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The Slammer

Show in which a group of comedians enter a mock prison and must perform for their freedom

Entertainment show in which a group of comedians enter a mock prison. Each programme sees four of the acts perform for their freedom in front of a studio audience

The Slammer: Series 2

The Slammer: Series 2: Episode 1

Episode 1

The Slammer Returns - CBBC - BBC

Overseeing the show is the Governor, who's joined by celebrity guest Lionel Blair.

Children's entertainment show in which comedians enter a mock prison. The prison showcases variety performances from the acts locked inside, with celebrity guest Lionel Blair.

Series 2

CBBC

The BBC's multiplatform offering bringing the very best programmes to 6-12 year olds.

CBBC is the BBC's multiplatform offering for 6-12 year olds bringing the very best drama, entertainment and factual programmes to its young viewers.

Children's entertainment show in which a group of comedians enter a mock prison

Children's ntertainment show in which a group of comedians enter a mock prison. Each programme sees four of the acts perform for their freedom in front of a live studio audience

The Slammer: double bill.

Lionel Blair guests, and the Governor becomes prison chef

The Slammer: Series 2: Episode 2

Episode 2

The Governor becomes prison chef and bakes his famous sprout cakes.

Children's entertainment show in which comedians enter a mock prison. The Governor becomes prison chef and bakes sprout cakes. In the Freedom Show, four acts perform for release.

Inspector George Gently

Crime drama about an old-school detective trying to cope with Britain in the 1960s.

Crime drama, set in the 1960s, about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

Inspector George Gently: Series 1

Inspector George Gently: Series 1: Episode 2: Bomber's Moon

Episode 2: Bomber's Moon

Series 1

Bomber's Moon

BBC One - Inspector George Gently, Series 1, Bomber's Moon

A returning German POW is found dead in the harbour of a small fishing village.

Crime drama series set in the 1960s. When a returning German POW is found dead in a fishing village, Gently and Bacchus find themselves investigating past grievances.

Crime drama series set in Northumberland in the mid-1960s, based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter. 

When a returning German POW is found dead in the harbour of a small fishing village, Gently and Bacchus find themselves investigating past grievances and present violence.

BBC One

Crime drama about an old-school detective coming to terms with 1960s Britain.

George Gently

2/2. Present violence and past grievances come to the fore when a rich German businessman is found dead in a harbour in an episode postponed from 13 July.

Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture: Episode 7: Dreams

Episode 7

Episode 7: Dreams

Dreams

BBC Two - Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture, Dreams

Dan examines buildings as the physical embodiments of dreams.

Historian Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture. Dan visits a penitentiary in Philadelphia and skyscrapers made entirely from mud.

Architecture is the stuff of dreams. Since building began, architects have tried to build the future, tried to build fantasy worlds, tried even to change humanity by dreams of new inventions in bricks and mortar. Dan continues his travels around some of the world's greatest buildings. 

In Yemen he reveals an ancient city of skyscrapers made of mud - Shibam. Originally named after its ruler King Shibam, the city is now nicknamed 'the Manhattan of the desert' due to its astonishing skyline. And in the Dominican Republic, Dan visits Santo Domingo where Spanish invaders dreamed of creating the first grid-style city on the American continent - a model for every modern American city that would follow. 

In the hidden kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas, Dan experiences the dream of a king to live in the past - so that modern buildings are indistinguishable from those built 500 years before. And he explores how dreams can turn to nightmare in Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, where society dreamt of reforming criminals into decent men, only to find their techniques made them mad.

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Dan Cruickshank explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments.

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments.

the historian investigates buildings that were made with the future in mind.

Hadrian

19/07/2008

BBC Two - Hadrian

Dan Snow uncovers the genius and the darker side of great Roman emperor.

Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian's vast empire. As he does so, he uncovers the genius and the darker side of the man.

Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian's vast empire. 

Immortalised in the UK after building a Wall on the edge of his Empire, which bears his name to this day. Hadrian's Wall, as it is known, is just a tiny portion of a massive structure Hadrian had built to protect the Roman Empire, with similar, sister walls running through northern Europe and still more in north Africa. His legacy also includes the Pantheon in Rome.

Hadrian brought the Empire to an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity. At the heart of this great Empire, however, lay a mystery - Hadrian's relationship with a young man, Antinous. The friendship led to Antinous being deified by Hadrian following his death, in strange circumstances, on the Nile.

Dan Snow uncovers the genius and the dark side of Hadrian: peace-maker, frontier-builder, star-crossed lover, architect - and ruthless oppressor of the jews. But still, Dan concludes, Hadrian was one of the greatest Roman emperors.

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

Hadrian's Wall - Timewatch

The spectacular stone barrier providing a window into the past.

Trexx and Flipside

Trexx and Flipside: Episode 3: Dead Cool

Episode 3

Episode 3: Dead Cool

Dead Cool

BBC Three - Trexx and Flipside, Dead Cool

B-Ice attempts to get his own back on Trexx and Flipside by blowing up their car.

Sitcom about two wannabe hip-hop stars. B-Ice attempts to get his own back on Trexx and Flipside by blowing up their car, which gives Brilliance an idea for a memorial.

Sitcom about two wannabe hip-hop stars whose label is run by someone who is more in tune with crooning than rap and who are constantly threatened by a gangsta rapper. B-Ice attempts to get his own back on Trexx and Flipside by blowing up their car - which only gives Brilliance the greatest idea of his life. He decides to release a posthumous track at the boys' memorial gig. Trexx and Flipside come back from the dead and arrive incognito, thrilled by what greets them at their own funeral.

BBC Three

A multi-platform service for 16-34s, featuring comedy, entertainment and factual content.

The BBC’s multi-platform service for 16 to 34s, innovating with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intellectual factual content.

Sitcom about two wannabe hip hop stars whose label is run by someone who is more in tune with crooning than rap and who are constantly threatened by a gangsta rapper.

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