Visual Arts
3 Minute Wonder: Found Family Footage
Saturday 19 February
3:30pm - 3:35pm
More4
The Sea
2/4
Artist Kutlug Ataman's series exploring themes of childhood and aviation continues with an exploration of the contrast between the turbulent ocean and the safe haven of the shallow seashore.
3 Minute Wonder: Found Family Footage
Saturday 19 February
3:35pm - 3:40pm
More4
Airbound
3/4
Documentary offering a compelling look at two individuals' first experiments with defying gravity.
3 Minute Wonder: Found Family Footage
Saturday 19 February
3:40pm - 3:45pm
More4
The Contest
4/4
The final film from artist Kutlug Ataman gives an insight into 1950s pageantry. Featuring music by Michael Nyman.
Sheila Hancock Brushes Up: The Art of Watercolours
Sunday 20 February
6:00pm - 7:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
The actress presents a history of watercolour painting, discovering a catalogue of little-known works and exploring how the medium's immediacy and freedom has given it an enduring appeal for both amateur and professional artists. She visits locations including the Alps, India and Venice to tell the stories behind paintings that were created there, as well as examining the importance of watercolours to artists in the days before photography.
How the West Was Lost
Sunday 20 February
9:00pm - 10:30pm
BBC Four
Comedian Rich Hall presents an insight into America's fascination with the Wild West, featuring footage of films including the 1894 silent movie Buffalo Bill and Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner Unforgiven. Shot on location in Arizona, Montana and Wyoming, Rich explores the history of the Western and how it has influenced other films, placing the genre in a social and historical context.
BBC HD Film Shorts
Sunday 20 February
12:00am - 12:45am
BBC HD
2/2
Six short films from up-and-coming directors, including Ian Barnes's Oscar-nominated drama Wish 143, starring Rory Kinnear and Jodie Whittaker. Plus, Tom Harper's Cherries, Ben Soper's Night School, Martin Malone's Stranded, Tom Daley's The Rules of the Game and Cassiano Prado's Tiga - What You Need.
The Chaplin Archive
Monday 21 February
11:00am - 11:30am
BBC Radio 4
1/2
Writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet travels to Vevey in Switzerland to explore the former home and personal archives of Charlie Chaplin. The actor's son, Michael, reveals letters, photographs, scripts, recordings and scrap-books that offer an insight
into his father's life.
The Beauty of Books
Monday 21 February
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC Four
Illustrated Wonderlands
3/4
How illustrated books became an established genre owing to the Victorians' new printing technology, an emerging middle-class readership and a sentimentalised regard for childhood and fairy tales. The programme reveals how the writer and illustrator partnership has continued to enrich books, from Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo.
Rolf on Welsh Art
Wednesday 23 February
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC1 Wales
Josef Herman
2/4
Rolf Harris profiles Polish-born Josef Herman - the painter who fled Nazi-occupied Warsaw and settled in the small mining community of Ystradgynlais in the Swansea valley. The presenter discovers why the artist was inspired to paint miners as working-class heroes, before trying a painting in his style.
Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture
Wednesday 23 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4
Children of the Revolution
3/3
Alastair Sooke tells the story of sculpture over the last 100 years, a century of innovation, scandal and creativity. He examines the artistic revolution spearheaded by Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein, which paved the way for the work of Gilbert & George and Damien Hirst. He also explores the art form's rise in popularity, from First World War memorials to the landmark work of Anthony Gormley and Rachel Whiteread. Last in the series. Part of the Focus on Sculpture season.
Imagine
Wednesday 23 February
10:00pm - 11:00pm
BBC Four
The Plinth, the Model, the Artist and His Sculpture
The documentary series charts the creation of Marc Quinn's sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant - a work which took five years to finish, portraying the disabled artist naked as she awaited the birth of her son. Part of the Focus on Sculpture season.
Civilisation
Wednesday 23 February
10:00pm - 10:50pm
BBC HD
Romance and Reality
3/13
Art historian Kenneth Clark travels from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral at Pisa. He looks at the aspirations of later medieval culture in France and Italy, examining the societies that produced St Francis and Dante.
Framing Wales: Art in the 20th Century
Thursday 24 February
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC2 Wales
1/4, series 1
New series. Kim Howells explores the story of Welsh art in the last century, including the work of Augustus and Gwen John, the sense of nationalist revival in the paintings of Christopher Williams and the moving sketches of David Jones.
