Fantasy adventure series. Alfred goes in disguise using his specially-designed Alfcycle, and his identical cousin Egbert, to help the duo thwart Joker's plans to spike the water supply.
Four of the UK's most talented brass players battle it out in front of an audience and a distinguished panel of judges for a place in the final at the Wales Millennium Centre. The finalists include a twelve-year-old trombone player who is the youngest musician remaining in the competition.
We Brits love our cookbooks - every year we buy millions of them and treat our celebrity chefs like royalty. But where did it all begin? Self-confessed medieval foodie Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How this ancient manuscript influenced the way people eat today? On her culinary journey through medieval history she reawakens recipes that have lain dormant for centuries and discovers dishes that are still prepared now.
Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon visits an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which contains a treasure trove of the world's most important illuminated manuscripts. Germaine Greer joins the modern-day illustrator Quentin Blake to consider the religious and political power of these beautiful medieval masterpieces, and to assess their place in the history of art and book production.
Documentary about the extraordinary life of Baroness Moura Budberg - caught up in a plot to topple the Bolsheviks, lover of men like HG Wells and Maxim Gorky and a true heroine were it not for sinister rumours of murder and betrayal. Dimitri Collingridge, her great great nephew, attempts to find out whether she was actually callous Soviet agent.
Without the use of modern conveniences, a group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago. They wear clothes from the period, source food from the land, and use recipes from the era. They turn the clock back to rediscover a way of life from an age gone by.
THURSDAY 08 MAY 2008
THU 19:00 World News Today (b00b6w6h)
The latest news from around the world.
THU 19:27 Disasters Emergency Committee Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal (b00bt7l7)
An appeal on behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee Myanmar (Burma). Donations can be made through DEC at http://www.dec.org.uk.
THU 19:30 In Search of Medieval Britain (b00b6w6k)
Scotland
Medieval art historian, Dr Alixe Bovey, uses the oldest surviving route map of Britain to make a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages. She explores the most mysterious region on the whole map - Scotland, a nation so young it still had no capital, where wolves reigned over its highland wilderness and gangsters terrorised its border lands.
THU 20:00 BBC Young Musician (b00b9yzy)
2008
Percussion
Four of the UK's most talented percussionists battle it out in front of an audience and a distinguished panel of judges for a place in the final at the Wales Millennium Centre.
THU 21:00 Inside the Medieval Mind (b00b6w6m)
Power
Professor Robert Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system, where inequality was part of the natural order, the life of serfs little better than those of animals and the knight's code of chivalry more one of caste solidarity than morality. Yet a social revolution would transform relations between those with absolute power and those with none.
THU 22:00 Crusades (b00b6w6p)
Destruction
Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out to do battle with the legendary Saladin and discovers that inevitably, Richard was an unsatisfactory hero. Terry then re-stages the Fourth Crusade as part of the Venice festival and finds out how the Crusaders destroyed the world's largest Christian city in a bloody orgy. The final chapter of the story sees the rise of Muslim fanaticism as a mirror to Christian ferocity.
THU 22:50 Mad Men (b00b6km7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 on Sunday]
THU 23:40 Chinese School (b00b6lqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
THU 00:40 Inside the Medieval Mind (b00b6w6m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
THU 01:40 BBC Young Musician (b00b9yzy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
THU 02:40 In Search of Medieval Britain (b00b6w6k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
THU 03:10 Inside the Medieval Mind (b00b6w6m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
FRIDAY 09 MAY 2008
FRI 19:00 World News Today (b00b6wdz)
The latest news from around the world.
FRI 19:30 Transatlantic Sessions (b00pdwyl)
Series 2
Episode 1
Folk musicians come together to make music in what have been called 'the greatest backporch shows ever'.
FRI 20:00 BBC Young Musician (b00b9z6n)
2008
Keyboard
Four of the UK's most talented pianists battle it out in front of an audience and a distinguished panel of judges for a place in the final at the Wales Millennium Centre.
FRI 21:00 Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee (b00b6wf1)
Documentary charting the chequered life and legendary music of Peggy Lee. With contibutions from k.d.lang, Nancy Sinatra, Leiber and Stoller, Quincy Jones and Andy Williams, and featuring duets with Mel Torme, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin.
FRI 22:00 Kings of Cool: The Crooners (b007c6n3)
Honor Blackman narrates a celebration of some of the most stylish musical icons of the last century, the crooners such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett and Andy Williams. Featuring interviews with friends, family members and the new breed of crooners such as Michael Buble and Jamie Cullum.
FRI 22:50 The World of Nat King Cole (b0074qxl)
A portrait of the popular entertainer Nat King Cole, which uses a combination of rare and unseen archive including home movies, performances, and interviews to shed an intimate new light on the man behind the silky voice. Interviewees include Stevie Wonder, Andre 3000 Benjamin of Outkast, Whoopi Goldberg, Carlos Santana, Harry Connick Jr, Tony Bennett, BB King, Jools Holland, Quincy Jones, Baz Luhrmann and the entire Cole family.
FRI 00:20 The Avengers (b0074ry2)
Series 5
The Bird Who Knew Too Much
Steed and Mrs Peel follow a trail of bird seed to expose a villainous gang of bird trainers who are selling photographs of a top secret missile base to the East.
