BBC 4 Listings for 7 – 13 April 2018 Page 1 of 4 SATURDAY 07 APRIL 2018 Bananarama awards ceremony from Belfast's Waterfront Hall. Live music is provided by Paul Brady, Eliza Carthy, Donal Lunny, Cara SAT 19:00 Insect Worlds (b01r9097) In the aftermath of the punk era, three girls decided on a career Dillon and more. Them and Us in pop music - they called themselves Bananarama and became one of the most successful British girl groups ever. Original Steve Backshall explores the connections and relationship that members Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, SUN 22:00 The Sky at Night (b09ynh9w) we have with insects and other arthropods. In Kenya, huge plus Pete Waterman, Malcolm McLaren and Terry Hall reflect Mars: Red and Dead? armies of driver ants give houses a five-star clean-up, and in on how the girls became stars and how they almost lost their China, we discover how silkworm caterpillars have shaped our friendships in the process. Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Chris Lintott reveal the latest culture and distribution. While locusts devastate crops in results from Nasa's Curiosity and Esa's ExoMars TGO missions Africa, bees and beetles across the world provide a key link in that are attempting to find signs of life on Mars. Maggie visits our food chains. Many of us perceive these animals merely as SAT 00:30 The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain: Big the Airbus 'Mars Yard' to find out how the next lander heading creepy crawlies and nothing more than a nuisance, but as Steve Bill Broonzy (p01kc82z) to Mars is being built to survive the planet's incredibly hostile reveals, we couldn't live without them. Big Bill Broonzy would inspire a generation of musicians, yet environment. And the team asks - if Mars is a dead planet, he was not the man they believed him to be. This first, very could the first life on Mars be humans? Chris talks to Andy intimate, biography of the pioneering bluesman uncovers the Weir, author of The Martian, about whether a manned mission SAT 19:30 Commonwealth Games Extra (b09ytttt) mystery of who Broonzy really was and follows his remarkable to Mars is just a fantasy. Gold Coast 2018 and colourful journey from the racist Deep South to the clubs of Chicago and all across the world. With contributions from: Day Three- 07/04/18 Pete Seeger, Ray Davies, Keith Richards, Martin Carthy, John SUN 22:30 Horizon (b077nl9f) Renbourn and members of the Broonzy family. Broonzy's own 2016 Further coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games from words are read by Clarke Peters. Gold Coast, with extended highlights of gymnastics. The End of the Solar System SAT 01:30 John Williams at the BBC (b073mrky) This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by SAT 21:00 Below the Surface (b095swd2) Fifty years of spellbinding performances from one of the the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight Series 1 guitar's greatest players, John Williams. Gold from the BBC's billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict archive that takes in classical masterworks, the prog rock of Sky how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even Episode 7 and comedy with Eric Sykes, as well as duets with fellow guitar planets in their final moments. maestro Julian Bream. Philip refuses to reveal to Hans how he knows one of the Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful hostage takers, forcing Hans to assume command of the team, midwestern town that has a giant scale model of the solar until chief of staff Palle Wulff arrives to provide the SAT 02:30 50s Britannia (b01skxpp) system spread out all over the city. As it ages, the sun will bloat confidential information which also reveals to Philip that he Trad Jazz Britannia into a red giant star, swallowing planets... as well as half the himself has been betrayed. As the hostage takers begin to show town. The fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance. How will the strain Hans decides that the time has come for action. Documentary telling the story of Britain's postwar infatuation the solar system end? with old New Orleans jazz. With rare 78rpm imports as their In Danish and English with English subtitles. only guide, a generation of amateur jazz enthusiasts including Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber created a traditional jazz SUN 23:30 Conversations (p05rmlmn) scene that strove to recreate the essence and freedom of 1920s Michael Heseltine SAT 21:45 Below the Surface (b095swdc) New Orleans in 1950s Britain. Series 1 Sean Curran talks to former Conservative deputy prime While British youth jived in smoky dives, the music itself was minister Michael Heseltine about his life and political career. Episode 8 