sign in sign up
<<
Home , Bret Gives Up the Dream, Fossil Detectives, Humphrey Lyttelton, Night of the Proms

BBC 4 Listings for 13 – 19 September 2008 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008 SAT 00:05 Humph's Last Stand (b00ddwd0) equivalents - punch first and ask questions later, drive fast, trumpeter and raconteur Humphrey Lyttelton in a drink hard and be the biggest, hardest gang on the block. SAT 19:00 Fossil Detectives (b00dd7mv) performance at the 2007 HSBC , which North England turned out to be his last ever television recording. With an all With lead characters Regan and Carter looking and talking just star line-up including guest saxophonist Scott Hamilton, it is a like the villains, the series was unrelentingly macho, with Series in which associate lecturer Hermione set full of sheer wit and superb music. explicit violence, ripe language and a studiedly old-fashioned Cockburn leads a team of fossil experts and geologists around attitude towards women. However, it was massively different regions of Britain to search for its best fossil treasures entertaining, consciously funny and managed to attract a large and mysteries. SAT 00:55 Timeshift (b0080t62) number of children among its viewers. Series 7 The team get a rare view of a new fossil discovery on the North Interviewees include creator Ian Kennedy Martin , producer East coast. Hermione abseils the cliffs of to find Gagging For It - TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy Ted Childs and actors Stephanie Turner and Garfield Morgan. evidence of the ancient monsters that once lived there. John Lennon's link to fossils is investigated, and the truth behind the Since its earliest days, television has looked to radio comedy for Victorians' favourite fossil in Whitby is revealed. the 'next big thing'. Radio hits from Hancock's Half-Hour to SUN 00:45 Timeshift (b00djlz9) Little Britain have become TV classics. But other long-running [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] Fossil Detectives would like to thank: radio favourites have died a death on the screen. So what makes for a sure-fire transfer? Time Shift investigates, with the help Dr Wendy Simkiss of favourite clips from the archive and insights offered by Jon SUN 01:45 The Real Life on Mars (b00czhhw) World Museum Liverpool Culshaw, Clive Anderson, , Marcus Brigstocke, and Documentary which looks at the world of policing before the Board of Trustees, National Museums Liverpool Mitchell and Webb. 1980s and asks whether 'old-style policing' was as bad as that Dr Joe Crossley portrayed on TV in Life on Mars or whether it might have Dr Hilary Davies actually been more effective than the political correctness and Christ Church, Higher Bebington SAT 01:55 Fossil Detectives (b00dd7mv) forensic paraphernalia of today. Includes interviews with ex- [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] cops, criminals, academics and writers. John Lennon photographs courtesy of Harry Goodwin John Lennon statue courtesy of Tom Murphy SAT 02:25 Legends (b00ddwcy) SUN 02:45 Call the Cops (b00czj91) Executive Producer for The Open University: Mark Jacobs [Repeat of broadcast at 23:05 today] Episode 1 Academic Consultant for The Open University: Dr Peter Sheldon Documentary which takes a forensic look at the history of the Learning Consultant for The Open University: Dr Janet Sumner SAT 03:25 Humph's Last Stand (b00ddwd0) police procedural on British TV and investigates what it was Production Co-ordinator: Anne Bamber [Repeat of broadcast at 00:05 today] about the police, society and television that saw the archetypal Production Manager: Sue Loder policeman change from the avuncular Dixon of Dock Green to Colourist: Tim Bolt the maverick thief-taker of The Sweeney to the scientific Post Production Sound: Ken Barton, Neil Hipkiss & Pete methodologists of Cracker, Silent Witness and Waking the Howell SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2008 Dead. Online: Fred Tay Sound Recordist: Andy Hawley SUN 19:00 21st Century Bach (b007wwd7) By interviewing writers, directors, producers and former Graphics: Jelly Television Series 3 officers, the film combs the land between police reality and Composer: David Lowe police television. Brian Paddick states that the level of violence Aerial Photography: Flying TV BWV 544 used in The Sweeney would have been justified by the law at Photography: Toby Strong the time under 'reasonable force', while Jane Tennison's real- Editing: Judith Robson A unique and innovative interpretation of J.S. Bach's organ life model Jackie Malton explains that collaborating in the Executive Producer: Fiona Pitcher works played by York Minster organist John Scott Whiteley on creation of Prime Suspect made her feel she had betrayed the Assistant Producers: Amanda Kear & Gavin Boyland Bach's original organs in Germany. police. Tony Garnett reveals that the help he got from the Series Producer: Kerensa Jennings. Police Service in setting up The Cops disappeared when they saw how the police were portrayed in the programmes, and SUN 19:15 The Candidate (b00djlz7) Nigel McCrery tells how the police lost a simple and effective SAT 19:30 BBC Proms (b00djlql) Political drama about a young, liberal lawyer who agrees to run interrogation technique because criminals saw it used so often 2008 for the Senate on condition that his campaign is completely on screen in the police drama. honest and transparent. Last Night of the Proms - Swansea Proms in the Park As he is an outside candidate, his manager apparently goes SUN 03:45 Call the Cops (b00d635t) Singleton Park becomes the Bay of Naples for a night as the along with this refreshingly unusual approach, but gradually [Repeat of broadcast at 00:15 today] sixth BBC Proms in the Park from Swansea celebrates an anxiety to win the power that will let him make a difference evening of Italian music and Neopolitan song. The traditional leads the candidate to make a fatal compromise. Won the Oscar Last Night celebrations feature soprano Rebecca Evans and for Best Screenplay. tenor Alfie Boe, the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2008 Wales with conductor David Charles Abell. Presented by Gethin Jones and Elin Manahan Thomas. SUN 21:00 Timeshift (b00djlz9) MON 19:00 World News Today (b00djm6l) Series 8 The latest news from around the world.

