Portrait of a Disciplinarian

Episode 3

Episode 3: Portrait of a Disciplinarian

Portrait of a Disciplinarian

BBC Four - Wodehouse Playhouse, Portrait of a Disciplinarian

Reginald and Jane have tea with their old nanny and find her as forceful as ever.

Classic comedy of manners from the pen of PG Wodehouse. Reginald and Jane have tea with their old nanny and find her personality as forceful as ever.

Another tale of manners and morality from the wickedly comic pen of PG Wodehouse. Reginald and Jane have tea with their old nanny and find her personality as forceful as ever.

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.

Comic drama series introduced by and based on the short stories of PG Wodehouse

Portrait of a Disciplinarian. A couple have tea with their old nanny, and find her personality has not changed. The Age of Glamour season continues.

Flying down to Rio

02/10/2003

BBC Two - Flying down to Rio

Musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first screen partnership.

Musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first screen partnership. A pilot who flies a girl to Rio de Janeiro to see her father has competition for her affections.

Musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first screen partnership. Belina's uncle has been prohibited from having a floor show at his lavish hotel because of a Rio de Janeiro city ordinance. But the day is saved by staging a climactic Flying Down to Rio number thousands of feet in the air.

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BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

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Musical featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Fred and Ginger perform the "Carioca" and enjoy fun and romance on a trip to South America in their first dazzling screen partnership. 
Director Thornton Freeland (1933, U)

High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

28/10/2009

BBC Four - High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

A celebration of the golden age of air travel when Britain ruled the skies.

Documentary celebrating the golden age of air travel when, in the 1920s and 1930s, Britain ruled the skies, and style and glamour were a passport to adventure.

Documentary which tells the story of the golden age of British aviation and of how the original 'jet set' shaped air travel for generations to come. In Britain in the 1920s and '30s a revolution took place that would change forever our perspective on the world. While the country was in the grip of recession, dashing pilots and daring socialites took to the air, pushed back boundaries and forged new links across the globe. The era of commercial air travel was born.

High Fliers - How BritainTook to the Air

An insight into the golden age of air travel in Britain during the 1920s and 30s. 
Shown last Wednesday

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 2: Gangs of Paris

Spiral: Series 2: Gangs of Paris: Episode 8

Episode 8

Series 2: Gangs of Paris

BBC Four - Spiral, Series 2: Gangs of Paris, Episode 8

As the police sting reaches its endgame, the stakes are incredibly high for Samy.

French police drama series. As the police sting reaches its endgame the stakes are incredibly high for Samy - will the Larbi brothers become suspicious?

The burned body of a man is found in the  boot of a car on a housing estate.

Inspector Berthaud and the team investigate a charred corpse found locked in the boot of a car, amongst the broken, gang-ruled suburbs of Paris.

New 8/8; series two. Samy tries to allay the suspicions of the Larbi brothers as the operation reaches its conclusion. In French with English subtitles. See panel.  
Repeated on Friday at 11.50pm

It's Only a Theory

It's Only a Theory: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Four - It's Only a Theory, Episode 4

Andy Hamilton, Reginald D Hunter and Clare Balding decide if experts' theories are valid.

Professionals and experts submit theories about life, the universe and everything for examination by a panel consisting of Andy Hamilton, Reginald D Hunter and guest Clare Balding.

Comedians Andy Hamilton and Reginald D Hunter host a series in which qualified professionals and experts submit their theories about life, the universe and everything for examination by a panel of Hamilton, Hunter and a guest celebrity, who then make a final decision on whether the theory is worth keeping. 

The guest celebrity is broadcaster Clare Balding and the experts are Prof Geoff Beattie and Marcus Chown.

Qualified professionals and experts submit their theories about a variety of subjects

Andy Hamilton and Reginald D Hunter host a series in which qualified professionals and experts submit their theories about life, the universe and everything for examination by a panel

4/8. Geoffrey Beattie and Marcus Chown submit their theories to Reginald D Hunter , Andy Hamilton and Clare Balding. 
First shown last Tuesday

The Cotton Club

29/08/2003

BBC Four - The Cotton Club

Musical drama set in 1928 that pays a visually striking tribute to the Prohibition era.

Musical drama that pays tribute to the Prohibition era. Jazz musician Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) saves a mobster's life and gets sucked into his world of racketeering and violence.

Musical drama set in 1928 that pays a visually striking tribute to the Prohibition era.

Jazz musician Dixie Dwyer saves a gangster's life and gets sucked into the mobster's world of bootleg liquor, racketeering and escalating violence, centred round the eponymous Harlem nightclub.

Vivid evocation of Prohibition 
America, set around Harlem's dazzling nightclub scene. In 1928, jazz musician 
Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) saves the life of Dutch Schultz and suddenly becomes part of the mobster's world of bootleg liquor. racketeering and escalating violence. 
Director Francis Coppola (1984, 15)

High Fliers - How Britain Took to the Air

Inside Antiques

Inside Antiques: Episode 6: Posters

Episode 6

Episode 6: Posters

Posters

BBC Four - Inside Antiques, Posters

Examining the story behind an era that saw advertising images gradually turned into art.

Lars Tharp examines the story behind an era that saw advertising images gradually turned into art forms. Contributors include artists Vic Carless and Roger Law.

The golden era of British poster production produced such memorable slogans as Skegness Is So Bracing and My Goodness My Guinness, just two of the now highly prized pieces eagerly snapped up by collectors. Lars Tharp examines the story behind an era that saw advertising images becoming art forms. Contributors include artists Vic Carless and Roger Law.

Lars Tharp presents a series looking at all types of antiques

Inside Antiques: Episode 12: Art Deco Bronzes

Episode 12

Episode 12: Art Deco Bronzes

Art Deco Bronzes

BBC Four - Inside Antiques, Art Deco Bronzes

As the Jazz Age began, modernity and luxury held sway, and home design embraced Art Deco.

Lars Tharp looks at the age of Art Deco, ushered in at the end of the First World War and remembered by eager collectors of risque sculptures of dancing girls.

The end of the First World War heralded an explosion of optimism and forward thinking. As the Jazz Age sprang to life, modernity and luxury were the watchwords of the day. Home design embraced the age of Art Deco, popularly remembered nowadays by eager collectors of the often risque ivory and bronze sculptures of scantily clad dancing girls. Lars Tharp gets to grips with them and discovers what the Moulin Rouge, Tutankhamun and tennis have in common.

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