BBC 4 Listings for 23 February – 1 March 2013 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2013 importance of the record shop to the bittersweet brevity of the Together with fans, critics, artists and those who knew song itself, from stacking singles on a Dansette spindle to Lichtenstein, Alastair leads an entertaining and provocative SAT 19:00 Natural World (b0078gk1) dropping the needle and thrilling to the intro. discussion about the work and legacy of one of the most 2002-2003 celebrated and instantly recognisable artists of the 20th century. Featuring contributions from Noddy Holder, Jack White, Renowned for his works based on comic strips and advertising My Halcyon River Richard Hawley, Suzi Quatro, Holly Johnson, Jimmy Webb, imagery, Lichtenstein's chisel-jawed action men and love-lorn Pete Waterman, Norah Jones, Mike Batt, Graham Gouldman, women made him the hero of the Pop Art movement. An idyllic portrait of a British river, chronicling the small Miranda Sawyer, Norman Cook, Trevor Horn, Neil Sedaka, dramas of the wildlife that lives in and around it. Otters hunt Paul Morley, Rob Davies, Lavinia Greenlaw, Brian Wilson and When the pictures first appeared in the 1960s they caused a under the cover of darkness, mink lie in wait for unwary victims Mike Love. sensation - but also outrage and controversy, with many and kingfishers spear their prey, while newborn chicks learn to questioning whether his re-workings of other people's images swim under the watchful eye of their parents. could really be called art. As the exhibition reveals, however, SAT 23:45 Country at the BBC (b017zqwb) there was more to Lichtenstein than simply the famous comic Grab your partner by the hand - the BBC have raided their book images and also on display are many of his less familiar SAT 19:50 Wild (b0078ssw) archive and brought to light glittering performances by country works - nudes, landscapes, sculpture and his own take on the 2004-05 Shorts artists over the last four decades. work of modern art masters such as Picasso and Matisse.

Wild Summer River Star appearances include Tammy Wynette, Kris Kristofferson, Offering an in-depth look at one of the year's most talked about Johnny Cash and, of course, Dolly Parton. All the greats have exhibitions, Alastair and guests explore the enduring appeal of A leisurely trip down the River Dart, through moor and heath performed for the BBC at some point - on entertainment shows, Lichtenstein's imagery, debate the controversies around his into ancient oak woodland and back out onto open pasture. in concert and at the BBC studios. Some of the rhinestones work and his influence on today's generation of artists and Dippers, herons, kingfishers, mallards and many other water revealed are Charley Pride's Crystal Chandeliers from the Lulu tackle the big question - was Lichtenstein a Pop Art genius and birds can all be found on its water, along its banks live badgers Show, Emmylou Harris singing Together Again on the Old one of the defining image-makers of the 20th century, or a one- and foxes, and above it soar buzzards and peregrine falcons. Grey Whistle Test and Billie Jo Spears's Your Good Girl's trick wonder whose big idea was so powerful he could never let Gonna Go Bad from the Val Doonican Music Show. it go?

SAT 20:00 Baroque! - From St Peter's to St Paul's We're brought up to date with modern country hits by kd lang, (b00j8bwk) Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss and Taylor Swift, plus a special SUN 21:00 Madness in the Desert: Paris to Dakar Episode 2 unbroadcasted performance from Later...with Jools Holland by (b01r1cnw) Willie Nelson. Documentary telling the story of the world's craziest race. Three-part series exploring the Baroque tradition in many of its key locations. Starting in Italy and following the spread of the In 1977, French motorcyclist Thierry Sabine was in serious wildfire across Europe and beyond, art critic Waldemar SAT 01:15 Top of the Pops (b01qsrh8) trouble, lost in the Libyan desert and dying from thirst. Whilst Januszczak takes us on a tour of the best examples of Baroque 16/02/78 most men would weep and think back over their lives, Thierry to be found, and tells the best stories behind those works. thought about coming back - to do a rally across the Sahara David 'Kid' Jensen introduces the weekly pop chart programme Desert. The 9,000km Paris-Dakar rally was born. He follows Baroque