SAT 22:35 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (b00dmpd2) How to Be a Good President Filmed in April 2008, just three weeks before his death, MON 19:30 California: The Man in the Mansion Humphrey Lyttelton chairs his final I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue In a whistlestop tour through the history of the US presidency, (b0074t8m) at Centre's Lyric Theatre in Salford. journalist and author Jonathan Freedland asks what qualities PJ O'Rourke considers the unique role of the California make a great president and what we can learn from the likes of governor, a position held by colourful characters from Arnold This touring show features many of Humph's best lines from Theodore Roosevelt, JFK or even Richard Nixon about what it Schwarzenegger to Ronald Reagan, and reflects on a the Radio 4 series, and is the only complete filmed version of takes to make a mark in the White House. trendsetting, democratic state that has been home to hippies, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue in existence. The cast is the regular urban rioting and all manner of alternative thinking. line up of Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor Freedland is helped by distinguished contributors, including and pianist Colin Sell, with as the guest panellist. James Naughtie, Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd, Simon Hoggart and Bonnie Greer, who give frank assessments of some MON 20:30 Only Connect (b00djm6n) of America's greatest presidents. Series 1 SAT 23:05 Legends (b00ddwcy) Humphrey Lyttelton Episode 1 SUN 22:00 Primary Colors (b00749zc) A profile of the late jazz musician, band leader and broadcaster Satire on American politics, based on the bestselling anonymous Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge Humphrey Lyttelton's 60-year career. insider novel following an idealistic first-time aide as he will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are manages the election campaign of a presidential candidate. Will also vital. It is all about making connections between things As a jazzman, 'Humph' composed and performed Bad Penny the campaign team dig the dirt, or preserve some notion of which may appear, at first glance, not to be connected at all. Blues - the first jazz recording to enter the charts - and was personal integrity? feted by no less a figure than , who described him as Britain's top trumpeter. MON 21:00 President Hollywood (b00djm6q) SUN 00:15 Call the Cops (b00d635t) Jonathan Freedland reveals how 2008's dramatic race for the For more than 40 years, he hosted some of the BBC's most The Sweeney White House was run before on 'The West Wing'. The TV successful radio shows, including Radio Two's Best of Jazz and series held an election between a charismatic, non-white the hugely popular antidote to panel game shows, Radio 4's I'm A look at groundbreaking 1970s police drama The Sweeney, Democrat called Matt Santos and an appealing, experienced Sorry I Haven't a Clue, in which Humph propelled the art of the created when writer Ian Kennedy Martin realised that the real Republican Arnold Vinick; two candidates remarkably similar double entendre to new heights. police were not behaving quite like their TV counterparts on Z to Barack Obama and John McCain. Cars and wanted a more accurate portrayal of the new breed of His family, and colleagues pay tribute to this coppers. Freedland argues that the relationship between on-screen art enormously popular entertainer in a documentary featuring and political life is nothing new. Both Hollywood and some unseen home movie footage, archive films of his finest Interviews with the cast and crew reveal that The Sweeney's Washington have been exerting their power and influence over performances, and interviews with regular guest panellists fictional version of the Flying Squad was only slightly the image of the presidency for nearly a century. Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Jeremy exaggerated. After its launch, despite the show getting no direct Hardy, and Sandi Toksvig, as well as Humph's son help from Slipper of the Yard, the Met's serious crime boys This programme was originally broadcast in September 2008, Stephen. very quickly adopted the extra trappings of their screen before the US election. Supported by .co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 13 – 19 September 2008 Page 2 of 3 MON 22:00 Dinner with Portillo (b00djm6s) Silk Road, from frozen Siberian wastes to baking deserts of [Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today] American Election Special 2008 central Asia, life in northern China is always on the edge.

