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BBC 4 Listings for 2 – 8 November 2019 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2019 featuring Bros, The Commodores, The Proclaimers, The strenuously reject any attempt to remove him. The issue Pasadenas, Coldcut ft Junior Reid, Salt-N-Pepa, Jason remains unresolved to date. SAT 19:00 Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution Donovan, The Hollies, Phil Collins and Inner City. (b06yrgvr) As with all Jonathan Meades's television essays, Franco Madagascar: A World Apart Building turns conventional wisdom on its head, providing new SAT 01:20 Get Rich or Try Dying: Music's Mega Legacies insights into Spanish history, architecture and landscape. Professor Richard Fortey travels to the rainforests of (m0009tqh) Madagascar - an ancient island that has spawned some of the Both Bob Dylan and Nick Cave have testified in song that death most extraordinary groups of plants and animals anywhere in is not the end. But, not all stories from the musical afterlife are the world. From beautiful Indri lemurs, toxic frogs, and the cat- created equal. Death may have its obvious downside. However, SUNDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2019 like giant mongoose called the fossa, to evolutionary oddities in the world of pop, shuffling off your mortal coil could be a like the giraffe-necked weevil and the otherworldly aye-aye, he unique business opportunity. SUN 19:00 For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing and Me uncovers the secrets of the evolutionary niche - examining how, (m0003vhz) given millions of years, animals and plants can adapt to fill In this documentary, Scissor Sisters star Ana Matronic goes on a What’s the best way to save the ageing breed of male Morris almost any opportunity they find. journey into the afterlife of pop. Think of her as music’s pearly dancer from extinction? Richard Macer infiltrates the gatekeeper of making it big in the ever after. But here’s the rub: endangered world of bells, beer and beards to discover an this isn’t about the music; no, this is about the many other ways unlikely saviour of this ancient masculine tradition in the form SAT 20:00 Wild China (b00c5n6g) dead pop stars earn a living when they’re gone. So join her as of women. Land of the Panda she books in with the agents, publicists, producers and families to discover the dos and don’ts of keeping the dream alive. The Morris Ring, the oldest Morris organisation in the country, China's heartland is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization has voted to admit women dancers for the first time with the and is home to the giant panda, the golden snub-nosed monkey Using a combination of interview, archive and investigation, hope that its member sides - as the teams are called - might and the golden takin. China faces environmental problems, but Get Rich or Try Dying peels back the complicated mechanics stem the tide of declining numbers. But there are hardliners the relationship the Chinese have with their environment is of the pop music industry, showing how it really works and who who believe females will dilute the very essence of what makes deep and extraordinary. We will understand what this means for ultimately profits from it. Once the mansions, yachts, luxury men’s Morris great. So, is Morris better when danced just by the future of China. cars, private jets and entourages are dispensed with, death men or are women and mixed sides just as good? ushers in a new cast of characters, not all of whom were party to creating the wealth in the first place, but all of them are During this journey, Macer is invited to join his local side the SAT 21:00 Spiral (m000b1fw) interested in profiting from it. Manchester Morris Men, where the average age is over 70. Series 7 Macer might represent an injection of youth to this team but The documentary reveals how Elvis was the architect of the does he have the talent to perform at one of the biggest festivals Episode 7 entire legacy industry and how his lawyers, working on behalf in the Morris Ring calendar? of his family, changed American law to permit the surviving Following the debacle resulting in Fouad's death, the team is family members to benefit from his rights of publicity. It shows What emerges during a long hot summer of folk dance is a taken off the investigation. Laure is increasingly concerned Prince’s story to be a cautionary tale for those without a will, bitter conflict as one of Britain’s most enduring traditions tries about Lebrion's interference, while Josephine realises she also and ponders how Bob Marley has retained his dignity despite to reconcile itself to the modern world of gender equality. It has reasons not to trust Edelman. attaching his name to everything from bath salts to electric also becomes a fascinating meditation on the nature of goods and Californian