Monday 23rd September 2013
| Dying for a Bargain: Panorama |
Panorama investigates how our clothes - including those of some big high street brands - are really made. It finds evidence of shocking working conditions and an industry that still puts profit before safety. More than a thousand garment workers died when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed in April. But reporter Richard Bilton discovers people working 19-hour days, security guards who lock in the workers and factory owners who hide the truth from western retailers.
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Wednesday 25th September 2013
| The Culture Show: Northern Soul - Keep the Faith |
Northern Soul marked the birth of late-night dance culture in Britain. Paul Mason, economics journalist and once a regular at the famous 'all-nighters' at Wigan Casino, discovers the origin of this underground music scene and why it continues to inspire such devotion.
Many of the songs that eventually became Northern Soul classics were once rejected or unreleased. Recorded in the 1960s by African-American artists attempting to replicate the successful Motown sound, these discarded tracks would later be rediscovered and revered by white working-class dancers and music fans in the north of England.
Paul Mason tells the extraordinary story of Northern Soul and the dance culture that sprang up around it, influencing musicians, choreographers and filmmakers and growing into a global phenomenon.
Unreliable Evidence
Radio 4, 8.00pm - 8.45pm
Taking the Government to Court
Is our legal right to challenge the power of government
under threat? Clive Anderson and guests discuss concerns that Government
proposals to limit the use of judicial review could result in unlawful
decisions by government and other public bodies going unchecked.
The number of applications for judicial review have
increased rapidly in recent years, at great financial cost, but very few are
ultimately successful. Is judicial review a "lawyers' charter" or an
essential check on the way government and other public bodies exercise power?
A quadrupling of legal fees and tighter restrictions on time
limits for lodging applications will choke off the "soaring number of
judicial review" cases brought before the courts, according to Justice
Secretary, Chris Grayling. He says these measures will prevent claims being
used as a "cheap delaying tactic" in planning and immigration
appeals. But lawyers have warned that the changes will restrict legal
challenges to local authority decisions, creating the risk that vulnerable
teenagers will be deprived of care and safe accommodation.
And Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, says,
"Recent history has shown the importance of judicial reviews in exposing
shoddy and unlawful government decision-making - from the disastrous west coast
mainline franchising to the botched cancelling of Building Schools for the
Future".
Senior lawyers, judges and politicians discuss the strengths
and weakness of judicial review, look at landmark cases, and argue about
whether such legal challenges undermine good government.
_______________________________________ Thursday 26th September 2013
| Accents Speak Louder than Words: Tonight |
Penny Marshall examines whether there is still a social stigma and snobbery attached to particular regional accents in Britain. A special poll reveals the accents we find most friendly and those we love to hate. Does how we sound and where we come from affect our employability, potential for promotion and success in life?
| Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies |
In the last of three programmes in which composer Neil Brand celebrates the art of cinema music, Neil explores how changing technology has taken soundtracks in bold new directions and even altered our very idea of how a film should sound.
Neil tells the story of how the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet ended up with a ground-breaking electronic score that blurred the line between music and sound effects, and explains why Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds has one of the most effective soundtracks of any of his films - despite having no music. He shows how electronic music crossed over from pop into cinema with Midnight Express and Chariots of Fire, while films like Apocalypse Now pioneered the concept of sound design - that sound effects could be used for storytelling and emotional impact.
Neil tracks down some of the key composers behind these innovations to talk about their work, such as Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner), Carter Burwell (Twilight, No Country for Old Men) and Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Moon).
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Friday 27th September 2013
| Rock 'n' Roll Britannia |
Long before the Beatles there was British rock 'n' roll. Between 1956 and 1960 British youth created a unique copy of a distant and scarce American original whilst most parents, professional jazz men and even the BBC did their level best to snuff it out.
From its first faltering steps as a facsimile of Bill Haley's swing style to the sophistication of self-penned landmarks such as Shakin' All Over and The Sound of Fury, this is the story of how the likes of Lord Rockingham's XI, Vince Taylor and Cliff Richard and the Shadows laid the foundations for an enduring 50-year culture of rock 'n' roll.
Now well into their seventies, the flame still burns strong in the hearts of the original young ones. Featuring Sir Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Bruce Welch, Cherry Wainer and the Quarrymen.
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