In New York, Michael Portillo and seven guests explore the enduring conflict between America's liberal Hollywood dream TUE 21:00 That Mitchell and Webb Look (b0074fxt) WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2008 factory and its conservative heartland values. Series 1 WED 19:00 World News Today (b00djmjm) In the absence of a successful Democrat for the last decade, Episode 2 The latest news from around the world. Hollywood invented virtual liberal Presidents, as in The West Wing and Air Force One. Over dinner, the guests discuss the Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. impact on the voting public and politicians, why Hollywood is Includes an evil henchman's plea for clearer wording in death WED 19:30 Pop Go the Sixties (b00cyyqt) such a haven for liberal values and how the relationship threats, a clip from new daytime TV show Coverage of People Series 2 between Hollywood glamour and gritty politics is playing out in Buying a House and then Living in it, and a man who can move the current presidential race. biscuits with his mind. The snooker commentators are back, Sandie Shaw and they've rather taken a shine to one of the younger players. Guests include Primary Colours author, Joe Klein. With Olivia Colman, James Bachman, Paterson Joseph and Pop moments from the BBC's 60s archive. From a rehearsal for Abigail Burdess. a Top of the Pops performance, Sandie gives an accidentally aloof ice-queen rendering of Long Live Love so the cameras MON 22:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (b00dmpd2) can practice their positions. An otherworldly performance of [Repeat of broadcast at 22:35 on Saturday] TUE 21:30 (b0080w4j) her number 1 hit from 1965. Series 1

MON 23:00 Sleepers (b00dmfkj) Bret Gives Up The Dream WED 19:35 Batman (b00dm42l) Welcome Home Series 2 Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as try to make it big in Post-glasnost comedy thriller by John Flanagan and Andrew their adopted home of New York. Murray tells the boys to get a The Duo Defy McCulloch. In the Scottish Highlands, Jeremy and Albert job because the band has no money. But when Bret's sign- prepare to escape, while in Eccles, private investigator Bob holding career gets in the way of the band, Murray fires him. 60s fantasy adventure series. The crime-fighting duo avoid Riley discovers Albert is not all he seems. Jemaine has to continue with a tape recorder. Features the songs vaporisation and follow the signal of Isolde to the hideout of Mr Inner City Pressure and She's So Hot ...Boom!. Freeze.

