BBC 4 Listings for 25 June – 1 July 2016 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2016 Hollywood. From pop to rock, from country to soul, from jazz gravity flight, Brian experiences the feeling of total to punk, all of music embraced what 'the album' could offer. weightlessness, and considers how much of an effect gravity has SAT 19:00 Glastonbury (b07kd954) But with the collapse of vinyl sales at the end of the 70s and the had on the world around us. 2016 arrival of new technologies and formats, the golden era of the album couldn't last forever. But gravity also acts over much greater distances. It is the great Baaba Maal & Mbongwana Star orchestrator of the cosmos. It dictates our orbit around the sun, With contributions from Roger Taylor, Ray Manzarek, Noel our relationship with the other planets in our solar system, and Highlights from the Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts Gallagher, Guy Garvey, Nile Rodgers, Grace Slick, Mike even the way in which our solar system orbits our galaxy. continue with Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal. The singer- Oldfield, Slash and a host of others, this is the story of When songwriter and percussionist, who recently released his 17th Albums Ruled the World. Yet the paradox of gravity is that it is actually a relatively weak album The Traveller, is no stranger to Glastonbury, but as he force. Brian takes a face distorting trip in a centrifuge to makes his debut on the Pyramid stage he'll provide a modern explain how it is that gravity achieves its great power, before but evocative musical twist on the West African tradition of the looking at the role it plays in one of the most extraordinary griot. SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2016 phenomena in the universe - a neutron star. Although it is just a few kilometres across, it is so dense that its gravity is 100,000 The storytelling troubadour is closely followed by Mbongwana SUN 19:00 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (p015vhp1) million times as strong as on Earth. Star. The chaotically creative musicians from Kinshasa will be Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous and controversial breaking all the rules when it comes to traditional Congolese women in British history. In 1536, she became the first queen in Over the centuries our quest to understand gravity has allowed music with their punk attitude and thrilling psychedelic sounds, Britain's history to be executed. The brutal speed of her us to understand some of the true wonders of the universe, and as they make their debut at the festival on the West Holts stage. downfall and the astonishing nature of the charges against her - Brian reveals that it is scientists' continuing search for answers treason, adultery, even incest - make her story shocking even to that inspires his own sense of wonder. this day. SAT 20:00 Glastonbury (b07kd956) 2016 Yet whilst we know how Anne died, the story of why she had to SUN 02:00 Rise of the Continents (b0368kb2) go and who authored her violent end has been the subject of The Americas Squeeze & the Last Shadow Puppets fiery debate across six centuries. In a radical new approach to televised history, a stellar cast of writers and historians, Professor Iain Stewart uncovers clues hidden within the New Mark Radcliffe and Clara Amfo introduce two acts from the including Hilary Mantel, David Starkey, Philippa Gregory and York skyline, the anatomy of American alligators and inside Pyramid Stage on day two of the Glastonbury Festival. South others, battle out the story of her last days and give their own Bolivian silver mines, to reconstruct how North and South London troupers Squeeze perform a selection of their classic unique interpretations of her destruction. America were created. We call these two continents the New tunes along with a couple of songs from their most recent and World, and in a geological sense they are indeed new worlds, critically acclaimed album Cradle to the Grave, their first torn from the heart of an ancient supercontinent - the Old record of new material in 17 years. Hot on their heels are the SUN 20:00 Glastonbury (b07j7jm3) World of Pangaea. stylish duo of Alex Turner and Miles Turner, who make their 2016 collective debut on the stage as the Last Shadow Puppets, along Iain starts in New York, where the layout of the city's with James Ford and Zach Dawes, to play tracks from their two Gregory Porter & Ellie Goulding skyscrapers provide a link to a long-lost world. Deep within albums together including recent release Everything You've their foundations is evidence that 300 million years ago New Come to Expect. Trevor Nelson and Clara Amfo continue Glastonbury festival York was at the