to its dark heart in Spain, focusing on the featuring performances from the Tom Robinson Band, Kate route of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and Bush, Elkie Brooks, Magazine, Darts, Billy Joel, Sweet, the Bee The rally became a beacon for eccentric adventurers battling the featuring star painters Velasquez, Caravaggio and Zurburan. He Gees, Abba and Legs & Co. terrain in customised vehicles, seduced by the romance of the then carries on through Belgium and Holland to discover such desert and the extreme challenge. It soon became a victim of its celebrities as Rubens and Vermeer. own rapid success. Caught up in controversy and with over 60 SAT 01:50 New Power Generation: Black Music Legends of deaths, in 2008 this incredible event was brought to an end in the 1980s (b0177bjb) Africa by terrorism. SAT 21:00 Spiral (b01qytvt) Prince: A Purple Reign Series 4: State of Terror Featuring winners Cyril Neveu, Hubert Auriol, Jean-Louis Film which explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - Schlesser, Ari Vatanen, Stephane Peterhansel, Martine de Episode 5 revolutionised the perception of black music in the 1980s with Cortanze, former participant Sir Mark Thatcher and many worldwide hits such as 1999, Kiss, Raspberry Beret and more, this is the story of the biggest motorsport event the world The autopsy of the Kurd reveals a hidden clue which leads Alphabet Street. He became a global sensation with the release has ever seen and one of the greatest challenges of human Herville to upgrade the case to the highest priority. Karlsson of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie Purple Rain endeavour ever conceived, told by those who took part. receives a visit from Special Branch, who attempt to blackmail in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self- her into providing information about Thomas Riffaut. Judge discovery that continued right up to his passing in April 2016, How the west took on a landscape of incredible beauty and Roban continues to investigate the case against his colleague aged 57. scale. And lost. Garnier and finds that he has a very unlikely ally. Gilou is getting in deeper with the sinister Egyptian brothers. From the psychedelic Around the World in a Day to his masterpiece album Sign O' the Times and experiments with hip- SUN 22:00 Timeshift (b01p2pm6) In French with English subtitles. hop and jazz, Prince was one of most ambitious and prolific Series 12 songwriters of his generation. He tested the boundaries of taste and decency with explicit sexual lyrics and stage shows during Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in SAT 21:50 Spiral (b01qytvw) his early career, and in the 1990s fought for ownership of his Britain Series 4: State of Terror name and control of his music, played out in a public battle with his former label, Warner. Highly regarded as one of the most Timeshift, the black belt of the archive world, takes a look at Episode 6 flamboyant live performers ever, Prince was a controversial and the rise of martial arts in Britain. From the early days of famously elusive creative force. bartitsu, through judo and karate to kung fu, Britain has had a At a top-level police meeting called when a youth is shot dead long and illustrious involvement with the martial arts. Gold in a drive-by killing, Herville boasts that his unit is already Contributors include Revolution guitarist Dez Dickerson, medals have been won, Sherlock Holmes's life has been saved investigating a gun-running case and will have arrests within 24 Paisley Park label president Alan Leeds, hip-hop legend Chuck and aftershave has been worn - all thanks to the martial arts. hours. Karlsson visits Riffaut's new hideout and overhears the D and Prince 'Mastermind' and UK soul star Beverley Knight. gang planning a kidnapping. Clement is called to a judicial review with Jorkel and the wife of Jorkel's missing business SUN 23:00 The Swing Thing (b00g3694) partner. Berthaud asks Judge Roban to take on the gun-running SAT 02:50 Baroque! - From St Peter's to St Paul's Documentary telling the story of swing, an obscure form of jazz case. (b00j8bwk) that became the first worldwide pop phenomenon, inspired the [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] first ever youth culture revolution and became a byword for In French with English subtitles. sexual liberation and teenage excess well before the Swinging Sixties.

