Visual Arts
Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You
Sunday 20 March
4:30pm - 5:00pm
BBC Radio 4
The life and work of Bob Cobbing, a poet who became known for his innovative use of sound and vision, and whose unorthodox readings polarised opinions among audiences and critics. Writers including Iain Sinclair, Peter Finch, Alan Brownjohn and Paula Claire discuss Cobbing's influence on the poetry world and the controversy caused by his approach to the art form.
Culture
For One Night Only
Saturday 19 March
10:30am - 11:00am
BBC Radio 4
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
1/4
New series. Paul Gambaccini explores the making of the live album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart. He interviews the 81-year-old artist who developed his comedy routines to break up the monotony of his accountancy job before being discovered by Chicago DJ Dan Sorkin and creating the first comedy record to ever top the charts.
A Gothic Quest
Saturday 19 March
7:00pm - 7:30pm
BBC Radio 7
Graveyards, Glamour and Celluloid Ghosts
2/2
Novelist Louise Welsh concludes her two-part investigation into what it means to be a goth, and why gothic literature continues to capture imaginations.
Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner
Saturday 19 March
11:00pm - 11:50pm
BBC4
The author talks to Derek Hart about his life and work in a documentary featuring extracts from films of his novels and screenplays, including the 1955 movie I Am a Camera and The Sailor from Gibraltar. He discusses his life abroad, Hinduism and his choice to remain an outsider, as well as the background to his book A Single Man. First aired in 1969.
Something Understood
Sunday 20 March
6:05am - 6:35am
BBC Radio 4
Happy Accidents
Irma Kurtz considers the importance of serendipity in shaping people's lives, and reflects on the joy of making an accidental discovery while looking for something else. The programme also features a reading of a letter by Christopher Columbus, which suggests the continent of America was discovered by chance.
Civilization: Is the West History?
Sunday 20 March
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Channel 4
New Worlds
3/6
Niall Ferguson explores the contrasting fortunes of North and South America, arguing that though many parallels can be drawn between the ways in which both were colonised, certain profound differences in ideology left the southern continent trailing badly behind its neighbour. He also examines the differing influences of Simon Bolivar and George Washington, and asks whether the two Americas are now becoming increasingly similar.
The David Bowie Story
Monday 21 March
3:00am - 4:00am
BBC 6 Music
1/6
Paul Gambaccini presents a profile of the singer.
Blackpool on Film
Tuesday 22 March
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
From the earliest 19th-century film-makers to modern-day news cameras, this documentary uses archive footage from more than a century to tell the story of the seaside town, which became one of Britain's most popular resorts in Victorian times, catering for an expanding working-class holiday market, and boasts a rich showbusiness history.
House Beautiful
Thursday 24 March
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen examines the impact of the Aesthetic Movement on British interior design and furnishings, a reaction to the ugly mass-produced goods shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He visits Leighton House in London, home and studio of Federic Lord Leighton, which was open to the public to admire and take inspiration from, and discusses how events in the 1870s contributed to the content of lifestyle magazines and tile and wallpaper design.
Anna Nicole from the Royal Opera House
Friday 25 March
9:00pm - 11:10pm
BBC4
Recording of the new opera based on the life of American model Anna Nicole Smith, focusing on her marriage to billionaire J Howard Marshall II and relationship with lawyer Howard Stern. Created by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas, the darkly comic work is conducted by Antonio Pappano with Eva-Maria Westbroek taking the title role. Introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill.
Psychology / Society
Documentary on One
RTÉ Radio 1 FM
Saturday, March 19th, 201
12:01pm to 2:45pm
My Dad - Brian O'Connell drops into the lives of three single fathers and documents the domestic routines and emotional implications of life as a single Dad.
Families in the Wild
Monday 21 March
9:35pm - 10:35pm
RTE1
2/4
The Cannons, Valla Blacks and Kearneys settle into their week in the wilds of Kerry. Clinical psychologist David Coleman explores the roots of their particular issues, which include the impact of separation on a family, coming to terms with past mistakes and listening to the children's concerns.
True Stories: Love, Lust and Lies
Tuesday 22 March
10:00pm - 12:00am
More4
Gillian Armstrong's fifth film in a series of documentaries exploring the lives of three women from suburban Australia. Having started the project during her subjects' adolescence in the 1970s, the director catches up with Josie, Diana and Kerry to discover how much they have changed over the past 35 years.
My New Best Friend
Thursday 24 March
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
Scotland
2/3
The transition from primary to secondary education is explored on a remote island off the north-west of Scotland. Youngsters Bryony, Galen, Jessica and Ruairidh adapt to life at a secondary school on the mainland, where they will establish their own identities and make new friends - daunting challenges for anyone, but especially when aged 12.
Media and Communications
Rude Tube: Viral Ads
Sunday 20 March
10:00pm - 11:05pm
E4
6/6
Alex Zane counts down the 50 most comical and absurd viral commercials available on the internet, including running shoes that walk on water, the surfing sheep, a shark attack in Venice, and Darth Vader Tom Tom.
