BBC 4 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2018 tour through Irish rock. Elser planted a bomb behind his lecturn to kill Hitler during a speech. But Hitler unexpectedly left the building 13 minutes SAT 19:00 Lost Kingdoms of Central America (b04j8st0) early. Elser was soon arrested, and the film follows the events in The People Who Greeted Columbus SAT 00:15 Top of the Pops (b09vpjh3) his Swabian village, under Nazi rule, which led him to attempt Mike Read and Dixie Peach present the pop chart programme, this act of resistance which could have changed world history The Taino people of the Caribbean were the first people of the first broadcast on 13 June 1985. Featuring Bruce Springsteen, and saved millions of lives. Americas to greet Christopher Columbus. But, as Dr Jago Madonna, Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge and Marillion. Cooper reveals, they had a multicultural society complete with drug-infused rituals, strange skulls and amazing navigation. In SUN 23:45 The Riviera: A History in Pictures (b01ps9jr) deep caverns and turquoise seas, Jago uncovers their hidden SAT 00:45 Top of the Pops (b09vpkcn) Painting Paradise history. Janice Long and Gary Davies present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 June 1985. Featuring Sting, Fine Young Two-part sun-filled series in which Richard E Grant follows in Cannibals, China Crisis and Harold Faltermeyer. the footsteps of artists who have lived, loved and painted on SAT 20:00 The Silk Road (p03qb1gq) France's glorious Cote d'Azur. Episode 1 SAT 01:15 Lost Kingdoms of Central America (b04j8st0) Revealing the intertwined relationship between modern art and In the first episode of his series tracing the story of the most [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] the development of the French Riviera as an international famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis starts in Venice tourist haven, Grant explores how impressionist painters and explores how its Renaissance architecture and art has been Cezanne, Monet and Renoir first discovered the region in the shaped by the east and by thousands of exchanges along the Silk SAT 02:15 The Silk Road (p03qb1gq) 19th century when the newly built railway arrived there. Road. [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] Captivated by the light and colour of this undiscovered From Venice Sam travels to China's ancient capital, Xian. Here, landscape, the painters immortalised its shores on canvas and in Sam's story takes him back in time to reveal the tale of an SAT 03:15 TOTP2 (b0074820) doing so advertised the savage beauty of the region. For neo- emperor who was so desperate for horses to help protect his [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 today] impressionists Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross, the region borders that he struck one of the most significant trade deals in provided a vision of utopia, while for Henri Matisse the vivid human history - he wanted war horses, he gave the most colours of the area inspired him to adopt a new palette and in precious material in the world, silk. From this single deal, a doing so set modern art en route to abstraction. network of trading paths were carved out across thousands of SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2018 miles by merchants, traders, envoys, pilgrims and travellers. It is With visits to L'Estaque, St Tropez and Nice, Grant maps the known to us today as the Silk Road. SUN 19:00 Only Connect (b09w8qhv) progress of the region from cultural backwater to bohemian Series 13 hotspot.

SAT 21:00 Below the Surface (b0948n89) Detectives v Beaks Series 1 SUN 00:45 The Riviera: A History in Pictures (b01pwtvf) Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will The Golden Era Episode 3 only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital. Richard E Grant explores how modern art and the Riviera grew Philip takes full responsibility for the death of a hostage and Two teams of round-three losers return for a last chance to stay up together when France's Cote D'Azur became the hedonistic chases up his contact for assurances that his fears of recognising in the competition. They compete to find the connections playground and experimental studio for the great masters of the main hostage-taker are unfounded. As political pressure to between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random. So 20th-century painting. With Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso end the stand-off mounts, one of the hostages is taken ill and, join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects resident on the coast, other artists from Jean Cocteau to Henri not willing to free him, his captors agree for a medic to attend. Phone driver, Ed Towers, Loin and ET War. Lartigue, Raoul Dufy to Fernand Leger and Francis Picabia to Daniel tells Philip that this is their chance. Sergei Diaghilev were drawn to the area.

