BBC 4 Listings for 11 – 17 August 2012 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 11 AUGUST 2012 SAT 00:25 10 Things You Didn't Know About... (b008pr87) SUN 23:25 Wilderness Explored (b00dwf7q) [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] Arctic SAT 19:00 Natural World (b00ybvz1) 2010-2011 Two hundred years ago, the Arctic was largely a great blank on SAT 01:25 Wild Swimming (b00t9r28) the map for would-be explorers. It captured their imagination as Elsa: The Lioness that Changed the World Alice Roberts embarks on a quest to discover what lies behind a place of sublime beauty and yet also as a desolate frozen the passion for wild swimming, now becoming popular in landscape, home to the deadly polar bear. It was a place where In the 1960s, Born Free captured the world's imagination with Britain. She follows in the wake of Waterlog, the classic heroes attempted to find the North-West passage and where the story of Elsa, an orphaned lioness who was taken in by swimming text by journalist and author Roger Deakin. whole expeditions disappeared without trace. George and Joy Adamson and returned to a life in the wild. The book and film sparked a new love of nature that has blossomed Her journey takes in cavernous plunge pools, languid rivers and In the last century, the polar sea has become a region of vital ever since, but the true story of what happened afterwards was unfathomable underground lakes, as well as a skinny dip in a strategic significance where the great powers built secret bases, far more tragic as both George and Joy were murdered. moorland pool. Along the way Alice becomes aware that she is transforming the lifestyle of the Inuit. Now, as the Arctic ice not alone on her watery journey. melts, the polar bear has become an emblem for the fragility of Fifty years on, this emotional and revealing drama documentary our planet. relives those events - with intimate contributions from Virginia McKenna and David Attenborough. SAT 02:25 Natural World (b00ybvz1) [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] SUN 00:25 The Joy of Disco (b01cqt72) Documentary about how a much-derided music actually SAT 20:00 10 Things You Didn't Know About... (b008pr87) changed the world. Between 1969 and 1979 disco soundtracked Tsunamis gay liberation, foregrounded female desire in the age of SUNDAY 12 AUGUST 2012 feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture as we Iain Stewart journeys across the oceans to explore the most know it today, before taking the world by storm. With powerful giant waves in history, with ten remarkable stories SUN 19:00 Pop Go the Sixties (b008d00q) contributions from Nile Rodgers, Robin Gibb, Kathy Sledge about tsunamis. Series 1 and Ian Schrager. These massive waves can be taller than the biggest skyscraper, Tony Bennett travel at the speed of a jet plane and when they reach land, rear SUN 01:25 Top of the Pops (b00zwrn7) up and turn into a terrifying wall of water that destroys A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. The Story of 1976 everything in its path. These unstoppable, uncontrollable forces of nature caused the ruin of an entire ancient civilization, may The nation grew up with Top of the Pops and it was always a have played a small part in the demise of the dinosaurs, and in SUN 19:05 Himalaya with Michael Palin (b0074qpt) talking point, but 35 years ago a particular kind of Top of the World War II were used as a weapon. Yet astonishingly, two Annapurna to Everest Pops programme and tone held sway. This documentary men who surfed the tallest wave in history - half a kilometre explores Top of the Pops in 1976 - as a barometer of the state high - survived. Michael Palin continues his Himalayan trek. During a Gurkha of pop and light entertainment TV. recruitment Palin is disturbed by Maoist insurgents, but survives to suffer as he climbs to 15,000 feet and sees the majesty of It celebrates the power of the programme and observes British SAT 21:00 Wallander (b01m2fr3) Annapurna Sanctuary. In Kathmandu he is blessed by the society of the mid 70s, British TV and the British pop scene. In The Fifth Woman Nepalese king before meeting some holy men. Crossing into 1976, glam was over and nothing had replaced it - the charts Tibet he meets his first yaks at the highest monastery in the belonged to Showaddywaddy, Brotherhood of Man and the Part 1 world before heading up the Rongbuk glacier towards the Wurzels, all to be found on Top of the Pops hosted by the summit of Everest. Radio 1 DJs. If you wanted rock you looked to the Old Grey Kurt Wallander returns home from a holiday in Rome with his Whistle Test, while outside the charts a new scene was father, who is dismayed to see him remain as obsessed with his