DIANA'S
DRESSES
In June 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales
auctioned seventy-nine of her dresses and gowns 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 and HBO
"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 Parts One & Two
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 for ever - 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 See also THE LAST MOGULS below
"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" The 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 One & Two
(aka THE BEST MIND SINCE EINSTEIN in the
one-hour NOVA version on PBS)
The life and times of RICHARD
FEYNMAN, theoretical physicist
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
the
BOOK
'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]
See it here
MY MOST
DIFFICULT BOOK
VLADIMIR
NABOKOV and how he wrote 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" The 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 dead centre of Asia
BBC2 HORIZON Special/WGBH NOVA /45 mins
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
LETTERS FROM
AN INDIAN CLERK
The romantic story of G.H. Hardy's
relationship with the mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
Download the full text of Hardy's classic
memoir, A Mathematician's
Apology here
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 / 6 x 60 mins
Producer/Director, episodes 1, 3 & 6
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
.
See YouTube
or BBC
Archive
BBC2 / 6 x varying durations
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 UK and 60 mins
USA
MENTIONED IN
DISPATCHES
The story of ace British war photographer
TIM
PAGE, as told by Michael
Herr in his legendary Vietnam 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
VILLAGERS
Sights and sounds of village India
BBC2 /15 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 and the race to make the first polio vaccine
BBC1 TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY /50 mins