heart of a huge mountain range - part of the coverage on day three with two performances from the Pyramid vast supercontinent called Pangaea. stage. First up is US singer-songwriter Gregory Porter, whose SAT 21:00 Egypt's Lost Cities (b011pwms) gift for uniting jazz, soul, gospel and R&B has awarded him a Trekking into the Grand Canyon, Iain uncovers a layer of It is possible that only one per cent of the wonders of ancient Grammy and worldwide critical acclaim. Adding a touch of sandstone from Pangaean times that shows there was a vast Egypt have been discovered, but now, thanks to a pioneering glamour to the proceedings is Hereford-born pop star Ellie desert either side of the mountains. Footprints in the rocks of approach to archaeology, that is about to change. Goulding. the Grand Canyon reveal that there was only one type of animal that could thrive here - a newly evolved group called the Dr Sarah Parcak uses satellites to probe beneath the sands, reptiles. Iain meets the closest living relative of those early where she has found cities, temples and pyramids. Now, with SUN 21:00 Glastonbury (b07j7jm5) reptiles - the alligator. Dallas Campbell and Liz Bonnin, she heads to Egypt to discover 2016 if these magnificent buildings are really there. Two hundred million years ago, Pangea underwent a PJ Harvey transformation. North and South America were carved from Pangaea, and pushed westwards as separate island continents. SAT 22:30 Glastonbury (b07j7jfl) Mark Radcliffe introduces Dorset-born multi-instrumentalist PJ To see how this westward movement shaped South America's 2016 Harvey as she takes to the Other stage on day three of Pilton's often bloody human history, Iain travels to Potosi in Bolivia. world-famous Glastonbury festival, performing tracks from her Cerro Rico is one of the most dangerous mines in human New Order & Philip Glass's Heroes Symphony forever evolving past work and latest album triumph The Hope history. Iain goes to the heart of this extinct volcano to reveal Six Demolition. Expect a dynamic set of electronica, folk, indie the process that has shaped South America - subduction. Day two of the Glastonbury coverage concludes with two and experimental rock from this unique singer-songwriter. contrasting live performances. Headliners on the Other Stage, Subduction has also created the longest continual mountain New Order are often hailed as one of the most critically range in the world - the Andes. At its heart lies the stunning acclaimed and influential bands from the 1980s, and the SUN 22:00 Glastonbury (b07j7jm7) ethereal landscape of the Salar de Uyuni, a vast salt flat where a Manchester legends' illustrious back catalogue of hits will no 2016 lake has been uplifted thousands of metres above sea level. The doubt provide the basis of a staggering set that will include lithium found here may be a new source of mineral wealth for music from their 10th studio album Music Complete. Earth, Wind & Fire Bolivia, for use in mobile phones. Charles Hazlewood succeeds the Mancunian heavyweights as he It's down to Trevor Nelson and funk legends Earth, Wind & The last chapter in the story of the Americas is told through that takes to the Park Stage to conduct members of the Fire to conclude this year's Glastonbury coverage with the most typically Andean animal, the llama. But like much of Paraorchestra for a performance of Philip Glass's Heroes ultimate celebratory disco knees-up. The Grammy-winning South America's wildlife it originated in North America, and Symphony, inspired by Bowie's 1977 album Heroes. Embodied jazz, funk, gospel and big band giants will no doubt pay tribute only came south when the two island continents of North and by an incredible light show, it will be one of the most to their late founder Maurice White amongst a whirl of South America joined three million years ago. extraordinary sights and sounds to be witnessed at Worthy uplifting feelgood music, multi-coloured lights and costumes Farm. for a party to end all parties. Since that momentous joining the story of the Americas has been a shared one. Together they continue their westward drift away from the Old World. However, on a cultural and SAT 00:45 Synth Britannia at the BBC (b00n93c6) SUN 23:30 Top of the Pops (b00zwrn5) economic level you could argue that the opposite is the case. In A journey through the BBC's synthpop archives from Roxy 1964 to 1975 - Big Hits our new global economy the Americas are at the very heart of Music and Tubeway Army to New Order and Sparks. Turn your our connected world. Moogs up to 11 as we take a trip back into the 70s and 80s! 1964 saw the birth of a very British institution. Spanning over four decades, Top of the Pops has produced many classic moments in pop culture.