rumbling. job as usual at the expense of his family relationships. But a SUN 20:05 Reputations (b0078cw9) brutal crime consumes all of Wallander's attention - an elderly Frankie Howerd Contributors include Tony Blackburn, David 'Diddy' Hamilton, poet with no family is found impaled on spikes under a bridge. Paul Morley, Toyah Willcox, Showaddywaddy, Brotherhood of Wallander, Svedberg and Maja begin investigating. When a Thanks to his role as Lurcio in Up Pompeii, Frankie Howerd Man, the Wurzels and Dave Haslam. flower collector goes looking for a rare orchid and is then became on of Britain's most popular and distinctive comedians. reported missing, the two crimes appear unconnected. But behind the titters there were secrets - things he was desperate to keep from the public, and truths so painful he tried SUN 02:15 Himalaya with Michael Palin (b0074qpt) In Swedish with English subtitles. to keep them even from himself. [Repeat of broadcast at 19:05 today] The programme explores Howerd's turbulent life from his early SAT 21:55 Wallander (b01m2fr5) days in south London and his efforts at serious acting through The Fifth Woman his radio stardom in the 1950s to his TV triumphs of the 60s MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2012 and 70s. His closest friends and colleagues talk about his Part 2 depression, his money troubles and his complex and hidden sex MON 19:00 World News Today (b01lxzsz) life. And we hear for the first time about his LSD-assisted The latest national and international news, exploring the day's When Wallander holds a press conference about the two recent psychotherapy and the shocking experiences it uncovered. With events from a global perspective. murders he is challenged by a civilian who thinks the police are contributions from Jonathan Ross, Griff Rhys Jones, Eric Sykes incompetent. Men are soon forming themselves into vigilante and Ian Carmichael. groups and taking the law into their own hands. Pressure is MON 19:30 Wilderness Explored (b00dzyz5) mounting on Wallander to come up with results, but it's still Australia's Red Heart proving hard to find a link between the murders so he begins to SUN 21:00 Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me delve into their pasts. Meanwhile, an unknown nurse assaults (b009s7gv) Australia's stark and beautiful red centre is now seen as part of another nurse on a maternity ward. Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie the country's national identity, with Uluru, or Ayres Rock, a Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering national symbol. But this vast desert centre was originally seen In Swedish with English subtitles. manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly as a place of death and silence by the first white explorers. It camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer has taken 200 years for a new perception to emerge, one that under wraps for 35 years, until his death in 1992. Yet through recognises it as a place of life and creation - the way it has SAT 22:55 Top of the Pops (b01lv6wc) career disaster, social stigma, illegality, numerous infidelities always been seen by the continent's original inhabitants, the 14/07/77 and Howerd's own deep-seated issues about his homosexuality, Aborigines. their love endured. David 'Kid' Jensen looks at the weekly pop chart from 1977 and introduces the Real Thing, the Saints, Jigsaw, Cilla Black, Dave MON 20:30 Nature's Microworlds (b01lycdq) Edmunds, Hot Chocolate, the Sex Pistols and a Legs & Co SUN 22:00 Parkinson: The Interviews (b01f7x12) Okavango dance sequence. Series 1 Steve Backshall tries to discover just what makes it possible for Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd a river to stop in the middle of a desert. The Okavango is the SAT 23:25 Timeshift (b0155fss) world's largest inland delta and home to one of Africa's greatest Series 11 Michael Parkinson introduces a recut of two interviews he did congregations of wildlife, and in asking the difficult questions with Frankie Howerd during the Parkinson show series and a Steve reveals the astounding secret to its existence. Dear Censor Christmas interview with Tommy Cooper. Lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, this Frankie Howerd wanted everything scripted, resulting in an MON 21:00 Growing Children (b01lyczl) programme has unique access to the files of the British Board unprompted and unrehearsed interview, whilst Tommy Cooper Autism of Film Classification. Featuring explicit and detailed managed to run rings around a delighted Parkinson. Includes exchanges between the censor and film-makers, 'Dear Censor' clips from Up Pompeii, The Main Attraction and The Bob Autism is a complicated and often misunderstood condition.