SAT 22:45 The Joy of the Single (b01nzchs) SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2013 In the process, swing threw up some of the greatest names in Do you remember buying your first single? Where you bought 20th century music, from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington it? What it was? The thrill of playing it for the first time? What SUN 19:00 The Story of British Pathé (b0141mmz) to Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. The film uses archive and it sounded like? How it maybe changed your life? Lots of us do. Entertaining Britain contemporary accounts to shed light on why it endures today. Lots of us still have that single somewhere in a dusty box in the attic, along with other treasured memorabilia of an adolescence While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, lost in music and romance. The attic of our youth. it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which SUN 00:30 ... Sings the Great American Songbook entertained cinemagoers for decades. Initially made to boost the (b00rs3w4) The Joy of the Single is a documentary packed with startling nation's morale after the First World War, entertaining strands Presenting the best and most eclectic performances on the BBC memories, vivid images and penetrating insights into the power such as Pathe Pictorial and Eve's Film Review were designed to from the world's best-known artists performing their of pop and rock's first and most abiding artefact - the seven- appeal to women who were interested in fashion, celebrities and interpretations of classic tracks from The Great American inch, vinyl 45-rpm record, a small, perfectly formed object that movie stars - and offered plenty of handy hints for those Songbook. seems to miraculously contain the hopes, fears, sounds and running the home. In the 1930s, the arrival of synchronised experiences of our different generations - all within the sound increased the popularity of cinemagazines, and the In chronological order, this programme takes us through a spiralling groove etched on its shiny black surface, labelled and company launched Pathetone Weekly - a strand that featured myriad of BBC studio performances, from Dame Shirley gift-wrapped by an industry also in its thrall. what Pathe believed were the 'novel, amusing and strange' Bassey in 1966 performing The Lady is A Tramp, to Bryan dimensions of our national life. Ferry in 1974 on Twiggy's BBC primetime show performing In the confident hands of a star-studded cast, the film spins a Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, to Captain Sensible on Top of the tale of obsession, addiction, dedication and desire. The viewer Pops in 1982 with his number one hit version of Happy Talk, is invited on a journey of celebration from the 1950s rock 'n' SUN 20:00 Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern through to Kirsty MacColl singing Miss Otis Regrets in 1994 to roll generation to the download kids of today, taking in classic (b01qyv6z) Jamie Cullum with his version of I Get a Kick Out Of You on singles from all manner of artists in each decade - from the Alastair Sooke takes us on an exclusive personal tour of the Roy Parkinson in 2004 and bang up to date with Brit winner smell of vinyl to the delights of the record label, from the Lichtenstein Retrospective at Tate Modern. Florence from Florence and the Machine performing My Baby Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 23 February – 1 March 2013 Page 2 of 4 Just Cares for Me with Jools Holland on his Annual Hootenanny MON 21:00 Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2013 at the end of 2009. War (b01qyvbm) Agents of God TUE 19:00 World News Today (b01qypjt) The Great American Songbook can best be described as the The latest national and international news, exploring the day's music and popular songs of the famous and prolific American Henry V has claimed the crown of France for his heirs, but to events from a global perspective. composers of the 1920s and onwards. Composers such as Cole secure it the English must conquer all of France. Potent French Porter, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Rodgers resistance comes in the most unlikely form - an illiterate young and Hammerstein, and Hoagy Carmichael to name but a few... peasant girl, Joan of Arc. Dr Janina Ramirez explores the TUE 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys (b00xxr4n) songwriters who wrote the tunes of Broadway theatre and longest and bloodiest divorce in history. Series 2 Hollywood musicals that earned enduring popularity before the dawning of rock 'n' roll. Batley to Sheffield MON 22:00 Storyville (b01qyvbp) These famous songwriters have penned songs which have I Will Be Murdered Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George entered the general consciousness and which are now best Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. He travels the length described as standards - tunes which every musician and singer Storyville: Documentary which chronicles an extraordinary and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, aspires to include in their repertoire. story of murder, love and political conspiracy triggered when a and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains, as his journey follows video of a murdered Guatemalan lawyer surfaced on Youtube some of the earliest railways in the country from Newcastle to in which he foretold his own death and named the culprits. Melton Mowbray. SUN 01:30 Sounds of the 70s 2 (b01k68gc) Punk - Anarchy on the BBC In May 2009, wealthy, charismatic lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg Michael finds out about shoddy, a successful 19th-century went cycling near his home in Guatemala City and was recycling industry in the textile town of Batley, discovers how The late 70s had parents from all over the UK fearing one murdered. In a country with one of the highest murder rates