The Culture Show
Thursday 24 February
11:20pm - 12:20am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
3/5
Andrew Graham-Dixon examines the National Gallery's exhibition of paintings by 16th-century Flemish artist Jan Gossaert, and Alastair Sooke travels to Paris to interview reclusive street artist JR. Guy Walters investigates the extreme side of online behaviour, Maxine Peake and Anne-Marie Duff discuss their roles in the latest stage versions of two Terence Rattigan plays, and Miranda Sawyer meets the members of alternative rock band Elbow to talk about their latest album.
Hidden Treasures of Australian Art
Friday 25 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
1/3
Griff Rhys Jones embarks on adventures to find out what kinds of art are still being created by indigenous people around the world. In the first edition, he travels to the remote Torres Strait Islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea, where he explores what remains of a creative and warlike culture, which was once inhabited by head-hunters who believed in magic and sorcery.
Culture
Faulks on Fiction
Saturday 19 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
The Snob
3/4
Author Sebastian Faulks examines how writers including Jane Austen and Monica Ali have deployed snobs as secret weapons in their novels. Featuring contributions from Tim Lott, Alain de Botton and John Carey.
The Man Machine: The Story of Kraftwerk
Sunday 20 February
12:00pm - 1:00pm
BBC 6 Music
Jarvis Cocker presents a profile of the German electronic music pioneers and assesses the part of other bands such as Tangerine Dream and Neu! in the Krautrock movement. Including an interview with Ralph Hutter, the sole survivor of the original line-up.
When God Spoke English - The Making of the King James Bible
Monday 21 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC Four
Adam Nicolson examines the creation of the influential text, which has shaped language, culture and society around the world. Scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London worked on the version for a king who hoped to unite a country torn by religious factions. The programme delves into recently discovered manuscripts that reveal the translation process and asks why the result has had such a lasting legacy.
The Essay
Monday 21 February
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character: An Alternative History of the Novel - The World
1/5
Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique through a different fictional character each day. Beginning by focusing on Flaubert, McEwan's Saturday and Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, he explores the connection between modern fiction and cinematic and photographic technique.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Tuesday 22 February
11:05pm - 11:50pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
6/6
Actor and director Spike Lee is determined to discover more about his family's slave origins as he investigates the ancestry of his maternal grandmother Zimmie Jackson. Visiting archives in Atlanta, Georgia, he uncovers the names of three great-grandparents, a discovery that takes him on a journey back through emancipation, the American Civil War and ultimately the identity of the master who owned his family.
The Foghorn: A Celebration
Tuesday 22 February
1:30pm - 2:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Peter Curran highlights works of music, literature and film over the past 70 years that have found their inspiration on the low notes of the foghorn. He hears from composer Alvin Curran, and former `fogmeister' Jason Gorski, who used to conduct illegal foghorn concerts in San Francisco Bay. He also takes a tour of Portland Bill lighthouse in Dorset, home to a powerful Victorian horn.
The Essay
Tuesday 22 February
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character: An Alternative History of the Novel - Thought
2/5
Critic James Wood emanines aspects of novelistic technique through a fictional character. He continues by exploring how the novel's ability to depict the stream of consciousness has `improved' over the past 200 years, and discusses the elements of this progress. In addition to considering the work of such obvious authors as James Joyce and Saul Bellow, he also acknowledges the contribution of Jane Austen, the great pioneer of early stream of consciousness.
The A-Z of AOR
Tuesday 22 February
11:00pm - 12:00am
BBC Radio 2
1/6
Bob Harris presents a six-part history of album-oriented rock, a trend powered by the release of the Beatles' concept album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, and taken up by the experimental rock musicians of America's West Coast scene. A reaction to the culture of the three-minute single, it stimulated new levels of creativity and musicianship, and drove album sales to record figures.
Bring On the Clowns
Thursday 24 February
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Traditionally associated with the circus ring, clowns are now often relegated to children's parties and as mascots in advertising promotions. Tony Lidington explores whether one of the oldest forms of entertainment still has the power to transform people with laughter and fun, especially during times of financial woe.
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
Thursday 24 February
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC Four
Windows on the World
1/3
Professor Jerry Brotton explains the creation and importance of maps, discovering the latest technology that is improving the cartographer's art and revolutionising man's knowledge of the world. On a visit to the oldest known map, etched into a hillside 3,000 years ago, he considers how different cultures have approached map-making over millennia, often as a tool for expansionism and political control.
