FAKING IT: Radiographer to Fashion
Photographer
Can DAVID KEITH swap his X-ray machine for a
Mamiya and his lead apron for blue jeans, and learn enough from
mentor
STUART
WESTON in only four weeks to pass himself off as the real thing on
the London fashion scene?
RDFMedia for Channel 4 /60 mins
VMAX: MAGNUM FORCE
The pleasures and excitement of owning one of
the world's most powerful motorcycles, the cult Yamaha
Vmax, "the biggest, baddest bike on the block!"
Available on VHS or DVD. See the trailer at
www.malthousefilms.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
DOCUMENTARY /30 mins
DIANA'S DRESSES
In June 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales auctioned
seventy-nine of her dresses 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
"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
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 forever, 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
"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" 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 1 & 2
(aka THE BEST MIND SINCE EINSTEIN in the one-hour
NOVA version on PBS)
The life and times of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, theoretical physicist See
him!
(Quicktime video15 secs)
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
BOOK of the same
name
'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" 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
centre
of Asia
BBC2 HORIZON Special/WGBH NOVA /45 mins
See Feynman!
(Quicktime video 15 secs)
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
GETTING TO DYLAN
An encounter with BOB DYLAN during
the
making
of HEARTS
OF FIRE
BBC1 OMNIBUS /50 mins
Dylan's complete
lyrics here
***Someone has posted clips
on YouTube ***
Freeze-frame
from
the interview
KOREA: POVERTY PROHIBITED
The forced eviction of the Seoul urban poor in
the run-up to the Olympics
20-20 Television/Channel 4 DISPATCHES /40 mins
LETTERS FROM AN INDIAN CLERK
The romantic story of the mathematical genius
SRINIVASA
RAMANUJAN
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 /Three of 6 x 60 mins
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
BBC2
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
MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES
The story of Vietnam photographer TIM
PAGE, as told by Michael Herr
in his 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
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