in the railways boosted Yorkshire's forced rhubarb trade and particular four letter word... punk. With anarchy spreading the world, such killings were not uncommon. But what was meets the great-great-granddaughter of George Bradshaw across the nation, the BBC managed to capture and sometimes extraordinary is that Rosenberg knew for certain that he was himself. contain some of the chaotic energy of these iconic moments in about to be killed. its studios. This episode provides another chance to jump up and down on the couch and pogo to performances from the Rosenberg's lover had been murdered a few weeks before, TUE 20:00 Horizon (b0148vph) Stranglers, the Damned, the Sex Pistols, the Jam, Undertones, driving him to investigate a case which, he told friends, he 2011-2012 the Rezillos, Buzzcocks, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Joy feared would lead to his death. In a video he recorded days Division. before he died, he accused the Guatemalan president of his The Core murder. It became a Youtube sensation, prompting crowds to take to the street demanding the president's resignation. But the For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the SUN 02:00 The Story of British Pathé (b0141mmz) subsequent investigation into Rosenberg's death would take Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] multiple twists and turns, before reaching a stunning revelation. that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant SUN 03:00 Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern MON 23:25 Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the moon. (b01qyv6z) Win at War (b01c301b) [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] Raising Arms Horizon follows scientists who are conducting experiments to recreate this core within their own laboratories, with surprising Military historian Saul David looks at how generals have results. struggled to kit out their armies for battle. MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2013 TUE 21:00 The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music MON 19:00 World News Today (b01qypjn) MON 00:25 Britain on Film (b01nrmwp) (b01qyvd8) The latest national and international news, exploring the day's [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today] Easy Listening? events from a global perspective. The series concludes with the focus shifting to the United States MON 00:55 Art of America (b017755r) in the post-war years of the 1950s and beyond. Beginning with MON 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys (b00xxr3w) Looking for Paradise arguably the most notorious work of 20th century classical Series 2 music, John Cage's 'silent' composition 4'33", it looks at how a In the first episode of a series exploring the history of series of maverick Americans re-invented the sound of classical York to Saltaire American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon embarks on an epic music into a more simple form, bringing back harmonies and journey from east to west, following in the footsteps of the rhythms that made it increasingly popular with audiences across Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George pioneers who built the foundations of modern America. the world. It also examines how this music found its way into a Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. He travels the length spiritual realm, with the strain of pared-down religious and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, During his journey, he travels to Massachusetts to see the composition that came to be known as 'holy minimalism'. and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains, as his journey follows earliest portraits in America depicting the Puritan settlers and some of the earliest railways in the country from Newcastle to visits Pennsylvania to uncover the dark truth behind Benjamin From the Maverick concert hall in Woodstock, New York to an Melton Mowbray. West's most famous painting, the spectacular Treaty of Penn Orthodox cathedral in Estonia to a car park in Peckham, south with the Indians. In Philadelphia, he turns the pages of one of London, the story is told by a stellar line-up of contributors Michael takes a Turkish bath in the famous spa town of the world's most expensive books - John James Audubon's including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Arvo Pärt and Harrogate, explores the exemplary Victorian village of Saltaire, exquisite Birds of America, and explores the wilderness that John Tavener. and rubs noses with some friendly alpacas, whose fleeces made inspired America's greatest landscape painter, Thomas Cole. fortunes in Bradshaw's day. He also uncovers the paradox at the heart of America: that TUE 22:00 Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend in a Coma progress and innovation have come at a tragic price, the (b01r1ctk) MON 20:00 Decisive Weapons (b0077c0f) destruction of the unique cultural heritage of Native Americans With Italy going to the polls on 24th and 25th February, Bill Series 1 by European settlers. Emmott, former editor of The Economist and a man with a special passion for Italy and Italians since his teenage years, The Harrier - Jumping Jet Flash Andrew's journey takes us to the end of the 19th century and asks where has Italy gone wrong and examines the good sides the announcement that the era of westward expansion was about Italy as well as the disasters. Untested in combat and generally derided by the British officially over. military establishment, the Harrier proved itself in the Falklands conflict when just 20 of them took on a 200-strong Argentinian TUE 23:30 Rick Stein's Taste of Italian Opera (b00sm1g0) air force. MON 01:55 John Steinbeck: Voice of America (b017j50x) Chef Rick Stein takes a light-hearted look at the role that food Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine played in the creation of Italian opera and shows how music and