Mark Radcliffe presents coverage of legendary rockers Status Quo from the festival.
In the 1530s, King Henry VIII was at a crossroads. In his desperation for a new wife and an heir he had broken with Rome, divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn. Isolated and vulnerable, he needed a powerful new image as head of church and state.
In the second of a two-part documentary, architectural historian Jonathan Foyle looks for clues in the king's art to glimpse what was going on inside his head as he faced his darkest days.
New policewoman Linda Wallander is waiting for her first big case at Ystad police station and her father, Inspector Kurt Wallander, is getting on her nerves. When her childhood friend Anna mysteriously disappears she is thrown in at the deep end and soon needs her father's help on a fascinating and very dangerous investigation.
David Reynolds, Professor of International History at Cambridge University, uncovers the story of three groundbreaking summit meetings that have shaped the modern world. When John F Kennedy met Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961, the result was a massive clash of personalities, generations and ideology. Reynolds unravels the poisonous duel between these two huge egos, one which revealed their human frailties and which pushed the world to the brink of nuclear destruction over Cuba.
Joseph Koerner explores the art, architecture and music of fin de siecle Vienna. Using one of Vienna's most famous sons, Sigmund Freud, as a key, Koerner attempts to unlock Vienna's psyche for clues as to why this unlikely city gave birth to modernism. Home to Klimt, Schoenberg and Hitler, he portrays an artistic and intellectual melting pot; a place where many of the great dreams, and nightmares, of the modern era were first imagined.
MONDAY 29 JUNE 2009
MON 19:00 World News Today (b00lglt4)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
MON 19:30 Return to... Airport (b00cspw5)
Episode 5
Jeremy Spake and his fellow Heathrow residents take us back to the early days of the 'fly on the tarmac' series about the world's busiest airport. Take a bunch of highly strung celebrities, with entourage, a near catastrophe or two, add bags of confusion, and you've got the explosive mix which made Airport such a hit.
MON 20:00 The Way We Travelled (b0074tbz)
The Way We Travelled
Last in a three-part series of documentaries on how holiday and travel programmes have changed the British public's attitude to other countries and cultures over the years. The rise of independent travel programmes such as Rough Guide is featured, along with the more intrepid likes of Michael Palin and Benedict Allen.
MON 21:00 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00lglt6)
The Final Approach
Three-part series charting the development of Britain's airports and how they have transformed the country, in the process creating both freedom and fear.
Once upon a time you could roam freely across airports, but no longer. This final episode reveals how the easily accessible airport of late Sixties turned into one besieged by present-day security procedures and climate protesters. With rare archive and eyewitness accounts, it relates the events that have shaped our contemporary experience of airports - with their x-rays, pat downs and scanners. But although the airport's sheen may be tarnished, we're using them more than ever. Contributors including architect Lord Foster and author Will Self explore why.
MON 22:00 Days that Shook the World (b0078yr8)
Series 1 (30 minutes)
Concorde - Atlantic Crossing
It is 19th October 1977 and Concorde taxis onto the runway at Toulouse Airport. Onboard, the crew are preparing for an historic day - the first supersonic test flight to New York. At JFK airport, protestors are waiting with a hostile welcome, but for the Concorde team and the French and British governments it is a moment that represents the end of an exhausting struggle.
MON 22:30 Timewatch (b0078m80)
2003-2004
Concorde - A Love Story
Concorde, the world's only supersonic jet, reached the end of its flying days in 2003, but the love affair between the public and the plane is likely to endure for many years longer.
This documentary reveals the inside story of how such a remarkable plane was designed and built, and how it survived against all odds to become an international icon and in the process changed
the face of air travel for ever.
Told by celebrity frequent fliers like David Frost and Henry Kissinger, by engineers, test pilots, stewardesses and charter passengers, this is the story of Concorde's life and death.
MON 23:20 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00lglt6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
MON 00:20 Summits (b008yw46)
Geneva, 1985
David Reynolds, Professor of International History at Cambridge University, uncovers the story of three groundbreaking summit meetings that shaped the modern world. When Ronald Reagan met the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Geneva in 1985, few foresaw any meaningful progress. Each had arrived with real doubts about the other and entrenched ideological convictions. Yet despite two days of fundamental disagreement over arms policy, Reagan saw the peacemaker in Gorbachev and reached out to him.
MON 01:20 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00l7q57)
Preparing for Take Off
Travel in time from the heady glamour of Britain's first terminal at Croydon to the signs and squiggles that direct pilots, as well as passengers, in today's airports. This series reveals how rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion for flight gave birth to our airports, turning muddy airfields into the 24-hour mini-cities we know today. In the process, they've transformed Britain - giving us the freedom to travel anywhere we want and inspiring fear about our borders.