In Danish and English with English subtitles. SUN 19:30 University Challenge (b09w8qj4) As transatlantic liners brought America's super-rich to the 2017/18 region, art and celebrity became integrally intertwined as cultural gurus and multimillionaires all partied on the beach. In SAT 21:45 Below the Surface (b0948n8c) Episode 31 an era of sunshine and bathing, of cinema and fast cars, of the Series 1 Ballet Russes and Monte Carlo casinos, Grant discovers the The gruelling quarter-finals continue as two student teams vie to extraordinary output of what became briefly the world's Episode 4 reach the next stage of the competition. Jeremy Paxman asks creative hub. the questions. A ballistics report on a bullet retrieved from the lift shows an advanced rifle only used by Danish Special Forces that may be SUN 01:45 Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth from a batch stolen from the armoury in Aalborg two years SUN 20:00 Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth (b039kr77) earlier. Naja visits the waiting families and informs them that (b039kr77) [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] she can no longer be a part of their fundraising activities, but Kings agrees to listen to Jonas, who tells her about his father Leon. The team investigate the lead of the stolen guns and find Classicist Dr Michael Scott looks at the dramatic decline of SUN 02:45 Andrew Marr on Churchill: Blood, Sweat and themselves interviewing bikers and ex-servicemen. Athens and the remarkable triumph and transformation of Oil Paint (b06714yz) theatre. During the 4th century BC Athens would lose its [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] In Danish and English with English subtitles. Empire, its influence and even its democracy. But theatre, that most Athenian of inventions, would thrive, spreading throughout the Greek world and beyond and giving rise to a new SUN 03:45 Sounds of the Sixties (b072w25j) SAT 22:30 TOTP2 (b0074820) kind of comedy, one so popular and prevalent that it is still at Reversions St Patrick's Day Special the heart of comedy today. 1964-6 The Beat Room 2 Steve Wright introduces music from The Boomtown Rats, The Corrs, Enya, Shane McGowan and Johnny Depp, Stiff Little SUN 21:00 Andrew Marr on Churchill: Blood, Sweat and Tom Jones, The Rolling Stones and Manfred Mann star in Fingers, Thin Lizzy, Sinead O'Connor and U2. Oil Paint (b06714yz) archive clips from the 60s. Andrew Marr discovers the untold story of Winston Churchill's lifelong love for painting and reveals the surprising ways in SAT 23:15 Irish Rock at the BBC (b0556qc9) which his private hobby helped shape his public career as A whistle-stop tour of rock from over the water, taking in some politician and statesman, even playing an unexpected part in his MONDAY 19 MARCH 2018 of the finest Irish rock offerings from the early 70s to the role as wartime leader. present day, as captured on a variety of BBC shows from The MON 19:00 Beyond 100 Days (b09wclpb) Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops to Later... with Marr is himself a committed amateur painter and art has played Series 1 Jools Holland. an important role in his recovery from a serious stroke in 2013. His fascination with the healing powers of art fuels a journey 19/03/2018 Kicking off with Thin Lizzy's 1973 debut hit Whiskey in the that opens a new perspective on one of Britain's most famous Jar, the programme traces Irish rock's unfolding lineage. men. Katty Kay in Washington and Christian Fraser in London return Performances from guitar maestro Rory Gallagher, Celtic rock to report on the events that are shaping the world. godfathers Horslips and John Peel favourites The Undertones Andrew travels to the south of France and Marrakech, where feature alongside rivals Stiff Little Fingers, with their Top of Churchill loved to paint, and discovers how his serious the Pops performance of Nobody's Hero, followed by post- approach to the craft of painting led to friendships with major MON 19:30 Great Irish Journeys with Martha Kearney punk U2's 1981 debut UK performance of I Will Follow from British artists of the 20th century. He finds out how a single (b05q19lj) The Old Grey Whistle Test. painting in the 1940s may have influenced the course of the Episode 4 Second World War, and meets Churchill's descendants to Then there is Sinead O'Connor's debut single performance of discover what his family felt about a private hobby that helped Martha Kearney walks in the footsteps of a 19th-century artist Mandinka, and The Pogues play the Ewan MacColl classic keep him sane through his wilderness years. And he discovers and geologist who spent his life charting the landscape, people Dirty Old Town from 1986. Into the 90s, there is The Frank and how, 50 years after Churchill's death, his art is being taken and buildings of Ireland. She retraces the journey of George Walters and Therapy? on Top of the Pops, along with early more seriously than ever before, with one painting being sold Victor Du Noyer, whose 35-year odyssey left a unique record performances on Later... with Jools Holland from Ash and The for almost £2 million in 2014. of how Ireland looked during a period of great change. Divine Comedy. In her final journey, Martha hits the spiritual trail, starting with There is rockabilly with Imelda May's debut hit Johnny Got a SUN 22:00 13 Minutes: The Plot to Assassinate Adolf the Blasket Islands off the coast of Kerry. In the Dingle Boom Boom, and then more recently Cavan's The Strypes and Hitler (b082jpvj) Peninsula, Du Noyer discovered clochans - stone beehive huts. Hozier, whose Take Me to Church completes this hit-driven Drama about Georg Elser's plot to assassinate Hitler. In 1939, Martha heads north on a spiritual trail, taking in the islands of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 2 of 4 the Fermanagh Lakelands - White Island, Boa Island and the MON 01:30 Top of the Pops (b0844wjb) murders and the victim of an assault who is unhappy that her renowned Station Island. John Peel presents the chart show, first broadcast on 14 October attacker has not been prosecuted. 1982. Includes appearances from Mari Wilson, Tears for Fears, Pinkees, Barry Manilow, Melba Moore, Ultravox, The Beatles In 2014 the police brought prosecutors over 100,000 cases of MON 20:00 Treasures of the Indus (b069g53h) and Musical Youth. Also includes a dance performance from violence against women to consider. In a quarter of the cases, The Other Side of the Taj Mahal Zoo. the CPS decided a prosecution could not go ahead.