the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John food are intrinsically linked in Italy. He draws parallels between MON 20:30 Britain on Film (b01nrmwp) Steinbeck. cooking and composing, noting how both involve the skilful Series 1 combination of ingredients and how they share the common In novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and purpose of bringing pleasure to many. Rick also explains why A Woman's Place Cannery Row, Steinbeck gave voice to ordinary people who he thinks the music of Verdi, Rossini and Puccini are linked to were battling poverty, drought and homelessness. Travelling the the food of the regions where they lived and worked. In 1959 Britain's biggest cinema company, the Rank famous Route 66 from the midwest to the Pacific coast, Melvyn Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of assesses how relevant Steinbeck's work is today. He visits the short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects site of the 1930s dust bowl in Oklahoma; the California TUE 00:30 Bob Servant (b01qsr4g) of life in Britain. For the next ten years, Look at Life orchards where bloody political battles were fought between Independent chronicled - on high-grade 35mm colour film - the changing migrant labourers and growers; and the Monterey coastline face of British society, industry and culture. where Steinbeck developed his ideas on ecology. The Debate

Britain on Film draws upon the 500 films in this unique archive Melvyn makes a case for Steinbeck as one of the great voices of Bob is in trouble and he knows it. A by-election debate, in front to offer illuminating and often surprising insights into what American literature. of a live audience, is his last chance for glory, but he's running became a pivotal decade in modern British history. The opening unusually low on ideas. Can he pull himself together and win episode reveals how Look at Life reflected the radical shifts in over the crowd ahead of election day? the position of women in British society, and shows how the MON 03:00 Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years country adapted to the new demands and expectations of War (b01qyvbm) women at home and in the workplace and at play. [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] TUE 01:00 Art of America (b017j25v) Modern Dreams

Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 23 February – 1 March 2013 Page 3 of 4 In the second part of his fascinating journey exploring It's May and Adam's quest to breathe new life into the serious actor and impressionist to his heyday fronting The American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon gets under the skin of the Sissinghurst estate is gathering pace. The National Trust has White Heather Club. With contributions from Stanley Baxter, modern American metropolis. Starting his journey at the foot of appointed a farmer and there is good news from the vegetable John Cairney, The Alexander Brothers, Sydney Devine and the Statue of Liberty, which he describes as a pioneering early plot as the first delivery of produce is ready for the restaurant. Andy's closest family, the film reveals another side to one of skyscraper, Andrew discovers how the ambitions of visionary But Adam realises he has got to talk to the staff to try to ease Scotland's best-loved icons. artists and architects helped America remove itself from the rising tensions. He discovers he is not the only one to have a shadow of Europe and become the most advanced civilisation sense of belonging at Sissinghurst and begins to realise the on earth. impact the project will have on the staff on the ground. He WED 23:00 Michael Wood on Beowulf (b00kpv23) changes his tune and starts to wonder whether he himself is Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Andrew travels to downtown Manhattan to explore the grimy becoming National Trust-ified. Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary world of early 20th century painters John Sloan and George heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo- Bellows, and visits Stockbridge in Massachusetts to find out Adam and Sarah take their bridge-building efforts a stage Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the how the world of Norman Rockwell is not as sentimental as it further as they lend a hand in the restaurant. Sarah's not sure Dark Ages. first seems. In Chicago, he explores the visionary mind of about being sworn at by Steve the head chef, though. architect Louis Sullivan and travels to the decaying outskirts of Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland the city to see the underside of the American dream. Adam's research for his book takes him a step further in and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, fathoming Vita and Harold's unusual relationship - in which actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings He uncovers the impact the Great Depression had on artists both of them had numerous gay affairs and yet despite it all the story and language of this iconic poem to life. such as Edward Hopper and Arshile Gorky, and finds out how remained devoted to each other. this struggle inspired America's first internationally-acclaimed art movement - Abstract Expressionism. He pays a pilgrimage As mid-June and the glory of high summer arrives, it is time for WED 00:00 Baroque! - From St Peter's to St Paul's to Jackson Pollock's perfectly-preserved studio in Long Island the garden's star attraction to take centre stage: the White (b00j8bwk) to discover the secrets of his unique drip technique, before Garden comes into full bloom. This tiny garden area is now a [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] flying across America to take in one of modern art's most design icon of international significance. Adam's sister Juliet moving experiences, Mark Rothko's chapel in Houston, Texas. reveals that there are now no fewer than 20 such White Gardens in Connecticut alone. WED 