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- The story of how a small group of dedicated British music fans paved the way for the first Motown tour of Britain, changing the country's popular culture forever.
- A six-part TV-series inside the Royal College of Art, UK's most prestigious school of art and design - characters in crisis, careers in the making, commerce versus creativity. The RCA is the latest institution to let the TV cameras in under the supervision of art rector Christopher Frayling.
- The HMP Styal is a closed category prison for female adults and young offenders. Between August 2002 and 2003 there were no less than six self-inflicted deaths at Styal women's prison. This shocking and unflinching documentary reveals the extraordinary levels of self-harm and attempted suicide at the penal institution and asks why so many women are driven to these acts when they end up behind bars. During the filming, there were more than 150 incidents of self-harm or attempted suicide. One night's log included 12 separate alerts.
- The "14 Hour Technicolor Dream" held at Alexandra Palace on 29 April, 1967 was one of the seminal events of the counterculture revolution in 1960s London. The event was organised as a fundraiser for the paper the International Times. The multi-media, multi-arts event featured poets, artists and musicians, headlined by Pink Floyd. Yoko Ono performed, watched by John Lennon, while other acts included The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, The Move, Tomorrow, The Pretty Things, Jimmy Powell and The Five Dimensions and Pete Townshend, among others.
- Neil Oliver is given exclusive access to a team of historians and scientists investigating the final resting place of Alfred the Great. Alfred's bones have been moved so many times over the centuries that many people concluded that they were lost forever. Following a trail that goes back over a thousand years, the team wants to unravel the mystery of Alfred's remains.
- Ex-crack-head Carl John revisits his home city of Liverpool to make a documentary about how this terrible drug is destroying the lives of people he knows. In the "Crack House" BBC documentary one is given a unique insight into the lives of crack addicts in the UK and how this problem is not going away. We see prostitutes and shoplifters and pregnant hookers in action and people smoking crack and what kind of places they inhabit.
- Documentary following the story of the sinking of the Cunard Liner Laconia in World War II through the personal testimonies of six survivors. The Laconia was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of West Africa in September 1942. Captain Hartenstein of the U-156 believed the ship to be a troop carrier but on finding that he had torpedoed civilians he launched a rescue operation taking people onto the U-boat and attaching lifeboats to the stern. The Americans based at Ascension Island intercepted a message for help from Hartenstein and sent a B-24 bomber to investigate. On locating the U-boat the Americans proceeded to drop several bombs, forcing the Germans to abandon the rescue. The survivors subsequently endured five days in a lifeboat with dwindling rations until they were finally picked up by the Vichy French Cruiser Le Gloire. The real life accounts of the survivors are supplemented with illustrative archival moving footage, photographs of the actual incident and short exerts from the drama 'The Sinking of the Laconia'.
- Guy Chambers works with super producer Mark Ronson to create what they hope to be a breakthrough single for 23 year old singer and lyricist Tawiah. Mark is described in the programme as Music's Man of the Moment, The Prince of Cool and The Phil Spector of his generation. Recent credits include Adele - one of the current most successful singers on the planet, and, rather poignantly, Amy Winehouse.
- With the retail giants engaged in an all-out war to secure the loyalty of customers, Tesco launches an £8-million campaign to promote its Clubcard, regarded by head office as a vital marketing tool. But the staff at Banbury are unimpressed by a cardboard shopfloor promotion with a dalek-like voice, and less than happy about the prospect of longer opening hours and the accompanying increase in stress.
- An investigation into the San Diego cult behind the deaths of 39 adults. They committed suicide with cocktails of drugs and alcohol. Members of Heaven's Gate believed that the planet was about to be recycled (cleaned, renewed, remodeled and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately.
- Explores the production of the ballad. Rufus Wainwright (who Elton John has described as one of the greatest living songwriters) joins writer Guy Chambers (Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams and countless others) to write a ballad. Rufus and Guy get to work on their ballad. Guy plays three possible piano riffs. Rufus selects one and hums a melody over it, occasionally interspersing words. The song called "World War Three" is then beefed up with some additional orchestration.
- For decades some have suspected there might be others out there, intelligent beings capable of communicating with us. It might sound like fiction, but scientists from across the globe are scouring the universe for signals from extra terrestrials. The signals and material covered include the Lorimer fast radio burst of 2006, colliding neutron stars, the search at the Green Bank Telescope for radio signals from Tabby's Star, and the possibility there is a Dyson Sphere.
- Kasha moved from Poland to the UK 27 years ago, but she has only recently started to experience problems with her accent. After moving to a more insular part of the UK and feeling discriminated against because of the way she speaks, Kasha is motivated to neutralise her accent in order to fit in. With the help of Christine, an elocution teacher, she undergoes accent training to sound less like a foreigner. The film reveals Kasha's struggle to be fully accepted in the country she now calls home. It is a story about contemporary multicultural Britain, highlighting the universal need to fit in, to feel at home and be accepted by others.
- At the height of the punk explosion almost 40 years ago, a handful of women completely redefined what a woman in music could do. Through sheer talent and fearlessness they pushed themselves on to a male dominated music scene and became part of a movement that radically changed the cultural landscape.