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Saturday 6th July 2013
BBC 4, 7.00pm - 8.00pm
The second episode reveals the unsung heroes of the heritage movement, the
clever civil servants who saved the great ruins of Britain. It explores the
determination of Charles Reed Peers from the Office of Works, who seized the
chance in the interwar years to make history a popular cause, and looks at how
the increasingly mobile British public began to embrace the idea of a day out at
an historic site. As the country houses faced a crisis with owners demolishing
or abandoning their homes, who would come to the rescue - the Ministry of Works
or the National Trust?
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Sunday 7th July 2013
BBC 1, 12.20pm - 12.50pm
Twenty years ago there were no Muslims in the Premier League. Now there are
nearly forty - enough for three football teams. To mark the start of Ramadan
this programme, narrated by Colin Murray, speaks to star players and top
managers to find out what impact Muslims are having on the English game.
BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Apart from a few fragmentary stories, Griff Rhys Jones' father never talked
about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled
15000 miles from Wales, to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were
part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To
understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then accompanied by
90-year-old veteran Joshua he goes to jungles of Burma. It is known as the
forgotten war but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from
children of the empire into masters of their own destiny.
ITV, 11.25pm - 12.20am
Victoria Wood narrates a documentary series looking back at the history of talent shows on British TV. In this edition, the programme examines the changing role of the talent show host. Ant and Dec and Dermot O'Leary describe what it is like presenting some of the biggest shows on TV, and there is a look back at Opportunity Knocks and its larger-than-life presenter Hughie Green. The programme also looks at some unlikely talent show stars, including Jedward, Wagner and the Cheeky Girls.
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Monday 8th July 2013
BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
When Donald Trump offered to bring six thousand jobs and a billion pounds in
investment to Scotland with two world class golf courses, a five star hotel and
hundreds of homes, it seemed to many an opportunity not to be missed, even
though it would mean sacrificing an environmentally protected part of the
Scottish coastline.
Five years on from Trump's controversial planning victory, one golf course
has been built, the hotel and property build is on hold while the accounts show
investment of around £25 million and, according to the Trump Organisation, 200
jobs have been created rather than the thousands promised.
With the land estimated now to be worth around ten times what it was thanks
to the outline planning consents, Panorama reporter John Sweeney asks if the
Scottish government knew enough about the self-proclaimed billionaire before
saying yes and challenges Donald Trump to reveal what is behind the Trump brand.
Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
After years in the boardroom Geoff Zeidler of Securitas goes undercover, and is shocked by the sacrifices his security officers make and the violence and racial abuse they encounter.
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.30pm
Two-part fact-based drama centred around Australian media mogul Kerry Packer,
who fought a cricket war by signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to
form a breakaway tournament.
In 1976, infuriated that ABC had been given the TV broadcasting rights by the
Australian Cricket Board without his own Channel 9 being given the chance to
bid, Packer is delighted when John Cornell, one of his producers, comes to him
with a rough idea about setting up a rival tournament. Amongst great secrecy,
Packer and Cornell start signing up some of the best players in Australia, but
soon find themselves at war with the established game.
BBC 4, 10.30pm - 11.50pm
With explosive new evidence this film tells the full story of the D'Oliveira
scandal, explaining the critical political role that cricket played in bringing
about the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
In 1968, Basil D'Oliveira, a brilliant 'coloured' cricketer from South Africa
who had made his home in the UK, found himself at the centre of a row that
rocked the English political and sporting establishment. Excluded from the
England team to tour South Africa - apparently because of his race - the
'D'Oliveira Affair' led directly to the sporting isolation of South Africa,
which became crucial in bringing about the fall of the apartheid system of white
rule in South Africa.
Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of 1968, this documentary
tells the story of Basil D'Oliveira and his betrayal by the English
establishment, as D'Oliveira himself speaks out for the first time.
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Tuesday 9th July 2013
BBC 3, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Since the tragic suicide of Gary Speed in 2011, football has had to face up to a
stigma in the game - mental illness. But is there a still taboo in the game?
Footballer and chairman of the PFA Clarke Carlisle investigates depression - and
even suicide - in British football and speaks to young players, managers and
Gary Speed's family to find out why footballers are suffering in silence.
ITV, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
The first of two programmes in which Robson Green journeys across the north of England and into its past, to a time when what happened in the north shaped both Britain and the world. He starts by telling the story of coal mining in the north over the course of two centuries and hears from members of his own family what it was like to go underground every day of your working life. Robson then looks at the great Lancashire industry of cotton and how the hard work of the mill workers created the profits that built Manchester. He also describes the transport revolution that changed the face of the north, with canals and railways criss-crossing the land, linking cities, factories and ports.
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Friday 12th July 2013
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.30pm
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form - from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the unforgettable music itself.
Built on stratospheric sales of albums, these were the years when the music industry exploded to become bigger than Hollywood. From pop to rock, from country to soul, from jazz to punk, all of music embraced what 'the album' could offer. But with the collapse of vinyl sales at the end of the 70s and the arrival of new technologies and formats, the golden era of the album couldn't last forever.
With contributions from Roger Taylor, Ray Manzarek, Noel Gallagher, Guy Garvey, Nile Rodgers, Grace Slick, Mike Oldfield, Slash and a host of others, this is the story of When Albums Ruled the World.
The Joy of the Single
BBC 4, 10.30pm - 11.30pm
Do you remember buying your first single? Where you bought it? What it was?
The thrill of playing it for the first time? What it sounded like? How it maybe
changed your life? Lots of us do. Lots of us still have that single somewhere in
a dusty box in the attic, along with other treasured memorabilia of an
adolescence lost in music and romance. The attic of our youth.
The Joy of the Single is a documentary packed with startling memories, vivid
images and penetrating insights into the power of pop and rock's first and most
abiding artefact - the seven inch, vinyl 45 rpm record; a small, perfectly
formed object that seems to miraculously contain the hopes, fears, sounds and
experiences of our different generations - all within the spiralling groove
etched on its shiny black surface, labelled and gift-wrapped by an industry also
in its thrall.
In the confident hands of a star-studded cast, the film spins a tale of
obsession, addiction, dedication and desire. The viewer is invited on a journey
of celebration from the 1950s rock n roll generation to the download kids of
today, taking in classic singles from all manner of artists in each decade -
from the smell of vinyl to the delights of the record label; from the importance
of the record shop to the bittersweet brevity of the song itself; from stacking
singles on a Dansette spindle to dropping the needle and thrilling to the intro.
Featuring contributions from Noddy Holder, Jack White, Richard Hawley, Suzi
Quatro, Holly Johnson, Jimmy Webb, Pete Waterman, Norah Jones, Mike Batt, Graham
Gouldman, Miranda Sawyer, Norman Cook, Trevor Horn, Neil Sedaka, Paul Morley,
Rob Davies, Lavinia Greenlaw, Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
