Saturday 21st January 2012
Archive on 4: Freud v Jung
Radio 4, 8.00pm - 9.00pm
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's names may be linked in the public imagination but the two men were friends and collaborators for only a few short years. In 1912 they had a final, catastrophic split and never worked together again. Lisa Appignanesi tells the story of the titanic struggle which shaped our map of the unconscious. Did the bisected science fail to fulfil its promise and how much can be laid at the door of the primal argument between its dominant father and rebellious son?
Pannano's Essential Tosca
BBC 2, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Antonio Pappano takes an in-depth look at one of the most famous and dramatic of all operas - Puccini's Tosca.
This documentary goes behind the scenes of the recent production of Tosca by the Royal Opera House, conducted by Pappano and starring some of the hottest names on the opera stage today - Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel and Jonas Kaufmann. Pappano examines the drama and musical language of Tosca and explores Puccini's creative genius in producing one of the greatest of theatrical experiences.
| What Makes A Masterpiece (3/3) |
Matthew Cain explores the relationship between 'neuro-aesthetics' and visual art. Can science change the way we create and view art, or is human creativity science's last frontier?
| South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut |
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Sunday 22nd January 2012
127 Hours
Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.50pm
(2011) Danny Boyle's fact-based drama stars James Franco as a solo mountain climber who gets into a life-threatening predicament and takes a desperate, gory measure to extricate himself.
The Boy Friend
BBC4, 10.00pm - 12.15am
Musical comedy. A seaside dramatic company is visited by a Hollywood director on the day leading lady Rita Monroe cannot perform. She is replaced by her shy and imaginitive understudy, on whom the responsibility to perform well and save the show falls. A colourful tale of theatre hopefuls with big musical numbers and references to early Hollywood musicals.
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Monday 23rd January 2012
| Train Fares: Taken For A Ride: Panorama |
Packed in like sardines, on trains that often arrive late... But it is the price of the tickets that really upsets lots of rail travellers, and fares have just gone up to record levels. So why are train fares so expensive? Panorama investigates the cost of riding on the railway.
| Slumdog Millionaire |
(2008) Oscar-laden blockbuster starring Dev Patel as a lowly chaiwallah at a call centre, about to win 20 million rupees on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Violent scenes.
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Tuesday 24th January 2012
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Wednesday 25th January 2012
| Rip Off Britain |
The team investigates how mistakes made by energy companies can result in customers being sent bills demanding tens of thousands of pounds. Plus, a boiler breakdown that has left thousands of energy customers hot under the collar, invaluable tips and advice from the experts at the Rip-Off Britain pop-up shop, and, as consumers face a winter of higher gas and electricity bills, the energy industry defends its pricing and tariffs.
| Run Fat Boy Run |
(2007) Years after jilting his pregnant fiancée Thandie Newton, Simon Pegg decides to run a marathon to win her back. With Hank Azaria and Dylan Moran. Some strong language.
| The Simpsons Movie |
(2007) Homer's love for a pig causes world-threatening pollution and Springfield is enclosed by a huge dome - will he do the decent thing and save his suffocating neighbours? Doh!
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Thursday 26th January 2012
| Putin, Russia and the West (2/4) |
Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding on to power. He has announced his intention to return as president and declared his party the winner in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. In Moscow 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets in the largest demonstrations since Putin took office.
Putin began his career as a KGB spy but when he became president, he made himself a valued ally of the West. How did he do it? And what made Washington and London turn against him?
The second episode includes an extraordinary interview with former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was widely thought to be responsible for murder, corruption and sanctions-busting. He tells how, in the 2004 election, he set about getting his chosen successor elected president - with the help of Putin and his Kremlin advisers.
The opposition candidate, Victor Yushchenko, tells what it was like to be poisoned during the election campaign. It won him many voters and exit polls gave him a clear lead, but the Putin/Kuchma-backed candidate was still declared the winner. This result sparked the Orange Revolution.
Kremlin officials tell how they made sure that Putin wouldn't face a similar revolution at home. It is claimed critics of Putin, including the British ambassador, were intimidated and some were even murdered. Tens of thousands of young Russians were mobilised to fight the threat of democracy.
| Payback Time: Tonight |
As household debt rises to the five billion mark and the cost of living is at its highest level for years, the programme looks at how ordinary households are borrowing just to fund their day-to-day expenses. These pressures are also putting up the cost of getting into debt.
| Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera |
Documentary capturing the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan earlier this year, using amateur footage filmed by those caught up in the disaster.
| The Third Man |
(1949) Orson Welles plays Harry Lime, who dominates Carol Reed's adaptation of Graham Greene's atmospheric thriller set in a crime-ridden post-war Vienna.
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Friday 27th January 2012
| Cash in China's Attic: A Culture Show Special |
China's antique trade is booming, with records being smashed at auction every week. But why is this market exploding now, and what makes a piece of pottery into a million pound masterpiece? Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Hong Kong to see how China's super-rich are spending their new-found wealth on purchasing relics from their country's imperial history.
| Jaws 2 |
Horror sequel. Having recovered from the grisly events of four years ago, Amity Island is once again packed with tourists. Families are sailing in the bay and swimming off the beach, but when two divers and a water-skier go missing, the local police chief fears that he is about to relive his greatest nightmare.
| The Notorious Bettie Page |
Biopic of 'Queen of the Pinups' Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol), who found herself the target of a Senate investigation into obscenity in 1950s America.
| How the Brits Rocked America: Go West |
The first part of a series celebrating the success of British rock in America looks at how a British invasion led by the Beatles conquered America in the 60s. The groups were astounded by pizza, skyscrapers and real cowboys while America fell in love with a curious blend of swinging London and ye olde England.
With contributions from Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page.
| The Beatles: The First US Visit |
The story of two remarkable weeks in 1964, when Beatlemania first ignited in America. From airport to hotel to TV studio, the pioneering Maysles brothers were at the Beatles' shoulders on their first US visit. The siblings filmed them off guard and off duty, in nightclubs, at photo shoots, press conferences, in limos and on trains. The footage includes a performance on the Ed Sullivan Show, when they played to 73 million television viewers, and their concert at the Washington Coliseum.
| Vox Pop: How Dartford Powered the British Beat Boom |
In the early 1960s British pop groups conquered the world. But as the Beatles, the Stones, the Shadows, the Dave Clark Five, the Yardbirds and many others took to the stage they had one thing in common - they shared the platform with Vox amplifiers. Some of the nation's top professional musicians including Queen's Brian May and Bruce Welch of the Shadows, along with the factory workers of the time, recount the story of how an unlikely small company in unglamorous Dartford hit the big time and defined the sound of the 60s in Britain. Presented by Iain Lee.
| Paul McCartney: BBC Electric Proms |
Paul McCartney performs a selection of old Beatles hits plus newer solo songs at the Roundhouse in London.
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