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- Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.
- Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
- On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama.
- Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.
- A documentary about the newsreel footage that cameraman Geoffrey Malins shot of the first few days' fighting of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, during the First World War. He was allowed extensive access to the trenches at the front line, as what would nowadays be termed an "embedded journalist". His footage, edited into a feature-length film, were shown as a propaganda film and seen by an estimate 20 million people back home - half the British population at the time.
- TV presenter Dallas Campbell, engineer Professor Danielle George and engineer Dr Hugh Hunt re-create the opening of the BBC's television service on 2 November 1936. This involves building the mechanical flying-spot cameras that were used by Baird's system.
- Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country.
- Jing works with her friend Mei in a book store but not much work is happening lately since Jing is endlessly distracted. Turns out she is having some very vivid dreams - of a man who she never really sees but yet brings with him an intense feeling of love and togetherness. Obsessed by the idea that this man may be real, Jing is even more disturbed by a dream where the man is hit by a car. She discusses these dreams with a sceptical Mei.
- A girl has a dream which becomes true.
- Licked introduces us to Emily and Steve,a couple who meet online due to a common interest in animal welfare. Steve, a staunch vegan is rather perplexed on their first encounter, when he discovers that Emily actually eats meat. Emily knows that to get her man she must change! As they fall in love and eventually move in together, her deception becomes ridiculous as she starts to hide meat all around their home. Masking the smell of the cooked meat and disposing of the evidence becomes a high risk venture, as she could lose everything if found out. Emily is becoming fatter and fatter due to gorging herself. How can she get the commitment she craves? Leaving hint after hint for Steve to no avail, Emily begins to lose hope after all, he is more interested in his animal welfare protests than her. As Emily and Steve try to work through their problems on a TV talk-show, we learn the story of the relationship's demise, but can it be rescued? We will see how they will fair in this game of love, lifestyle and lettuce!
- Stephen Fry chooses and presents his 100 all-time favourite gadgets that have revolutionised our individual and collective lives, from hi-tech to historical, the domestic to the downright dumb. From curling tongs to the corkscrew, the typewriter to the trouser press, the iron to the iPod, the show is an entertaining mix of cutting-edge technology, misty-eyed nostalgia and the fascinating insights for which Stephen Fry is renowned.
- Alan Yentob visits Alexander Palace and looks back at it's first high-definition television broadcast in 1936.
- Returning to the riviera, the sea is beckoning- and Susan joins a scallop diving expedition. Here, she gets closer than she's ever been to some other riviera visitors - dolphins.
- Brad and Barry Klinge bring their paranormal research team to Tombstone, Arizona for a Wild West investigation. Their mission: To bring a violent old ghost town back to life.
- Michael takes a ride on a secret miniature railway hidden beneath London's streets, rings the bells of the famous church of Bow, and tries his hand at station announcing at Fenchurch Street station.
- Michael Portillo starts his train trip trough northern Italy in Turin, capital of Piedmont and the first years of its king's newly united realm, Italy minus Rome, and home of Fiat. Next Milan, capital of Lombardy and fashion. Then lake Como, the most touristic and idyllic stop on the early British traveler's grand tour. Finally splendid Venice, home to unique monuments and the modern Biennale.
- Michael discovers Victorian entrepreneurship in Wigan, traces the beginnings of the industrial revolution in Bolton and drives a hundred year old commercial vehicle in Leyland.
- At Winchfield, Michael discovers the vast carriage which carried the Duke of Wellington's coffin to his funeral at St Paul's Cathedral in 1852 and hears how the Duke's stallion also received full military honours when he was buried.