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President Obama: The Inauguration

20/01/2009

BBC One - President Obama: The Inauguration

Coverage of President Obama's Inauguration, with Huw Edwards and Matt Frei in Washington.

Live coverage of the Inauguration of President Obama, with Huw Edwards and Matt Frei in Washington. The ceremony includes Barack Obama's first address to the nation as president.

Live coverage of the Inauguration of President Obama, with Huw Edwards and Matt Frei in Washington. The ceremony includes Barack Obama's first address to the nation as president, the swearing in of the vice president-elect, Joe Biden, and music from Aretha Franklin, John Williams and Yo-Yo Ma.

BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

Oceans

2/8. The team of marine experts plunge into the Southern Ocean

In the Night Garden

Visit the magical Night Garden where a lovely group of toys learn about having fun.

As the day fades and the stars come out, visit the magical Night Garden and spend time with a lovely group of toys who are learning all about sharing, caring and having fun.

In the Night Garden: Series 1: Episode 61: The Tombliboos Swap Trousers

Episode 61

Episode 61: The Tombliboos Swap Trousers

In the Night Garden - CBeebies - BBC

The Tombliboos' trousers get mixed up all over - in the Ninky Nonk, in the Pinky Ponk.

In a magical forest, colourful characters have adventures. The Tombliboos' trousers get mixed up all over - in the Ninky Nonk, in the Pinky Ponk.

In a magical forest, colourful characters have adventures and are read bedtime stories. 

The Tombliboos' trousers get mixed up all over the place - in the Ninky Nonk, in the Pinky Ponk. No matter how often the Tombliboos change their trousers back, it happens again.

The Tombliboos Swap Trousers

In the Night Garden: Series 1

Series 1

CBeebies

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes.

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes, dedicated to delighting and surprising its pre-school audience.

Series for pre-school children set in a magical forest, where characters have adventures

Series for pre-school children set in a magical forest, where colourful characters have adventures and are read bedtime stories

In the Night Garden...

In the Night Garden: Series 1: Episode 41: Makka Pakka's Stone Concert

Episode 41

Episode 41: Makka Pakka's Stone Concert

Makka Pakka discovers he can make musical notes by tapping different stones.

Preschool series set in a magical garden. Makka Pakka discovers he can make musical notes by tapping different stones.

Preschool series set in a magical garden. Makka Pakka discovers he can make musical notes by tapping different stones. He makes up a tune. Everyone hears it and comes to listen to Makka Pakka's stone concert.

Makka Pakka's Stone Concert

M.I. High

Children's drama series about undercover agents in an inner-city high school

MI High: Series 1

M.I. High: Series 1: Episode 3: The Big Freeze

Episode 3

Episode 3: The Big Freeze

M.I. High - CBBC - BBC

School spies Rose & Daisy's relationship gets frosty as Britain is plunged into an ice age

Rose and Daisy's friendship cools as Britain experiences an ice age and the Grand Master plans to freeze the world into submission.

Children's spy drama. School spies Rose and Daisy's relationship gets frosty as Britain is plunged into a new ice age. A school trip to the Weather Bureau provides cover for MI9's investigations. When Sonya Frost failed to predict a huge gale, she built a weather machine - to accurately forecast weather of her creation! But the Grand Master has a more destructive plan - to freeze the world into submission! Can Daisy get Sonya on side and will the team remain ice-cool as the action hots up?

The Big Freeze

M.I. High: Series 1

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.

MI High

M.I. High: Series 1: Episode 4: The Power Thief

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Power Thief

When freak power cuts sweep the nation, the spies are in the dark about who is to blame.

When power cuts sweep the nation, the teenage spies are in the dark about what is to blame. Then a mysterious voice transmits a ransom demand.

Children's spy drama. When freak power cuts sweep the nation, the teenage spies are in the dark about who or what is to blame. A mysterious voice transmits a ransom demand: pay up or Britain will be sent back to the Dark Age. Blane thinks there is some truth in Stewart's hairbrained theory that ley lines are sucking away electricity. But Rose is unimpressed by Blane's hocus-pocus ideas.

The Power Thief

Science and Islam

Science and Islam: Episode 3: The Power of Doubt

Episode 3: The Power of Doubt

The Power of Doubt

BBC Four - Science and Islam, The Power of Doubt

How Islamic scientific ideas permeated into the west in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Jim Al-Khalili examines how the Islamic world has advanced science. He shows how Islamic scientific ideas permeated into the west in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries. 

