Programme Index

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The Beauty of Anatomy

Episode 4: The Hunter Brothers

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections. Show more

Yellowstone

Episode 2: Summer

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

Series following wildlife in Yellowstone. As the snow melts the extent of Yellowstone is revealed. But summer here is fickle - August is the only month when it does not snow. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Peter Firth
Participant:
Mary Beth Schwarz
Participant:
Roland L Bowell
Participant:
Barbara Lasseter
Participant:
Jill Scahttel
Participant:
John Scahttel
Participant:
Cynthia Barwin
Participant:
Nick Stanzak
Series Producer:
Andrew Murray

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar determined to modernise Russia at the end of the 17th century. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucy Worsley
Director:
John Das
Series Producer:
John Das
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole

A Timewatch Guide

Series 1

Episode 2: Cleopatra

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Using the BBC film archives, Vanessa Collingridge explores how our view of Cleopatra has changed over the years, and how she has become lost amid myth, cliche and propaganda. Show more

Contributors

Participant:
Jo Quinn
Participant:
Joyce Tyldesley
Participant:
Adrian Goldsworthy
Participant:
Mary Hamer
Executive Producer:
John Farren
Associate Producer:
Susannah Zeff
Series Producer:
James Gray
Director:
James Gray
Production Company:
360 Production

Oceans

Episode 8: Arctic Ocean

Duration: 57 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Documentary. The team dives into one of the world's most hostile environments, beneath the polar ice cap, to explore how the ice is shrinking and how this may affect the climate. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Rose
Presenter:
Lucy Blue
Presenter:
Tooni Mahto
Director:
Penny Allen
Director:
Daniel Barry
Executive Producer:
Anne Laking
Series Producer:
Helen Thomas

Series

Oceans

Mark Miodownik shows that some of the everyday objects that are often taken for granted are in fact little pieces of domestic magic - from razor blades to tights. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, when Klimt painted The Kiss and Freud revealed the Oedipus complex, but also when Adolf Hitler arrived in the city. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar determined to modernise Russia at the end of the 17th century. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Lucy Worsley
Director:
John Das
Series Producer:
John Das
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole

BBC Four HD

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