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Doctors

Series 13

Episode 128: Night Thoughts

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC HD

Cherry encounters an elderly patient who is being haunted by her television. Meanwhile, Julia notices the cracks in Sally and Patrick's relationship. Show more

Contributors

Cherry Malone:
Sophie Abelson
Mrs Zelda Smith:
Jane Lowe
Dr Heston Carter:
Owen Brenman
Mrs Tembe:
Lorna Laidlaw
Dr Elaine Cassidy:
Janet Dibley
Dr Freya Wilson:
Lu Corfield
Julia Parsons:
Diane Keen
Patrick McGuire:
Alan McKenna
Sally McGuire:
Jo-Anne Stockham
Series Producer:
Mike Hobson
Series Producer:
Peter Eryl Lloyd
Producer:
James Hall
The Announcer:
John Carson
Chloe McGuire:
Siena Pugsley

To Build or Not to Build

Series 2

Episode 11

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC HD

Series following some of the UK's 20,000 self-builders. Karl and Lesley Greaves face a battle with planners and their neighbours when trying to build their dream home near Leeds. Show more

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC HD

Ann Widdecombe and Craig Revel Horwood travel from Colyton, Devon, through Somerset to an auction at Southend-on-Sea buying antiques with experts Mark Stacey and Catherine Southon. Show more

Contributors

Participant:
Ann Widdecombe
Participant:
Catherine Southon
Participant:
Mark Stacey
Narrator:
Tim Wonnacott
Executive Producer:
Wendy Rattray
Series Producer:
Paul Tucker

Origins of Us

Episode 2: Guts

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC HD

Available for years

Series exploring how the human body charts our evolution. How our ancestors' hunt for food changed the shape of our face, the way we see and how we attract the opposite sex. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alice Roberts
Series Producer:
Zoe Heron
Executive Producer:
Sacha Baveystock
Producer:
Matthew Dyas
Director:
Matthew Dyas

Five young Eastern Europeans reveal the harsh realities and culture shocks of life as an immigrant coming to Britain and hoping to stay. Is this really a land of opportunity? Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Scott Mills
Narrator:
Scott Mills
Narrator:
Scott Mills
Narrator:
Scott Mills
Executive Producer:
Rob Unsworth
Executive Producer:
Rob Unsworth
Executive Producer:
Rob Unsworth
Executive Producer:
Rob Unsworth

Ceramics: A Fragile History

Episode 3: The Art of the Potter

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

A look at how, in the 19th and 20th centuries, artisans like Bernard Leach broke the monopoly of the ceramic factories by creating the studio pottery movement. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Ruth Wilson
Narrator:
Ruth Wilson
Series Producer:
David Vincent
Series Producer:
David Vincent
Director:
David Vincent
Director:
David Vincent
Executive Producer:
Jonty Claypole
Executive Producer:
Jonty Claypole

Coast

Series 4 (Shortened Versions)

Episode 5: Past Prosperity

Duration: 20 minutes

on BBC HD

Victorian postcards reveal Rhyl's glory years to Hermione Cockburn. Plus Neil Oliver finds out about the people who manned Liverpool's famous dockyards. Show more

Fry's Planet Word

Episode 5: The Power and the Glory

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

Stephen Fry explores language. He looks at our desire to entertain and explain through stories, and why any attempt at formula is doomed to fail. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Fry
Director of photography:
Simon Ffrench
Sound Recordist:
Adam Toy
Sound Recordist:
Tim Hodge
Sound Recordist:
Sean O'Neil
Composer:
Andy Hopkins
Production Manager:
Lucy Tate
Executive Producer:
Cassian Harrison
Executive Producer:
Gina Carter
Series Producer:
John-Paul Davidson

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