BBC 4 Listings for 24 February – 2 March 2018 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2018 The Queens of Soul presents the critically acclaimed and Ralph McTell, Robert Plant, Donovan, members of Pentangle, influential female singers who, decade by decade, changed the Bernard Butler, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, Lisa Knapp SAT 19:00 The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World (b01lsz4m) world one note at a time. and more pay tribute to Jansch, who died in 2011. Amazon Flooded Forests Robert Plant shows his vocal prowess with a powerful rendition Natural history series revealing a totally new perspective on SAT 01:40 Later... Folk America (b00h6xmd) of Go Your Way My Love, joined by Jansch collaborator wildlife at night. Now the expedition travels south to a flooded Compilation of performances by artists from the American Bernard Butler. Martin Simpson and Danny Thompson surprise forest in the heart of the Amazon. Large mammal expert folk, blues, bluegrass and country scenes that revisits the spirit with a version of Heartbreak Hotel, a track covered by Jansch. Bryson Voirin encounters a curious sloth whilst camerawoman of the 1920s and beyond with a distinctly Southern flavour. Ralph McTell tackles the seminal Angie and Lisa Knapp and Sophie Darlington spends stormy nights precariously perched Martin Carthy combine for Blackwaterside - Jansch's high in the jungle canopy, attempting to film the only nocturnal Including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Carolina Chocolate arrangement of which heavily influenced Led Zep's Black monkey in the world. Further south, Gordon Buchanan heads to Drops, Blind Boys of Alabama, Norah Jones, Odetta, Old Crow Mountain Side. the largest wetland on earth in search of giant anteaters and Medicine Show, Chatham County Line, Johnny Cash, Emmylou enters a strange deserted house that's been taken over by Harris and Buddy Guy and many more. An effortlessly cool singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, vampire bats. And Dr George McGavin abseils deep into the Bert Jansch came to prominence in the folk clubs of the perpetual darkness of a giant cave system - cut off from the mid-1960s: the concert's stage set recalls the legendary Les light for millions of years. Deep inside, he and the team SAT 02:40 From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Cousins club in London's Soho, where he was a resident artist, discover species new to science. Temperature (b09sc7yj) and the Royal Festival Hall itself was the venue for Pentangle's Series 1 first and final major gigs. Jansch galvanized a whole scene, through his solo work, as a duo with John Renbourn and with SAT 20:00 Winter Olympics Extra (b09t9pk8) A Temperature for Life his folk-jazz supergroup Pentangle. Neil Young called him the Pyeongchang 2018 Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin and Paul Physicist Dr Helen Czerski explores the narrow band of Simon were weaned on him and younger generation musicians 24/02/2018 temperature that has led to life on Earth. She reveals how life including Beth Orton and Johnny Marr beat a path to his door. began in a dramatic place where hot meets cold, and how every Bert Jansch's influence reached far and wide. On the penultimate day of competition in South Korea, there's single living creature on Earth depends on temperature for its action from the gruelling 50km race in the cross-country skiing, survival. She uncovers the extraordinary natural engineering as well as a new event at the Olympics, the mass start speed that animals have evolved to keep their bodies at the right SUN 01:55 The Enigma of Nic Jones - Return of Britain's skating. temperature. And she witnesses the remarkable surgery that's Lost Folk Hero (b03bsrrb) using temperature to push the human body to the very brink of Nic Jones is a legend of British folk music. His 1980 record life. Penguin Eggs is regarded as a classic. In a poll by The Observer SAT 21:00 Modus (b09ply6r) a few years ago, Penguin Eggs was rated number 79 of the 100 Series 2 Best Records of All Time, just above Station to Station by David Bowie and just below Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones Episode 5 SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2018 - amazing for an LP that never actually charted. His iconic song Canadee-i-o has even been covered by Bob Dylan. Swedish police search for a mole within their own ranks, while SUN 19:00 Only Connect (b09swftq) Inger Johanne leaves Ingvar behind and goes looking for the US Series 13 Many believe that Nic was destined for international stardom; president on her own. Meanwhile, Ingvar pays Warren a visit his funky, rhythmical and percussive guitar style and smooth and some theories start to emerge about who might be behind Detectives v Escapologists singing meant that his music crossed musical barriers. the president's disappearance. Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will In 1982, Nic Jones was at the peak of his career, but driving In English and Swedish with English subtitles. only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital. home from a gig one night a near-fatal car crash changed his life forever. Almost every bone in his body was broken and This round-three game sees the return of the Detectives and the neurological damage meant that he would never play his guitar SAT 21:45 Modus (b09ply6t) Escapologists. They compete to find the connections between in front of an audience again. Apart from a couple of tribute Series 2 things which, at first glance, seem utterly random. So join concerts, Nic Jones disappeared from the public eye for thirty Victoria if you want to know what connects Cornetto, Red years. Then in the summer of 2012, encouraged by friends and Episode 6 Curtain, Mariachi and Three Colours. family, Nic returned to the stage to play several festival performances accompanied by his guitarist son, Joe Jones and Inger Johanne wants to get help to the captive president but is keyboard player Belinda O'Hooley. The concerts were a surprised to discover the president doesn't trust anyone in her SUN 19:30 University Challenge (b09swfts) resounding success and for his old and new fans, a moving own ranks. Meanwhile, there are rifts within the FBI as 2017/18 comeback for their musical hero. conflicting stories emerge about who might be behind the kidnapping. Ingvar pays a visit to someone who will turn out to Episode 28 The film is the emotional story of Nic's return but also be a key figure in the investigation and to have links to Helen demonstrates why he is so revered, not just in folk circles but Tyler's past. The quarter-final stage continues as teams representing two across all music genres. Nic has inspired a whole generation of more universities fight it out to reach the next stage of the younger artists including BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners In English and Swedish with English subtitles. competition. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions. Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy, Sam Carter and Blair Dunlop. They all appear in the film, as does American singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell. Folk legends Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, SAT 22:30 Top of the Pops (b09szqds) SUN 20:00 Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Chris Wood and ex-Fairport Convention founder Ashley Mike Read and Gary Davies present the pop chart programme, (b08tb6d4) Hutchings are also featured. first broadcast on 25 April 1985. Documentary telling the extraordinary story of the international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. This uplifting film follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, SUN 02:55 Art of France (b08cgjv7) SAT 23:05 Top of the Pops (b09sw7zx) vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as Series 1 John Peel and Janice Long present the pop chart programme, they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape first broadcast on 9 May 1985. cultural evolution and inspire hope. Plus Ça Change Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa and Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series SAT 23:40 Annie Nightingale: Bird on the Wireless Europe, the Silk Road Ensemble is an international collective with the dramatic story of French art, a story of the most (b011mb8d) drawn from an ever-changing line-up of more than 50 powerful kings ever to rule in Europe with their glittering It's over 40 years since Annie Nightingale's very first show on performers. Blending performance footage, personal interviews palaces and astounding art to go in them. He also reveals how Radio 1 - she was the station's first female DJ and is its longest- and archival film, the film focuses on the journeys of a small art emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, serving broadcaster. A lifelong champion of new music, first group of Silk Road Ensemble mainstays to create a vivid between rulers and a people who didn't always want to be ruled. with punk, then new wave, acid house and dubstep, Annie is portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for still at the cutting edge in her current incarnation as the 'Queen the ties that bind. Starting with the first great revolution in art, the invention of of the Breaks'. Gothic architecture, he traces its development up until the arrival of classicism and the Age of Enlightenment - and the In this film Annie takes us on a counter-cultural journey SUN 21:30 Clouds of Sils Maria (b060l93c) very eve of the revolution.