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BBC 4 Listings for 9 – 15 January 2021 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 09 JANUARY 2021 SAT 00:00 Top of the Pops (m000qzmj) solar scientist Dr Lucie Green, as she takes a journey back Mark Goodier presents the pop chart programme, first through our most turbulent and dramatic weather history. SAT 19:00 Simon King's Shetland Adventure (b00qsc2h) broadcast on 7 June 1990 and featuring Pop Will Eat Itself, Don Episode 2 Pablo's Animals and Elton John. She finds an 18th-century storm surge that killed over a thousand people working in open Somerset fields, a hurricane Simon King, wildlife cameraman and Springwatch presenter, that drowned a fifth of the British Navy and winters so bitter sets off on an adventure to the Shetland Islands to live there SAT 00:30 Top of the Pops (m000qzml) that the country came close to total shutdown. But she also with his family through the changing seasons. Simon has Bruno Brookes presents the pop chart programme, first explores how our reactions to killer storms and cruel winters travelled the world for 30 years, but his boyhood dream was broadcast on 14 June 1990 and featuring Maureen, Guru Josh helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict - always to visit Shetland. And now he has the chance to try to and Maxi Priest. and protect ourselves from - the worst extremes. capture some of the remarkable wildlife and experience the beauty and the wild weather of Britain's most northerly isles. SAT 01:00 Island at the BBC (b00kvd3b) SUN 22:00 The Night Manager (p03g14d5) Spring arrives in Shetland, bringing with it an influx of wildlife Compilation of performances from the BBC archives of top Episode 1 from all over the world. Simon dives in the sea and discovers Island Records artists, including Cat Stevens's Father and Son, starfish, dead man's fingers and moon jellyfish. He also gets Roxy Music's Do the Strand and Stir It Up by Bob Marley and Hotel night manager Jonathan Pine receives a plea for help very close to a seal. The Wailers, plus tracks from Steel Pulse, U2, PJ Harvey, from a well-connected guest. His actions draw him into the Baaba Maal and Amy Winehouse. world of Richard Roper, a businessman and arms dealer. Simon follows the heartrending struggle at a wildlife sanctuary to teach Kirikoo, an injured baby otter, to use her back legs. SAT 02:00 Sahara with Michael Palin (b0074p4m) SUN 23:00 The Night Manager (b072vxvy) And with a little help and hindrance from his two-year-old [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] Episode 2 daughter Savannah, he sets up a hide and gives her a lesson in birdwatching. On the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, Roper's life of luxury SAT 03:00 Simon King's Shetland Adventure (b00qsc2h) and calm is shattered. Six months earlier, Burr continues her [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] recruitment of Pine, sending him to Devon to build his cover SAT 20:00 Sahara with Michael Palin (b0074p4m) story. Destination Timbuktu Series charting Michael Palin's trek across the Sahara Desert. SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2021 SUN 23:55 Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets Leaving the desert behind, Michael briefly savours the delights (m000qznd) of cosmopolitan Senegal - jazz clubs, wrestling competitions, SUN 19:00 The Victorian Slum (b07zd5pm) No programme information found dance troupes and the queen of the Senegalese soaps, Marie- The 1860s Madeleine. In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian SUN 00:50 Caribbean with Simon Reeve (p02l52fy) Joining the so-called Bamako Express, he endures two days and slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] nights on the train, but in the process gets to know a moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary schoolmistress who is nothing if not forthright about the story of how the Victorian East End changed our attitude to disadvantages of polygamy. poverty forever. SUN 01:50 The Victorian Slum (b07zd5pm) [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] In Bamako he finds renowned kora player, Toumani Diabate, In this episode, the slum dwellers move into the 1860s, when and delights in a master class before heading off to Dogon London was the capital of the world's first industrial country. superpower and the richest city on earth. Their new home is SUN 02:50 Timeshift (b04c36md) totally authentic - a forbidding Victorian tenement building [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today] The Dogon people have one of the most distinctive and made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outdoor celebrated cultures of West Africa and they nearly kill him with