Visual Arts
The Arts and How They Was Done
Friday 27 May
7:00am - 7:30am
BBC Radio 4 Extra
How Michelangelo Done the Sistine Chapel
2/6
Desmond Olivier Dingle and the National Theatre of Brent recreate the Renaissance, telling the story of Michelangelo, Pope Julius, and the famous ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Comedy, with Patrick Barlow and John Ramm. First aired in 2007.
Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood
Friday 27 May
9:30pm - 10:30pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
1/3
New series. The comedian travels to America to explore how Hollywood's pioneers created the blueprint for the country's cinema industry to mark its 100th anniversary. He begins with a look at the career of influential director DW Griffith, who progressed from making short cliffhangers to producing epics including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance during the 1910s. Griffith was also instrumental in establishing the star system after co-founding the United Artists film studio in 1919 with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Culture
Words and Music
Sunday 22 May
10:15pm - 11:30pm
BBC Radio 3
Works on the subject of the gothic, from the surreal, macabre beginnings of the genre in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to the tortured wanderings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Writings by Coleridge and Keats show the romantic impulse that was extended and darkened by later gothic writing, until it reached a peak in the late 19th century with Oscar Wilde's haunting Picture of Dorian Gray. Music includes work by 12th-century composer Pérotin, who wrote amid the gothic splendour of Notre Dame cathedral, as well as pieces by Bach, Berlioz, Paganini and Rachmaninov.
The View
Tuesday 24 May
11:15pm - 11:55pm
RTE1
Actress Carrie Crowley, producer Bill Hughes and writer Machan Magan join John Kelly to review Le Quattro Volte, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino's second feature film. Also examined are John Cronin's oil painting exhibition Augmenting Reality, Alan Bennett's book Smut and Hiroaki Umeda's dance performance Haptic/Adapting for Distortion at the Dublin Dance Festival.
Doing It in the Street
Thursday 26 May
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Martin Reeve charts the history of street theatre from its roots in the turbulent political climate of the 1960s to the young professionals of today. The presenter has occasionally performed as Mr Lucky, the Man with the Raining Umbrella, over the past 25 years, and shares his fascination with the way this art form can affect people's perceptions of the spaces around them.
The Culture Show
Friday 27 May
1:20am - 2:20am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
2/8
Andrew Graham-Dixon presents from the recently revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, where Clemency Burton-Hill goes behind the scenes as the RSC celebrates its 50th birthday. Mark Kermode explores a new exhibition at the British Library examining science fiction through literature, film, illustration and sound. Jon Ronson discusses his new book The Psychopath Test, and Lindsay Johns investigates the links between 14th-century Italian scholar Petrarch and hip-hop.
Psychology / Society
Between the Ears
Saturday 21 May
10:00pm - 10:30pm
BBC Radio 3
Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey
Artist Susan Aldworth, who has been commissioned to make a series of works reflecting epilepsy for St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster and the National Portrait Gallery, follows her close friend Max Eilenberg, who has the condition, to find out about the way it is being studied. Epilepsy affects one person in 100, but there are many public misconceptions and prejudices about it. In recent years neuroscience has begun to find out more about the brain's activities, and now it is possible to hear the sound of a brain having a fit. The sound of epilepsy is not a jagged rasping, not spikes of sound - but more like the sound of whale song, a plaintive cry for help, a call in the wild. How does an artist go about creating a work of art to reflect this? Susan Aldworth tries to find out.
The Jukes - Bad Blood or Bad Science
Monday 23 May
11:00am - 11:30am
BBC Radio 4
Professor Steve Jones explores the theory that people can be born bad, debating whether criminal behaviour is genetically inherited, as was believed to be the case with the infamous Jukes family in 19th-century America. Joined by leading genetic scientists, he discusses what light new research and recent revelations about the notorious relatives can shed on the controversial idea.
ADHD and Me
Monday 23 May
8:00pm - 8:30pm
BBC Radio 4
Comedian Rory Bremner undertakes a personal journey to uncover the effects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults after the diagnosis of the condition within his family. He examines the changes in attitutde toward ADHD two decades since it was first recognised, and looks ahead to what can be done to support the next generation of people living with the life-changing illness.
Strangeways
Monday 23 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
ITV1 London
3/3
The programme looks at how the Manchester prison has changed since the infamous riots in April 1990, when inmates protested against an outdated system and inhumane conditions. Cameras follow Mark Greenwood, who has gained catering qualifications while serving his sentence, as he leaves Strangeways to start a new job in the outside world, and persistent offender David Charlton returns to cause more trouble for staff. Last in the series.
All in the Mind
Tuesday 24 May
9:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC Radio 4
6/13
Claudia Hammond reports on new findings that suggest people think in more stereotypical and even racist ways when they are in a messy and disordered environment. The presenter considers the implications the research has for social policy, and explores the importance of keeping areas prone to racial violence tidy.
Breaking a Female Paedophile Ring
Thursday 26 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4
Documentary taking an in-depth look at the members of a criminal gang who made international headlines when their sexual offences against children came to light in 2009. Police interviews and testimonies from the offenders' relatives build a picture of how the web operated and what could have motivated Colin Blanchard, Vanessa George, Angela Allen, Tracy Lyons and Tracy Dawber to commit their crimes. The programme also reveals the painstaking police operations that led to their convictions.
Science / Nature
Inside the Human Body
Thursday 26 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
4/4
Michael Mosley reveals how the human body defends itself against a hostile world, following a bull jumper whose muscles give him the strength to avoid a violent death, and exploring how a three-year-old is able to fight off the flu virus. He also finds out how doctors are able to exploit the body's natural powers of healing when injuries are too severe to be repaired. Last in the series.
History
Barbarians
Saturday 21 May
3:05am - 4:05am
Channel 4
The Vikings
3/3
Richard Rudgley travels to Scandinavia, home of the Vikings. He discovers how conflicts between clans drove them to seek out new lands to plunder and how they were able to establish new centres of civilisation in Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire.
A History of the World Special
Sunday 22 May
1:30pm - 2:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Peter Lewis explores the story of the object he added to the BBC History of the World website, a portrait of his Uncle Bryn's girlfriend Peggy, painted for him by a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Peter hears about his uncle's time as a PoW, his 12 escape attempts and his eventual reunion with the girlfriend who later became his wife.
A History of Christianity
Sunday 22 May
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC4
Protestantism: The Evangelical Explosion
5/6
Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of Evangelical Protestantism. Although now associated with conservative politics, it was initially driven by a concern for social justice, and allowed the faith to spread around the globe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with the same flair used for the country's commerce, while in Africa, it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions.
The Country House Revealed
Tuesday 24 May
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Easton Neston
3/6
Dan Cruickshank examines Easton Neston in Northamptonshire, designed in the English Baroque style by Christopher Wren in the 18th century, but completed by his protege Nicholas Hawksmoor. He sets out to determine which of the property's two architects was responsible for crafting its distinctive features, and charts its colourful history to the modern day.
Irish Interest
Coiscéimeanna
Sunday 22 May
8:15pm - 8:45pm
TG4
4/6
Harry McGee investigates the Irish leader Daniel O'Connell and his mass movement for independence in 1843. The host's walk takes him from Kilcullen to the prehistoric site of Mullaghmast where up to a million people gathered to listen to the man they called the Liberator.
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