This is the story of the Indian subcontinent told through the Viv Driver-Hart can't remember the details of the assault treasures of three very different people, places and dynasties MON 02:00 A History of Art in Three Colours (b01l4fyl) against her, but a huge chunk of her hair had been ripped out that have shaped the modern Indian world. Gold and she'd been knocked unconscious. Now she's written to the CPS to appeal their decision not to prosecute under a new The Mughals created the most famous and dazzling empire that For the very first civilisations, the yellow lustre of gold is the initiative, the Victims' Right to Review. India has ever seen, from the Taj Mahal to fabulously intricate most alluring and intoxicating colour of all. From the midst of miniatures of court life. prehistory to a bunker deep beneath the Bank of England, Fox Chief crown prosecutor Claire Lindley oversees all prosecutions reveals how golden treasures made across the ages reflect in the Mersey-Cheshire area. The decision not to prosecute But in the process, did they bring civilisation to India or tear it everything that has been held as sacred. Viv's attacker can only be overturned with her approval. But apart? every decision, however difficult, must be based on the evidence. From the moment the first Mughal emperor Babur arrived from MON 03:00 Art of Spain (b008x4bp) Afghanistan the debate began - were the Mughals imposing [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] Proving that the defendant committed the offence they are their own religion of Islam on a Hindu country, or were they charged with is essential to secure a conviction. A jury must be open to the religion and art of the country they were convinced that the prosecution team has produced evidence and conquering? presented the case so as to leave them in no doubt of guilt. TUESDAY 20 MARCH 2018 The artworks the Mughals left behind over their 200-year Prosecutor Richard Riley deals with two murder cases of empire - even the very buildings which have traces of Hindu TUE 19:00 Beyond 100 Days (b09wclph) women who have been killed by someone they know. In both architecture as well as Muslim - clearly show how this debate Series 1 cases there appears to be overwhelming evidence against the played out, and Sona Datta traces how this most spectacular of defendants. Police find Paul Fox attempting suicide, with his all Indian civilisations also sowed the seeds of discord. 20/03/2018 mother dead downstairs, and a note he's written, 'Warning Dead Bodies'. A witness sees David Hoyle leaving the scene with a The latest national and international news, exploring the day's knife, where his girlfriend has been stabbed. As the cases MON 21:00 Art of Spain (b008x4bp) events from a global perspective. develop, it becomes clear that securing a conviction is never The Dark Heart straightforward.

