1989: The Year that Made the Modern World episode 3: James Brooks and Peter Guber peel back the curtain on the world of entertainment, revealing how the overnight success of Bart Simpson, Batman and the Little Mermaid turned the old show business model into the multifaceted modern industry it is today. A chronicle of the most consequential events […]
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Civilisation episode 3 – Romance and Reality: Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa. He explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy, looking at the work of Giotto and Dante among other artists. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and
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The Beechgrove Garden episode 11 2019: potatoes taste best when you grow your own and straight from the ground. Carole harvests three varieties of tiny potatoes from the container garden and Brian and George form an orderly queue to taste them. George, Brian and Carole attempt to answer as many viewer gardening questions as they can in a
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Civilisation episode 2 – The Great Thaw: Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th Century from its first manifestations in the Cluny Abbey, to the Basilica of St Denis and finally to its high point, the building of Chartres Cathedral. Kenneth Clark’s classic 1969 series tracing the history of Western art and philosophy.
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1989: The Year that Made the Modern World episode 2: A look at tabloid journalism in the late 1980s; sensational TV shows focus on sex, scandal and celebrities, instead of politics; TV show hosts Larry King, Connie Chung and Maury Povich reveal how this new format blurred the lines. A chronicle of the most consequential events of 1989,
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Civilisation episode 1 – The Skin of Our Teeth: Sir Kenneth Clark begins his classic 1969 series on the history of civilisation with the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe, in the tenth century after the fall of Rome to barbarism. He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides examining aqueducts, cathedrals, the lives of the Vikings and of
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1989: The Year that Made the Modern World episode 1: A year of revolution around the world; Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s new policies lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall; a government crackdown follows protests in Beinjing’s Tiananmen Square; a power shift sweeps across Eastern Europe. A chronicle of the most consequential events of 1989, which saw
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Gardens Near and Far episode 30 – Gravetye: This garden, located in the south of England, reveals a wild side of nature, with its abundance of flowering perennials. It was designed by champion of the “wild garden” William Robinson. At the end of the 19th century, Robinson, an Irishman, launched a war on regular and geometrical gardens. Close
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Nadiya’s Time to Eat episode 5 – Reliable Regulars: Nadiya Hussain comes to the rescue with time-saving recipes and ingenious kitchen tips to make sure that everyone has more time to spend doing the things they love, with the people they love. With unsociable working hours, busy lifestyles and complicated family routines, it is not always easy to make time
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The Sky at Night – Space Mission Special: Only a handful of missions are sent into space every decade, but how do we decide which missions are cleared for launch and which are grounded? This month the Sky at Night goes behind the scenes as the European Space Agency select their next F-class mission, scheduled to be launched
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Ancient Aliens – Project Hybrid episode 10 2019: Are extraterrestrials altering human DNA and repopulating the Earth with alien/human hybrids? By following the trail of evidence from ancient cultures to modern-day animal mutilations and alien abductions, could we discover that there are otherworldly beings walking among us? Ancient Aliens – Project Hybrid episode 10 2019 Each
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Gardeners World episode 22 2019: Monty advises on essential summer pruning and adds French beans to the vegetable garden. We meet a gardener in Hertfordshire who combines her love of cottage garden plants with tropical plants, and we visit a garden in Kent where pots are the stars of the summer show. Gardeners World episode 22 2019
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