A search for the orchestra that best captures the spirit of British amateur music-making. The remaining orchestras take on the concerto - a piece featuring a virtuoso soloist. Show more
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Documentary telling the story of the generation of female artists who, having emerged out of the tumult of the late 1960s, aimed to radically change the way women were perceived. Show more
Believing the kiss has lost its value, Jo Brand explores the subject by watching bonobo monkeys, learning about its history and science and perfecting her own kissing technique. Show more
Writer and historian Michael Collins tells the story of the suburban garden and delivers a riposte to the urban intelligentsia who have spent a century sneering at the suburbs. Show more
A search for the orchestra that best captures the spirit of British amateur music-making. In episode two the four remaining amateur orchestras must get to grips with opera. Show more
A search for the orchestra that best captures the spirit of British amateur music-making. It is the grand final. One orchestra wins the chance to perform at Proms in the Park. Show more
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A search for the orchestra that best captures the spirit of great British amateur music-making. The five orchestras must master that pinnacle of orchestral playing - the symphony. Show more
Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women's literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. Show more
CS Lewis's biographer AN Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man whose personal life was marked by the loss of the three women he most loved. Show more
Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of Josiah Wedgwood. Wilson reveals the achievements of the self-made, self-educated creative giant famous for his pottery. Show more
The Century That Wrote Itself
Episode 1: The Written Self
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Adam Nicolson traces our modern sense of self back to when ordinary people first took up the quill, both as a means of escape and of fighting for what you believed. Show more
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James Fox uses art to explore how our ancient relationship with nature changed with the advent of farming, cities, and faiths, and how we tried to gain control over the natural world. Show more
James Fox takes us from East Asia and India to Europe and America, charting the 1,000-year story about our quest to understand nature. Show more
James Fox uses art to explore the relationship between humans and nature across the last hundred years. Show more
Ros Savill tells the story of Sevres porcelain, which represent the skills of 18th-century France as well as the desires of an autocratic regime that was heading for revolution. Show more
Dramatisation of the life of Vera Brittain, who lived through the First World War. Presented by Jo Brand, Vera's letters and memoirs show the war through a young woman's eyes. Show more
Film in which Jo Brand gets to the bottom of crying: why we do it, whether we have always done it and, as a reluctant weeper, whether she can make a handkerchief soggy. Show more
Series about the attempts to bring farming back to the Sissinghurst estate. Things don't go smoothly for Sarah as she tries to supply produce for the National Trust restaurant. Show more
Series about the attempts to bring farming back to the Sissinghurst estate. Adam seizes a chance to alter first impressions of Sissinghurst so that it looks more like a farm. Show more