MON 23:55 More Dawn French's Boys Who Do: Comedy (b008d37l) TUE 22:00 Only Connect (b00djm6n) WED 20:00 (b00936vz) Rob Brydon [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 on Monday] Armoured Giants

Dawn French interviews Rob Brydon about his life in comedy. meets the reptile heavyweights - the TUE 22:30 Saki: Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? (b0079spj) tortoises, turtles and crocodiles, showing what it's like to live Drama adapted from works by Edwardian short story writer within a suit of armour, and revealing a dynamic, warm and MON 00:25 Only Connect (b00djm6n) Saki. On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, oppressive caring side to these ancient giants. [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today] aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Inspired by the meeting, he imagines a tale of repressed children who find solace in their Mating giant tortoises fit together like spoons, green turtles childish wonder, and are saved by their imagination. This passionately mate in tropical seas, a mother spectacled caiman MON 00:55 President Hollywood (b00djm6q) innovative drama mixes live action and animation and is both a rescues a huge creche of babies and sophisticated saltwater [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] dark social satire of Edwardian attitudes to children and a crocodiles ambush fish just like bears catching salmon. fairytale for grown-ups.

MON 01:55 Dinner with Portillo (b00djm6s) WED 21:00 Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today] TUE 23:30 Mr Loveday's Little Outing (b0074sj7) (b00djmrs) Satirical drama by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Sam Hobkinson. Bloody Beginnings Visiting her father Lord Moping in the county asylum, Angela MON 02:25 California: The Man in the Mansion meets a fellow inmate who appears far too sane to be locked up Documentary series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous (b0074t8m) in an institution. She manages to get him released, but he history of surgery looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] returns two hours later, having achieved a terrible ambition. and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itself from butchery into a science.

MON 03:25 President Hollywood (b00djm6q) TUE 00:00 Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Presenter Michael Mosley finds out how the early days of [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] Albert Kahn (b007hg9t) surgery were dark and barbaric, when the surgeon's knife was Original Series more likely to kill you than save you, and invasive medicine generally meant being bloodlet by leeches to within an inch of The Civilians' Story your life. TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2008 Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive TUE 19:00 World News Today (b00djmcz) of the Planet. WED 22:00 L'enfant (b00djmjp) The latest news from around the world. An irresponsible petty crook sees his girlfriend's baby as a For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of money-making opportunity, but when she is horrified to photographers with the world's first colour camera system and discover he has sold her child, he goes on a desperate chase to TUE 19:30 Pop Go the Sixties (b00cw0pf) dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 retrieve it. Series 2 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century. WED 23:30 Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery Throughout the Great War, Kahn's photographers travelled (b00djmrs) A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum was one of the 1960s' throughout France, documenting the impact of the conflict on [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] most popular and most-played songs. It's performed here by the non-combatants in the towns and villages. group who first recorded it, on Top of the Pops in 1967. WED 00:30 Medical Mavericks (b0074tgf) TUE 01:00 Only Connect (b00djm6n) Series 1 TUE 19:35 Batman (b00dm3yx) [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 on Monday] Series 2 Beating Infection

Ice Spy TUE 01:30 Saki: Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? (b0079spj) Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 today] doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by 60s fantasy adventure series following the adventures of the experimenting on themselves. He looks at how doctors came to Caped Crusader. Mr Freeze kidnaps Professor Isaccson, hoping understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting to obtain an instant ice formula. Batman discovers the TUE 02:30 Mr Loveday's Little Outing (b0074sj7) themselves with conditions like syphilis, yellow fever and connection between Freeze and ice skating star Glacia Glaze. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 today] cholera. The Dynamic Duo get shoved into a Sub Zero Temperature Vaporizing Cabinet, shortly to become part of the Bruce Wayne 18th century surgeon John Hunter is thought to have stabbed Ice Arena. TUE 03:00 Only Connect (b00dm42j) himself in the groin with the pus of a syphilis patient to prove Series 1 his theory that syphilis and gonorrhoea were different stages of the same disease. Dr Jesse Lazear demonstrated that mosquitoes TUE 20:00 (b00bz1cf) Episode 1 spread yellow fever by allowing himself to be bitten by Beyond the Great Wall mosquitoes that had been feeding on dying yellow fever Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge patients. A look at the dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes. also vital. It is all about making connections between things The programme brings us up to the present day with Dr Barry which may appear, at first glance, not to be connected at all. Marshall who proved through a course of painful self- The extreme landscapes north of the Great Wall have shaped experiments that a bacteria, not stress, causes ulcers as was some of China's most colourful people and wildlife. From commonly thought. Presenter Michael Mosley carries out his nomadic tribes hunting with eagles to camel trains crossing the TUE 03:30 Flight of the Conchords (b0080w4j) own self-experiment by allowing himself to be bitten by Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 13 – 19 September 2008 Page 3 of 3 hundreds of mosquitoes at the School of Tropical THU 22:00 Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery development of the group from 1972 up to the present day, as Medicine to find out which areas of the body, the disease (b00djmrs) we discover how they influenced a generation of musicians such carrying insects are most attracted to. [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Duran Duran and U2 and why they are still a musical force to be reckoned with today.