01:00 Art of America (b017sryq) What Lies Beneath TUE 02:00 America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine (b017svd6) WED 20:30 Nature's Microworlds (b01qyvnh) In the final part of his United States odyssey, Andrew Graham- Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in Australia's Red Centre Dixon feels the pulse of contemporary America. Beginning in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. Through its most Levittown - the first mass-produced suburb - Andrew uncovers dynamic decades, - the 40s, 50s and 60s - Life caught the spirit In Australia's red centre, Steve Backshall reveals two-metre-tall the dark side of post-war consumerism and the role artists have of America as it blossomed into a world superpower. Read by kangaroos, the world's most venomous snake and a burrowing played in challenging the status quo. over half the country, its influence on American people was toad living among the throng of animals. Parched by the sun, unparalleled. No other magazine in the world held the scorched by fire and prone to unpredictable floods, the heart of He visits New York's Metropolitan Museum to see the most photograph in such high esteem. At Life the pictures, not the this island continent is as inhospitable as it gets. Poor soils make subversive artwork of 1950s America, Jasper Johns's White words, did the talking. As a result, the Life photographer was vegetation tough and indigestible even to Australia's largest Flag. Pop art defined the 1960s and Andy Warhol was its king. herbivore, the red kangaroo. However, it teems with animals greatest artist. Andrew examines Warhol's soup can paintings, found nowhere else on Earth. The key to the success of this meets his former lover Billy Name and interviews one of the In this film, leading UK fashion photographer Rankin extraordinary place is as surprising as the creatures that make it last great surviving pop artists, James Rosenquist. celebrates the work of Life's legendary photographers including home. Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, who went to He travels west down the open road, exploring its art, arriving in outrageous lengths to get the best picture - moving armies, naval Los Angeles, an artificial dream world that has inspired the fleets and even the population of entire towns. He travels across WED 21:00 Johnny Kingdom and the Bears of Alaska graphic style of Ed Ruscha and the city's own unique the USA to meet photographers Bill Eppridge, John Shearer, (b01qyvnk) contribution to 20th century design - Googie architecture. John Loengard, Burk Uzzle and Harry Benson who, between Johnny Kingdom, the wild man of Exmoor, is back and going them, have shot the big moments in American history - from further than he's ever been before - the trip of a lifetime to Back east, Andrew visits the home of one of his favourite 20th the assassination of Robert F Kennedy, the Civil Rights struggle Kodiak Island in Alaska in search of brown bears. century artists, the late Philip Guston, and gets a private view of and Vietnam to behind the scenes at the Playboy mansion and his work. He drops into the studio of Jeff Koons to learn how the greatest names in Hollywood. As a lad, amateur wildlife filmmaker Johnny would poach the enfant terrible of contemporary art continues to challenge salmon from the rivers on Exmoor with his bare hands, but his the boundaries of American taste. Finally, he explores the These photographers pioneered new forms of photojournalism, lifelong ambition has been to see how the real experts - brown impact 9/11 has had on America and how a new generation of living with and photographing their subjects for weeks, enabling bears - do it, as they fish for sockeye salmon in the remote artists, such as Matthew Day Jackson, have made sense of this them to capture compelling yet ordinary aspects of American rivers of Kodiak Island off the southwest coast of Alaska. tragic event. life too. Rankin discovers that Life told the story of America in photographs, and also taught America how to be American. It is also the biggest challenge he has faced as an amateur cameraman. In characteristic style, Johnny finds himself WED 02:00 Nature's Microworlds (b01qyvnh) struggling to keep his camera still without a tripod and because [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today] TUE 03:00 The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music his hands are shaking so much when faced with a 'hooge' bear (b01qyvd8) less than 30 metres away. [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] WED 02:30 Bob Servant (b01qyvnm) The other challenge he faces, which he cannot control, is the [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today] weather. In the summer, although the snow has melted this part of Alaska is plagued by heavy mists and fog, which makes the WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2013 journey by seaplane to the remote areas where the bears live WED 03:00 Johnny Kingdom and the Bears of Alaska even harder to achieve. (b01qyvnk) WED 19:00 World News Today (b01qypjz) [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] The latest national and international news, exploring the day's Fortunately Johnny is able to take advantage of being grounded events from a global perspective. and heads out on a boat into the rich waters around Kodiak Island to film humpback whales, tufted puffins and an enchantingly close encounter with sea otters. THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013 WED 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys (b00xy9vl) Series 2 But it's the bears he's come for and Johnny finally gets the shots THU 19:00 World News Today (b01qypk4) he wanted - bears catching salmon. He can hardly believe it. The latest national and international news, exploring the day's Langley Mill to Melton Mowbray events from a global perspective. This is Johnny Kingdom at his best - infectiously enthusiastic, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George madly exuberant and never less than hugely enjoyable. Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. He travels the length THU 19:30 Top of the Pops (b01qyvrp) and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, 02/03/78 and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains, as his journey follows WED 22:00 Bob Servant (b01qyvnm) some of the earliest railways in the country from Newcastle to Independent Noel Edmonds introduces the weekly pop chart programme Melton Mowbray. featuring performances from Darts, Kate Bush, Nick Lowe, Election Day Andy Williams, Samantha Sang, Rita Coolidge, the Tom Michael learns the secrets of stilton cheese, finds out how trains Robinson Band, Abba and Legs & Co. transformed the traditional British sport of fox hunting and A reinvigorated Bob and Frank embark on a final push for attempts to make an authentic Melton Mowbray pork pie. votes, but a confrontation with Bob's first ever boo boy leaves them on the run from the police. Bob keeps his head held high THU 20:00 Voyager: To the Final Frontier (b01nj48v) as they wait for the election results. Surely he can't win? This is the story of the most extraordinary journey in human WED 20:00 Sissinghurst (b00j6q8d) exploration, the Voyager space mission. In 1977 two unmanned Episode 6 spacecraft were launched by NASA, heading for distant worlds. WED 22:30 ArtWorks Scotland (b01pkjmz) It would be the first time any man-made object would ever visit Documentary series about the attempts of writer Adam Andy Stewart - The Man Behind the Kilt the farthest planets of the solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Nicolson and his wife Sarah Raven to bring farming back into Neptune and Uranus. On the way the Voyagers would be the heart of the estate and garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, Andy Stewart was one of Scotland's most successful bombarded by space dust, fried by radiation and discover many their historic home which is owned by the National Trust and entertainers, at home and abroad. He had hit records all over the of the remarkable wonders of the solar system. was moulded into its present form by Nicolson's grandmother world with songs such as Donald Where's Your Troosers and A Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson back in Scottish Soldier and toured the globe long before it was the rock Now, at the end of 2012, 35 years and 11 billion miles later, the 1930s. and roll thing to do. This ArtWorks Scotland documentary takes they are leaving the area of the sun's influence. As they journey a nostalgic look at his life and work, from his early days as a out into the galaxy beyond they carry a message from Earth, a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 23 February – 1 March 2013 Page 4 of 4 golden record bolted to the side of each craft describing our More pop moments from the BBC's 60s archive, featuring the FRI 02:25 Definitely Dusty (b00780bt) civilisation in case of discovery by another. This is the Who, the Kinks, the Shadows and the Tremeloes. [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today] definitive account of the most intrepid explorers in Earth's history. FRI 20:55 Pop Go the Sixties (b00cvzhf) FRI 03:25 Dusty (b01r1zmr) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 today] THU 21:00 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (b010y7my) The tale of an unlikely friendship between Bruno, the son of a Dusty Springfield Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. From a barbed-wire fence, their friendship grows and their lives her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs become inescapably intertwined. the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny, which had been a hit in the UK for Cher and Georgie Fame. Based on the best-selling book by John Boyne.

FRI 21:00 Dusty Springfield at the BBC (b01qyvw7) THU 22:30 Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years A selection of Dusty Springfield's performances at the BBC War (b01qyvbm) from 1961 to 1995. Dusty was one of Britain's great pop divas, [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] guaranteed to give us a big melody in songs soaring with drama and yearning.

THU 23:30 Britain's Most Fragile Treasure (b0161dgq) The clips show Dusty's versatility as an artist and performer and Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries- include songs from her folk beginnings with The Springfields; old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous Great the melodrama of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me; East Window at York Minster is the largest medieval stained- Dusty's homage to Motown with Heatwave and Nowhere to glass window in the country and the creative vision of a single Run; the Jacques Brel song If You Go Away; the Bacharach and artist, a mysterious master craftsman called John Thornton, one David tune The Look of Love; and Dusty's collaboration with of the earliest named English artists. Pet Shop Boys in the late 1980s.

The Great East Window has been called England's Sistine There are also some great duets from Dusty's career with Tom Chapel. Within its 311 stained-glass panels is the entire history Jones and Mel Torme. of the world, from the first day to the Last Judgment, and yet it was made 100 years before Michelangelo's own masterpiece. The scale of Thornton's achievement is revealed as Dr Ramirez FRI 22:00 Definitely Dusty (b00780bt) follows the work of a highly skilled conservation team at York Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Glaziers Trust. They dismantled the entire window as part of a Dusty Springfield, singer of such classics as You Don't Have to five-year project to repair centuries of damage and restore it to Say You Love Me and Son of a Preacher Man, who was equally its original glory. famous for her trademark panda eyes and blonde beehive.