marijuana. Linda Ramone professes her masculinity in a society in thrall to the idea of political In French with English subtitles love of ‘merch’ and explains how her dead husband’s influential correctness. And there is a personal development too for Macer, but niche NY punk act, The Ramones, continues to stand for which sends his journey off in an unexpected direction. something way beyond their music. Finally, Frank Zappa’s son SAT 22:00 Spiral (m000b1fy) delves into the morality of hologram tours, as illustrated by his Series 7 father’s, before the immaculate planning of David Bowie sets SUN 20:00 Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story out how to go about it the right way. (b08nz0xh) Episode 8 In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - Last year, the top five estates of the most cherished ‘deceased’ codenamed Operation Grapple X. It was the culmination of an Roban falls into a trap set by Josephine and Edelman, whose popstars earned an incredible US$0.5bn - this documentary extraordinary scientific project, which against almost professional partnership is now, however, on the rocks. Laure shows you how they did it. insuperable odds turned Britain into a nuclear superpower. This and Gilou continue to work on the investigation they've is the inside story of how Britain got 'the bomb'. officially been taken off, identifying a suspect who may have been involved in the money-laundering operation. Beckriche's SAT 02:20 Franco Building with Jonathan Meades The BBC has been granted unprecedented access to the top- loyalty to his former boss is put to the test. (m0007z31) secret nuclear research facility at Aldermaston. The programme Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades has in his time made features interviews with veterans and scientists who took part in In French with English subtitles. films about the architecture of the infamous European dictators the atomic bomb programme, some speaking for the first time, of the 20th century - Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. He's now and newly released footage of the British atomic bomb tests. completing the set by turning his gaze onto Spanish dictator SAT 22:50 Blackadder (p00bf6md) Francisco Franco. Franco, unlike the other three, died Blackadder Goes Forth peacefully in his bed having been in power for 36 years, and his SUN 21:00 imagine... (b09vdpzw) architectural legacy, Meades argues, was more enduring and Winter 2017/18 Plan A - Captain Cook surprising than any of the others. Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons Edmund cheats to win a competition to be named Official War In his search for how Franco shaped Spain, Meades doesn’t look Artist, thinking it's his ticket out of the trenches. So he's furious in the obvious places. For him Franco's legacy isn’t to be found Romantic, fearless, fantastical; this edition delves into the when his reward turns out to be going into no man's land to in the dull and pompous government buildings put up in the thrilling world of Philip Pullman and explores the author's own sketch the German positions. 1940s and 50s after the Spanish Civil War but in the riotous dark materials. clash of building styles of the 1960s and 70s that grew up along Spain's coasts, particularly the proliferation of skyscrapers in Pullman has been named both one of Britain's greatest writers SAT 23:20 Blackadder (p00bf6pz) resorts such as Benidorm. It’s here that a new type of city was and the most dangerous writer in Britain. He is best-known for Blackadder Goes Forth created that has influenced urban development all over the the much-loved His Dark Materials trilogy, which follows a world. young heroine, Lyra, through a series of heart-stopping Plan B - Corporal Punishment adventures into other worlds. Appealing to both adults and The theme of tourism runs through Meades's excursion into the children alike, his books have sold over 20 million copies and Blackadder faces court martial for eating a carrier pigeon. With world of Franco's Spain. Apart from giving the go-ahead to the have been translated into 40 languages. La Belle Sauvage, his the pigeon's owner Melchett as judge and Darling as prosecutor, development of Mediterranean beach resorts to encourage mass recent novel, became an instant best-seller. 'The things we need Edmund is relying on George and Baldrick to save his skin. tourism, Franco also actively encouraged the revival of the most in the world are stories,' he says. medieval pilgrimage trail to Santiago de Compostela, the north western city named after St James. Alan Yentob spends time with Pullman in Oxford, discovering SAT 23:50 Blackadder (b00819cc) how the inspirational middle-school teacher became an Blackadder Goes Forth Franco cleverly exploited religious belief and myths to bolster acclaimed author of fantasy fiction and an outspoken critic of his autocratic regime.