Critic and art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels from TUE 19:30 Secret Knowledge (b01r3n6p) southern to northern Spain to tell the story of some of Europe's The Art of the Vikings TUE 23:00 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and most exciting and vital art. He journeys to the country’s Rogues (b06qgh3w) scorched centre to explore Spanish art of the 16th and 17th Through interpretations of some of the archaeological treasures Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story centuries. From the mystical world of El Greco to the tender of the Swedish National Museum, now on display in Edinburgh, genius of Velazquez, this was a moment so extraordinary it Dr Janina Ramirez of Oxford University explores the Few figures in British history have captured the popular became known as the Golden Age. But beneath the glittering fascinating wealth of Viking culture and its long-lasting imagination as much as the outlaw. From gentleman surface was a dark and savage heart. Travelling from the influence on the British Isles. highwaymen, via swashbuckling pirates to elusive urban thieves architectural jewel of Toledo to majestic Madrid, Andrew and rogues, the brazen escapades and the flamboyance of the Graham-Dixon traces the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, outlaw made them the antihero of their time - feared by the the brutal conquest of the New World, and the religious TUE 20:00 Immortal Egypt with Joann Fletcher (b06yjrgg) rich, admired by the poor and celebrated by writers and artists. madness of the Inquisition, to discover how a history so violent Zenith could produce some of the most beautiful art ever seen. In this three-part series, historian Dr Sam Willis travels the In the third episode, Joann explores the magnificent Colossi of open roads, the high seas and urban alleyways to explore Memnon, built under Egypt's greatest pharaoh - Amenhotep III. Britain's 17th- and 18th-century underworld of highwaymen, MON 22:00 Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman pirates and rogues, bringing the great age of the British outlaw (b08ljvt7) Joann explores the dizzying heights of Egypt's civilisation and vividly to life. Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene's the lives of the workers and artisans caught up in Egypt's most myth on art and artists. All saints in art are inventions, but no ambitious building project: the Valley of the Kings. But this Sam shows that, far from being 'outsiders', outlaws were very saint in art has been invented quite as furiously as Mary golden age is threatened by the growing power of Karnak's much a product of their time, shaped by powerful national Magdalene. For a thousand years, artists have been throwing priests. When Amenhotep's successors Akhenaten and Nefertiti events. In each episode, he focuses not just on a particular type themselves at the task of describing her and telling her story, strike back at the priests with a religious rebellion, it is their son of outlaw, but a particular era - the series as a whole offers a from Caravaggio to Cezanne, Rubens to Rembrandt, Titian to Tutankhamen who tries to rectify it. chronological portrait of the changing face of crime in the 17th van Gogh. and 18th centuries. By finding clues in Tutankhamen's treasure, Joann reveals how Her identity has evolved from being the close follower of Jesus his early death was a chance for Egypt to start afresh and Sam begins with the arrival of a new breed of gentleman who was the first witness to his resurrection, to one of a rewrite history. With the country restored to its former glory, criminal out of the ashes of the English Civil War - the prostitute and sinner who escaped from persecution in the Holy Egypt's fate lay in the hands of Theban priest kings. Joann highwayman. Heavily romanticised in literature, these Land by fleeing across the Mediterranean to end up living in a retraces their final act of desecration - decades of state- glamorous gangsters became a social menace on the roads and a cave as a hermit in the south of France, enjoying ecstatic sanctioned looting of the Valley of the Kings. This lays Egypt political thorn in the side of the creaking British state - experiences with Christ. bare, making way for a new era of foreign invaders. threatening to steal our wallets and our hearts. But underneath the dashing image of stylish robbers on horseback lay a far darker reality. MON 23:00 Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: TUE 21:00 Madame Tussaud: A Legend in Wax Empresses of Ancient Rome (b02w63n7) (b08cgm56) Episode 3 The remarkable true story of the woman behind the worldwide TUE 00:00 Treasures of Ancient Greece (b05qqgrr) waxworks empire, Madame Tussaud. The Classical Revolution Professor Catharine Edwards follows the stories of four very different women across centuries which saw the Roman Empire In an astonishing life that spanned both the French and Alastair Sooke unpicks the reasons behind the dazzling utterly transformed. Among them are the slave turned imperial Industrial revolutions, this single mother and entrepreneur revolution that gave birth to classical Greek art, asking how the consort Caenis, the empress Julia Domna - a Syrian who was travelled across the Channel to England, where she overcame Greeks got so good so quickly. He travels to the beautiful commemorated in fascinating ways as far away as York - and the odds to establish her remarkable and enduring brand. Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, and to the island of Mozia Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine and a force in Determined to leave an account of who she was and the times to see the astonishing charioteer found there in 1979, and converting the empire to Christianity. she lived through, her memoirs, letters and papers offer a marvels at the athletic bodies of the warriors dragged from the unique insight into the creation of the extraordinary empire seabed - the Riace Bronzes. which bears her name. MON 00:00 Treasures of Ancient Greece (b05ql1sf) It was a creative explosion that covered architecture, sculpting The Age of Heroes in marble, casting in bronze, even painting on vases. Perhaps the TUE 22:00 The Prosecutors (b0726h15) most powerful factor was also its greatest legacy - a fascination In the first episode Alastair Sooke explores the surprising roots Real Crime and Punishment with the naked human body. of Greek art, beginning his journey in Crete at the palace of Knossos, legendary home of the Minotaur. He travels to The Proof Santorini to the 'Greek Pompeii', and finds gold in the fabled TUE 01:00 Top of the Pops (b084zy8n) stronghold of Mycenae and dazzling remains from Greece's The Crown Prosecution Service is often under scrutiny for its Peter Powell presents the weekly pop chart show, first Dark Ages. Alastair discovers the beginnings of a defining spirit decision-making. Now for the first time the CPS has allowed broadcast on 21 December 1982. Includes appearances from in Greek art, embracing mythology, a passion for symmetry, cameras in. Filmed over 18 months with prosecutors in The Piranhas, Toyah, The Kids from Fame, Imagination, Kool and an obsession with the human body. Merseyside, Cheshire and the south east, including the director and the Gang, Bauhaus, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Sharon of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, this groundbreaking Redd and Shakin' Stevens. series goes behind the scenes to reveal how our criminal justice MON 01:00 Top of the Pops (b0844w9t) system really works and what it takes to secure a conviction. John Peel presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 23 Each episode focuses on a different part of the process, TUE 01:30 Top of the Pops (b084zy9d) September 1982. Includes appearances from David Christie, following prosecutions and those involved in the case from start Simon Bates presents the weekly chart show, first broadcast on Culture Club, Fat Larry's Band, Depeche Mode, Musical Youth, to finish. 28 October 1982. Includes appearances from Raw Silk, Blue Survivor and Evelyn King. Also includes a dance performance Zoo, Culture Club, Dionne Warwick, Melba Moore, The from Zoo. In this episode the prosecutors deal with two violent domestic Beatles, Tears for Fears and Eddy Grant. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 3 of 4 TUE 02:00 A History of Art in Three Colours (b01lcz2s) gravestone engraver Neil and his carpenter son Otis, and textiles Enlightenment's values of justice, equality and reason. Blue student Lorna.

Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours Lorna initially struggles with the concept of writing 'upside WED 03:00 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and gold, blue and white have stirred emotions, changed behaviour down and left to right', but has a breakthrough when she's given Rogues (b06qskdx) and even altered the course of history. a mirror to hold up against her work. In the end her poster - a [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 today] written tribute to her dad, a poet - exceeds all hopes. 'It's come When, in the Middle Ages, the precious blue stone lapis lazuli out better than I could have expected.' arrived in Europe from the east, blue became the most exotic and mysterious of colours. And it was artists who used it to Back in Bamburgh, the hooky seat cushions are ready to go on THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018 offer us tantalising glimpses of other worlds beyond our own. chairs, and the students take a stroll to the beach for a celebratory slice of cake and cup of tea to try them out for size. THU 19:00 Beyond 100 Days (b09wclpt) Series 1 TUE 03:00 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Sheep farmer John's work really impresses teacher Heather - Rogues (b06qgh3w) 'now who'd have thought a sheep farmer could make something 22/03/2018 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 today] as beautiful and artistic as that?'. Katty Kay in Washington and Christian Fraser in London return to report on the events that are shaping the world. WED 22:00 Carved with Love: The Genius of British WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH 2018 Woodwork (b01psbwz) The Extraordinary Thomas Chippendale THU 19:30 Top of the Pops (b09wgscy) WED 19:00 Beyond 100 Days (b09wclpn) Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the pop chart Series 1 Thomas Chippendale is the most famous furniture designer the programme, first broadcast on 4 July 1985. Featuring Tears for world has ever produced, but what about the man behind the Fears, Simply Red, Dead or Alive, Fine Young Cannibals and 21/03/2018 chairs? This episode shows how Chippendale worked his way The Damned. up from humble roots to working for the nobility, but also how The latest national and international news, exploring the day's he was ruined by the very aristocrats he created such wonders events from a global perspective. for. THU 20:00 Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell (b01nln7d) There is a battle playing out inside your body right now. It WED 19:30 Secret Knowledge (b054fkzz) WED 23:00 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and started billions of years ago and it is still being fought in every The Private Life of a Dolls' House Rogues (b06qskdx) one of us every minute of every day. It is the story of a viral Pirates infection, the battle for the cell. Lauren Child, author, illustrator and creator of Charlie and Lola, has a secret passion - dolls' houses. She has worked on her Few figures in British history have captured the popular This film reveals the exquisite machinery of the human cell own dolls' house for the past 30 years and her lifelong obsession imagination as much as the outlaw. From gentleman system from within the inner world of the cell itself - from the continues to inspire her ideas and shape her work. But why do highwaymen, via swashbuckling pirates to elusive urban thieves frenetic membrane surface that acts as a security system for these interior worlds have the power to cast a spell beyond and rogues, the brazen escapades and the flamboyance of the everything passing in and out of the cell, the dynamic highways childhood? outlaw made them the antihero of their time - feared by the that transport cargo across the cell and the remarkable turbines rich, admired by the poor and celebrated by writers and artists. that power the whole cellular world to the amazing nucleus Lauren explores the history of dolls' houses from some of the housing DNA and the construction of thousands of different earliest examples to their modern incarnations, speaks to In this three-part series, historian Dr Sam Willis travels the proteins all with unique tasks. The virus intends to commandeer craftspeople who create perfect miniatures and meets ardent open roads, the high seas and urban alleyways to explore this system to one selfish end: to make more viruses. And they collectors willing to pay big money for tiny objects of desire. Britain's 17th- and 18th-century underworld of highwaymen, will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. pirates and rogues, bringing the great age of the British outlaw vividly to life. Exploring the very latest ideas about the evolution of life on WED 20:00 Metalworks! (b01fhmhp) earth and the bio-chemical processes at the heart of every one The Golden Age of Silver Sam shows that, far from being 'outsiders', outlaws were very of us, and revealing a world smaller than it is possible to much a product of their time, shaped by powerful national comprehend, in a story large enough to fill the biggest Dan Cruickshank visits Britain's finest country houses, events. In each episode, he focuses not just on a particular type imaginations. With contributions from Professor Bonnie L museums and factories as he uncovers the 18th- and 19th- of outlaw, but a particular era - the series as a whole offers a Bassler of Princeton University, Dr Nick Lane and Professor century fascination with silver. Delving into an unsurpassed era chronological portrait of the changing face of crime in the 17th Steve Jones of University College London and Cambridge of shimmering opulence, heady