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Saturday 26th May 2012
Arts Troubleshooter (1/2)
BBC 2, 8.15pm - 9.15pm
Arts Troubleshooter is a two-part series following the work of world renowned arts expert Michael Lynch at two unique arts organisations whose futures are under threat.
A Picture of London
BBC 2, 9.15pm - 10.15pm
From its early years until the present day, London has provided powerful, emotional inspiration to artists.
This documentary evokes the city as seen by painters, photographers, film-makers and writers through the ages; the perspectives of Dickens, Hogarth, Turner, Virginia Wolfe, Monet and Alfred Hitchcock alongside those of contemporary Londoners who tread the streets of the city every day.
Sex and the Sitcom
BBC 4, 11.10pm - 12.15am
How has the sitcom responded to the sexual revolution?
From Hancock's Half Hour in the 50s, through 70s sitcoms like Up Pompeii! and Reggie Perrin to contemporary comedies like Him & Her, this documentary explores sexual frustration as an enduring sitcom theme, the changing role of women and the British love of innuendo.
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Sunday 27th May 2012
Imagine: Vidal Sassoon - a Cut Above
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.10pm
Vidal Sassoon is more than a hairdresser - he created styles that defined a generation. Craig Teper's film charts the career of the man who invented the bob-cut and, over the course of more than fifty years, created one of the most recognisable brands in the beauty business.
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Tuesday 29th May 2012
Bristol on Film (1/3)
BBC 4, 8.00pm - 8.30pm
Bristol has fascinated film-makers from the moment the camera was invented. From shipping, sherry and tobacco to Brunel, bridges and the blitz, this programme explores the visual archives that document this ancient city.
Harold Baim's Britain on Film
BBC 4, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
A record of Britain and its people as seen through the lens of film-maker Harold Baim. Extracts from Baim's archive of bright and shiny cinema shorts from the 1940s to 1980s reveal a world that has gone forever.
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: a 17th Century History for Girls (2/3)
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of women in the home. This was an age when respectable women were defined by their marital status as maids, wives or widows. If they fell outside these categories they were in danger of being labelled whores or, at worst, witches.
Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket (1/3)
Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Jimmy tries to transform Tesco's best-selling own brand meatballs (they sell 35 million of them a year). In doing so, he spots an opportunity to tackle one of dairy farming's biggest secrets - the killing each years of tens of thousands of male dairy calves because there's no market for them.
Jimmy believes these calves should be reared on to produce British rose veal - a high welfare, high quality meat.
Can he persuade dairy farmers to work with him, come up with a recipe to impress Tesco, and convince the public that the stigma surrounding veal is a thing of the past?
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Wednesday 30th May 2012
The Story of Variety with Michael Grade (2/2)
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
What happened to the variety stars once the theatres closed and the cameras beckoned? Michael Grade tells the ups and downs of the variety stars on television.
Evidently… with John Cooper Clarke
BBC 4, 10.00pm - 11.00pm
Documentary which records and celebrates the life and works of 'punk poet' John Cooper Clarke, looking at his life as a poet, a comedian, a recording artist and revealing how he has remained a significant influence on contemporary culture over four decades.
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Thursday 31st May 2012
Follow-Up Albums (3/3)
Radio 4, 11.30am - 12.04pm
In 1991, Suede was named "the best new band in Britain", with a string of hit singles and a universally acclaimed debut album, 'Suede'. Flamboyant singer Brett Anderson and incendiary guitarist Bernard Butler became feted as song-writers. David Bowie was amongst their fans.
The scrutiny that followed took its toll on their relationship. Determined to write a dissolute conceptual masterpiece, Anderson exiled himself in a gothic pile in North London while Butler questioned the paraphernalia that came with pop stardom.
Bereavement and clashes over the album's producer heightened the tension and, with just one part to complete on the album, Butler walked out for good. Suddenly, having blazed the trail for Britpop, they returned with an album deemed out of step with its sunny positivism.
