Bbc Four TV Series - Page 12
A Timewatch Guide
2015
star 6Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine changes in research covered in documentary television.The Secret Genius of Plants
2024
star 8Series that follows recent scientific developments as researchers across Europe explore the extraordinary capabilities of plants.In Search of Speed
2005
The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak
2020
star 6.5Art historian Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the greatest paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat .Planespotting Live
2019
Planespotting Live
2019
The joy of a very British hobby, brought to you by Peter Snow and his team, revealing the hidden histories, engineering marvels and true pleasures of plane spotting... live!Simon Schama Meets
2022
Simon Schama Meets
2022
While making Simon Schama’s History of Now, Simon met several of the most influential contemporary artists working in the world today. In this series of extended interviews, Simon meets Ai Weiwei, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Margaret Atwood, to uncover the personal motivations behind their work and activism, their sense of why art matters, and their unique perspectives on the state of the world today.Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
2013
star 8In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.The Sound of TV with Neil Brand
2020
Three-part documentary series that explores the history and use of music in television.Handmade: By Royal Appointment
2016
Four-part series following the making of four beautiful objects, handcrafted by companies with a royal warrant.Murder 24/7
2020
star 5Following teams of detectives and specialists involved in murder investigations.How to Get Ahead
2014
How to Get Ahead
2014
What you had to say, do and dress in order to get ahead at various times in historyThe Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World
2017
The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco that would change the world.Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand
2017
Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series on musical theatre evolution over the last century.The Rich Hall BBC Four Specials Collection
2008
A collection of ten 90-minute specials presented by Rich Hall on BBC Four, looking at US cultural history told through the lens of film, television and music.Lost Films of WWII
2019
Lost Films of WWII
2019
The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary people.The Music of the Primes
2010
For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented those brave enough to tackle it. Some have given up in despair. Others have been driven mad. Primes are fundamental to mathematics yet they seem to surface entirely randomly along the number line. But are the primes truly random or is there some hidden pattern? It’s the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics. In The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sautoy investigates the fascinating story of great mathematicians who have all grappled with the problem of the primesShe-Wolves: England's Early Queens
2012
star 8Historian Dr Helen Castor explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether the term 'she-wolves' was deserved.British Masters
2011
British Masters
2011
British Masters is a three-part BBC television series on 20th century British art, presented by Dr James Fox and first broadcast in July 2011 on BBC Four. The series covers the period from 1910 to 1975. The first programme explored the lives and works of Mark Gertler, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Walter Sickert, Wyndham Lewis, Lawrence Atkinson, David Bomberg, Richard Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer. The second programme explored the works of John Nash, Stanley Spencer, Alfred Munnings, William Coldstream, Paul Nash and John Piper. In the third programme, subtitled 'A New Jerusalem,' Fox explored British art in the aftermath of the 2nd world war, and examined the works of Lucian Freud, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Keith Vaughan. In this final programme of the series Fox explored how the themes of evil, brutality, dehumanisation, consumerism and optimism can be seen in the works of these postwar artists. Fox contends in this programme that the death of Lucian Freud and theMetalworks!
2012
Metalworks!
2012
Series looking at aspects of British metalworking over the centuries, including the art of the silversmith, the history of armour and the work of the blacksmith.