indulgence and conspicuous and 18th centuries. University's Susanna Bidgood. consumption, Dan discovers the Georgian and Victorian obsession with this tantalising precious metal which represented Sam takes to the high seas in search of the swashbuckling status, wealth and excellent taste. He gives us a glimpse of some pirates of the golden age of piracy during the early 18th THU 21:00 Contagion: The BBC Four Pandemic of the most extensive collections and exquisite pieces of century. Following in the wake of the infamous Captain Kidd, (p059y0p1) silverware to have ever been made on British shores. Blackbeard, Calico Jack and others, Sam charts the devastating The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus impact these pirates had during an era of colonial expansion and as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To how, by plundering the vast network of seaborne trade, they predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than WED 21:00 MAKE! Craft Britain (b09whc5t) became the most-wanted outlaws in the world. ever before, new data is needed - and lots of it. Dr Hannah Fry Series 1 is on the case.

Episode 1 WED 00:00 Treasures of Ancient Greece (b05rj5xj) She sets out to recruit the nation to download the BBC The Long Shadow Pandemic app in a ground-breaking experiment to help plan for The first episode follows two groups of novice crafters as they when the next deadly virus comes to the UK. How quickly will master the art of hooky rugmaking and traditional letterpress. Alastair Sooke explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Greek it spread? How many could it kill? What can we do about it? Meanwhile, origami artist Sam Tsang teaches how to make masterpieces that changed the course of western culture. The BBC Four Pandemic experiment will find out. something beautiful from a single sheet of paper, folding an Succeeding centuries have found in ancient Greek art origami lily which can then be made into LED fairy lights. inspiration for their own ideals and ambitions. Filming in Italy, Hannah masterminds the experiment and adopts the role of Germany, France and Britain, Alastair's investigation includes Patient Zero by walking the streets of Haslemere in Surrey to On the north east coast in Bamburgh village, world-renowned The Venus of Knidos, the first naked woman in western art, the launch the outbreak. Meanwhile, emergency physician Dr Javid rugmaker Heather Ritchie welcomes six amateur crafters to her bronze horses of St Mark's in Venice which became a pawn in Abdelmoneim finds out why flu is still such a danger to society two-day workshop in the local cricket pavilion. She teaches an imperial game and the naked discus thrower, the Discobolus, a century after Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people them how to 'hook' their own personalised seat cushions, personally bought by Adolf Hitler and used by him as a symbol worldwide. He meets researchers trying to discover what makes inspired by their favourite places. of Aryan supremacy. some people more contagious than others and visits a factory that will produce vaccine when the next pandemic flu virus Heather has been hooking rugs for over 30 years. She emerges. discovered rugmaking in the early 70s after moving into a cold, WED 01:00 Top of the Pops (b085ykyh) flagstoned cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. The hooking David Jensen presents the weekly pop chart show, first Armed with the information he gathers and the results of the technique allowed her to use recycled fabrics to produce rugs broadcast on 11 November 1982. Includes appearances from BBC Four Pandemic experiment, Hannah and Javid make a that insulated her home. After getting 'hooked' on the basic Blue Zoo, A Flock of Seagulls, Clannad, Dionne Warwick, shocking revelation. technique, her functional household rugs soon developed into Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye, Eddy Grant and Zoo. intricate works of art, each one capturing a memory from her past. THU 22:15 Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs (b08qkz77) WED 01:30 Top of the Pops (b086824r) More and more bacterial infections are becoming resistant to The workshop is attended by married couple Adam and Tracy, John Peel presents the weekly chart show first broadcast on 18 antibiotics. Not just MRSA but also TB, pneumonia and e-coli. dentist Indra, A&E doctor Lucy and local farmers Mary and November 1982. Includes appearances from Modern Romance, In Britain, hundreds die of these infections - mainly the very John, who bring some sheep fleece along to use in their work. Duran Duran, Blancmange, Renee & Renato, Wham, Eddy young or the frail and elderly. Health experts warn, unless we Grant, Tears for Fears and Hall & Oates. crack the problem, that by 2050 we will be facing a pathogenic Meanwhile, in south London, wordsmith and typographer apocalypse with over 10 million people dying of resistant Kelvyn Smith invites five students into his print studio for a one- bacterial infection worldwide every year. day masterclass in letterpress printmaking. The 350-year-old WED 02:00 A History of Art in Three Colours (b01lng0m) printing process is new to all of Kelvyn's students, so over the White Michael Mosley goes in search of the causes of this crisis and course of the day they learn how to use a composing stick, how possible solutions to overcome it. At the heart of the film is an to set type and build a form, before proofing and printing their In the Age of Reason, it was the rediscovery of the white unprecedented experiment to create a life-size clone of Michael own pieces of work. columns and marbles of antiquity