WED 01:30 Doctors to Be: 20 Years On (b008d3vv) THU 23:00 BBC Four Sessions (b0074qmq) Featuring interviews with band members , Brian The Agony Aunt's Tale P J Harvey Eno, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Paul Thomson, Eddie Jobson and Gary Tibbs, plus fans including Bono, Siouxsie Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just Series of unique concerts featuring musicians from around the Sioux, of Chic, John Taylor of Duran Duran and starting out on their careers. Over the past two decades Jane world. P J Harvey brings some real rock and roll to the intimate Alison Goldfrapp. Gilbert has learned a lot, but also paid a heavy price. The hours venue of LSO St Luke's in London, following the release of her required to make it to the top of hospital medicine were too solo album Uh Huh Her. She performs a set that includes hits much, and she chose general practice, where she hoped to such as Big Exit, Dress, The Letter and Shame. FRI 21:55 : Frejus (b00djn0v) combine demanding work with raising a family. But when she Roxy Music in concert at Frejus in France in 1982 in front of had her own children, she stopped practising medicine. Now an audience of 15,000, featuring some of their greatest hits she has created a new career for herself in the most surprising THU 00:00 BBC Four Sessions (b0074qtx) including Dance Away, Avalon, Love is the Drug and Jealous of settings. Damien Rice Guy. Other songs featured include The Main Thing, Both Ends Burning, Can't Let Go, Like a Hurricane and Editions of You. Series of unique concerts featuring musicians from around the WED 02:00 Doctors to Be: 20 Years On (b008ftj7) world. In an exclusive specially-staged performance at St Luke's The Anaesthetist's Tale church in east London, Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice and FRI 22:45 Life on Mars (b0074sg5) his band bewitch the audience with songs from his platinum- Series 1 Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just selling album O. starting out on their careers. Dr Sarah Martindale spent three Episode 7 years gaining extra skills in Australia, but having returned to Britain in the expectation of a consultant's job, finds herself the THU 01:00 Fossil Detectives (b00djmrx) Drama series about a Manchester detective who suffers a near- victim of the NHS's cash problem. Sarah and her family want to [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] fatal car crash and wakes up in what seems to be 1973. settle down for good, and disillusionment is setting in. Should she stay here in the hope that a permanent job will eventually be The death in custody of drug dealer Billy Kemble pits Sam advertised, or take the offers to return to Australia? THU 01:30 Journeys from the Centre of the against CID as he tries to uncover the truth. Sam demands a (b0074qpm) transparent investigation into Billy's death to encourage public Water trust in the police. When the evidence of what happened to WED 02:30 Medical Mavericks (b0074tgf) Billy falls into his hands, Sam has a huge decision to make, [Repeat of broadcast at 00:30 today] Dr Iain Stewart takes us on a tour of the Mediterranean to tell which could either tear the team apart or find him an the story of man's 10,000-year battle with water. opportunity to get home.

