Visual Arts
Forget the Oscars, Here Are the Kermodes
Saturday 26 February
6:30pm - 7:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Film critic Mark Kermode presents an alternative ceremony as the 83rd Academy Awards draw near, offering accolades to the cinematic talent he believes will be overlooked at the Oscars. He also offers an insight into how the awards season works, with a masterclass on how to win a statuette and a breakdown of what it is worth.
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss
Saturday 26 February
11:25pm - 12:25am
BBC Four
Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood
1/3
The League of Gentlemen star celebrates horror films, beginning with those produced during the golden age of Hollywood. He finds out how the succession of classic pictures that were made from the 1920s to 1940s defined the genre, and explores the threat posed by the rise of science fiction movies in the post-war atomic era. Among the films examined are Phantom of the Opera, Dracula and Frankenstein.
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss
Sunday 27 February
12:25am - 1:25am
BBC Four
Home Counties Horror
2/3
The League of Gentlemen star turns his attention to the mainly British movies of the 1950s and 60s, which were dominated by Hammer Films made in the English Home Counties. He meets key figures from the production company to find out why its works conquered the world, the excessive emphasis on sex that contributed to its decline, and talks to actress Barbara Shelley and actor David Warner about their horror appearances.
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss
Sunday 27 February
1:25am - 2:25am
BBC Four
The American Scream
3/3
The actor concludes his study by focusing on the American movies produced in the late 1960s and 1970s, including Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He explores how they were often made by pioneering independent film-makers and reflected social upheaval, and gets the inside story from well-known directors of the genre George A Romero, Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter. Last in the series.
The Chaplin Archive
Monday 28 February
11:00am - 11:30am
BBC Radio 4
2/2
Conclusion. Writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet meets Kate Guyonvarch, the director of Charlie Chaplin's family estate. The pair explore the vast archive of the actor's unpublished work that has been barely touched by scholars and researchers, to reveal a man who came to represent the spirit of his age.
The Beauty of Books
Monday 28 February
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC Four
Paperback Writer
4/4
A look at the emergence of paperback cover design in the 20th century and how it became a way of selling a book in the mass market. The programme looks at the changing designs on novels such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, drawing in new readers by reflecting each decade, as well as the advent of electronic readers and how novels face more scrutiny as they compete with technology. Last in the series.
The Miner in Art
Monday 28 February
7:00pm - 7:30pm
BBC2 Wales
Exploring the world of the miner in art, featuring some of the greatest Welsh artists who painted the faces and the families of the South Wales coalfields. Narrated by Eve Myles.
Lanyon's Last Flight
Tuesday 01 March
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Michael Bird explores Peter Lanyon's creative journey, focusing on Thermal, part of a retrospective exhibition of his works at the Tate St Ives. He reveals how the Cornish painter's famous piece was inspired by his passion for gliding, a hobby that ultimately claimed his life after he died of injuries sustained in a 1964 crash. Includes contributions by Lanyon's sons, and archive appreciations by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko and poet WS Graham.
3 Minute Wonder: The Filmmakers of Kabul
Tuesday 01 March
1:10pm - 1:15pm
More4
Sunglasses
1/4
Short film highlighting modern issues in Afghanistan. Director Mustafa Kia examines the clash between the country's traditional cultures and its growing westernisation, summarising the struggle through the story of a woman and her desire to buy a pair of sunglasses.
1:15pm - 1:20pm
More4
Afghan Film Archive
2/4
The head of the Afghan national archive directs a tribute to the film workers who risked their lives saving pieces of the collection from destruction at the hands of the Taliban.
1:20pm - 1:25pm
More4
Kabul Traffic
3/4
Wahid Nazzir reveals the challenges involved in navigating the streets of Kabul, which are gridlocked with taxis, military convoys and roadblocks.
Tuesday 01 March
1:25pm - 1:30pm
More4
1+1=1
4/4
Mirwaiss Rekab examines the inequality between the sexes in Afghanistan in an experimental but simple tale.
The View
Tuesday 01 March
11:15pm - 11:55pm
RTE1
Actress Carrie Crowley, lecturer Harry Browne and sculptor Ann Mulrooney join John Kelly to review Doug Liman's political thriller Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Also examined his Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's drama Howl, Nicole Krauss' novel Great House, and African artist Romuald Hazoume's exhibition at Dublin's IMMA.
