Saturday 29th June 2013
| Heritage The Battle for Britains Past (1/3) |
Charting the birth of the heritage movement and the first arguments of radical thought, from figures including John Lubbock MP, Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, Charles Darwin and John Ruskin. These remarkable individuals asked important questions and came up with the building blocks of a new world that valued the past. Their actions led to the first piece of legislation to safeguard prehistoric and ancient structures which until then had often fallen prey to the short-term interests of farmers and landowners.
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Sunday 30th June 2013
| Peter Jones Meets… (4/4) |
Peter meets John Timpson and his son James, who oversee the high street shops best known for shoe repairs and key cutting, and Judy Naake, who turned the tanning lotion St Tropez into a multi-million pound franchise.
Judy sold the rights for that franchise for a reported £70 million and is now topping up her own tan at her villa in Tuscany, while helping her son launch a new make-up business. Judy had to battle through cancer and now admits 'I never valued my own time or my health.'
At Timpson, which owns around 950 shops and turned over £160 million in 2012, chairman John had a different battle - in the boardroom - to win back ownership of the company. 'I learnt the value of control. Fifty per cent is fine; a hundred per cent, a lot better.
| The Talent Show Story (3/5) |
Victoria Wood narrates a documentary series looking back at the history of talent shows on British TV. In this episode, there is a look at how Britain's Got Talent revived variety shows. The programme also reveals the stories of how New Faces originally brought the judging panel format to TV - nasty judges and all - and how Simon Cowell went from music mogul to global TV star. Plus there is a celebration of the talent shows' worst auditions. Featuring contributions from key players past and present.
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Monday 1st July 2013
| The Truth About Pills and Pregnancy - Panorama |
Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Decades after the Thalidomide scandal shocked the world, Panorama reveals how another medicine has damaged far more children. Drugs cannot be tested on pregnant women for ethical reasons, so doctors do not know if most prescription drugs are safe for the unborn child, and the system set up to monitor side-effects appears to be flawed. As evidence emerges that some common antidepressants are linked to heart defects in babies, the programme asks how much we really know about the safety of medicines women take while pregnant.
London on Film (3/3)
BBC 4, 8.00pm - 8.30pm
From the start, suburban London has been captured on film. For some it is a gracious retreat while for others an unwelcome exile. This is a confusing world of tidy semis, old villages and sprawling estates, of commuters, hidden lives and conflict - revealed entirely through archive images.
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Wednesday 3rd July 2013
| What Makes us Human |
Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What is that separates us from our closest living relatives - the chimpanzees?
We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and yet from the moment of birth, our lives are completely different. So are we just another animal, or is there something special about being human?
Before her new baby emerges into the world, Professor Roberts sets out to explore what it is about our bodies, our genes and ultimately our brains that set us apart from our furry cousins - what is it that truly makes us human?
Shot For Going To School
BBC 3, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the Taliban are targeting schools to report Malala's story and meet other schoolgirls who have been attacked for wanting an education.
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Thursday 4th July 2013
London On Film (2/3)
BBC 4, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
The intensity of life in London's East End has attracted film-makers since the camera was first invented. The vast changes in East End life - from the docks and the rag trade to market traders, migrants and wartime upheavals - are revealed entirely through the images they captured on film.
| How Safe Is Your Kitchen?: Tonight |
ITV consumer editor Chris Choi identifies the potentially lethal kitchen white goods that could be in your home. Some of Britain's biggest manufacturers are in the spotlight with more products affected than ever before. The programme investigates whether there are dangerous failings in Britain's product recall system and includes interviews with those who have lost loved ones in accidents. Chris also asks why so many dangerous products remain in our homes despite safety alerts.