Rare archive, access to airports' hidden corners and contributors ranging from philosopher and author Alain de Botton to the man charged with scaring birds off Manchester's runways, reveal all.
MON 02:20 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00lc6bn)
Joining the Jet Set
Three-part series charting the development of Britain's airports and how they have transformed the country, in the process creating both freedom and fear.
Relive the heyday of jet travel, when airports held beauty pageants for air hostesses and information films taught us how to pack for flight. This episode celebrates how 'money, tickets, passport' became the mantra of the moving masses. But while we giddily embarked on our foreign holidays, Britain itself was being shaped by the airport - tourism, business and immigration all felt the impact of these gateways to the globe.
Glorious colour archive captures the airport's golden age, while contributions from author Sarfraz Manzoor and airline staff to early immigrants explore how airports changed us.
MON 03:20 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00lglt6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
TUESDAY 30 JUNE 2009
TUE 19:00 World News Today (b00lglxt)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
TUE 19:30 Yellowstone (b00jmqk1)
Autumn
Over the summer, Yellowstone has flourished - in late August there are more living things here than at any other time of the year. But winter is around the corner and there are just two months for all Yellowstone's animals to get ready or get out.
An early dusting of snow is a sign for elk to start moving down from the mountains to focus on finding food in the valleys. Although the wolves are waiting for them, the male elk are distracted, their haunting bugle call boasting that they are fired up and ready to fight each other to the death for the right to breed.
As temperatures fall further, beavers get busy in a rush to repair dams and stock underwater larders before ice freezes their ponds. Yellowstone's forests - the aspens, cottonwoods and maples - start to shut down for the winter, their colours painting the park a blaze of red and gold. Meanwhile, another tree is coming into its own, the whitebark pine. It offers up a bumper crop of pine nuts which fatten grizzly bears and squirrels alike. But its nuts are meant for another animal - the Clark's nutcracker, a small bird with a colossal memory and one that will reward the tree's efforts well by carrying its seeds far and wide, and even planting them.
As autumn ends, the snow and ice return and many animals now move out from the heart of Yellowstone and away from the protection of the national park. Their fight is not only to survive the cold, but also to find what little wild space remains in the modern world. All around Yellowstone, the human world is encroaching - it is now that the true value of the 'world's first national park' becomes clearer than ever.
Mike Kasic is a local sound recordist who got many of the natural sounds for the series, but in his spare time he dons snorkel and fins and jumps into the raging waters of one of the USA's wildest rivers to explore Yellowstone from the point of view of the unique Yellowstone cut-throat trout. Whilst his exploits might seem strange to the other park users - fly fishermen and bison alike - in becoming a fish, Mike not only uncovers an enchanting hidden Yellowstone, but finds out that things are not what they used to be for the cut-throat trout.
TUE 20:30 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00lglxw)
Episode 3
Three-part series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.
The final part looks at how the Pre-Raphaelites had outgrown the avant-garde in their later years and began to embrace fame and fortune with art designed to please the masses. In so doing, they attained riches and celebrity and became the forefathers of the commercial modern artist.
TUE 21:00 TV's Believe It Or Not (b009r5p2)
Episode 2
Comedian Sean Lock returns for a second helping of extraordinary television.
TUE 22:00 The Chaser's War on Everything (b00lglxy)
Episode 2
Comedy team The Chaser launch a real-life assault on everyone and everything.
Shopkeepers are less than pleased when Chris elects to wear a stocking over his head as a fashion statement. Julian steals the identity of an identity theft expert, and there's a trailer for the sophisticated French remake of American Pie.
The sketch-and-stunt series was nominated for the Rose d'Or, probably due to a bureaucratic error. And, in its native Australia, it won a swag of awards which the Chaser team is adamant are very prestigious.
TUE 22:30 Flight of the Conchords (b00lgly0)
Series 2
New Zealand Town
The prime minister of New Zealand wants to create 'New Zealand Town' in the bit between Chinatown and Little Italy. The boys want to play at the grand opening but he wants someone more cool - so Murray gets hold of some hair gel.
TUE 22:55 Wallander (b00g2j7h)
Series 1
Mastermind
Investigating a grisly local murder and the disappearance of a policeman's daughter, Kurt Wallander and his colleagues at the Ystad station begin to suspect the two are connected. As the investigation proceeds it seems that the criminal knows every move they will make and is practically controlling them. So begins a struggle to outwit a master criminal.
In Swedish with English subtitles.
TUE 00:35 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00l7qpy)
Episode 1
Series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.
The opening programme explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned.
