Writer and poet Owen Sheers explores British art and literature inspired by the high seas.
Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.
Move from inspiration into action with hand-picked experts in home, kitchen, garden and the arts. Whether you're looking to style a room, start a garden or cook a new dish, each class is designed for anyone to roll up their sleeves and try something new.
Presenter Charles Hazlewood stages a 140-person flashmob clog dance and explores the history of this folk dance that originated in the collieries and pit villages of the north east of England in the 19th century.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s most influential and best-loved poets, this film combines dramatisations of telling events in the life of WH Auden with interviews from the TV and radio archives and extracts from Auden’s poetry, notebooks, letters and journals. (BBC)
1000 Meisterwerke was a German art series. It was the German version of the British 100 Great Paintings. From 1980 through 1994, the German broadcaster WDR produced the series, which was broadcast by ARD, ORF and BR. In each of the 10-minute broadcasts, a single painting was presented and analyzed by an art historian. The Sunday evening broadcasts had five million viewers.
No matter where she goes, Sora takes her sketchbook along. The world is full of mysterious and beautiful things, after all, and Sora doesn't want to miss a single one. The best way she knows to capture each moment is by drawing and sketching, watching and learning.
Inside the Gangsters Code follows ex-mafia street boss Lou Ferrante as he explores different gang cultures, their characters, and their inner workings in El Salvador, the Philippines, New Mexico, Italy, and Poland. These gangs rule the streets from inside prison walls, while running activities from behind bars and controlling the communities living outside.
Detective Seiichiro Watari is nearing retirement, but is still bothered by an unsolved case from seven years ago when the decomposed corpse of a female was found by a fisherman in the sea of Otaru. The body was never identified so the case was never solved. Three years after his retirement, Watari unexpectedly discovers a clue that may finally solve the case.
"Here Comes Oh Ja-Ryong" follows an unemployed second son-in-law with a good heart as he attempts to save his in-laws from the greedy first son-in-law.
The Duch painter Vincent Van Gogh grew up in the family of a stern Calvinist country pastor, feeling a misunderstood misfit, obsessed by painting, while his elder brother Theo left for Brussels, later Paris, and became an art dealer. Vincent tried an alternative career as missionary to the Catlolic Walloon mineworkers in the Ardennes but returns, broke and failed again. Later he'll move in with Theo in Paris, but can't fit in business or society. Vincent heads for frustration and health drama. His heir, a Dutch railway engineer, later visits those places while deciding whether to sell the family paintings collection to invest in the super-fast railroad.
Deadly Wives
Dom Littlewood looks at clever new ways that the police and the public are catching crooks red handed.
In this documentary series, Ifor ap Glyn travels across Britain, exploring some if its most holy and sacred sites.
Four couples on the verge of breaking up enter relationship rehab for a marriage overhaul. Led by team of positive psychologists, they go through an 8 week program to test the mettle of their marriage.
Presented by Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher who goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us, not the great Pharaohs, but the ordinary people who built and populated this incredible place, creating a remarkable way of life. Dr Joann explores their homes, workplaces and temples. The programme originally aired on BBC2 and we meet Kha and Meryt, an architect and his wife who lived just outside the Valley of the Kings. They left behind a treasure trove of information; their extraordinary tomb, full of objects from their lives and deaths - from make-up to death-masks, loaves of bread to life-like figurines, even the tools Kha used at work in the royal tombs. Joann Fletcher uses this to travel into the remarkable world of these Ancient Egyptians,.
Des Bishop tackles one of the great taboos of Irish society and explores the Irish relationship with alcohol and other addictive behaviors.
The series tells the story of two fifteen-year-old twin brothers, Pedro and Bianca, being white and black, which made them known in the region where they live. Pedro & Bianca shows the class C teenagers who recently entered the first year of high school, at the Piquerobi State School (Alberto Torres State School), a public school in São Paulo, and follows the daily lives of both at school, where they face common problems that teenagers experience.
Whale Adventure with Nigel Marven
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