FRI 01:10 BBC Young Musician (b00b9z6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
FRI 02:10 The World of Nat King Cole (b0074qxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:50 today]
FRI 03:40 Transatlantic Sessions (b007yyss)
Series 3
Episode 1
The best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland come together in an exclusive Highland location and with no audience except one another to make music in what have been called 'the greatest backporch shows ever'.
Paul Brady remembers Louisiana, Karen Matheson astonishes with some Gaelic mouth music and American star Joan Osborne makes her UK television debut.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Perfect Spy
20:10 SAT (b008d2vp)
A Perfect Spy
21:05 SAT (b008fm97)
A Tudor Feast
23:00 WED (b00794j3)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 MON (b00b9yxh)
BBC Young Musician
00:50 MON (b00b9yxh)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 TUE (b00b9yyd)
BBC Young Musician
01:35 TUE (b00b9yyd)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 WED (b00b9yyx)
BBC Young Musician
01:00 WED (b00b9yyx)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 THU (b00b9yzy)
BBC Young Musician
01:40 THU (b00b9yzy)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 FRI (b00b9z6n)
BBC Young Musician
01:10 FRI (b00b9z6n)
Batman
19:35 TUE (b00b9dkj)
Batman
19:35 WED (b00b9dmy)
Chinese School
21:00 TUE (b00b6lqj)
Chinese School
00:35 TUE (b00b6lqj)
Chinese School
03:05 TUE (b00b6lqj)
Chinese School
23:40 THU (b00b6lqj)
Christina: A Medieval Life
21:00 MON (b00b6ksc)
Christina: A Medieval Life
23:50 MON (b00b6ksc)
Christina: A Medieval Life
02:50 MON (b00b6ksc)
Clarissa and the King's Cookbook
21:00 WED (b00b6vl6)
Clarissa and the King's Cookbook
00:00 WED (b00b6vl6)
Clarissa and the King's Cookbook
03:00 WED (b00b6vl6)
Crusades
22:00 THU (b00b6w6p)
David Ogilvy: Original Mad Man
01:55 SAT (b009pg3d)
Dear Television
21:00 SUN (b009099x)
Disasters Emergency Committee Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal
19:27 THU (b00bt7l7)
Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee
21:00 FRI (b00b6wf1)
From Ranch to Raunch
02:10 SUN (b0074t8s)
Goodness Gracious Me
22:00 TUE (b00b6lql)
Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles
23:50 SUN (b0074t87)
Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
21:30 WED (b0074rt0)
Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
00:30 WED (b0074rt0)
Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
03:30 WED (b0074rt0)
In Concert
01:25 SUN (b007rm8l)
In Search of Medieval Britain
19:10 SAT (b00b413n)
In Search of Medieval Britain
02:55 SAT (b00b413n)
In Search of Medieval Britain
19:30 THU (b00b6w6k)
In Search of Medieval Britain
02:40 THU (b00b6w6k)
Inside the Medieval Mind
19:00 SUN (b00b413s)
Inside the Medieval Mind
03:10 SUN (b00b413s)
Inside the Medieval Mind
21:00 THU (b00b6w6m)
Inside the Medieval Mind
00:40 THU (b00b6w6m)
Inside the Medieval Mind
03:10 THU (b00b6w6m)
James Taylor: One Man Band
22:45 SUN (b00b41h2)
Kings of Cool: The Crooners
22:00 FRI (b007c6n3)
Mad Men
23:35 SAT (b009wxc0)
Mad Men
00:20 SAT (b00b09hw)
Mad Men
01:10 SAT (b00b3zd3)
Mad Men
22:00 SUN (b00b6km7)
Mad Men
22:50 THU (b00b6km7)
Meetings with Remarkable Trees
19:00 SAT (b0074svc)
Pop Go the Sixties
19:30 TUE (b008791y)
Pop Go the Sixties
19:30 WED (b008791b)
Saint Joan
22:00 MON (b0074t60)
Storyville
22:00 WED (b00b6vl8)
Storyville
02:00 WED (b00b6vl8)
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
20:00 SUN (b0078pgj)
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
20:30 SUN (b0078p7z)
The Avengers
00:20 FRI (b0074ry2)
The Best of Youth
22:00 SAT (b00b6kj6)
The Book Quiz
19:40 SAT (b00b3zk8)
The Book Quiz
03:25 SAT (b00b3zk8)
The Book Quiz
19:00 MON (b00b6ks5)
The Book Quiz
02:20 MON (b00b6ks5)
The Book Quiz
03:50 MON (b00b6ks5)
The Book Quiz
02:35 TUE (b00b6ks5)
The Saint and the Hanged Man
23:35 TUE (b009wzcs)
The Sky at Night
19:30 MON (b00bbhyd)
The Sky at Night
01:50 MON (b00bbhyd)
The World of Nat King Cole
22:50 FRI (b0074qxl)
The World of Nat King Cole
02:10 FRI (b0074qxl)
To Let
22:30 TUE (b00b94mn)
Transatlantic Sessions
19:30 FRI (b00pdwyl)
Transatlantic Sessions
03:40 FRI (b007yyss)
Washes Whiter
21:10 SUN (b00b6km5)
World News Today
19:00 TUE (b00b6lqg)
World News Today
19:00 WED (b00b6vl4)
World News Today
19:00 THU (b00b6w6h)
World News Today
19:00 FRI (b00b6wdz)