BBC 4 Listings for 2 – 8 June 2018 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 02 JUNE 2018 Top 10 hits alongside rarely seen early performances and cult acknowledged. fan favourites. SAT 19:00 The Burrowers: Animals Underground More than just well trodden tales of heroic struggle, it is also (b038lx3c) We journey through over 15 years of chart smashes showcasing the story of two competing military doctrines: one ill-prepared Episode 1 all the infectious numbers - Every 1's a Winner, Emma, So You for the organisational demands of a long battle, the other in the Win Again and It Started With a Kiss - and of course, The Full process of building the greatest military machine ever seen. Chris Packham sheds light on the magical underground world Monty scene-stealer You Sexy Thing, a song that was in the of three iconic British animals, badgers, water voles and rabbits. charts in the 70s, 80s and 90s. In one of the biggest natural history experiments ever SUN 22:00 The Jeremy Thorpe Scandal (b0b5y97j) undertaken, he investigates wild burrows to recreate full-scale There are reminders of just how many Top 10 moments they In 1979, Panorama reporter Tom Mangold led an investigation replicas for the animals to live in and be observed, including the had, with Girl Crazy and No Doubt About It, the hit that got into the trial of Jeremy Thorpe and others for the alleged largest man-made rabbit warren of its kind ever built. This away - Mindless Boogie - and their first appearance on BBC conspiracy to kill Thorpe's former lover Norman Scott. creates a window on their lives never witnessed before, from television with Love Is Life. Hot Chocolate were that rarity, a Convinced that the former Liberal Party leader would be found birth in winter to their emergence from the burrow in summer. 70s British pop band who largely wrote their own tunes and guilty, a special post-trial programme was prepared. This was arrangements and a mixed race band who perhaps inadvertently scrapped, however, when the jury returned its verdicts of not How do they create their burrows? How do they breed and give helped foster an early sense of British multi-culturalism. In guilty for all defendants, and the programme has remained birth? Observe fascinating new science and new behaviour as Errol, they had a frontman who was not only a great singer, unseen for almost 40 years. the team design and build a rabbit warren, a badger sett and a songwriter and frontman, but also resolutely and water vole burrow with its own riverbank. undemonstratively always himself, at ease in his own skin. Edited and updated with new information about a fresh 2017 police inquiry into the case, Tom Mangold's story shows how powerful political forces tried to protect Thorpe. The SAT 20:00 Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise (b06dpmyr) SAT 02:50 How to Get Ahead (b03yfwk1) programme features revealing interviews from 1979 with Fire and Ice At Renaissance Court Norman Scott, chief prosecution witness Peter Bessell and the alleged hitman Andrew 'Gino' Newton. Patagonia invites you into a rarely seen South American Writer, broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen wilderness, home to surprising creatures who survive in Smith explores Renaissance Florence under the reign of Grand environments that range from the mighty Andes Mountains to Duke Cosimo Medici. Cosimo's fledgling court prized the finer SUN 23:00 Amazon Abyss (b00hhf63) Cape Horn. things in life and some of the greatest painters, sculptors and Episode 7 craftsmen in world history came to serve the Grand Duke. But Discover the secret lives of pumas and hummingbirds. Soar successful courtiers had to have brains as well as brawn. The Mike de Gruy and Kate Humble lead an international team of with condors over glacial peaks and explore monkey puzzle canniest of them looked to theorists like Niccolo Machiavelli scientists and divers as they search for species new to science in forests from the time of dinosaurs. Ride with extreme kayakers for underhand ways to get ahead, whilst enlightened polymaths the Amazon River. over raging waterfalls, and with Patagonia's cowboys - the turned their minds to the heavens, and to ice cream. gauchos - as they round up wild horses. It is the climax of the diving expedition as the team explores a 90-metre chasm at the very bottom of the Amazon River. Scientists have no idea what lurks within. The team also SAT 21:00 Inspector Montalbano (b0b60y1x) SUNDAY 03 JUNE 2018 explores overgrown jungle streams in search of giant caiman Love and electric eels - a fish that can stun you with a 600-volt shock. SUN 19:00 Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways A former prostitute has disappeared. Her sister tells Montalbano (b01q7brf) As the expedition draws to a close, the divers prepare to jump that