TUE 01:05 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00lc6x8)
Episode 2
Three-part series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.
This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten years before the French Impressionists.
TUE 01:35 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00lglxw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:30 today]
TUE 02:05 TV's Believe It Or Not (b009r5p2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
WEDNESDAY 01 JULY 2009
WED 19:00 World News Today (b00lgy82)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
WED 19:30 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00lglxw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:30 on Tuesday]
WED 20:00 Legends (b00fzv3y)
Roy Orbison - The 'Big O' in Britain
Roy Orbison was the best singer in the world. That's what Elvis Presley said, and he should know.
To mark the 20th anniversary of Orbison's death, this programme celebrates the extraordinary talent of 'The Big O' and his relationship with his most loyal and enduring fans, British musicians and the British public. Through a combination of interview and archive, it charts Orbison's career in Britain, from the sell-out tour with the Beatles that sky-rocketed him to international superstardom, right up to the collaboration with lifelong friend George Harrison on the Travelling Wilburys project in the late 1980s. Effortlessly cool, musically sophisticated, Orbison was a rock and roll legend, whose legacy continues to captivate both the listeners and performers of today.
WED 21:00 Summits (b008vs4w)
Munich 1938
David Reynolds, Professor of International History at Cambridge University, uncovers the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of three ground-breaking summit meetings that have shaped the modern world. Here, he examines Neville Chamberlain's hubristic misreading of Hitler at Munich in 1938. Chamberlain has gone down in history as a naive old buffer with his policy of 'appeasement', but Reynolds retraces the testy battle of wills in which it was the dictator who lost his nerve at the last moment.
WED 22:30 Climates (b00lgy84)
Award-winning Turkish drama. University tutor Isa and his young wife Bahar are drifting apart. Over the course of a holiday and a trial separation they attempt to mend their lives, but Isa is unsure what he really wants and honest communication is increasingly difficult.
WED 00:10 Legends (b00fzv3y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
WED 01:10 Batman (b008h4bs)
Series 1
The Joker Trumps an Ace
The Joker plans to pilfer the Maharajah of Nimpah's solid gold golf clubs, but instead kidnaps the Maharajah. The Dynamic Duo, in pursuit, are tied up and locked in a chimney filled with lethal gas.
WED 01:35 Batman (b008h4q1)
Series 1
Batman Sets the Pace
Comic-book capers with the Caped Crusader. After once again eluding death at the hands of the Joker, the heroes must rush to avert an international incident.
WED 02:00 Mad Men (b00k3651)
Series 2
The Mountain King
Drama series which takes an unflinching look at the world of advertising in 1960s New York. Don renews his acquaintance with an old friend. Pete's personal problems impact on a major account. Joan introduces her fiance to the office staff.
WED 02:45 Mad Men (b00k9b41)
Series 2
Meditations in an Emergency
Against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis, the staff at Sterling Cooper ponder the meaning of a company audit. Duck tells Pete what's going on and offers him promotion. Betty receives unwanted news and has a dangerous liaison. Don returns after going AWOL and is in for a shock. Peggy tells Pete the awful truth.
WED 03:30 The Pre-Raphaelites (b00lglxw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:30 on Tuesday]
THURSDAY 02 JULY 2009
THU 19:00 World News Today (b00lh038)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
THU 19:30 In Search of England's Green and Pleasant Land (b00jz764)
West
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores the threats facing the rural way of life in the West Country. When he and his family moved from London to Gloucestershire, they were hoping to find a rural idyll. But has it lived up to his expectations?
THU 20:00 Hidden Histories (b00fm74j)
Series 1
Episode 3
A series looking at the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales celebrating its centenary year. Huw Edwards and the history detectives find out why a Welsh master carpenter carved his tools into the wood of a Tudor house and why the Romans built a theatre for their troops in the Welsh hills. They also discover an outstanding example of Welsh chapel architecture.
THU 20:30 The Sky at Night (b0074s8k)
Mapping the Moon
Patrick Moore presents a guide to the most familiar body in the night sky, whilst Chris Lintott gives tips on how to observe the moon.
THU 21:00 Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (b00lh03b)
Episode 3
Three-part series combining archive footage and eye-witness accounts to tell the dramatic narrative of North Sea oil and gas from the 1960s to the present. It charts the decades when the country made the most of its North Sea windfall, with scarcely a thought about where it came from or of the men and women who brought it to us. Through the story of oil, the series offers a fresh perspective on British politics and society and a timely insight into the state of our economy today.
The first Gulf War of 1991 brought home the fragility of global supplies of energy. Suddenly our North Sea oil and gas were more important than ever, but there were problems looming on the horizon. As oil reserves were used up, oil companies were about to face their biggest challenge yet.
