Visual Arts
Fake or Fortune?
Sunday 19 June
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
Monet
1/4
New series. Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate the complex and controversial stories surrounding the origins of potentially valuable works of art from around the world. They begin by examining a painting they believe to be an unacknowledged work by Monet, and aim to persuade luminaries from within the art world to believe them.
Culture
Words and Music
Sunday 19 June
10:20pm - 11:35pm
BBC Radio 3
Exile
Frances Barber and Greg Hicks read poetry and prose on the theme of exile. The texts explore differing reactions to being away from home, or thinking that home should be somewhere other than where it is. Shakespeare, Du Maurier, Yeats, AE Housman, Browning, Shelley, John Clare, Edward Lear, and Emily Dickinson provide the words, while the music is by Chabrier, Byrd, Bach and Bob Marley among others.
Art Deco Icons
Tuesday 21 June
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC4
Claridge's
1/4
Architectural historian David Heathcote explores four of the best examples of the art deco movement in Britain, beginning with Claridge's Hotel in London. The establishment underwent a transformation during the 1930s, making it a fashionable destination for the rich and famous. The presenter samples the cocktail bar and then settles into a perfect example of an art-deco bath.
Vampires v Zombies!
Thursday 23 June
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Natalie Haynes explores the modern fascination with blood-drinkers and the living dead, and the anxieties they express about food, addiction, sex and disease. She talks to writers who have depicted the creatures in works of fiction, and questions why an American high school is seemingly the perfect setting for a vampire slayer, and whether zombies know what they are.
Psychology / Society
Born Liars: Why We Can't Live without Deceit
Monday 20 June - Fri 24th
9:45am - 10:00am
BBC Radio 4
1/5
By Ian Leslie, read by Tim McInnerny and abridged by Pete Nichols. Exploring studies that suggest the transition from ape to human was not a simple evolutionary process of the best forager surviving, but that social contacts and an understanding of deceit played crucial roles.
All in the Mind
Tuesday 21 June
9:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC Radio 4
10/13
Claudia Hammond joins Professor Peter Kinderman from Liverpool University as he prepares to conduct a scientific study of the nation's mental well-being. The Stress Test aims to use a pioneering online experiment to help determine which factors best explain the changes in a person's psychological health, and point out which people are more likely to suffer when under pressure.
Abused: Breaking the Silence
Tuesday 21 June
11:05pm - 11:55pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
Documentary about former pupils of two Catholic prep schools in England and Tanzania who claim to have suffered abuse at the institutions. The programme highlights the stories of 22 men, now aged between 50 and 60, who have decided to launch legal proceedings against the Rosminian Order.
Kids Behind Bars
Thursday 23 June
11:45pm - 12:45am
BBC3
Crying Cos I Can't Hit No-One
2/3
Following the lives of three girls at the Vinney Green Secure Unit in Gloucestershire. One of the youngsters harms herself so badly she has been locked up for her own protection, while the other two display violent behaviour and present a challenge for the staff.
Science / Nature
Botany: A Blooming History
Tuesday 21 June
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4
Hidden World
3/3
Timothy Walker charts how scientists unlocked the genetic structure of plants, enabling them to transform the breeding of flowers and crops into a precise science rather than a process of trial and error. He explores the risks some botanists were forced to take in order to protect their discoveries, and reveals how the study of plant genetics could help feed the world's growing population. Last in the series.
Apples: British to the Core
Thursday 23 June
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
Garden designer Chris Beardshaw finds out how Britain has helped shape the apple. He visits the original Bramley apple tree, discovers what drove Victorian horticulturists to create so many varieties and learns about the work of scientists who have unlocked the fruit's deepest secrets and helped make it a mass-market success.
History
Machines Time Forgot
Tuesday 21 June
4:35am - 5:30am
Channel 4
Crane
1/4
Exploring mankind's ingenuity throughout the ages by looking at a selection of history's least-remembered inventions. In the first instalment, film set designer Julian Weaver focuses on a crane that was used 800 years ago to aid the building boom sweeping across medieval Europe. Along with an international team of carpenters and blacksmiths he visits the ruined abbey of Hambye in Normandy, and attempts to replicate this impressive early piece of machinery, which proved invaluable in building the towering gothic cathedrals.
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
Wednesday 22 June
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
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.
Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth
Thursday 23 June
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC1 Northern Ireland
Homo Erectus
1/2
The first in a two-part docu-drama exploring how Homo sapiens survived against all the odds. The programme begins 75,000 years ago in Indonesia, where a catastrophic volcanic eruption forced a showdown between man's ancestors and Homo erectus - a different species that up until then had reigned supreme.
Ancient Egyptians
Monday 20 June
3:35am - 4:30am
Channel 4
The Battle of Megiddo
1/4
Stories of life in the age of the Pharaohs, beginning with the Battle of Megiddo, which saw the forces of young ruler Tuthmosis III engaging in combat with a 10,000-strong army led by Syrian warlord the Prince of Kadesh. Visual effects and location filming document how events unfolded, and capture the feel of combat in an ancient land.
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