Rolf on Welsh Art
Rolf on Welsh Art
Wednesday 02 March
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC1 Wales
Shani Rhys James
3/4
Rolf Harris explores the art of Australian painter Shani Rhys James, whose self-portraits are influenced by her family history and childhood experiences. He goes to Merthyr to discover more about his own family's Welsh roots, and makes a revelation about a scandal in Victorian times, and ends up trying a painting in Shani's style
Civilisation
Wednesday 02 March
10:00pm - 10:50pm
BBC HD
Man - the Measure of All Things
4/13
Art historian Kenneth Clark turns his attention to Renaissance man, visiting Florence, where the resurrection of a classical past gave fresh impetus to European thought, before viewing the architectural splendour of the palaces of Urbino and Mantua.
Time to Remember
Wednesday 02 March
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC Four
Stage and Screen
2/12, series 1
Archive footage of theatres, music halls and cinemas from the 1920s and 30s is combined with narrated reminiscences to shed light on the entertainment industry of the early 20th century. Includes reels of Charles Laughton applying his own stage make-up, chorus line auditions, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks' trip to Europe, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 release Blackmail. Narrated by Lesley Sharp.
Framing Wales: Art in the 20th Century
Thursday 03 March
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC2 Wales
2/4
Kim Howells focuses on the inter-war years, examining how the aftermath of the First World War drove artists like David Jones to produce more reflective work. He also explores the ways in which the industrial heartland of South Wales inspired a new generation of artists, including Ceri Richards.
The Culture Show
Thursday 03 March
11:20pm - 12:20am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
4/5
Andrew Graham-Dixon visits an exhibition of archaeological treasures from Afghanistan at the British Museum, Sarfraz Manzoor joins a photography project focusing on the UK's multicultural history, and Mark Kermode reports on rites-of-passage movie Submarine. Clemency Burton-Hill meets horse trainer and director Bartabas at Sadler's Wells, Ben Lewis explores the history of taxidermy and its contemporary form, and Simon Armitage looks back at the work of TS Eliot, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes.
Hidden Treasures of African Art
Friday 04 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
2/3
Griff Rhys Jones continues his quest to find art by indigenous groups by travelling to West Africa. He begins his journey in Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, where he learns the Dogon people used carvings and sculptures as spiritual tools, before visiting Accra, the capital of Ghana. Here, he discovers that the passing of time has had surprising results on invention and creativity.
Culture
Faulks on Fiction
Saturday 26 February
9:30pm - 10:30pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
The Villain
4/4
Author Sebastian Faulks examines how the characterisation of the villain has evolved in British novels over the past 300 years, from Lovelace in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to Barbara in Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal. Last in the series.
Something Understood
Sunday 27 February
6:05am - 6:35am
BBC Radio 4
The Disguise
Writer Sarah Cuddon considers the implications of assuming an alias or pseudonym, and asks what these alternative identities hide and reveal about those who use them. Featuring music by David Bowie, Charlie Winston and Mozart, with readings by Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble.
Drama on 3
Sunday 27 February
8:00pm - 9:45pm
BBC Radio 3
Helen
Helen, by Euripides. Adapted by Don Taylor. The Trojan War is over and the Greek forces are making their way home. Meanwhile, in Egypt, Helen of Troy is protesting to anyone who'll listen that she is innocent, that she never went to Troy, and the whole war was fought under false pretences. When her husband Menelaus is shipwrecked on the shore where Helen has been taking sanctuary, she not only has a lot of explaining to do, but also an escape to plan. This story of a war in the Middle East fought over dubious claims now has contemporary resonance. Frances Barber (Helen), James Purefoy (Menelaus), Paul Ritter (Theoclymenus), Anna Francolini (Theonoe/Chorus), Catherine Russell (Concierge/Chorus), Laura Rees (Slave/Chorus), Gus Brown (Teucer), Richard Galazka (Sailor/Messenger), Max Digby (Heavenly Twins).
Faking the Classics
Monday 28 February
2:30pm - 3:00pm
BBC Radio 7
Shakespeare
1/2
First of a two-part programme in which Jonathan Bate learns about attempts to forge great literary works over the years. He begins by enlisting the help of the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how the Bard's plays have been imitated - often in a very plausible fashion. Experts listen in and separate the real verse from the counterfeit.
The Call
Tuesday 01 March
9:30am - 9:45am
BBC Radio 4
5/5
Dominic Arkwright talks to Professor Peter French on the science of forensic acoustics, including speaker profiling, voice line-ups and sound enhancement. Last in the series.
The A-Z of AOR
Tuesday 01 March
11:00pm - 12:00am
BBC Radio 2
2/6
Bob Harris continues his 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. Tonight, he focuses on the work of Boston, Rick Springfield, Pat Benatar and Supertramp.
Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy - Le Punk Francais
Thursday 03 March
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
While it is true that much of punk's most important activity took place in the USA and England, Andrew Hussey explains why a lot of the artistic, cultural and intellectual grounding of the 70s punk movement came from the French, who influenced the likes of Malcolm McLaren, Tony Wilson and Richard Hell.
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
Thursday 03 March
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC4Spirit of the Age
2/3
Professor Jerry Brotton examines the way maps have reflected contemporary politics and belief - and in some cases inspired them. He studies medieval religious cartography on maps showing pilgrims the routes to Jerusalem or heaven, Victorian illustrations of the world - with every nation awarded a score according to how `civilised' they were deemed to be - and modern mapping of social problems including infant mortality and HIV.
Psychology / Society
Mind Changers
Sunday 27 February
1:30pm - 2:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Henri Tajfel's Minimal Groups
3/3
Claudia Hammond investigates Henri Tajfel's 1971 Minimal Group Studies, which were designed to discover the minimum basis on which people could be made to identify with a group and show bias against another. The experiments would go on to be regarded as an important step toward the creation of Social Identity Theory, which argues that an individual's identification with a group varies depending on how significant that group is at the time. Last in the series.
Coda
Monday 28 February - Friday 04 March
Daily at 3:15pm - 3:30pm
BBC Radio 7
1/5
Toby Stephens reads from playwright Simon Gray's account of coming to terms with terminal cancer.
Science / Nature
The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion
Sunday 27 February
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC Four
How Did We Get Here?
3/6
Michael Mosley examines the origins of humanity, one of the most controversial topics science has ever tackled. Along the way he investigates what roles eccentric French aristocrats, mountaineers, a 12-fingered Victorian publisher and a ridiculed German meteorologist have played in the development of theories about life on Earth.
Genius Unrecognised
Sunday 27 February
2:45pm - 3:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
1/5
New series. Tony Hill tells the stories of inventions that were initially dismissed, but went on to change the world. He begins with the tale of 17th-century Dutch draper Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, an amateur scientist who was responsible for one of the most important developments in microscope technology - but whose findings were regarded as nonsense at the time.
A Tall Story
Monday 28 February
8:00pm - 8:30pm
BBC Radio 4
Ian Peacock explores the story of two giants separated by 200 years, but united by a common genetic mutation. Brendan Holland from Northern Ireland is 6'9' and recently discovered he is related to Charles Byrne, whose 7'6' skeleton is on display at the Hunterian Museum in London. Scientist Marta Korbonits explains how DNA extracted from his bones can facilitate early detection and prevention of excessive growth in other descendants of the 18th-century freak-show star.
Horizon: Are We Still Evolving?
Tuesday 01 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Alice Roberts investigates whether, thanks to advances in technology and medicine,
mankind has managed to break free from the process of evolution. Following a trail of clues from ancient human remains, she examines the physiology of people living in some of the most inhospitable parts of the planet, and challenges the frontiers of genetic research by speculating on what the future has in store for homo sapiens.
In Our Time
Thursday 03 March
9:00am - 9:45am
BBC Radio 4
The Age of the Universe
Melvyn Bragg and guests including the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees discuss the age of the universe. Cosmologists have debated its likely age for centuries, but the discovery that the universe is expanding allowed the first informed estimates of its age to be made by Edwin Hubble in the early 20th century, and now it is generally agreed to be 14 billion years old.
Beautiful Minds
Thursday 03 March
11:00pm - 12:00am
BBC4
James Lovelock
2/3
James Lovelock explains the thought processes he used to develop atmospheric detection systems on Earth and Mars, and the concept of Gaia, a way of considering Earth as a holistic and self-regulating entity. He also discusses how he overcame the opposition of some of his peers to put his theories forward, and why he thinks the scientific establishment hampers intellectual creativity.
Tourism And Hospitality
The Story of Ireland
Tuesday 22 February
11:10pm - 12:20am
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.
Those Were the Days
Monday 28 February
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
2/4
A look at how holidays at home have been transformed in recent years. Narrated by Richard Dormer.
The Spice Trail
Thursday 03 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Vanilla and Saffron
3/3
Kate Humble visits Morocco and Spain to uncover the story of saffron, the world's most expensive spice. She joins a farmer and his family in the Atlas Mountains as they harvest their crop, and meets a man who tests the DNA to make sure the substance is genuine. Kate also heads to Paplanta in Mexico to learn about the history of vanilla, which was discovered by famous conquistador Hernan Cortes. Last in the series.
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