It is a unique opportunity for Dr Ramirez to examine Using archive footage and interviews shot in the UK and the Thornton's greatest work at close quarters, to discover details US, it charts her progress from plain Catholic schoolgirl to that would normally be impossible to see and to reveal exactly glamorous star and ventures behind the extravagant image to how medieval artists made images of such delicacy and reveal a complex and vulnerable character. complexity using the simplest of tools. Featuring interviews with fellow musicians from a career The Great East Window of York Minster is far more than a spanning four decades, including Elton John, Burt Bacharach, work of artistic genius, it is a window into the medieval world Neil Tennant, Lulu and Martha Reeves. and mind, telling us who we once were and who we still are, all preserved in the most fragile medium of all. Dusty's protective inner circle of friends have never spoken about her on camera before. Pat Rhodes, Dusty's personal secretary for her entire solo career, her manager Vicky THU 00:30 The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music Wickham, ardent fan-turned-backing singer Simon Bell and (b01qyvd8) others talk about the highs and lows of the woman they knew [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] and loved.

THU 01:30 Top of the Pops (b01qyvrp) FRI 23:00 Dusty (b01r1zmr) [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] Vintage episode of Dusty Springfield's 1960s TV series, featuring special guest Scott Walker. Among the highlights, Dusty sings You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. THU 02:00 Rick Stein's Taste of Italian Opera (b00sm1g0) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday] FRI 23:25 Classic Soul at the BBC (b0074pvv) A collection of some of the greatest soul performances from the THU 03:00 The Art of the Night (b018jl9c) BBC's archive, featuring Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Dusty Painting at night is difficult and problematic, so why have so Springfield, Isaac Hayes, Solomon Burke and Percy Sledge. many great artists taken on the challenge? Waldemar Januszczak celebrates the nocturnal art of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Hopper and Magritte as he explores art's edgy FRI 00:25 Steve Winwood: English Soul (b00srj7k) relationship with the night and tries to discover why the dark From childhood prodigy to veteran master, Birmingham-born adds so much extra drama and mystery to art. Steve Winwood's extraordinary career is like a map of the major changes in British rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues from the 1960s to the present. This in-depth profile traces that journey and reveals a master musician blending Ray Charles FRIDAY 01 MARCH 2013 and English hymnody into a unique brand of English soul.

FRI 19:00 World News Today (b01qypk9) From the blues-boom-meets-beat-group chart hits of the The latest national and international news, exploring the day's Spencer Davis Group, through the psychedelic pop of early events from a global perspective. Traffic and into Berkshire as Traffic become the first band to 'get their heads together in a country cottage', then via a brief sojourn in supergroup Blind Faith and back to Traffic as a jam FRI 19:30 Barenboim and Boulez at the Proms (b01qzjdh) band who conquer the emerging American rock scene, A highlight of the BBC Proms 2012 were the five concerts Winwood's first ten years on the boards were extraordinary. given by conductor Daniel Barenboim with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Alongside performances of all Beethoven's As the 80s dawned he reinvented himself as a solo artist and nine symphonies, Barenboim programmed music by another became a major star in the US with hits like Higher Love and great giant of musical modernism, French composer Pierre Back in the High Life. These days he's back in arenas, touring Boulez. This programme brings together the Proms with old friend Eric Clapton. performances of four of these Boulez works, all written in the last quarter of the 20th century - Messagesquisse, Dialogue de Paul Bernay's film blends extensive interviews with Winwood l'ombre double, Mémoriale and Anthèmes. With members of in his Gloucestershire home and film of Winwood's first return the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel to that Berkshire cottage since 1969 with rare archive footage Barenboim, and introduced by Tom Service. and contributing interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul Rodgers, Paul Jones, Paul Weller, Muff Winwood, Dave Mason and more. FRI 20:40 Pop Go the Sixties (b00rgd4h) Series 1 FRI 01:25 Dusty Springfield at the BBC (b01qyvw7) The Kinks, the Shadows, the Tremeloes, the Who [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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