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BBC 4 Listings for 29 September – 5 October 2012 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2012 This three-part series follows the ups and downs of marriage in perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million Britain from the 1900s to the present day using the deeply copies of the album Rumours. SAT 19:00 Human Planet (b00rrd7r) moving personal stories of couples and their children, from all Arctic - Life in the Deep Freeze walks of life. However, behind-the-scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth - little food In the 1960s and 70s the traditional ideals of marriage were guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the grows, it's dark for months on end and temperatures stay well questioned as never before. These were decades of greater heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the below freezing for much of the year. Yet four million people affluence, optimism and experimentation, in which rebellious perfect pop record. manage to survive here. This film tells the remarkable stories of youth was in the vanguard of a cultural revolution. One of the extraordinary people who make their homes in nature's deep archetypal feminist rebels of this period was Rosie Boycott and freeze. the co-founder of Spare Rib describes why she once rejected SUN 22:00 The Maid (b014s533) marriage and how she lived the 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' Award-winning drama about Raquel, a maid who has worked In springtime, Amos and Karl-Frederik set out across the sea lifestyle to the point of self-destruction. The sexual for the same affluent family in Chile for 23 years. She's more ice with their dogs to catch a real-life sea monster - a Greenland experimentation of the period is captured by Anne Geraghty or less family, but when it is suggested she hire someone else to shark. Inuit mussel-gatherers venture underneath the sea ice at and Martin Gerrish, who joined the Orange People and lived in help her look after the large house and family, Raquel has to low tide for a perilous race against time as they gather their free love communes, but ended up marrying each other. fight to hold on to her position while battling increasingly food. delicate health. But the arrival of one maid, Lucy, helps her Divorce was on the increase during the 1960s and 70s, made discover herself. The children of Churchill, Manitoba, set out on the most possible by divorce law reform. Convent girl Maureen Flanagan dangerous trick or treating Halloween in the world, risking married an Irish navvy who resented her career as a model, and In Spanish with English subtitles. coming face-to-face with deadly polar bears on the streets of when she became the Sun's first Page Three girl their marriage their town. Who will get the tastiest snack? was over. Debutante Fiona McCarthy escaped the upper-class marriage she loathed after meeting and falling in love with SUN 23:30 Room at the Top (b0103qm0) Sheffield silversmith David Mellor - and marrying him. Episode 1 SAT 20:00 Horizon (b013pnv4) 2011-2012 Yet despite the increase in divorce, marriage was very popular Leaving working class Dufton behind him, Joe Lampton arrives and the majority of marriages remained quite conventional. In in the affluent mill town of Warley with two things on his mind Seeing Stars the so-called Swinging Sixties there were still many virgin - money and sex. He takes lodgings at The Top, where the rich brides like Alan and Judith Kettly, who tell the moving story of folk live, and starts mixing with a better class of female at the Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting their courtship, while black Labour peer Rosalind Howells local amateur dramatic society. He is soon dating Susan Brown, for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, describes her successful mixed-race marriage. the daughter of the richest man in Warley. But his plan to marry black holes, even other forms of life. into the wealthy middle classes is threatened by his feelings for Alice Aisgill, a woman who is not only ten years older than him, They have created a dazzling new set of supertelescopes that SAT 01:50 Human Planet (b00rrd7r) but also married. promise to rewrite the story of the heavens. [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] This film follows the men and women who are pushing the SUN 00:30 Room at the Top (b0109hhx) limits of science and engineering in some of the most extreme SAT 02:50 Horizon (b013pnv4) Episode 2 environments on earth. But most strikingly of all, no-one really [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] knows what they will find out there. Joe is busy cutting a swathe through Warley society and is playing with the affections of two women - Susan Brown, the daughter of the richest man in Warley, and Alice Aisgill, a SAT 21:00 Inspector Montalbano (b01n5w9b) SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2012 married older woman. But Joe is making enemies as well as The Wings of the Sphynx friends. Escaping the prying eyes of Susan's spies, Joe takes SUN 19:00 Canal Walks with Julia Bradbury (b01173hc) Alice on an illicit holiday to the coast. In a cottage by the sea, The naked body of a young woman is discovered on a beach The Kennet and Avon Canal they dare to dream. Back in Warley, Joe realises that he is going near Vigata. The girl was shot in the face, her identity is to have to choose between Alice and Susan. Which will he unknown and the only clue police have to go on is a butterfly Seasoned stomper Julia Bradbury dons her walking boots once choose - money or love? tattoo on her shoulder. Montalbano sets to work trying to again to explore her own British backyard, travelling along the establish the girl's identity and investigates possible links country's network of canals and their accompanying towpath between the murder victim and a local charity with connections trails. This sees her navigating Highland glens, rolling SUN 01:30 British Passions on Film (b01n1tbv) to the church. Meanwhile, his relationship with Livia continues countryside and river valleys, as well as our industrial Planes, Trains and Automobiles to suffer as a result of his poor work/life balance. heartlands, following these magical waterways as they cut a sedate path through some of the country's finest scenery. Throughout the 20th century, archive films and newsreel In Italian with English subtitles. footage has chronicled Britain's enduring fascination with the Julia starts this walk in the beautiful world heritage city of Bath, nation's most important modes of mass passenger transport. where the Kennet and Avon Canal provided a 19th-century This film shows how Britons responded to advances in transport SAT 22:50 Story of Light Entertainment (b00792f0) 'canal superhighway' between the country's two most important technologies and the emergence of new automobiles, rail All Round Entertainers ports, Bristol and London. But only forty years later the trade services and aircraft designs - each of which held out the along the canal was usurped by rail travel, leaving the once great possibility of travel to new, exciting and previously inaccessible Straight from the Victorian music halls with their traditional waterway neglected and derelict. Julia's 20-mile walk along destinations. mix of song, dance and comic skit came the tradition of the all what is arguably the most picturesque stretch of the canal tells round entertainer - an artiste who could 'do it all'. But despite the story of how the waterway was restored to its former glory Featuring contributions from the cultural critic Jonathan this incredible mix of skills and after ruling the world of light after it was awarded the biggest ever lottery heritage grant. The Glancey and the transport historian Christian Wolmar, it entertainment for years, their chief mode of employment was to walk ends at the spectacular Caen Hill flight of locks, listed as celebrates the contribution that these different forms of become hosts of variety shows, game shows, quizzes and one of the seven wonders of British waterways. transport made to the collective imagination of the nation, and competitions. And whilst an obvious waste of their talents, it shows how such developments as jet aircraft and the Channel did provide huge fame and money, as game shows quickly tunnel opened up new horizons for successive generations of became the biggest hits on TV. SUN 19:30 Story of Light Entertainment (b00792h4) British people. Radio Stars But the all round entertainers are the masters of reinvention - from Bruce Forsyth to Michael Barrymore and Bob Monkhouse In the 1930s and 1940s the biggest names in entertainment were SUN 02:00 ... Sings The Beatles (b00ml7p5) to Cilla Black, they adapted their skills to keep their place at the the stars of the radio and over 60 years later it is still home to Recorded for the 40th anniversary of Abbey Road, The Beatles' top of the slippery showbiz ladder, even as reality TV took hold some of the biggest names around. But why does radio still final album, a journey through the classic and curious covers in of the schedules and fame rather than talent became a passport appeal to TV stars like Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, Michael the BBC archives. to TV stardom. Parkinson, Ricky Gervais and Terry Wogan? Maybe it's because radio is the real hotbed of ideas that television feeds Featuring Sandie Shaw singing a sassy Day Tripper, Shirley But becoming a jack of all trades brings its own problems, and off.