Al-Khalili turns detective, hunting for clues that show how the scientific revolution that took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe had its roots in the earlier world of medieval Islam. He travels across Iran, Syria and Egypt to discover the huge astronomical advances made by Islamic scholars through their obsession with accurate measurement and coherent and rigorous mathematics.  

He then visits Italy to see how those Islamic ideas permeated into the west and ultimately helped shape the works of the great European astronomer Copernicus, and investigates why science in the Islamic world appeared to go into decline after the 16th and 17th centuries, only for it to re-emerge in the present day. 

Al-Khalili ends his journey in the Royan Institute in the Iranian capital Tehran, looking at how science is now regarded in the Islamic world.

BBC Four

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

The story of the great leap in scientific knowledge in the Islamic world from AD700-1300

Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries

New. 3/3 The influence of Islamic scientists on Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey

Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey: Episode 3: A Journey Through Ireland

Episode 3: A Journey Through Ireland

A Journey Through Ireland

BBC Two - Nicholas Crane's Britannia: The Great Elizabethan Journey, A Journey Through IrelandSearch BBC

Nicholas Crane attempts to find out why Elizabethans feared Ireland.

Nicholas Crane rediscovers William Camden's Britannia on an epic 5,000 mile hike, battling the elements to find out why Elizabethans feared Ireland so much.

In the last leg of his epic 5,000 mile journey across the pages of William Camden's 'lost' masterpiece Britannia, Nicholas traverses Ireland, the country that sent a shudder down the spines of Elizabethans. The Queen said that Ireland was full of 'ravening beasts'. It was impossible to govern, but could not be ignored because the Spanish might use it to launch an attack on Britain. Nicholas sets off to discover why the Emerald Isle terrified the Elizabethans and how Camden tried to tame it.

BBC Two

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

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

Nicholas Crane rediscovers the 'lost' masterpiece Britannia on an epic 5000 mile hike

Nicholas Crane rediscovers the 'lost' masterpiece Britannia on an epic 5000 mile hike battling the elements in search of Elizabethan Britain

Nicholas Crane's Britannia: the Great Elizabethan Journey

3/3. On the last leg of his journey, the explorer crosses Ireland

Hustle

Drama series about a team of con artists.

Hustle: Series 5

Hustle: Series 5: Episode 2

Episode 2

Series 5

BBC One - Hustle, Series 5, Episode 2

The team con two intellectual property experts whose practices have caused a suicide.

Drama series. With a new team in place, Mickey decides to con intellectual property experts Carlton and Harry, whose ruthless business practices have led to a suicide.

With a new crew in place, Mickey decides to con intellectual property experts Carlton and Harry, whose ruthless business practices have led to a suicide. 

Posing as a hot new PR company, Mickey and Emma sell the pair a gimmick to promote the 'Spider's Web', a security device for precious works of art. 

Naturally the con artists have a hidden agenda, but when rookie grifter Sean messes up a simple task, will Mickey regret taking on someone so green to play the long cons?

2/6; series five. A sister and brother join the team

Torchwood

Science-fiction drama created by Russell T Davies.

Torchwood investigates the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial - with a mission to protect the Earth. Starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles.

Torchwood: Series 2

Torchwood: Series 2: Episode 2: Sleeper

Episode 2: Sleeper

Series 2

Sleeper

BBC Three - Torchwood, Series 2, Sleeper

When a burglary turns into a slaughter, the team suspect alien involvement.

Science-fiction and crime drama created by Russell T Davies. When a burglary turns into a slaughter, the team suspect alien involvement. Soon the whole planet is in danger.

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.

Science-fiction and crime drama series set in Cardiff's fictional Torchwood Institute.

The Torchwood team of investigators face high-octane adventures solving alien and human crimes in the underworld of modern-day Cardiff

2/13; series two. Alien involvement is suspected when a burglary turns into a slaughter

A Little Later

Vintage performances from the Later... with Jools Holland archives

A Little Later: Radiohead

01/04/2000

Radiohead

BBC Two - A Little Later, Radiohead

Classic Radiohead moments from 2008, including Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes and Arpeggi.

Classic Radiohead moments from Later with Jools Holland in February 2008, including Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes and Arpeggi.

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

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