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Tales from the Green Valley

Tales from the Green Valley: Episode 10: June

Episode 10

Episode 10: June

June

BBC Two - Tales from the Green Valley, June

It is June, and the team need to give the sheep a good wash in a local stream.

Five archaeologists and historians run a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I. It's June, and the team need to wash and shear their sheep.

Series in which five experts, archaeologists and historians, take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I. 

It is June, and the team need to give the sheep a good wash in a local stream, warmed by a period potion called sheepwashers' posset. Only then can they start shearing them by hand, a backbreaking task. In the dairy, the girls have a go at making cheese the old fashioned way, and the boys have to catch up with weeding the wheat field.

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Experts, archaeologists and historians take on the challenge of running a farm for a year

Twelve-part series in which five experts, archaeologists and historians take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I

June. Alex and Fonz face the daunting task of washing the sheep in a potion and shearing them by hand, and the dairy girls have a go at making cheese.

The Thirties in Colour

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 1: A World Away

Episode 1

Episode 1: A World Away

A World Away

BBC Four - The Thirties in Colour, A World Away

Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the 1930s.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s looks at the work of Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were patented and brought to the market. 

This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker, Rosie Newman, who used her high society contacts to secure extraordinary access to the social elite. Between 1928 and her retirement in the 1960s, Newman criss-crossed the globe and shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the period. 

Some of her colour films have been seen before, but this programme features some of Newman's work that has never been broadcast and has not been seen publicly for over 70 years.

Four-part series using photographic archives to give surprising insights into the 1930s.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s.

1/4. A World Away. Footage from the 1930s, beginning with a look at the work of amateur film-maker Rosie Newman , who used her high society contacts to capture the social elite on camera.

Michael Portillo: Digging up the Dead

BBC Four - Michael Portillo: Digging up the Dead

How Spain is exhuming bodies from mass graves, the legacy of Franco's dictatorship.

Michael Portillo lifts the veil on the familiar vision of Spain to reveal a nation in trauma - examining its past and exhuming bodies from mass graves all over the country.

A personal journey for Michael Portillo into a story which may come as a shock to people whose knowledge of Spain comes from taking holidays on the beach. 

Lying just beneath the surface of the ground, all over Spain, are the bodies of tens of thousands of people in unmarked and very often mass graves. For most of the last seventy years, since the end of the Spanish Civil War, these were known as the 'Graves of Forgetting'. The country was ruled by a dictatorship until the late 1970s and no-one dared speak out about the dead and the disappeared, of whom there could be as many as 200,000.

It is only now that Spain is getting to grips with its past - recognising the terrible crimes that were committed under General Franco's dictatorship and encouraging people to speak about their memories and the loved ones they lost. Many of the graves are being excavated and the bodies removed for reburial, while others will be turned into memorial parks. One excavation is taking place just moments from the beaches and bars of Malaga.

No Spanish family was untouched by the civil war and the repression that followed, and Michael Portillo's family is no exception. His father supported the democratic government and when Spain fell to Franco, Luis Portillo spent the rest of his life in exile. 

As Michael discovers, while his uncles were fighting and dying for Franco, his father fought, unarmed in order to be certain that he could not kill a brother, for the republic. This is a journey into a place we thought we knew so well, but discover, through the stories told by a variety of characters, that we hardly knew at all.

Michael Portillo:Digging Up the Dead

nNew. The former politician visits 
Spain to explore the exhumation of bodies from mass graves for the first time since the end of the country's bloody civil war 70 years ago. Part of War Graves week. See panel. 
Repeated tomorrow at 1.25am

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: War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery

War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery

BBC Four - Storyville, War Heroes - Section 60 Arlington Cemetery

Traditions of the family and friends who visit the graves of Americans killed in combat.

Documentary focusing on Section 60 of the historic Arlington National Cemetery, where US service men and women from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are buried.

Documentary focusing on Section 60 of the historic Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia - the 'saddest acre in America' - where US service men and women from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are buried. 

An intimate look at the impact of lives lost too soon, the film bears witness to the rituals and traditions of the family and friends who come from around the country to visit the graves.

War Heroes: Section 60 Arlington Cemetery - Storyville

New. Examining the section in the Arlington National Cemetery where US servicemen and women are buried, looking at the impact of the lives lost in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12.35am)

Sacred Music

Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.

Actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.

Sacred Music: Series 1

Sacred Music: Series 1: Episode 1: The Gothic Revolution

Episode 1: The Gothic Revolution

Series 1

The Gothic Revolution

BBC Four - Sacred Music, Series 1, The Gothic Revolution

Simon Russell Beale visits Notre Dame and finds the key to the development of polyphony.

Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. He begins at Notre Dame in Paris, where he finds the key to the development of polyphony.

Documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.

He begins his journey at Notre Dame in Paris, where an enigmatic medieval music manuscript provides the key to the early development of polyphony - music of 'many voices'. Featuring music performed by members of the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.

Dcumentary series exploring the flowering of Western sacred music.

Four-part documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.

1/4. Simon Russell Beale explores the history of Western sacred music, starting his journey at Notre Dame in Paris.  
11.55 2/4. Uncovering the links between the papal intrigues of Renaissance Rome and the music of Palestrina.  
12.55am 3/4. Exploring the history of Western sacred music through the story of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.  
1.55 4/4. How organ music used in church services during the Protestant Reformation helped shape Bach's music.

Sacred Music: Series 1: Episode 2: Palestrina and the Popes

Episode 2

Episode 2: Palestrina and the Popes

Palestrina and the Popes

BBC Four - Sacred Music, Series 1, Palestrina and the Popes

Simon Russell Beale explores Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina.

Simon Russell Beale explores Western sacred music. He uncovers links between the papal intrigues of Renaissance Rome and the work of composer Palestrina.

Documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.

He uncovers the links between the papal intrigues of Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina, whose work is considered by many to be unsurpassed in its spiritual perfection. The art and architecture of the Italian High Renaissance are accompanied by a performance from the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers.

Sacred Music: Series 1: Episode 3: Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

Episode 3

Episode 3: Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

BBC Four - Sacred Music, Series 1, Tallis, Byrd and the Tudors

Thomas Tallis and William Byrd were important composers in England's musical Renaissance.

Simon Russell Beale explores Western sacred music. He looks at the works of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, part of the Renaissance in Tudor England.

Four-part documentary series in which Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. Beale takes us back to Tudor England, a country in turmoil as monarchs change the national religion and Roman Catholicism is driven underground. In telling the story of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, two composers at the centre of England's own musical Renaissance, Beale visits parish churches, great cathedrals and a private home where Catholic music would have been performed in secret.

Sacred Music: Series 1: Episode 4: Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

Episode 4

Episode 4: Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

BBC Four - Sacred Music, Series 1, Bach and the Lutheran Legacy

How Martin Luther had a profound effect on the development of sacred music.

Simon Russell Beale explores Western sacred music. He looks at how Martin Luther, himself a composer, had a profound effect on its development.

Four-part documentary series in which Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. With music performed by The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, Beale explores how Martin Luther, himself a composer, had a profound effect on the development of sacred music, re-defining the role of congregational singing and the use of the organ in services. Ultimately, these reforms would shape the world of JS Bach and inspire him to write some of the greatest sacred music.

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