Saturday 31st December 2011
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Sunday 1st January 2012
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Monday 2nd January 2012
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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Wednesday 4th January 2012
Time Shift: The Smoking Years
BBC4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Timeshift reveals the story of the creature that is 'the smoker'. How did this species arrive on our shores? Why did it become so sexy - and so dominant in our lives? Was there really a time when everywhere people could be found shrouded in a thick blue cloud?
Enlisting the help of Barry Cryer, Stuart Maconie and others, The Smoking Years tells the unnatural history of a quite remarkable - and now threatened - creature. Warning: smoke-filled nostalgia may damage your health.
Britain in a Box: The Old Grey Whistle Test
Radio 4, 11.30pm - 12midnight
Another chance to catch the programme in which Paul Jackson shines a light on TV classics that helped define their time. Today, he turns an ear to The Old Grey Whistle Test, the music show devoted to the rock album, which began life just over 40 years ago and survived for a further sixteen.
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Thursday 5th January 2012
Building the Ice Hotel
Channel 5, 8.00pm - 9.00pm
In the early spring of 1990, an exhibition of ice sculptures took place in a bespoke igloo in the village of Jukkasjärvi, high up in the north of Sweden, well within the Arctic Circle.
One night, with no rooms available to rent in the village,several visitors asked if they could stay in the exhibition hall. Bedding down in sleeping bags on reindeer skins, these people were to become
the first ever guests of ICEHOTEL.
| Dear Professor Hawking: Disability |
On the eve of his 70th birthday, BBC Radio 4 pays tribute to one of the world's most famous living scientists, Professor Stephen Hawking. Using letters, archive recordings and interviews, each programme will focus on one aspect of Professor Hawking's life. This is a series which will reveal the thoughts, concerns and humour of one of the icons of modern science.
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Friday 6th January 2012
| Making the Iron Lady |
Behind the scenes at the making of The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep's new film charting Margaret Thatcher's rise to power. Includes interviews with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Anthony Head.
| The Internet Millionnaires' Club |
Wouldn't it be nice to have money rolling into your bank account without really having to do anything; perhaps an hour or so's work every other day merely to check everything's flowing smoothly? Thousands of people dream of doing just that, using the internet. They call it "passive income", or "the laptop lifestyle". In this documentary Jolyon Jenkins meets the people trying to make it work - and the others who are telling them that their dream really could come true.
It is a bigger business than you might imagine. For example at the World Internet Summit in a hotel near Heathrow, several hundred people gathered to listen to globe trotting gurus who explained how to leave your job and gain "freedom". And the Summit is only one dozens of events that are going on all the time. But can it really work?
It seems to, for people like Mili Ponce, the self-styled "Twitter Queen" who promotes "health products" like green tea, vitamin pills and diets. Or Mark Lyford, a former online pornography seller and cannabis grower, who claims to have made $320,000 in his first year as an internet marketer. Others struggle, like John Hutchinson, a 70 year old retired charity worker, who has spent £15,000 on advice from "mentors" but who has made almost nothing back.
If all else fails, you can make money working for other internet marketers, for example by writing junk content for websites designed to attract lucrative traffic. You'll get paid 50p per article and you'll be competing with people in the Phillippines and India. In the programme, Jolyon enters this world of globalised hack work, churning out dozens of articles on "How to Get Your Ex Back", "Getting Rid of Boils", and - as a low point - "Huggies Printable Wipes Coupons". The latter turns out to have been commissioned by the administrator of a nursing home in Ohio, who is hoping to earn enough money from internet marketing to quit her day job.
With luck and hard work it is possible to get rich through internet marketing. But only by polluting the internet with rubbish. And for most, the dream of joining the internet millionaires club remains tantalisingly out of reach.
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