BBC 4 Listings for 26 November – 2 December 2011 Page 1 of 3 SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2011 'The Slap' has turned her into an obsessive and it threatens her SUN 21:00 Storyville (b017sr43) relationship with friends and family, and especially her Riding Giants SAT 19:00 Yellowstone (b00jrh7r) husband, Gary. Summer The history of surfing culture is told through the exploits of the pioneers and contemporary heroes of big-wave surfing in Stacy As the spring melts the winter snow, the full extent of SAT 23:55 Top of the Pops (b017j75b) Peralta's documentary, which features the likes of Greg Noll Yellowstone is gradually revealed. Now, from the surrounding 04/11/76 and Jeff Clark. Riding Giants makes palpable the magnitude lowlands herds of elk, pronghorn and bison return from their and terrifying power of the waves they seek to conquer and winter feeding grounds to take advantage of America's richest Noel Edmonds introduces 1976 chart hits by Showaddywaddy, captures the unfathomable combination of adrenaline and fear natural grasslands - right in the heart of Yellowstone. In only a Bonnie Tyler, Climax Blues Band, the Manhattans and the Who. that the surfers experience each time they take on a monster few weeks, a brutally harsh deep freeze has been transformed With the Top of the Pops dancers. swell. into a flower-decked nursery perfect for the year's newborn animals. There is also a new cast of characters that emerge bleary-eyed from hibernation as grizzly bears begin to teach SAT 00:25 Gershwin's Summertime: The Song that SUN 22:30 Legends (b00r0t24) their young the secrets of survival in Yellowstone - how to hunt Conquered the World (b017nf05) Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy fish in the still-frozen rivers and, as the season progresses, when An intriguing investigation into the extraordinary life of to move out through valleys and grasslands into summer forests Gershwin's classic composition, Summertime. One of the most Dennis Wilson was the drummer in the Beach Boys. And he and up into Yellowstone's alpine peaks. In this spectacular covered songs in the world, it has been recorded in almost every was the real Beach Boy. In a band of geeks who sang about wilderness, over 10,000ft high, they slide and scrabble, hunting style of music - from jazz to opera, rock to reggae, soul to surfing, cars and girls, Dennis was the only one who surfed, the millions of tiny moths buried under rocks on the barren slopes. samba. Its musical adaptability is breathtaking, but Summertime one who drove hot rod cars in competition and the one who got also resonates on a deep emotional level. This visually and all the girls. But summer here is fickle - even on Midsummer's Day, winter sonically engaging film explores the composition's magical can descend from the surrounding mountains bringing properties, examining how this song has, with stealth, captured He was married five times, shared a house with Charles Manson punishing snows to fragile flower meadows. August is the only the imagination of the world. (with whom he wrote songs, including one recorded by the month in the year when it does not snow, but then, just as it Beach Boys) but died, ironically by drowning, at the age of 39. seems the easy living of summer has finally arrived, it is From its complex birth in 1935 as a lullaby in Gershwin's all- He was also the first Beach Boy to release a solo album, the brought to an abrupt end as fires sweep through the forest, black opera Porgy and Bess, this film traces the hidden history stunning Pacific Ocean Blue, which after years of being out of laying Yellowstone to waste. of Summertime, focusing on key recordings, including those by print and fetching hundreds on Ebay, was re-released in 2008 to Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Mahalia Jackson, Miles Davis and widespread acclaim, being voted No 1 Reissue of the Year by Yellowstone is the most geothermally active place on earth. Ella Fitzgerald. It reveals how musicians have projected their Mojo and Uncut magazines. There are 10,000 boiling springs, bubbling mudpots and own dreams and desires onto the song, reimagining fumeroles there, and more geysers than in all the rest of the Summertime throughout the 20th century as a civil rights This documentary tells the story of Dennis's life and music, world put together. For some, nature's fountains are more than prayer, a hippie lullaby, an ode to seduction and a modern with unseen archive footage and original interviews with Beach just a marvel, they are an obsession. 