The Essay
Thursday 24 February
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character: An Alternative History of the Novel - The Self
4/5
James Wood explores how modernist and postmodernist fiction has explored the concept of the self as he continues to examine novelistic techniques.
McQueen and I
Friday 25 February
9:00pm - 10:45pm
More4
To commemorate the first anniversary of Alexander McQueen's death, this documentary tells the story of the fashion designer by examining the most important relationships in his life. The programme features unseen footage of McQueen, and interviews with stylist Isabella Blow, the woman who was credited with discovering him in the first place.
Psychology / Society
Mind Changers
Sunday 20 February
1:30pm - 2:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Study
2/3, series 5
Claudia Hammond interviews psychologist Walter Mischel, whose Marshmallow Test has become one of the most influential studies in the psychology of personality. During a six-year period in the 1960s and 1970s, he asked more than 300 four-year-old children whether they would rather be given one marshmallow immediately, or wait and receive two instead. He then analysed the cognitive processes behind his subjects' decisions, and continued to study them in later life to see whether there were patterns emerging among the two groups.
With Great Pleasure
The Call
Tuesday 22 February
9:30am - 9:45am
BBC Radio 4
4/5
Dominic Arkwright meets Duncan Irvine, who made a life-changing people phone call to the Samaritans in the 1970s following a failed suicide attempt. He discusses how simply speaking to someone about his sexuality, as well as his fears about his mother's mental health, helped him to come to terms with his situation.
With Great Pleasure
Tuesday 22 February
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
5/5
Psychiatrist and writer Oliver James presents a selection of his favourite pieces of prose and poetry. The readers are William Chubb and Susan Jameson. Last in the series.
True Stories: My Kidnapper
Tuesday 22 February
10:00pm - 11:55pm
More4
Documentary exploring how kidnap victim Mark Henderson, who was captured while trekking in the Colombian jungle in 2003, came to terms with the 101 days he spent in captivity. He reveals how, 11 months after the ordeal ended, he received an e-mail from one of his kidnappers, setting in motion five years of communication that eventually saw him return to the Sierra Nevada mountains. There, with three of his fellow hostages, he discovered the truth about the origins of the incident, and attended an emotional reunion with his jailers.
Methadonia
Thursday 24 February
12:05am - 1:05am
RTE1
The stories of seven men and women trying to kick their heroin habit, as they struggle with the mental and physical toll of treatment.
Teen Horse Whisperers
Teen Horse Whisperers
Friday 25 February
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Channel 4
Lucy Kaye's documentary follows five students from an alternative school in Bootle, Merseyside, as they try to tame wild horses at the Shy Lowen Horse and Pony Sanctuary. Over the course of two months, the film reveals how the teenagers address their own behavioural issues and try to build up relationships with the animals. Part of the First Cut strand.
Science / Nature
The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion
Sunday 20 February
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC Four
What Is the World Made Of?
2/6
Michael Mosley's journey continues, highlighting how the quest to identify the building blocks of the material world has pushed human civilisation to greater achievements. He explains how everything from alchemy to the invention of the transistor has been underpinned by the same query, and reveals how all these advances have led to the development of quantum physics.
Can Chemistry Save the World?
Wednesday 23 February
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC World Service
Ireland
What We Leave in Our Wake
Monday 21 February
10:40pm - 12:00am
RTE1
10:40pm - 12:00am
RTE1
Filmic essay that unfolds as a series of conversations on Ireland, exploring themes including emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism and the sense of a civic society.
The Story of Ireland
Tuesday 22 February
11:05pm - 12:15am
RTE1
The Age of Revolution
3/5
Fergal Keane explores the years between the Ulster Plantation and the Act of Union, an era that saw the country take centre stage in a much wider European conflict. He also draws attention to how 18th-century Dublin experienced an intellectual, architectural and cultural boom, and material filmed in Europe tells the story of why the French Revolution resonated so well with Wolfe Tone and his fellow reformers.
Tourism and Hospitality
The Spice Trail
Thursday 24 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Nutmeg and Cloves
2/3
Kate Humble travels around the Spice Islands in Eastern Indonesia in search of nutmeg and cloves, two aromatic substances that caused bloody wars and shaped empires. European explorers visited the volcanic islands in search of great wealth, but their voyages led to massacres of local people and the decimation of their culture. Kate meets those who have rebuilt their communities around the cultivation and trade of the spices.
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