she had recently fallen in love, so the police start their Episode 2 into the depths of the river to confront and film the investigation by speaking to her lover, a meek and gentle man extraordinary fish that lie in the abyss. who is puzzled about where his partner could have possibly In the late 1830s, the railways arrived in London and linked the gone. capital to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. This was the start of a truly national network - and one of the greatest civil SUN 00:00 Civilisations Stories (b0b1bddh) In Italian with English subtitles. engineering projects in history. Series 1 The spread of the railways triggered a mania across Britain. The Empire SAT 22:50 Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean Railway tycoons like Samuel Morton Peto and George Hudson (b08dzx1h) made fortunes as the stock markets boomed around these new In days of empire - from the cloudy north west - the world must Series 1 developments. Yet the bubble burst in 1847 and shares have seemed exotic and vividly coloured. Brits travelled the plummeted. Thousands of ordinary shareholders filled the globe to bring back treasures such as mummies, art and even Episode 2 bankruptcy courts. However as Dan Snow reveals, the legacy of circus animals. Writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie reveals the mania was an incredible rail network for 19th-century how these discoveries influenced and reshaped our towns and Historian Michael Scott continues his journey through Sicily, Britain and a revolution in the way people lived. cities from one of the most colourful - and controversial - tracing the island's story through the arrival of the Muslim chapters of our past. Arabs and then the Normans - times in which religious and cultural tolerance was the order of the day. Michael explores the SUN 20:00 How to Build... (b00t3dc7) dark days of the Spanish Inquisition and then delves into the Series 1 SUN 00:30 Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways modern world - the unification with Italy and the rise of the (b01q7brf) Mafia. Britain's Secret Engineers [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] Today, Sicily faces a new challenge. The island is on the If you need to build a top-secret piece of equipment in the UK, frontline of Europe's migrant crisis but the Sicilian response, there's one place many people choose to go: defence contractor SUN 01:30 How to Build... (b00t3dc7) formed in part by their own turbulent history, may well surprise QinetiQ. [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] many northern Europeans. We follow workers at this leading British company on a global journey, as they reveal a handful of their secretive projects. We SUN 02:30 Return to Larkinland (b06hhlyl) SAT 23:50 Top of the Pops (b0b5b8mf) meet the scientists and engineers building robots to defuse Writer and critic AN Wilson revisits the life and work of one of Gary Davies and Paul Jordan present the pop chart programme, Afghanistan's deadly roadside bombs and learn how they're the greatest English poets of the 20th century, Philip Larkin - a first broadcast on 3 October 1985. Featuring Colonel Abrams, adapting them to help in dangerous civilian situations in the poet soon to be honoured with a place in Poets' Corner at Iron Maiden, Cameo, Rene & Angela and Midge Ure. UK. We find out how British experts are using stealth Westminster Abbey. technology to make wind turbines less visible to radar and, with unprecedented access, we follow the engineers racing to get Wilson traces Larkin's life from his childhood in Coventry, SAT 00:20 Top of the Pops (b0b5bj2g) Chinook helicopters ready for frontline service, including through to his student days at Oxford and then his adult years Peter Powell and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, Afghanistan. working in university libraries, whilst writing some of the best- first broadcast on 17 October 1985. Featuring Shakin' Stevens, loved and notorious poems in the English language. A-ha, Elton John, Colonel Abrams and Jennifer Rush. SUN 21:00 Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day Wilson, who knew Larkin in his later life, remembers (b0461mvr) memorable encounters with the poet and this personal SAT 00:50 Kate Bush at the BBC (b04f86xk) As veterans gather to relive one of the turning points of the connection helps him to reveal a complex man with a Between 1978 and 1994, Kate Bush appeared on a variety of Second World War, historian James Holland moves beyond the complicated, and at times tortured, private life. As part of this BBC programmes, including Saturday Night at the Mill, Ask D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for candid exploration into Larkin's life, Wilson confronts the Aspel, the Leo Sayer Show, Wogan and Top of the Pops.