Getting rid of redundant platforms brought them into a dramatic confrontation with an environmental movement that was growing in confidence and influence. As the flow of oil began to slow down, the oil men and women had to venture into ever deeper waters in the search for new supplies. Their quest would inspire a new generation of awe-inspiring underwater technology.
With North Sea oil and gas still supplying most of Britain's energy, it may be that the extraordinary national adventure, which began 40 years ago in the North Sea, is far from over.
THU 22:00 The Secret Life of the Airport (b00lglt6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Monday]
THU 23:00 The High Life (b00h6syv)
Winch
Sitcom set among cabin crew of a passenger jet. Sebastian returns from his Florida holiday to discover something has definitely happened between Steve and Shona. Captain Duff, meanwhile, is as confused as ever.
THU 23:30 Meet the British (b00kv0d0)
Semi-naked women, wurlitzers and prize goats are just a selection of items used by the British government to promote the country's image abroad.
For four decades, the government produced thousands of short films in order to sell an ideal Britain overseas and now, for the first time, they are shown to the country that inspired them.
THU 00:30 Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (b00l7r9j)
Episode 1
Three-part series combining archive footage and eye-witness accounts to tell the dramatic narrative of North Sea oil and gas from the 1960s to the present. It charts the decades when the country made the most of its North Sea windfall, with scarcely a thought about where it came from or of the men and women who brought it to us. Through the story of oil, the series offers a fresh perspective on British politics and society and a timely insight into the state of our economy today.
Forty years ago, Britain was poised on the brink of an extraordinary discovery - oil, billions of gallons of it, deep beneath the harsh waters of the North Sea. This opening edition gives a voice to some of the men who made that discovery and who risked their lives in the North Sea to get the oil ashore.
Theirs is a tale of dramatic risk-taking and high politics as the government and the oil companies raced to get their hands on the bonanza. The promise of enormous riches inspired technical innovation on a scale never seen before, but did the haste of the North Sea project put at risk the lives of men who were working in some of the most extreme conditions in the world?
THU 01:30 Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (b00lc7nr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Saturday]
THU 02:30 Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil (b00lh03b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
THU 03:30 The Sky at Night (b0074s8k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:30 today]
FRIDAY 03 JULY 2009
FRI 19:00 World News Today (b00lh12b)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
FRI 19:30 Summer Night Concert from Vienna (b00lh12d)
2009
From the grounds of the Schoenbrunn Palace, Katie Derham introduces the Vienna Philharmonic's spectacular summer-night concert. Daniel Barenboim conducts a programme on the theme of 'night', including Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, De Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain (with Barenboim as piano soloist), Mussorgky's Night on Bald Mountain and Johann Strauss's Thousand and One Nights. The evening ends with a generous helping of encores and a firework finale.
FRI 21:00 Glastonbury (b00lh12g)
2009
Tom Jones
Sir Tom Jones wows them at Worthy Farm in the legendary teatime slot, Sunday June 28th 2009 on the Pyramid Stage. Sporting his recent silver fox look and with a full band, Tom delivers rousing versions of all his biggest hits - Delilah, It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat? Kiss, Sex Bomb and a cover of EMF's Unbelievable - while the crowd sing along and party in the sunshine.
FRI 22:00 Sight and Sound in Concert (b0074szr)
Thin Lizzy
Archive performance by Irish guitar rockers Thin Lizzy in concert at the Regal Theatre, Hitchin. The set includes Jailbreak, Cold Sweat and The Boys Are Back In Town.
FRI 22:35 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00lk48h)
Part II
A celebration of Seventies-era axe-men, acoustic virtuosos and thumping riff merchants, in a compilation of guitar-heavy performances from the BBC TV archives.
Guitar gods including Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Peter Green and Johnny Winter are joined by, among others, flamenco maestro Manitas De Plata, bottleneck bluesman Ry Cooder and straight-up rockers AC/DC and Thin Lizzy.
Everything from Fleetwood Mac's ambient masterpiece Albatross to hits like The Jam's In The City and Free's All Right Now feature along with lesser-known gems like Maid in Heaven by Be Bop Deluxe and Nils Lofgren's Keith Don't Go.
The tracks were recorded in the heyday of BBC shows such as The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and Rock Goes to College.
FRI 23:35 Flight of the Conchords (b00lgly0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 00:00 The Chaser's War on Everything (b00lglxy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 on Tuesday]
FRI 00:30 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00lk48h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:35 today]
FRI 01:30 Meet the British (b00kv0d0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Summer Night Concert from Vienna (b00lh12d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]