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BBC 4 Listings for 6 – 12 September 2008 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2008 SAT 22:50 Takin' Over the Asylum (b00dcy42) Interviewees include Neil Pearson, Tom Georgeson, Siobhan Let It Be Redmond, Lesley Vickerage, creator JC Wilsher, executive SAT 19:00 Clarissa and the King's Cookbook (b00b6vl6) producer Tony Garnett and producer Peter Norris. We Brits love our cookbooks - every year we buy millions of Last in the series about a psychiatric hospital. The death of the them and treat our celebrity chefs like royalty. But where did it stray kittens devastates Francine, and even Eddie cannot all begin? Self-confessed medieval foodie Clarissa Dickson console her. Jim is appalled by Rosalie's living conditions. SUN 23:00 Between the Lines (b00dcyhm) Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Campbell's star is rising as the odds appear to be stacking up Series 2 Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the against Eddie. The radio station is in danger of closing, and he's reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's in danger of being fired from Twinview. Manslaughter master chefs. How this ancient manuscript influenced the way people eat today? On her culinary journey through medieval Drama series about internal investigations within the police history she reawakens recipes that have lain dormant for SAT 23:40 Timeshift (b0074qrz) force. At first sight it seems to be a straightforward murder centuries and discovers dishes that are still prepared now. Series 4 investigation - except that the murderer is a detective superintendent and the victim is his wife. Hey Mr DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey SAT 19:30 Lost Horizons: The Big Bang (b00dcbqm) Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC David Hepworth chronicles the history of the disc jockey. The SUN 00:05 They Came From Manchester: Five Decades of science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of DJ has often been a neglected profession but today's globe- Mancunian Pop (b00d9g2x) the greatest theories of modern science, the Big Bang. trotting jocks enjoy superstar status. Contributors include Pete A compilation of BBC studio performances of some of the Tong, Annie Nightingale, Johnnie Walker and Ranking Miss P. great Manchester bands from the 1960s to the present, The remarkable idea that our universe simply began from including Freddie and the Dreamers, The Hollies, 10CC, the nothing has not always been accepted with the conviction it is Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division, James, M-People, Oasis and today and, from fiercely disputed leftfield beginnings, took the SAT 00:20 Caledonia Dreamin' (b0090cbx) many more. best part of the 20th century to emerge as the triumphant Documentary revealing the hidden history of Scottish pop explanation of how the universe began. Using curious horn- music and how a small record label inspired bands like Orange shaped antennas, U-2 spy planes, satellites and particle Juice, Altered Images, Wet Wet Wet and Franz Ferdinand. SUN 01:05 Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to accelerators, scientists have slowly pieced together the Happy Mondays (b007zmn3) cosmological jigsaw, and this documentary charts the Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human overwhelming evidence for a universe created by a Big Bang. SAT 01:20 Fossil Detectives (b00d9f9g) comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started [Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today] by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Martin Hannett in the late 1970s, it became known as the home SAT 20:30 The Big Bang Machine (b00dccnr) of Joy Divsion, New Order and Happy Mondays and for Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's SAT 01:50 Lost Horizons: The Big Bang (b00dcbqm) creating the Hacienda club. The label pioneered Britain's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] independent pop culture, creating a new Manchester and sealed off and a simulation experiment begins to try and create blowing a shed-load of money. Includes interviews with all the the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the main players in the Factory story. Big Bang. Cox joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will SAT 02:50 The Big Bang Machine (b00dccnr) change our understanding of the early universe and solve some [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today] of its mysteries. SUN 02:35 BBC Proms (b00dcyhk) [Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today] SAT 21:30 Fossil Detectives (b00d9f9g) SUNDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2008 West and Wales SUN 19:00 Coal House (b01rlxrh) MONDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2008 Series in which Open University associate