But almost two decades on, Suede's second album Dog Man Star reappeared to a plethora of 5 star reviews.
The Meat Market: Inside Smithfield (2/3)
BBC 2, 9.30pm - 10.30pm
The night time market at Smithfield was once the sole supplier of meat and poultry to London and could play by its own rules.
But now the modern world of political correctness and customer service is proving a challenge for some in this closed, traditional man's world.
Smithfield has been supplying the capital with meat since the 12th Century, but what does the future hold for the men of the meat market?
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Friday 1st June 2012
How to Be England Manager
BBC 3, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Passionate England fan Tim Lovejoy pulls together advice from former England managers, players and celebrity fans to offer Roy Hodgson the best possible support as he takes on the challenge of the country's second most important job. Contributions come from Sven Goran-Eriksson, Graham Taylor, John Gorman, John Barnes and many more.
Graham Taylor talks about how difficult it is to pick a squad after a long season when the players are either tired, injured or both. Sven remembers the heartbreak of telling players they weren't in the team and reminds us that professional footballers need to be spoken to like adults.
Tim looks at how the managers got the job - one of them thought he was being wound up when he received the call. He discusses who is really in charge - is it the players? - how helpful 'the suits' at the Sweet FA are, and how hacked off managers and players get with the media.
What are the potential banana skins - penalties, Poles or, in the case of Steve McLaren, precipitation? How do you keep the fans singing your praises and what style should the England manager display? Stylist Nicky Hambleton-Jones says there is a direction co-relation between lack of style and good results.
Punk Britannia (1/3)
BBC, 4 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Narrated by Peter Capaldi, this opener of a three-part documentary series in
BBC FOUR's celebrated 'Britannia' strand is scheduled to chime with the 35th
anniversary of the Queen's Silver Jubilee and the arrival of punk as national
and then international music culture. The film explores the road to punk in
Britain, which begins in the early 70s with a young generation already conscious
that they have 'missed the 60s party' and are stuck in a Britain heading for
economic woes and dwindling opportunities. Meanwhile the music of the day - prog
and super rock - seems to ask not for their interest and involvement, but only
their awe and their money.
But before the punk generation finally arises to have its say during 1976 come a group of pub rockers, a generation of bands sandwiched between 60s hippies and mid-70s punks who will help pave the way towards the short, sharp shock of punk, only to be elbowed aside by the emergence of the Sex Pistols, the Clash et al.
An unlikely cast of characters set the scene for punk in early 70s Britain. Reacting against overblown super rock of the day and the glam their younger sisters like on Top of the Pops, pub rock set the template for punk. Small venues, fast retro rock n roll and bags of attitude typified bands like Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Kilburn and the High Roads and Eddie and the Hotrods. These bands engendered a small London scene which is sometimes forgotten and helped define the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned, both positively and negatively.
Featuring copious unseen archive footage and interviews with John Lydon, Paul Weller, Mick Jones, Wilko Johnson, Nick Lowe, Adam Ant, Brian James and many more.
But before the punk generation finally arises to have its say during 1976 come a group of pub rockers, a generation of bands sandwiched between 60s hippies and mid-70s punks who will help pave the way towards the short, sharp shock of punk, only to be elbowed aside by the emergence of the Sex Pistols, the Clash et al.
An unlikely cast of characters set the scene for punk in early 70s Britain. Reacting against overblown super rock of the day and the glam their younger sisters like on Top of the Pops, pub rock set the template for punk. Small venues, fast retro rock n roll and bags of attitude typified bands like Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Kilburn and the High Roads and Eddie and the Hotrods. These bands engendered a small London scene which is sometimes forgotten and helped define the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned, both positively and negatively.
Featuring copious unseen archive footage and interviews with John Lydon, Paul Weller, Mick Jones, Wilko Johnson, Nick Lowe, Adam Ant, Brian James and many more.
