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Natural World

2017-2018

Episode 4: Nature's Miniature Miracles

BBC Two

Duration: 58 minutes

Audio described
on BBC Four

Available for 10 months

This film tells the epic survival stories of the world's smallest animals. It really is a big bad world out there. So what happens if you are the little guy? Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Hugh Dennis
Producer:
Lucy Smith
Series Editor:
Roger Webb
Source: BBC Online
BBC Two

Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 12 months

At the height of the Cold War, insurance lawyer James Donovan takes on the job of defending captured Russian spy Rudolf Abel, not knowing that this sets him on a path to East Berlin. Show more

Contributors

James Donovan:
Tom Hanks
Rudolf Abel:
Mark Rylance
Mary Donovan:
Amy Ryan
Thomas Watters Jr.:
Alan Alda
Wolfgang Vogel:
Sebastian Koch
Francis Gary Powers:
Austin Stowell
Doug Forrester:
Billy Magnussen
Joe Murphy:
Jesse Plemons
Carol Donovan:
Eve Hewson
Writer:
Joel Coen
Writer:
Ethan Coen

Genres

Formats

Source: BBC Online
BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 54 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 10 months

Wartime action yarn about a group of Allied prisoners of war who plan to escape while excavating an archaeological site on a German-occupied Greek island. Show more

Contributors

Major Otto Hecht:
Roger Moore
Professor Blake:
David Niven
Charlie Dane:
Elliott Gould
Bruno Rotelli:
Sonny Bono
Dottie Del Mar:
Stefanie Powers
SS Major Volkmann:
Anthony Valentine
Producer:
Edward Anhalt

Formats

Source: BBC Online

Natural World

2017-2018

Episode 4: Nature's Miniature Miracles

BBC Two

Duration: 58 minutes

Audio described
on BBC Four

Available for 10 months

This film tells the epic survival stories of the world's smallest animals. It really is a big bad world out there. So what happens if you are the little guy? Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Hugh Dennis
Producer:
Lucy Smith
Series Editor:
Roger Webb
Source: BBC Online
BBC Four

Duration: 58 minutes

Audio described
Signed
on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. Show more

Contributors

Production Company:
Maroon Productions
Executive Producer:
Paul Blake
Source: BBC Online

BBC Four

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