DIANA'S
DRESSES
In June 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales
auctioned
seventy-nine of her dresses and gowns at Christie's
in New York. Two months later
Diana was dead. The new owners realised they had something very
special
on their hands...
BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins
and HBO
"An exquisitely dry, clever and funny
programme"
Evening Standard
"Diana's Dresses was an unlooked-for
treat"
The Independent
THE
DAY
THE
GUNS
FELL
SILENT
Parts One & Two
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of
the
eleventh month of 1918, Big Ben struck for the first time in
four years
to celebrate the end of the Great War. On this day, the
survivors and
their
families looked back to a world that had gone for ever, and
wondered
what
kind of world was waiting for them now
Part One: Before 11 o'clock
Part Two: After 11 o'clock
BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /2 x 50 mins
"Profoundly moving" Daily Mail
"Narrated to perfection by Timothy West"
The
Guardian
SHOOTING
VERSACE
Legendary Israeli action-director MENAHEM
GOLAN and producer SAM LUPOWITZ race Hollywood to the
screen with
their ultra-low-budget movie THE
VERSACE
MURDER
BBC2 MODERN TIMES /50 mins
See
also THE
LAST MOGULS below
"Hugely entertaining" The Times
"Jaw-dropping...Delicious comedy"
Independent
"Brilliant" Evening Standard
"Hilarious" Jewish Chronicle
SEVEN
WONDERS OF THE WORLD II
Second series (see below)
1. AUBREY MANNING, Professor of Natural
History,
Edinburgh
2. MONICA GRADY, Curator of Meteorites, Natural
History Museum
3. ARTHUR
C. CLARKE
4. THOMAS EISNER, Professor of
Neuropharmacology,
Cornell
5. RICHARD
DAWKINS, Professor for the Public
Understanding of Science,Oxford
6. ALISON JOLLY, primatologist, Princeton
7. STEVEN
PINKER, Professor of Neuropsychology,
MIT
BBC2 /7 x 30 minutes
"Beautiful television... Programme of the
week. No question" The Guardian
"Seven Wonders is that rarity among TV
programmes
- it treats the viewer with respect" Daily Express
"Wonderfully entertaining stuff" The
Times
"This marvellous series" The Observer
DO
VAMPIRE BATS HAVE FRIENDS?
An exploration of the question of animal
awareness
and the mystery of consciousness. See, for example, Thomas
Nagel's
famous essay 'What is it like to be a bat?'
Channel 4
EQUINOX Special /60 mins
"Genuinely thought-provoking" The Times
SEVEN
WONDERS OF THE WORLD
A sort of scientific Desert Island Discs: in
each programme, a brilliant scientist tells us
about his or her own seven wonders of the
world
1. MIRIAM
ROTHSCHILD,
zoologist
2. STEVE JONES,
Professor
of Genetics, UCL
3. STEPHEN JAY
GOULD,
Professor
of
Geology
and
Zoology,
Harvard
4. JAMES
LOVELOCK,
physiologist
and
inventor
5. JULIE
THERIOT,
cell biologist
6. DANNY
HILLIS,
physicist
and supercomputer designer
7. JOHN MAYNARD
SMITH,
Professor
of
Zoology,
Sussex
BBC2 /7 x 30 minutes
"Some of the freshest science programmes
for
a long time" The Times
"Programme of the week" Independent on
Sunday
"A damn fine programme" Time Out
"Few series have celebrated Earth's
awesome
beauty more than this Wednesday-night series" Hello!
