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Sound of Song

Episode 1: The Recording Revolution

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

Neil Brand explores how some favourite songs were created. He looks at how they were first recorded and the listening revolution in the home that followed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Neil Brand
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole
Series Producer:
Alastair Laurence

Using rare archive, recordings and interviews, a trip through the surreal, moonlit world of Tom Waits - a portrait of one of modern music's most enigmatic and influential artists. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Richard Bright
Director:
James Maycock
Production Manager:
Fiona Crawford
Production Coordinator:
Fiona Dorman
Camera Operator:
Luke Finn
Interviewed Guest:
Terry Gilliam
Interviewed Guest:
Lucinda Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Rankin
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Harcourt
Interviewed Guest:
Ralph Carney
Interviewed Guest:
Bones Howe
Interviewed Guest:
Ute Lemper
Interviewed Guest:
Nitin Sawhney
Interviewed Guest:
Guy Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Sclavunos

Duration: 1 hour, 38 minutes

on BBC Four HD

In Berlin, 1945, a disfigured concentration camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. Show more

Contributors

Nelly Lenz:
Nina Hoss
Johannes 'Johnny' Lenz:
Ronald Zehrfeld
Lene Winter:
Nina Kunzendorf
Violinist:
Felix Romer
Elisabeth:
Imogen Kogge
Clubbesitzer:
Uwe Preuss
Tänzerin:
Eva Bay
Junge Frau:
Nikola Kastner

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As archaeologists excavate a mass grave of British sailors, Sam Willis explores Antigua's ruins and sees how the Caribbean's sugar islands were a kind of hell in Nelson's time. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sam Willis
Executive Producer:
Tim Green

BBC Four HD

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