that made white the most in agar and then grow bacteria on it taken from all over his virtuous of colours. For flamboyant JJ Wickelmann and British body. This is ‘Microbial Michael’, a living bacterial sculpture The workshop is attended by engaged couple Ant and Bianca, genius Josiah Wedgwood, white embodied all the that offers new insights into what happens when we hit our Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ BBC 4 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 4 of 4 body - and our bacteria - with a broad spectrum antibiotic. to get the memories going. T. Rex perform Hot Love, Mott The performance from the BBC TV archive. Reinterpretations, Hoople perform Roll Away the Stone, Alvin Stardust has a tributes and acts of subversion from the British invasion to Michael finds that he has some resistant bacteria. But how has Jealous Mind and Suzi Quatro comes alive at Devil Gate Drive. noughties X Factor finalist Alexandra Burke. Artists as varied this happened and how do bacteria acquire resistance to as The Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Mariah Carey and UB40 with antibiotics? In a cave in New Mexico, Michael discovers that it their 'retake' on someone else's song - ultimate chart hits that is a natural process, which has been going on for millennia, long THU 03:55 Sounds of the Seventies (b00c1cx3) are, in some cases, perhaps even better than the original. before the discovery of penicillin. Our overuse of antibiotics in Solos medicine and farming accelerates the development of resistance Arguably The Beatles, alongside Bob Dylan and The Beach among bacteria, but evolution ensures that bacteria will The Faces Boys, introduced the notion of 'originality' and self-generating gradually overcome the antibiotics we use to defeat them. artists writing their songs into the pop lexicon in the 60s. One of Vintage rock, pop and soul performances from the BBC the most fascinating consequences of this has been the 'original' So, we desperately need new antibiotics, or ways to make our archives. The Faces perform Stay with Me in 1972. cover version, a reinterpretation of someone else's song that has existing antibiotics work effectively again. In a trip that goes to transformed it into pop gold with a shift of rhythm, intent and the US, to Poland and to research labs around the UK, we meet context. The pop cover has proved a remarkably imaginative the ‘resistance hunters’ - scientists who are trying to find new and durable form and this compilation tracks this pop alchemy ways of beating resistant bacteria. And in a finale to the FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2018 at its finest and most intriguing. ‘Microbial Michael’ experiment, some of Michael’s agar body parts - his face and his hands - are infected with superbugs. Can FRI 19:00 World News Today (b09wclpz) any of the new treatments get rid of them? The latest national and international news, exploring the day's FRI 01:00 Better than the Original: The Joy of the Cover events from a global perspective. Version (b06n9q8y) [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] THU 23:15 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06rfl46) FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (b09wgttc) Rogues Gallery John Peel and Janice Long present the pop chart programme, FRI 02:00 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00dzzv2) first broadcast on 11 July 1985. Featuring The Conway Part I Few figures in British history have captured the popular Brothers, Eurythmics, Opus, Bruce Springsteen, Mai Tai and imagination as much as the outlaw. From gentleman Steve Arrington. Concentrating on the 1970s (1969 to 1981 to be exact) and highwaymen, via swashbuckling pirates to elusive urban thieves ransacking a host of BBC shows from The Old Grey Whistle and rogues, the brazen escapades and the flamboyance of the Test to Sight & Sound, this compilation is designed to release outlaw made them the anti-hero of their time - feared by the FRI 20:00 Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop (b00nq7q9) the air guitarist in everyone, combining great electric guitarists rich, admired by the poor and celebrated by writers and artists. Fleetwood Mac are one of the biggest-selling bands of all time like Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, The Edge and Peter Green and still on the road. Their story, told in their own words, is an with acoustic masters like John Martyn, Pentangle and Paco In this three-part series, historian Dr Sam Willis travels the epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss. Pena. open roads, the high seas and urban alleyways to explore Britain's 17th and 18th-century underworld of highwaymen, Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal pirates and rogues, bringing the great age of the British outlaw change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to FRI 03:00 Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop (b00nq7q9) vividly to life. perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] copies of the album Rumours. Sam shows that, far from being 'outsiders', outlaws were very much a product of their time, shaped by powerful national However, behind-the-scenes relationships were turbulent. The events. In each episode, he focuses not just on a particular type band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead of outlaw, but a particular era. The series as a whole offers a guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the chronological portrait of the changing face of crime in the 17th heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the and 18th centuries. perfect pop record.