'Geyser Gazers' have seen freedom song. Boys Al Jardine and David Marks, his sons Michael and Carl them all and can even imitate them. and many friends and fellow musicians. These include Taylor Back in the 1930s, Gershwin never dreamt of the global impact Hawkins, drummer with the Foo Fighters who provided a vocal Summertime would have. But as this film shows, it has for the lost track on Pacific Ocean Blue, Holy Man, for which SAT 20:00 Art of America (b017j25v) magically tapped into something deep inside us all - nostalgia Dennis never laid down a vocal when he recorded the song in Modern Dreams and innocence, sadness and joy, and our intrinsic desire for 1977. freedom. Full of evocative archive footage as well as a myriad In the second part of his fascinating journey exploring versions of Summertime - from the celebrated to the obscure - American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon gets under the skin of the the film tells the surprising and illuminating tale behind this SUN 23:30 The Old Grey Whistle Test (b0074t8q) modern American metropolis. Starting his journey at the foot of world-famous song. California Comes to the Whistle Test the Statue of Liberty, which he describes as a pioneering early skyscraper, Andrew discovers how the ambitions of visionary A compilation of BBC performances by artists who lived and artists and architects helped America remove itself from the SAT 01:25 Yellowstone (b00jrh7r) worked in California in the 1970s. Featuring Jackson Browne, shadow of Europe and become the most advanced civilisation [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today] Little Feat, Ry Cooder, Judee Sill, Bonnie Raitt and a rare duet on earth. between James Taylor and Carly Simon. Andrew travels to downtown Manhattan to explore the grimy SAT 02:25 Art of America (b017j25v) world of early 20th century painters John Sloan and George [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today] SUN 00:30 New Power Generation: Black Music Legends of Bellows, and visits Stockbridge in Massachusetts to find out the 1980s (b0177bjb) how the world of Norman Rockwell is not as sentimental as it Prince: A Purple Reign first seems. In Chicago, he explores the visionary mind of architect Louis Sullivan and travels to the decaying outskirts of SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2011 Film which explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - the city to see the underside of the American dream. revolutionised the perception of black music in the 1980s with SUN 19:00 The Story of British Pathé (b014bb01) worldwide hits such as 1999, Kiss, Raspberry Beret and He uncovers the impact the Great Depression had on artists Around the World Alphabet Street. He became a global sensation with the release such as Edward Hopper and Arshile Gorky, and finds out how of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie Purple Rain this struggle inspired America's first internationally-acclaimed For more than half a century film and newsreel company British in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self- art movement - Abstract Expressionism. He pays a pilgrimage Pathe documented almost every aspect of British life, but it also discovery that continued right up to his passing in April 2016, to Jackson Pollock's perfectly-preserved studio in Long Island captivated audiences with enthralling stories from overseas. aged 57. to discover the secrets of his unique drip technique, before flying across America to take in one of modern art's most In the age before mass tourism made international travel From the psychedelic Around the World in a Day to his moving experiences, Mark Rothko's chapel in Houston, Texas. affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous masterpiece album Sign O' the Times and experiments with hip- travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British hop and jazz, Prince was one of most ambitious and prolific cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds. For songwriters of his generation. He tested the boundaries of taste SAT 21:00 The Killing (b0391fc7) decades Pathe dutifully covered royal tours to every corner of and decency with explicit sexual lyrics and stage shows during Series 2 the British Empire, but by the 1950s, when the first package his early career, and in the 1990s fought for ownership of his holidays were sold, the company also recorded the experiences name and control of his music, played out in a public battle with Episode 3 of the first generations of Britons who were able to indulge in his former label, Warner. Highly regarded as one of the most leisure travel around the globe. flamboyant live performers ever, Prince was a controversial and Having escaped from Herstedvester Prison, Jens Peter Raben famously elusive creative force. sets out to track down a member of his former army squad. This film examines the unique footage captured by the When an Islamist activist is arrested as the main murder company's cameras across five continents during Pathe's seven Contributors include Revolution guitarist Dez Dickerson, suspect, Lund and her partner Strange disagree on the direction decades of international film-making.