lecturer Dr Series 1 Hermione Cockburn leads a team of fossil experts and MON 19:00 World News Today (b00dczwq) geologists around different regions of Britain to search for its Episode 9 The latest national and international news, exploring the day's best fossil treasures and mysteries, in an effort to uncover and events from a global perspective. make sense of our ancient past. Deep in the Welsh Valleys three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the The team visits Wales to bring dinosaurs back to life using hardships of life in a 1927 mining community. It's the final day MON 19:30 BBC Proms (b00dczws) evolutionary robotics and we follow the intriguing story of the for the Coal House families. Last night Ceredin upset Debra by 2008 fossils at the Ford engine plant in Bridgend. going to the pub, the family competitiveness came out as Gwen beat her sister Kitty in their exam results and the men worked Prom 71: Chicago Symphony Orchestra On the outskirts of Liverpool, Hermione follows in the their last day in the mine. Then it was a shower and a change of footsteps of our ancestors to discover trace fossils of human clothes before the families returned to the year 2007 and Charles Hazlewood introduces a welcome return to the Royal beings which are still soft to the touch. reunited with their families and friends. Albert Hall for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with its new principal conductor Bernard Haitink. They perform the UK Plus, why fossils were thought to be food for the dead, and the premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Chicago Remains, team come face to face with a prehistoric skeleton with a dark SUN 19:30 BBC Proms (b00dcyhk) followed by Mahler's emotional 6th Symphony. secret 2008 Fossil Detectives would like to thank: Prom 65: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra MON 21:45 Timeshift (b0074sd0) Series 6 Cadw Charles Hazlewood introduces a concert in which Sir Simon National Museum Wales Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform two works Creating Life on Mars Ford Motor Company Limited central to their repertoire - Brahms's Symphony No 3, inspired The Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham by a visit to the Rhine in 1883, followed by Shostakovich's In conversation with writer and broadcaster Andrew Collins, the British Institute for Geological Conservation powerful 10th Symphony, written just months after the death of creators of the time-travel cop show Life on Mars reveal the Stalin. story behind the series, including their seven-year battle to bring Executive Producer for The Open University: Catherine it to the screen and how they drew inspiration from their own McCarthy experiences of life in the 70s. They offer insights into the Academic Consultant for The Open University: Dr Peter SUN 21:30 imagine... (b00bv33t) show's characters and explore how the programme has broken Sheldon Summer 2008 the mould of popular TV drama. Learning Consultant for The Open University: Dr Janet Sumner Production Co-ordinator: Katie Elloway A Trip to Asia: On the Road with the Berlin Philharmonic Production Manager: Sue Loder MON 22:05 Life on Mars (b0074sdv) Colourist: Tim Bolt The musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic set off on a concert Series 1 Post Production Sound: Neil Hipkiss & Matt Coster tour of Asia and, with remarkable frankness, talk about the Online: Fred Tay hopes and regrets that come from a life on the road. Episode 5 Sound Recordist: Andy Hawley Graphics: Jelly Television The players and their conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, offer their Drama series about a Manchester detective who suffers a near- Composer: David Lowe reflections on friendship and competition, the pressure to fatal car crash and wakes up in what seems to be 1973. The Aerial Photography: Flying TV perform, the loss of technique with getting older, and that murder of a football fan results in a clash of methods as Sam Photography: Mark McCauley overwhelming sensation that keeps them coming back for more. and Gene go undercover in a local pub to solve the crime. As Editing: Judith Robson Gene looks like he's set to drink the pub dry, Sam worries about Executive Producer: Fiona Pitcher their chances of finding the killer before Saturday's big match. Assistant Producers: Gavin Boyland & Amanda Kear SUN 22:30 Call the Cops (b00d98t9) And his relationship with the young son of the murdered man Series Producer: Kerensa Jennings. Between the Lines brings Sam's memories of his own father flooding back. A look at Between the Lines, which provided compelling SAT 22:00 Takin' Over the Asylum (b00dcy40) evidence that the cop show had finally found a way of getting to MON 23:05 Sleepers (b00dh2mk) Rainy Night in Georgia grips with the corruption scandals of the 1980s. On the Run Six part drama set in a psychiatric hospital.