The Essay
Monday 21 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
Requiem for Networks: Welcome to the Network
1/5
Writer Ken Hollings unlocks the history, power and revolutionary change of the new information networks. Are they a revolution or a regime change? Today the business and academic communities embrace the 'networks' with the same fervor they once showed the electronic media of the 1960s. Thanks to the internet they have the basic model for 'crowd sourcing', 'data farming' and other forms of research. Online communities of 'netizens' continue to multiply and flourish, offering new perspectives on consumption, relationships, political participation and mass communication. The networks today seem ubiquitous and omnipotent: but do they represent a cultural revolution or a total regime change? And what do we understand of their history or their power? Who and what, finally, do the networks connect us to? 'We set great store by the welcome we receive - we have usually travelled a great distance to get there'. Perhaps the hardest labyrinth to get out of is the one you don't even realize you are in?
The Narrowcasters
Tuesday 22 March
9:30am - 9:45am
BBC Radio 4
3/5, series 1
Nigel Cassidy highlights the work of broadcasters at EITB, a Basque TV station that produces its own soap opera to help boost the popularity of the ancient Euskara language.
What's in a Meme?
Tuesday 22 March
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Dr Susan Blackmore examines the cultural significance of internet memes, an exhaustive collection of in-jokes, parodies and gags created by the users of various forums and chatrooms, and circulated among their online friends. Along the way, she explores how satirical clips making use of footage from Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 film Downfall spread like wildfire across the web, and touches on the popular lolcats phenomenon.
The Essay
Tuesday 22 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
Requiem for Networks: Victorian Search Engines
2/5
Writer Ken Hollings discusses data-gathering and information exchange in the Victorian era, including the early telegraph wires, which followed the existing network of railways throughout the country, the pneumatic post system employed in Paris, and the gazetteers, almanacs and timetables used by Sherlock Holmes.
The Essay
Wednesday 23 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
Requiem for Networks
3/5
Ken Hollings explores the impact of the Cold War in shaping and determining worldwide information networks. From Sputnik to the development of the internet, the Cold War has provided an ideal climate for new innovations in communication, allowing them to flourish - with a little help from Neil McElroy, the man responsible for devising the soap opera.
The Essay
Thursday 24 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
Requiem for Networks
4/5
In his penultimate Essay on modern information networks, Ken Hollings examines the concept of `netizens.' From spotting craters on Mars to identifying images in museum archives, it seems that there is no longer a problem that can't be solved simply by throwing enough people at it. In addition to social networks, online communities and multiplayer games, Hollins discusses how consumers of the future will interact with inanimate objects. ID chips and complex barcodes embedded in products will allow people to establish `social networks' of products.
The Essay
Friday 25 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
Requiem for Networks
5/5
In his final essay, Ken Hollings discusses the implications of the latest information networks, and considers the concept of `cloud computing,' a method of data storage that will allow access from any terminal, anywhere, at any time.
Science / Nature
On The Road With a Brain Scientist
Saturday 19 March
3:30pm - 4:00pm
BBC News
Matthew Stadlen spends the day with brain scientist and baroness Professor Susan Greenfield.
The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion
Sunday 20 March
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC4
Who Are We?
6/6
Michael Mosley examines one of the least understood yet most important subjects in science - the human brain. He considers why it took until the 17th century for the organ to be studied in depth, reveals the surprising results of uniting the twin sciences of anatomy and psychology to learn what shapes thoughts, feelings and desires, and argues that whether people are aware of it or not, the workings of the brain mean everyone is a scientist underneath. Last in the series.
Wonders of the Universe
Sunday 20 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Falling
3/4
Professor Brian Cox explores how gravity influences events across the universe, discovering why such a relatively weak force dictates the Earth's orbit around the sun - as well as the solar system's movement through the galaxy. He also explains why the gravity of a neutron star is much stronger than that of Earth, and looks back through history to reveal why scientists' research into the power of attraction has given mankind a far greater understanding of the cosmos.
Everything and Nothing
Monday 21 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4
Everything
1/2, series 1
Part one of two. Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how humankind has come to understand everything - from the size and shape of the universe to the science behind `nothingness'. Along the way, he charts the remarkable stories of men and women who have made discoveries about the cosmos, and reveals how mathematics and astronomy have shaped current knowledge of space.
The Feynman Variations
Monday 21 March
3:00pm - 3:45pm
BBC Radio 4
Professor Brian Cox presents a tribute to Richard Feynman, who was widely regarded as the finest physicist of his generation, and the most influential since Einstein. Inspiring the public to find out for themselves how the world works, Feynman popularised science through lectures, TV and books, believing the subject was simply too important to be left exclusively to scientists.
It Is Rocket Science
Wednesday 23 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 4
3/4, series 1
The space race during the Cold War, including stories about the last man on the moon and the songs he sang, and the banal death of the Soviet Union's best rocket scientist. A light-hearted account of the history of rocketry, performed by Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane.
History
Engineering Ancient Egypt
Saturday 19 March
10:00pm - 12:10am
More4
Historian Bettany Hughes examines how pharaohs Khufu and Ramesses II, who reigned 1,200 years apart, oversaw great periods of architectural ambition. The ancient Egyptians are known for their pursuit of immortality, and structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza and the temples of Abu Simbel, which were built more than 4,000 years ago, proved the enduring strength of the empire's legacy and remain a source of fascination today.
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