Because water is so crucial to us, the really successful ancient THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2008 civilisations were the ones which learned how best to exploit it. FRI 23:45 The Avengers (b00dm48s) But whether they controlled the water or the water controlled Series 4 THU 19:00 World News Today (b00djmrv) them was all down to the rocks beneath their feet. The latest news from around the world. Two's a Crowd From the catastrophic flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds at the Black Sea to the fall of the Roman A top enemy agent's operatives recruit a doppleganger for THU 19:30 Fossil Detectives (b00djmrx) Empire, water played a crucial role. Stewart reveals how, even Steed. South West England today, we ignore the power of water at our peril. His whistle- stop tour takes in many popular and seemingly familiar tourist Series in which Open University associate lecturer Hermione destinations in Greece, Spain and Turkey, but he provides a FRI 00:35 The Roxy Music Story (b00djn0s) Cockburn leads a team of fossil experts and geologists around unique geologist's insight which cannot be found in the guide [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] different regions of Britain to search for its fossil treasures and books. mysteries. FRI 01:25 Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (b00djn4n) In the south-west of England, the team see Britain's best- THU 02:30 Fossil Detectives (b00djmrx) 1983 conversation in which Robin Denselow talks to Bryan preserved dinosaur, complete with crocodile teeth in its mouth [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] Ferry about the success of Roxy Music over the previous ten and fossilised vomit in its throat, and discover why the years and what the future might hold. Includes a preview of a Coast is one of the most dynamic shorelines in the world. concert recorded before 15,000 people in Frejus, France. THU 03:00 Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery They meet a relative of the dinosaurs which is alive and well (b00djmrs) today and, at Lulworth Cove, former Blur bassist Alex James [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] FRI 02:00 The Harp (b009phyy) explains his childhood love of fossils. [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]

THU 20:00 Timeshift (b0084l02) FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2008 FRI 03:00 The Roxy Music Story (b00djn0s) Series 7 [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] FRI 19:00 World News Today (b00djn0q) Archaelogy - Digging the Past The latest news from around the world.

An exploration of the way archaeology has been presented on television over the past 50 years, from panel show Animal, FRI 19:30 The Harp (b009phyy) Vegetable, Mineral?, which made celebrities out of its host Harpist Catrin Finch takes a musical journey to discover the Professor Glyn Daniel and resident character Sir Mortimer ancient and fascinating history of the harp in Wales and the Wheeler, to Channel 4's contemporary Time Team. With world, with interviews and performances from internationally- contributions from archaeologists and broadcasters including renowned guests including Alan Stivell, Carlos Orosco, Alemu Professor Barry Cunliffe, Tony Robinson and David Aga, Isabelle Perrin and Elinor Bennett. Attenborough.

FRI 20:30 Cambridge Folk Festival (b00d6mqt) THU 21:00 Casualty 1907 (b009s6rx) 2008 Episode 2 Martha Wainwright Featuring Devon Sproule Historical Drama set in 1907 at the Royal London Hospital, based on the diaries of the Ethel Bennett. This episode takes Mark Radcliffe presents coverage of the Cambridge Folk place over a single night when all the lead characters are forced Festival, featuring the top artists from the world of folk, roots to confront their doubts and fears. and acoustic music, either live in concert from the main stage or in exclusive backstage performances. Probationer Ethel Bennett nurses injured docker Thomas Hooley, whose leg wounds are not healing. She clashes with Martha Wainwright's performance of Comin' Tonight from the ward sister Ada Russell, who is overwhelmed by the strain of main stage at the festival is followed by three further running the ward, and her true feelings for fiance Dr Walton. performances from her set, interwoven with interview and an impromptu acoustic session by the festival's famous duck pond. Leader of the Blind Beggar Gang, Nobby Clark, is hospitalised with cirrhosis of the liver, aged 15. Children are dying from an Guitarist and songwriter Devon Sproule combines Appalachian, epidemic of diarrhoea and vomiting sweeping through the folk and jazz influences and this introduction to her includes an slums. exclusive performance of Plea For A Good Night's rest in the festival's intimate surroundings. Chairman Sydney Holland calls an emergency meeting when the hospital runs out of funds and faces closure. Lord Rothschild arrives with news that plans for a Jewish hospital are FRI 21:00 The Roxy Music Story (b00djn0s) going ahead, denying the Royal London vital funding. Profile of the 1970s glam band Roxy Music, who reformed after 25 years to make a new album. The film traces the musical Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)