Visual Arts
Perspectives: Andrew Lloyd Webber - A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites
Sunday 01 May
10:15pm - 11:15pm
Ulster
The composer discusses his love for the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and invites the cameras into his Hampshire home to show off his collection. Lloyd Webber talks about how the artists wanted to shake up Victorian England with their dramatic depictions of themes such as love and death, and he is moved to tears by the Pre-Raphaelite art he views on a visit to Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton.
Orson Welles Over Europe
Tuesday 03 May
11:00pm - 12:00am
BBC4
Simon Callow tells the story of actor and director Orson Welles' self-imposed exile in Europe, which saw him star in The Third Man before immersing himself in challenging work on stage and screen - as well as developing a passion for bull-fighting.
Arena: The Orson Welles Story
Wednesday 04 May
12:00am - 1:50am
BBC4
1/2
Part one of two. A profile of the legendary director, including an interview in which he reflects on his long career in the film industry from the success of Citizen Kane up to his work on Touch of Evil. Featuring contributions by Jeane Moreau, John Huston, Peter Bogdanovitch, Robert Wise and Charlton Heston.
Arena: The Orson Welles Story
Wednesday 04 May
1:50am - 2:50am
BBC4
2/2
In the second of two documentaries about the director's life and work, Welles discusses more of his films, including The Trial, Chimes at Midnight, The Immortal Story and F for Fake. He also talks about his unfinished projects - The Other Side of the Wind and Don Quixote. Alan Yentob's interview with Welles is interspersed with the thoughts of other cinematic luminaries, including John Huston, Jeanne Moreau, Peter Bogdanovich and Anthony Perkins.
Culture
Something Understood
Sunday 01 May
6:05am - 6:35am
BBC Radio 4
Keeping Time
Irma Kurtz considers the importance of clocks throughout history, and reflects on mankind's need to measure time. She also explores the importance of timepieces to navigators and the reasons why punctuality is seen as a virtue. With readers Liza Sadovy and Jonathan Firth.
Civilisation
Wednesday 04 May
10:30pm - 11:25pm
BBC HD
Heroic Materialism
13/13
Kenneth Clark charts the rise of 19th-century engineers and scientists such as Brunel and Rutherford, and compares their impact on society with that of the great Victorian reformers, such as Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. Part of The Art of Arts TV week.
Psychology / Society
My Child Won't Eat
Saturday 30 April
8:00pm - 9:00pm
ITV2
An insight into the controversial work of child psychologist Dr Gillian Harris as she treats youngsters who have an aversion to certain foods and live on radically restricted diets. Among her patients are a 12-year-old who eats chocolate at every meal, a toddler with a hot-food phobia and an underweight teenager who believes anything but her favourite fast-food is poison.
All in the Mind
Tuesday 03 May
9:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC Radio 4
3/8
Psychologist Claudia Hammond reports on a new support scheme put in place to help families bereaved by suicide.
Schools: SEN Skills for Life
Wednesday 04 May
4:00am - 5:00am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Dramatised and animated clips aiming to help people with learning difficulties overcome such challenges as bullying, peer pressure and sex. (ages 12-16).
Science / Nature
Inside the Human Body
Thursday 05 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
Creation
1/4, series 1
New series. Michael Mosley explores the workings of the human body and tells the stories of people who have pushed their bodies to the absolute limit. He begins at the moment of conception, using state-of-the-art graphics to reveal the improbable sequence of events in the lead-up to a birth. The programme also follows the progress of a couple who are expecting triplets and meets a woman pregnant with her 16th child.
The Cell
Thursday 05 May
10:45pm - 11:45pm
BBC4
The Chemistry of Life
2/3
Adam Rutherford examines how scientists discovered the different components cells are made of. By using sea urchins and fruit flies, they discovered the mechanisms that allowed cells to split, reproduce life and transmit genetic information from one to another. The programme reveals how modern technology is focusing on experiments aimed at creating life in the laboratory.
History
A History of Christianity
Sunday 01 May
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC4
Catholicism: The Unpredictable Rise of Rome
2/6
Diarmaid MacCulloch charts the unpredictable rise of the Roman Catholic Church, exploring how a small Jewish sect that preached humility and the virtue of poverty in first-century Palestine became the powerful, established religion of Western Europe. He also reveals how confession was invented by monks on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and how the Crusades gave Britain the university system.
Petworth House - The Big Spring Clean
Wednesday 04 May
8:30pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
Below Stairs
4/6, series 1
Andrew Graham-Dixon leaves behind the grandeur of the main house to explore the servants' block. He dons a boiler suit to take on the task of polishing some of the 1,000-piece copper cookware range, while a horologist visit to make sure Petworth's antique clocks are in good working order.
If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home
Wednesday 04 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4
The Kitchen
4/4, series 1
Chief curator of the Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley examines the kitchen - a room once considered the most dirty, dangerous and undesirable in the house. She bakes bread in a Tudor kitchen, spit-roasts mutton and tries out 1950s labour-saving gadgets to discover how the heart of the home has turned into a modern, appliance-packed space. Last in the series.
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