In the final episode, Sam looks at urban crime, fraud and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rogues’ FRI 21:00 Better than the Original: The Joy of the Cover gallery of charmers, fraudsters and villains. Charmers like thief Version (b06n9q8y) and serial escaper Jack Sheppard, so notorious that almost a Documentary which celebrates the role of the cover version in quarter of a million people turned up to witness his hanging. the pop canon and investigates what it takes to reinvent Almost as controversial in her lifetime was Mary Toft, a someone else's song as a smash. fraudster who managed to convince no less than King George I and his surgeon that she had given birth to rabbits, making her, Through ten carefully chosen cover versions that whisk us from perhaps, the original 'con' artist. the British Invasion to a noughties X Factor final, this film journeys over five decades to track how artists as varied as The Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have THU 00:15 Top of the Pops (b09wgscy) scored number ones with their retake on someone else's song. [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] Each of the ten classic cover versions has its own particular tale, tied not only into its musical and cultural context but also the personal testimony of the artists, producers and songwriters THU 00:45 The Inca: Masters of the Clouds (b04xdpjy) whose lives were changed in the process. Foundations Narrated by Meera Syal, it explores the stories behind such Dr Jago Cooper reassesses the achievements of the Inca iconic hits as House of the Rising Sun, Respect, Tainted Love, Empire. He begins in Peru, where evidence is still being I'll Be Missing You and Hallelujah, with contributors including uncovered that challenges preconceptions about its origins and John Cale, Gloria Jones, Marc Almond, Rick Rubin, Faith significance. Venturing from the coast to the clouds, he reveals Evans and British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot. how the Inca transformed one of the most challenging landscapes in the world to ward off the worst effects of the The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. climate, and created sophisticated systems of communication. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your He shows how one of many independent societies became a own songs. This film challenges and overturns that commanding empire - not through force, but by using subtle misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical methods of persuasion. form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can THU 01:45 The Inca: Masters of the Clouds (b04y4q35) create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more Clash of Empires original than the original.

In the concluding part, Dr Jago Cooper argues that it wasn't simply a clash of arms that destroyed the Inca but a clash of FRI 22:00 Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10 worldviews. He travels from Peru to the far north of Inca (b01nwfxs) territory in Ecuador to reveal how the great strengths of the Documentary chronicling our ever-changing love affair with the empire suddenly became factors in its rapid demise. The British singles chart on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary. Spanish conquest of the Inca destroyed one of the most From the first NME chart in 1952, via Pick and Top of the remarkable empires in the world, yet the Inca legacy leaves a Pops to home-taping the Radio One chart show and beyond, we great deal for modern civilisations to learn from. have measured out our lives to a wonderful churn of pop driven, unbeknownst to us, by a clandestine world of music biz hustle. Featuring contributions by 60 years of BBC chart custodians THU 02:45 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and from David Jacobs to Reggie Yates, chart fans Grace Dent and Rogues (b06rfl46) Pete Paphides and music biz veterans Jon Webster and Rob [Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 today] Dickins.

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T. Rex, Mott The Hoople, Alvin Stardust and Suzi Quatro FRI 00:00 Ultimate Cover Versions at the BBC (b06ns4gf) Another mouth-watering madeleine of musical morsels bound Smash hits from 60 years of great cover versions in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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