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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, Jazz 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 Brecon Jazz Festival, 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 Open University 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 Yorkshire 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, Barry Cryer, 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 the Lowry 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 Jeremy Hardy 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 Louis Armstrong, 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, friends 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.