beset by arguments of authenticity. Begging to differ with the source material, Ken Colyer embarked on a pilgrimage to New Philip complies with Mark's demand that he goes down in the Orleans in search of the real deal while a larger ideological war SUN 00:30 How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren lift to ensure the safety of the remaining hostages. Mark rings raged between mouldy figs and dirty boppers- traditional and Mitchell (b05ywvtb) Louise to arrange for the transfer of the ransom money. modern jazz fans. As its popularity grew, commercial forces Episode 1 descended and a 'trad' boom sent the purists running for cover In Danish and English with Danish subtitles. at the turn of the decade - the first and last time New Orleans In the opening episode, Victoria traces the story of the first jazz became British pop. bohemians. She begins in post-revolutionary Paris, where poverty-stricken, garret-dwelling artists and writers gained a SAT 22:30 Top of the Pops (b09xzvbs) Featuring Acker Bilk, Chris Barber and previously unseen reputation for loose living, colourful clothing and wild, naked Peter Powell and Dixie Peach present the pop chart programme, interviews with Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly. parties. They revelled in the absurd - for example, one first broadcast on 15 August 1985. Featuring UB40 with legendarily took his pet lobster for walks in the park. Here the Chrissie Hynde, Madonna, The Cars, Kate Bush and Billy Idol. archetype of the bohemian was born, immortalised later in Puccini's opera La Boheme. But were they trailblazing creatives SUNDAY 08 APRIL 2018 or irritating posers? And is living outrageously a necessary step SAT 23:00 Boy George and Culture Club: Karma to towards producing great art? Calamity (b054v27d) SUN 19:00 Only Connect (b09ynh71) In the early 1980s, Culture Club was one of the biggest bands in Series 13 Victoria goes on to explore how bohemian subculture took root the world, selling 150 million records worldwide. Formed in in Britain through the groundbreaking art, eccentricities and bad- London, the band was comprised of Boy George on vocals, Detectives v Vikings boy behaviour of the Pre-Raphaelites. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Mikey Craig on bass, Roy Hay on guitar and keyboards and Jon cultivated his image as an oddball, keeping a menagerie Moss on drums. As well as their UK success, the band was huge Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will including a much-loved wombat. He caused a scandal when he in the USA - notching up ten top 40 hits. Being part of Band only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital. became obsessively entangled with Janey Morris, wife of his Aid cemented them as stalwarts of the 80s, a band that broke friend, the designer William Morris. Victoria learns how down barriers and left a huge legacy for the stars that came Two teams of round-three losers return for a last chance to bohemianism evolved into the dandy pose of aesthetes such as later, before they disbanded in 1986. make the semi-finals. They compete to find the connections playwright Oscar Wilde and artist Aubrey Beardsley, whose between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random. So explicit drawings intrigued and shocked the public in equal However, they are a band with a past as colourful as their join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects measure. music. George had a secret affair with his drummer Jon Moss Railway, Lonely, Little wheel and Twenty-one. and when they acrimoniously split, the band fell apart and And she recounts how, most surprisingly, bohemian living George descended into heroin addiction. Over the years there found one of its greatest advocates in children's author Arthur have been numerous failed attempts to reunite the band. SUN 19:30 University Challenge (b09yn6t6) Ransome who, long before Swallows and Amazons, wrote a 2017/18 whimsical traveller's guide to bohemian London. In 2014 Culture Club decided to come back together to record a new album and embark on a UK and US tour. Director Mike Episode 34 Victoria's historical journey is given added resonance through Nicholls has unique access, following the band as they first her probing, highly entertaining encounters with a range of meet in George's London home to write new material. However, It is the last of the quarter-finals and one more team make it illuminating modern bohemians, including Stephen Fry, artists it's not long before creative differences and tensions from their through to the semi-final stage of the quiz for students. Jeremy Grayson Perry and Maggi Hambling, pop star-turned-vicar and past begin to emerge. Faultlines develop further when the band Paxman asks the questions.