Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,803 playable programmes from the BBC

Results 1 to 20 of 22 for your search filters
Filter by channel

The Culture Show

2009/2010

Episode 5: Manchester International Festival

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Tim Marlow presents from Albert Square in the final week, and looks at the collaboration between Elbow and the Halle. Tom Dyckhoff reviews Zaha Hadid's new chamber music hall. Show more

The Review Show

The Book Review Show

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Tim Marlow and guests John Mullan, AL Kennedy and Rosie Boycott consider the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The winner is announced on 16 October 2012. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tim Marlow
Participant:
John Mullan
Participant:
AL Kennedy
Participant:
Rosie Boycott
Executive Producer:
Andrew Lockyer

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tim Marlow begins his exploration of Britain's response to Europe's most lavish art movement with the moment Charles I lost his head under a Rubens masterpiece on 30 January 1649. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Could the Great Fire of London have been Britain's opportunity to create Europe's finest Baroque city? Tim Marlow travels to the seat of the fire to find out. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

He was our greatest Baroque musical hero, and yet Handel wasn't even British by birth. Tim Marlow and historian Ruth Smith explore how an opera premiere in 1711 launched his career. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

It's 1734, and a British diplomat has seen an expected inheritance slip through his fingers. But he's ready for a fight, as Tim Marlow discovers on a Yorkshire country estate. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Might the Baroque still be with us today? Tim Marlow meets a sculptor, a set designer and a modern-day highwayman, all of them imbued with a spirit of modern British Baroque. Show more

Start the Week

Edmund de Waal on Porcelain

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Andrew Marr talks to potter Edmund de Waal, curator Tim Marlow, poet Annie Freud and materials engineer Mark Miodownik. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Edmund de Waal
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Marlow
Interviewed Guest:
Annie Freud
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Miodownik
Producer:
Katy Hickman

The Review Show

25/03/2011

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Tim Marlow and guests Denise Mina, Rev Richard Coles and Natalie Haynes discuss the Pet Shop Boys' dance extravaganza The Most Incredible Thing and the latest Wallander novel. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Docudrama that explores the life and work of JMW Turner, considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, but whose private life was full of extremes and contradictions. Show more

Front Row

Michael Pennington, The Last of the Unjust, Minimalist Music

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Michael Pennington discusses his new book about how to become an actor, composers Stephen Montague and Scanner on minimalist music, and Anne Karpf reviews The Last of the Unjust. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Pennington
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Montague
Interviewed Guest:
undefined Scanner
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Karpf
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Marlow

Front Row

Earth, Wind and Fire; From Here to Eternity, Chinese paintings; Sir Anthony Caro

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Earth, Wind and Fire on their new album, a review of From Here to Eternity the musical, sculptor Sir Anthony Caro remembered, and an exhibition of Chinese paintings reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Verdine White
Interviewed Guest:
Philip Bailey
Interviewed Guest:
Ralph Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Maggi Hambling
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Marlow

Front Row

Anthony Head, Tamburlaine, Ai Weiwei, Line of Duty

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Samira Ahmed talks to actor Anthony Head, who is on stage in Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness. Plus Tim Marlow on the underground studio of artist Ai Weiwei. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Head
Interviewed Guest:
Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Marlow
Interviewed Guest:
Ng Choon Ping
Interviewed Guest:
Kumiko Mendl
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed

Pointless Celebrities

Series 10

Episode 29: Arts and Culture

Duration: 49 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One East

An arts and culture special, with Paul Morley, Annie Nightingale, Katie Derham, Will Gompertz, Tim Marlow, Janet Street-Porter, Richard Stilgoe and Meera Syal. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Osman
Participant:
Paul Morley
Participant:
Annie Nightingale
Participant:
Katie Derham
Participant:
Will Gompertz
Participant:
Tim Marlow
Participant:
Richard Stilgoe
Participant:
Meera Syal
Executive Producer:
James Fox
Executive Producer:
Tamara Gilder
Executive Producer:
Dom Waugh
Series Producer:
John Ryan
Production Company:
Endemol Shine UK