Programme Index

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Life

Episode 7: Hunters and Hunted

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

The nature documentary explores mammals' ability to learn new tricks to survive, and features unique footage of a killer whale hunting elephant seal pups. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Adam Chapman
Series Producer:
Martha Holmes
Executive Producer:
Michael Gunton

Series

Life

Birds Britannia

Episode 3: Seabirds

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Series about the UK's birds. Our relationship with seabirds is an ancient and turbulent one, an untold chapter in the history of our rise and fall as a seafaring people. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Bill Paterson
Narrator:
Bill Paterson
Series Producer:
Stephen Moss
Series Producer:
Stephen Moss
Producer:
Susie Painter
Producer:
Susie Painter
Participant:
David Attenborough
Participant:
David Attenborough
Participant:
Tony Soper
Participant:
Tony Soper
Participant:
Kate Humble
Participant:
Kate Humble
Participant:
Andrew Motion
Participant:
Andrew Motion
Participant:
Jeremy Mynott
Participant:
Jeremy Mynott
Participant:
David Lindo
Participant:
David Lindo
Participant:
Roy Dennis

Wallander

Series 2

Episode 3: The Fifth Woman

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Detective drama. A bird-watcher is brutally murdered. In an apparently unconnected case, a local man disappears and Wallander gets too close to one of the suspects. Show more

Contributors

Kurt Wallander:
Kenneth Branagh
Anne-Britt Hoglund:
Sarah Smart
Magnus Martinsson:
Tom Hiddleston
Lisa Holgersson:
Sadie Shimmin
Povel Wallander:
David Warner
Linda Wallander:
Jeany Spark
Inga Wallander:
Phyllis Logan
Vanya Andersson:
Saskia Reeves
Yvonne:
Claire Cox
Adela Blomberg:
Beatie Edney
Eugen Blomberg:
Fredrik Dolk
Gote Tandvall:
Dudley Sutton
Sven Tyren:
John Paul Hurley
Elinor Grunden:
Rebecca Thorn
Gosta Runfeldt:
Stefan Karlsson
Bo Runfeldt:
Edward Hughes
Daniel Gylling:
William Scott-Masson
Holger Eriksson:
Howard Swinson
Max Lunnqvist:
Patrik Karlson
Katarina Taxell:
Alice Mary
Neighbour:
Joanna Bacon
Peter Andersson:
Albert Maris
Director:
Aisling Walsh

Mad Men

Series 4

Episode 11: Chinese Wall

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Four

Drama series set in 60s New York. The employees of SCDP scramble to hold onto the rest of their accounts when word leaks of Lucky Strike's defection to BBDO. Show more

Contributors

Don Draper:
Jon Hamm
Peggy Olson:
Elisabeth Moss
Pete Campbell:
Vincent Kartheiser
Ken Cosgrove:
Aaron Staton
Harry Crane:
Rich Sommer
Bertram Cooper:
Robert Morse
Roger Sterling:
John Slattery
Faye Miller:
Cara Buono
Jane Sterling:
Peyton List

Genres

Getting On

Series 2

Episode 4

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Darkly comic series set in an NHS Trust hospital ward. Hilary's 'Icing the Cake' initiative is spreading. Pippa has a lunch appointment with Peter, and Kim embarks on a vendetta. Show more

Contributors

Nurse Kim Wilde:
Jo Brand
Dr Pippa Moore:
Vicki Pepperdine
Sister Den Flixter:
Joanna Scanlan
Matron Hilary Loftus:
Ricky Grover
Mrs Fyvie:
Nan Kerr
Peter Healy:
Peter Capaldi
Director:
Peter Capaldi
Writer:
Jo Brand

Genres

Robin Lane Fox searches for the origins of the Greek myths on a journey through the 8th-century Mediterranean world from the lost city of Hattusas to the summit of Mount Etna. Show more

Simon Armitage undertakes his own Greek adventure, following in the footsteps of one of his personal heroes, Odysseus, at the same time wondering whether he even likes the guy. Show more

Birds Britannia

Episode 3: Seabirds

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Series about the UK's birds. Our relationship with seabirds is an ancient and turbulent one, an untold chapter in the history of our rise and fall as a seafaring people. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Bill Paterson
Narrator:
Bill Paterson
Series Producer:
Stephen Moss
Series Producer:
Stephen Moss
Producer:
Susie Painter
Producer:
Susie Painter
Participant:
David Attenborough
Participant:
David Attenborough
Participant:
Tony Soper
Participant:
Tony Soper
Participant:
Kate Humble
Participant:
Kate Humble
Participant:
Andrew Motion
Participant:
Andrew Motion
Participant:
Jeremy Mynott
Participant:
Jeremy Mynott
Participant:
David Lindo
Participant:
David Lindo
Participant:
Roy Dennis

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