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- Comic actor Ardal O'Hanlon, explores the Emerald Isle and Irish life as he goes off the beaten track around his beloved homeland. Using a series of Victorian guidebooks written by Mr & Mrs S C Hall to tempt the English over to Ireland, Ardal meets the people who make the country the great nation it is. He roams from small towns to idiosyncratic attractions, detours from pulpit to pub and rejoices in the unique festivities and characters you can only find in Ireland. Ireland with Ardal O'Hanlon unearths and reveals an Ireland you could only know by having grown up there.
- A series of nineteen musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself). There are two "running gags" which connect the sketches. In one, an actor wants to perform Shakespeare, but he is continually denied air-time. The other gag has an inventor trying to view the broadcast on television. Four of the sketches are in color (in shades of yellow and brown only).
- Brian Sewell, Britain's poshest art critic embarks on the most famous journey in the world. For hundred's of years Britain's well-to-do considered the Italian 'Grand Tour' - the trip through Ancient and Renaissance Italy - an essential part of a rounded education. Brian first did the 'Grand Tour' exactly 50 years ago - so for him this is also a journey into his own past. A beautiful, complicated, funny journey.
- Six fifty-minute films charting the history of the world's largest industry. Filmed over an entire tourist season in four continents, this major documentary film series examines how and why the tourist business first evolved, and how the world has been altered as a result. Includes the story of Thomas Cook, the rise of the Spanish package holiday, the history of sightseeing in London, the story of the holiday camp, the history of scenic tourism and the emergence of the theme park.
- Our Queen at War reveals Princess Elizabeth's extraordinary teenage life; from broadcasting to the children of the Empire, to putting on pantomimes for the war effort.
- In U the harsh realities of student life are brought to light as five students must grapple with violence, morality, sexuality, and accountability during one turbulent year on campus. Freshmen pals Lawrence & Mitchell move into their co-ed dorm and endure a series of embarrassing hazing rituals orchestrated by ruling senior Hannibal James. When the timid Lawrence shies away from Hannibal's tests, he quickly finds himself an outsider and alienated from his friend Mitchell. Up the stairs and down the hall, beautiful sophomore Sophie learns that partying too hard can lead to unexpected and painful outcomes, while Janet, an insecure junior, develops an awkward infatuation with her popular and outgoing roommate, Karen. At this alma mater, surviving residence life is tougher than any final exam.
- Since 1908 the Ideal Home Exhibition has epitomised the taste of middle England. But amongst the love affairs with the Tudorbethan and Neo-Georgian there have also been moments of glorious future gazing from architects as diverse as Le Corbusier, Alison & Peter Smithson, and Sir Hugh Casson. Ideal Home? investigates.
- Sir Trevor McDonald and Julia Bradbury count down the Top 20 Greatest National Treasures of all-time.
- A look at whether the 80s have really been left behind or if we are still living in an 80s world - with 80s buildings, clothes and economics, The ultimate style guru Peter York gathers opinions from key thinkers like Tom Wolfe, Quentin Crisp and Julie Burchill.
- David Walliams has an old photograph of himself in a school production of All the King's Men. It was his stage debut and it captured a defining moment in his life - one that put him on the path to success. Thirty years on Walliams sets out to recreate the moment that photo was taken but what will he discover about his eleven year old self?
- Half a century ago a bright object was seen flying rapidly over Farnborough Airfield. Was it a top secret aircraft or a flying saucer from another planet? Unlike hundreds of other UF sightings during the 1950's, this couldn't be ignored because it was made by two qualified RAF pilots.
- Excursions tells the story of Thomas Cook and revisits Switzerland and Egypt, two early destinations for Cook's Tours. The film follows in the intrepid footsteps of Miss Jemima, a 19th century diarist who went on Cook's first trip to Switzerland - and a contemporary group of tourists traveling down the Nile - for whom Karnak Temple has more associations with James Bond than the history of ancient Egypt.
- Ways of Escape charts the development of the scenic holiday from its origins in the English countryside to the present day, when some tourists find it necessary to travel halfway round the world to find peace and isolation. The film travels to the Gobi desert in Mongolia to observe a group of contemporary tourists savoring the still desolate landscape of Ghengis Khan and the elusive Snow Leopard.
- In Welcome to London the tourists take center stage. As they attempt to take in the complex history of one of the world's most famous capital cities, the film probes their rituals and expectations, and asks, are they seeing what is really there?
- Two segments about men on the 25th anniversary of their death: Wilma Wilcox speaks about her husband, the crime photographer Weegee, and Beatrice Wood talks her lover Marcel Duchamp and his urinal.
- Director of Ju Dou, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern is interviewed from within China whilst making a commercial for Philip Morris (China is one of the largest consumers of cigarettes in the world). Although many of his films have been banned inside his native China, Zhang Yimou is fast becoming the most celebrated Chinese director in the world.
- Meeting Others charts the rise of the British holiday camp in the guise of the great entrepreneurs Billy Butlin and Fred Pontin - and also the global phenomenon of Club Med, begun as a radical socialist enterprise by Frenchman Gilbert Trigano.
- The story of the transformation of Torremolinos from a small fishing village to a major package holiday resort - told by the Spanish themselves, from bar owners and hotel managers to the Minister who under Franco's dictatorship helped push through this great experiment in modern mass tourism.
- With the help of the Surrey edition of Nicklaus Pevsner's Guide to the Buildings of England, the novelist Michael Bracewell investigates the history of suburbia in a county he believes he knows like the back of his hand, but as he says - "How well do you know the back of your hand?" Surrey, as Pevsner points out, is "the back garden of England."
- The Last Resort surveys the history of the theme park - from the opening of Disneyland in 1955, where landscapes, characters and even ideologies created for the cinema were brought to life, to the latest, themed hotel environments of Las Vegas which include reconstructions of some of the great monuments of ancient Egypt. The series closes by asking if there will soon be no longer any need to travel anywhere at all.
- The eternal city is more than 2,500 years old and Griff has just 24 hours to discover how Rome's inhabitants live in the world's biggest museum. In the process he discovers where Julius Caesar gasped his last, and takes lessons in traffic direction from the city's most elegant policeman.
- It is over 40 years since Sir Terry Wogan decided to leave Ireland and seek his fortune across the water in England. In that time, Ireland has changed beyond all recognition - and so has Terry. Now, in the wake of his retirement from BBC Radio 2, Terry's going 'home'. In the autobiographical journey of a lifetime he travels back to Dublin, the city he left behind as a teenager, and all the way back to Limerick, where he was born, taking in the length and breadth of the heart-stoppingly beautiful Irish coast en route.
- Terry Wogan reaches the halfway mark in the odyssey around his homeland. Now it's the turn of the north, much of which is quite literally a different country. After sharing memories of his buttoned-up childhood holidays in Galway and witnessing a seismic shift in Catholic prudery when 180 Irish ladies throw off all their clothes and take a 'Dip in the Nip' for charity, Terry heads for the border. As he crosses into Northern Ireland he recalls the watchtowers and armed security. More than a decade after the Peace Agreement, Terry finds reasons to be cheerful here, with football replacing fighting in the notorious Creggan housing estate.
- John Sergeant presents a personal film about his childhood hero - comedian and writer Spike Milligan.
- With his carnival background, Col Tom Parker was the perfect candidate to launch the career of the world's greatest rock n'roll star - but no-one knew Parker was actually Andreas van Kuijk, an illegal alien from the Netherlands who may have been involved in a murder that has never been solved to this day.