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Canal Boat Diaries

Series 1

Shardlow to Stoke-on-Trent

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 4 months

Life on board a narrowboat with Robbie Cumming. Robbie tackles a propeller problem and tricky locks on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Derbyshire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robbie Cumming
Executive Producer:
Tony Parker

Fake or Fortune?

Series 8

Cosway or Lawrence?

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Can the team prove that a portrait attributed to pioneering female artist Maria Cosway is actually an undiscovered work of the great Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence? Show more

imagine...

2020

Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me

Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 8 months

Following the publication of his new memoir My Name Is Why, writer Lemn Sissay tells Alan Yentob what it was like to grow up as the only black child in a sleepy market town outside Wigan in the 1970s. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Yentob
Interviewed Guest:
Lemn Sissay
Director:
John O'Rourke
Producer:
John O'Rourke
Executive Producer:
Tanya Hudson
Series Editor:
Alan Yentob

How the edges between performance poetry and popular music have become blurred, a cross-pollination that began in 1965 when Allen Ginsberg stormed the Royal Albert Hall stage. Show more

Canal Boat Diaries

Series 1

Shardlow to Stoke-on-Trent

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 4 months

Life on board a narrowboat with Robbie Cumming. Robbie tackles a propeller problem and tricky locks on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Derbyshire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robbie Cumming
Executive Producer:
Tony Parker

Fake or Fortune?

Series 8

Cosway or Lawrence?

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Can the team prove that a portrait attributed to pioneering female artist Maria Cosway is actually an undiscovered work of the great Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence? Show more

BBC Four HD

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