privies. There are businesses too - a small shop and a common a combination of excessively complex origin myths, an lodging house known as the doss house. For some of the new exploding flintlock and boiling hot millet. residents, it is a chance to live as their East End ancestors once MONDAY 11 JANUARY 2021 did, while others want to experience the history of their trades. Celebrating the Muslim 'Tabaski' feast in the beautiful city of MON 19:00 Snooker: The Masters (m000rjf1) Djenne with a man called Pygmy and securing a passage on a As it would have been, their priority is to earn money to put 2021 cargo boat with a Norwegian missionary called Kristin, the rest food on the table and pay the weekly rent. During the economic of the journey down the Niger River to Timbuktu seems plain boom years of the 1860s, life was tough for the poor, but at 11/01/2021 sailing, until the boat runs aground a day from its destination. least London provided ways to make a living as the slum dwellers find out. Whether it is piecework farmed out by Seema Jaswal introduces live coverage from Milton Keynes, factories like matchbox making and wood turning or where 2015 Masters champion Shaun Murphy takes on Mark SAT 21:00 Spiral (m000r6gw) repurposing old clothes for the rag trade, they all replicate the Williams, a two-time winner of the event. Series 8 work once done by poor Victorians. Episode 3 Graham Potter finds out first hand the back-breaking labour his MON 21:00 Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema forebears would have experienced and the effect on a Victorian (m000r6gq) Gilou is offered a way out of jail if he agrees to become a family when the main breadwinner was out of action. But it is Series 3 police informer, but on the condition that he keeps away from Shazeda Haque who finds life toughest as she experiences the Laure. Meanwhile, the police team focus their investigation on vicious cycle of poverty and debt that lone Victorian parents British Comedy the Paris neighbourhood of Barbès, where vulnerable delinquent endured. minors are being exploited by receivers of stolen goods. Mark Kermode returns with a third series of his Secrets of Cinema in which he explores the conventions that underpin our In French with English subtitles. SUN 20:00 Caribbean with Simon Reeve (p02l52fy) favourite movies and examines the techniques film-makers use Episode 2 to keep us coming back for more. SAT 22:00 Spiral (m000r6gy) The second leg of Simon Reeve's journey around the Caribbean In a revealing look at one of the defining genres of British Series 8 Sea sees him start at beautiful islands and travel along the coast cinema, Mark argues that comedy films win laughs by tapping of South America. On the beautiful and wealthy island of into our abiding national preoccupations. We love to root for Episode 4 Barbados, he meets the owner of a traditional chattel house who the underdog or 'little man', a key figure who appears in has turned down offers of millions of dollars from luxury countless guises. We delight in seeing class and manners The police investigation screeches to a sudden halt when property developers and dives the reef on a hunt for invading satirised and subverted. We’re fascinated by films that mix Souleymane disappears. How and where will they find him? lionfish which are disrupting the delicate ecosystem. comedy and crime. We enjoy home-grown pastiches and Meanwhile, Laure flouts the ban on seeing Gilou, who has got parodies that take the big beasts of Hollywood down a peg. And himself hired as a bouncer in Cisco's nightclub. There he meets On the green volcanic slopes of St Vincent, Simon meets the then there’s the infamous phenomenon of the British sex the security manager, Cisco's son Titi. marijuana growers hoping, like their prime minister, that the comedy... drug will soon be decriminalised. Venezuela is one of the most In French with English subtitles. turbulent countries in the Caribbean and from a high-rise slum From side-splitting classics to overlooked gems, Mark shows in Caracas to the lawless border lands, Simon tries to work out how making fools of ourselves can make for seriously good how a country so rich in oil has fallen so low. cinema. SAT 23:00 Paris (b007rj5y) Series 1 Ending his epic journey in Colombia, Simon gains rare access to the Kogi - an indigenous people who have maintained their MON 22:00 The Night Manager (b073gzyd) City of Dreams traditional forest lifestyle in the face of an encroaching and Episode 3 damaging modern world. Art historian Sandrine Voillet tells the story of how Paris rose While he continues to recuperate in Roper's villa, Pine starts to up from the blood-stained streets of the French revolution to dig up secrets about the other members of the household.