NO
ORDINARY GENIUS Parts One & Two
(aka THE BEST MIND SINCE EINSTEIN in the
one-hour
NOVA version on PBS)
The life and times of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, theoretical physicist
BBC2 HORIZON/WGBH NOVA /2 x 50 mins
"Fascinating portrait of a brilliant
physicist"
Daily Telegraph
"His sheer charisma keeps you hooked"
Time
Out
See
the
BOOK
'No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman'
THE
STRANGE LIFE AND DEATH OF DR TURING
ALAN
TURING 1912-1954.Mathematical genius, wartime ENIGMA
code-breaker, and
godfather of the digital computer
BBC2 HORIZON/WGBH NOVA /50 mins
"Director Christopher Sykes brings Turing
to life with humour and affection" Daily Mail
"A compelling picture of an exceptional
man"
Time Out
"Highlight of the week... Don't miss
Horizon
at any price" CapitalGay
HOW
TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY
TIM
O'BRIEN, ex-Vietnam footsoldier and author of If I Die
in a
Combat
Zone, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They
Carried
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins
[Never broadcast]
MY
MOST DIFFICULT BOOK
VLADIMIR
NABOKOV and Lolita,
with MARTIN AMIS,
A.S.BYATT and
EDMUND
WHITE
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins
"Ingeniously constructed and totally
absorbing"
Daily Telegraph
"A scholarly gem" Daily Mail
"A fascinating insight" Time Out
"An intriguing session round the Eng Lit
anatomy
slab" Evening Standard
"Spot on" The Observer
A
WONDERFUL LIFE
A biography of the philosopher LUDWIG
WITTGENSTEIN
1889-1951
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins
"A dramatic portrait of a truly
extraordinary
man" Daily Telegraph
"Lucid and beautiful" The Guardian
THE
QUEST FOR TANNU TUVA
(aka THE LAST JOURNEY OF A GENIUS on PBS)
RICHARD
FEYNMAN,
theoretical
physicist,
Nobel
laureate
and
explorer,
and
his friend and drumming partner RALPH
LEIGHTON tell the
extraordinary
story of their love-affair with a strange and distant land in the
dead centre
of Asia
BBC2 HORIZON Special/WGBH NOVA /45 mins
For Voyager Films with ALAN HAYLING (1990)
CALCUTTA
A portrait of the city through the eyes of
the
people who love to live in 'the worst place on earth'
Channel 4
/75 mins
"This film peers into the filth on the
pavements,
but finds something beautiful and vital without
sentimentalising the
subject"
Observer
"Continually surprising" Sunday Times
"A kaleidoscope of marvellously detailed
photography"
"An unforgettable portrait" Daily Mail
LETTERS
FROM AN INDIAN CLERK
The romantic story of G.H. Hardy's
relationship
with the mathematical genius
SRINIVASA
RAMANUJAN
Download the full text of Hardy's classic
memoir,
A Mathematician's Apology
here
InCA/Channel 4
EQUINOX/WGBH NOVA
/60 mins
THE
LAST MOGULS
The Israeli go-go boys MENAHEM
GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS. The rise and rise of Cannon Films,
the most
powerful independent in Hollywood.
See also SHOOTING VERSACE
above
BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins
THE
INNER EYE
A six-part investigation into the riddle of
human
consciousness, with experimental psychologist NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
1 Imagined Worlds
3 The Ghost in the Machine
6 How like an Angel?
Artifax/Channel
4 / 6 x 60 mins
Producer/Director, episodes 1, 3 & 6
ONE
PAIR OF EYES: FOOLS AND ANGELS
The English visionary artist CECIL
COLLINS
BBC2 /30 mins
ONE
PAIR OF EYES: MAKING MISCHIEF
'Pendennis' of The Observer, PETER HILLMORE
BBC2 /30 mins
FUN
TO IMAGINE
Six short films in which physicist RICHARD
FEYNMAN enjoys himself explaining how the world works.
See YouTube
or BBC
Archive
BBC2 / 6 x varying durations
AFTER
THE MASSACRE
Beirut, 1983. A hundred British soldiers are
part of the International Peacekeeping Force in the aftermath of
Chatila-Sabra...
THE BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins
THE
PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
IAN McCOLL, Guys Hospital, London
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins
BEFORE
THE MASSACRE
Beirut, 1982. Doctors and nurses from around
the world have volunteered to help clear up the human debris in
the
aftermath
of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
BBC1 QED Special /50 mins
THE PLEASURE OF
FINDING THINGS
OUT
Autobiography of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and theoretical physicist
extraordinary
BBC2 HORIZON/NOVA /50 mins UK and 60 mins
USA
MENTIONED
IN DISPATCHES
The crazy story of photographer TIM
PAGE, as told by Michael Herr
in his legendary Vietnam memoir, Dispatches
BBC2 ARENA /50 mins
THE
CLONE AFFAIR
Investigation of DAVID RORVIK's great
publishing
hoax - an account of the world's first successful cloning of a
human
child?
THE BBC1 DOCUMENTARY /50 mins
THE
DBCP FILE
A pesticide scandal
BBC1 OPEN SECRET /30 mins
FOR
FIVE DOLLARS A DAY
Lead poisoning in West Virginia
BBC1 OPEN SECRET /30 mins
VILLAGERS
Sights and sounds of village India
BBC2 /15 mins
EAST
OF BOMBAY
Revolutionary medicine in rural Maharastra
with
Drs RAJNIKANT and MABELLE
AROLE
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins
WEST
OF BANGALORE
Alternative technology in rural Karnataka
with
Professor AMULYA
REDDY
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins
THE
SLATEMAKERS
The decline and fall of the slate-making
communities
of North Wales
BBC2 HORIZON /50 mins
MAD
DOGS AND SMUGGLERS
The rabies threat to Britain, with CHRISTOPHER
BRASHER
BBC1 TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY /50 mins
THE
WAR AGAINST POLIO
The dramatic story of JONAS SALK
and ALBERT
SABIN in
the
race to find the first polio vaccine
BBC1 TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY /50 mins