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BBC 4 Listings for 19 – 25 February 2011 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2011 surfing, cars and girls, Dennis was the only one who surfed, the popular western narratives and America's more questionable one who drove hot rod cars in competition and the one who got foreign policy, and celebrates the real heroes of the west - John SAT 19:00 South Pacific (b00l7q55) all the girls. Ford, John Wayne, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn and Clint Fragile Paradise Eastwood. He was married five times, shared a house with Charles Manson The South Pacific is still relatively healthy and teeming with (with whom he wrote songs, including one recorded by the Filmed on location in Arizona, Montana and Wyoming and fish, but it is a fragile paradise. International fishing fleets are Beach Boys) but died, ironically by drowning, at the age of 39. incorporating interviews and archive clips of some of the best- taking a serious toll on the sharks, albatross and tuna, and there He was also the first Beach Boy to release a solo album, the loved westerns of all-time, the film is Rich Hall's personal are other insidious threats to these bountiful seas. This episode stunning Pacific Ocean Blue, which after years of being out of salute to a genre of film he feels passionate about. looks at what is being done to preserve the ocean and its print and fetching hundreds on Ebay, was re-released in 2008 to wildlife. widespread acclaim, being voted No 1 Reissue of the Year by Mojo and Uncut magazines. SUN 22:30 For Crying Out Loud (b00ymhqz) Jo Brand is outraged and appalled by the latest outburst of SAT 20:00 Glamour's Golden Age (b00nk9m5) This documentary tells the story of Dennis's life and music, public crying. It is happening on X Factor, Who Do You Think Beautiful and Damned with unseen archive footage and original interviews with Beach You Are and even the politicans are at it. It would appear we Boys Al Jardine and David Marks, his sons Michael and Carl are awash with tears. Jo is particularly baffled by this The story of 1920s London's Bright Young People is a tale of and many friends and fellow musicians. These include Taylor outpouring of weepiness as crying is something she rarely does. sex, drink, drugs and a gossip-hungry press. Beautiful and Hawkins, drummer with the Foo Fighters who provided a vocal Damned traces the growth of 1920s London's bright young for the lost track on Pacific Ocean Blue, Holy Man, for which In this documentary, Jo decides it's time to get to the bottom of party set whose antics were enjoyed and scorned in equal Dennis never laid down a vocal when he recorded the song in crying: why we do it, who does it and whether we have always measures by a watching nation. And the more artistic of the 1977. done it. And once she discovers crying is in fact good for you, merry band - Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford she has no choice but to see if she can actually make a among them - saw their work make the characters and attitudes handkerchief soggy too. of the era both legend and fable. SAT 01:55 Glamour's Golden Age (b00nk9m5) [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] To find out more about crying she talks to friends Phill Jupitus, Contributors include Philip Hoare, DJ Taylor, Selina Hastings, Shappi Khorsandi and Richard E Grant; interviews crying Lucy Moore and Adrian Bingham. historians, psychologists and biochemists; and, in her quest to SAT 02:55 Love Songs at the BBC: A Valentine's Day discover her own tears, visits Moorfields Eye Hospital to check Special (b00ymh70) her tear ducts are in good working order. She subjects herself to SAT 21:00 The Killing (b00yvs6s) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:55 today] joining a class of crying drama students, discovers the world's Series 1 weirdest crybabies at the Loss Club and finally opens up to Princess Diana's psychotherapist, Susie Orbach. Episode 9 SUNDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2011 Having unpicked the watery world of crying, can Jo bring The police are after Theis, who has disappeared once again with herself to actually shed a tear? murder suspect Rama and now seems more prepared than ever SUN 19:00 The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion to take the law into his own hands. The investigation reaches a (b00sbt8d) standstill, with Sarah and Jan being given a 24-hour ultimatum What is the World Made Of? SUN 23:30 Toots and the Maytals: Reggae Got Soul before they are taken off the case. At the Town Hall, the (b00ymljb) political landscape undergoes some radical changes. Pernille Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey The untold story of one of the most influential artists ever to must try to manage on her own, as both the family and family exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is come out of Jamaica, Toots Hibbert, featuring intimate new business are left in her hands. intimately interwoven with society's historical path. performances and interviews with Toots, rare archive from throughout his career and interviews with contemporaries and In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built admirers including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Cliff, SAT 22:00 The Killing (b00yvs6v) on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Marcia Griffiths and Paolo Nutini. Series 1 the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation From his beginnings as a singer in a Jamaican church to the Episode 10 of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the universally-praised, Grammy award-winning artist of today, the invention of the transistor. film tells the story of one of the true greats of music. Sarah and Jan pursue a new lead, but are taken aback when their boss intervenes. Sarah's personal life is drastically reconfigured. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has Toots was the first to use the word reggae on tape in his 1968 Troels attempts to establish a new alliance at the Town Hall, but delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer song Do the Reggay and his music has defined, popularised and is met with fierce resistance. With Theis still in custody and this question, scientists have created theories from elements to refined it across six decades, with hit after hit including awaiting release, Pernille comes under pressure from all sides atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that Pressure Drop, Sweet and Dandy, Monkey Man, Funky and starts suspecting that someone close to her might be hiding underpin our modern, technological world. Kingston, Bam Bam, True Love Is Hard To Find and Reggae something. Got Soul. SUN 20:00 Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of As Island records founder Chris Blackwell says, 'The Maytals SAT 22:55 How TV Ruined Your Life (b00ysfvh) British Sculpture (b00yml9v) were unlike anything else... sensational, raw and dynamic'. Love Mavericks of Empire Always instantly recognisable is Toots's powerful, soulful voice which seems to speak viscerally to the listener - 'one of the Charlie Brooker argues that TV has warped our expectations of By the middle of the 18th century, Britain was in possession of great musical gifts of our time'. His songs are at the same time romance with a toxic combination of Blind Date and rom-coms. a vast empire. It required a new way of seeing ourselves and so stories of everyday life in Jamaica and postcards from another Do 'soulmates' even exist? Warning: this episode contains traces we turned to the statues of ancient Greece and Rome to project world. of Dirty Den and suggestive swimwear. the secular power and glory of the British Empire. The message was clear: Britain was the new Rome, our generals SUN 00:30 Reggae at the BBC (b00ymljd) SAT 23:25 Getting On (b00lqbkb) and politicians on a par with the heroes of the ancient world. An archive celebration of great reggae performances filmed in Series 1 The flood of funds, both public and private, into sculptural the BBC Studios, drawn from programmes such as The Old projects unleashed a new golden age, yet it was also a Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and Later... with Jools Episode 2 remarkably unorthodox one. The greatest sculptors of the 18th Holland, and featuring the likes of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and 19th centuries were those mavericks who bucked prevailing Gregory Isaacs, Desmond Dekker, Burning Spear, Althea and Pippa prepares her research paper and Den and Kim deal with a trends - geniuses like John Flaxman, Francis Chantrey and Donna, Dennis Brown, Buju Banton and many more. male referral, but it is problem patient Ivy who dominates the Alfred Gilbert. day. Aggressive and deeply unpleasant, she sets a chain reaction in motion that sees Hilary in tears and Kim in trouble. Alastair Sooke tells the story of these mavericks and reveals the SUN 02:00 Glastonbury (b00syzjc) extraordinary technical breakthroughs behind their key works: 2010 Elsewhere on the ward, life and death continues as normal, but carving in marble with a pointer machine and the primal power with the MRSA statistics up it seems another crisis is just of the lost-wax technique. Toots and the Maytals around the corner. Meanwhile, Den and Hilary are starting to bond.