Bbc Two TV Series - Page 83
Horror in the East
2002
star 8Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II is a BBC documentary film series that examines certain actions, including atrocities, and attitudes, of the Imperial Japanese Army in the lead up to and during World War II. The film also examines attitudes held by the British and Americans, toward the Japanese. It was written and produced by Laurence Rees and narrated by Samuel West.What Not to Wear
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star 8What Not to Wear is a BAFTA Award-nominated makeover reality television show launched by the BBC in 2001. It was presented by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine for five series, bringing the pair to national prominence. After they left, the BBC produced two more series presented by Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris.SAS Survival Secrets
2013
star 7Led by Eddie Stone, a team of four SAS veterans re-enact a whole range of dramatic scenarios: on the battlefield, behind enemy lines, evasion and interrogation. Stone gives a step-by-step guide to each reconstructed mission and, with high-tech imaging equipment and computer graphics, he explains the team's strategies while his men demonstrate their weapons and their skills and reveal how they escaped death.Sex and the Church
2015
star 4Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how Christianity has shaped western attitudes to sex, gender and sexuality throughout historyMary Berry's Simple Comforts
2020
Mary Berry explores the wonderful world of simple comfort food, bringing fuss-free recipes that can warm the cockles and lift the spirits.The £100k House: Tricks of the Trade
2014
Homeowners are helped with their ambitious building projects.The Planners
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The Planners
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The Planners is a British television documentary series broadcast on BBC Two. It follows the work of local planning officers in the United Kingdom, including planners in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, the Scottish Borders and Gloucestershire. The series comprises eight episodes and was first broadcast on 31 January 2013.Bears About The House
2020
Conservationist Giles Clark embarks on his biggest mission to date - taking on the illegal wildlife trade and helping to build a new bear sanctuary in Laos, south-east Asia. Giles has been asked by good friend Matt Hunt, CEO of Free the Bears, to help for 12 months and is not long into his role when he has to step in to help Mary, a five-month-old sun bear. Mary was rescued after her mother was killed in the wild and was spotted on the back of a truck for sale into the illegal wildlife trade. Fragile and malnourished, she lives with Giles and Matt at home while she needs round-the-clock specialist care.The Big Life Fix
2016
star 7The UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.The Victorian Kitchen Garden
1987
This wonderful series goes behind the high redbrick walls of Chilton Foliat in Berkshire, where Harry Dodson carefully recreates a traditional Victorian kitchen garden. Using traditional tools Harry painstakingly transformed the weed-choked ground into a gardener's and cook's delight solving many horticultural mysteries along the way and showing how gardeners dealt with pests and how they grew exotic fruits and vegetables for the household all year round.The Story of English Furniture
1978
star 8Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus look back over six centuries of furniture-making.Brainbox Challenge
2008
Brainbox Challenge
2008
Clive Anderson hosts a brain training quiz show in which contestants battle to prove themselves in a sequence of brain games which test their memory, language, visual, numerical and spacial skills.Man Alive
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star 7Man Alive was a documentary and current affairs series which ran on BBC2 between 1965 and 1981. During that time there were nearly 500 programmes tackling a range of social and political issues, both in the UK and abroad. It was often accused of trying to sensationalise its subjects or interviewees. The series was commissioned by Sir David Attenborough, while he was Controller of BBC2 between 1965 and 1969. British television journalist and presenter Esther Rantzen worked on Man Alive in the mid-1960s. She went on to marry one of the programme's most prominent reporters, and series editor Desmond Wilcox. Wilcox contributed directly to about 50 Man Alive programmes. The Man Alive theme music was composed and played by Tony Hatch and his orchestra.The Silicon Factor
1980
The Silicon Factor
1980
A series of three programmes investigating the so-called microelectronics revolution.Wales and the History of the World
2010
Eddie Butler presents a series that reveals some extraordinary stories about Wales and the history of the world.Saving Lives in Leeds
2023
star 5Life-changing operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions doctors must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure
2017
star 10Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.Great British Food Revival
2011
Ten of the BBC's best-known chefs and cooks are on a mission to popularise traditional British produce.The Ritz
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star 2The Ritz was a six-part BBC Television series that aired in 1987. It was a Comedy/Drama set in a night club, where three bouncers—Chike played by Paul Rider, Skodge played by Andrew Dunn and Kenny played by Andrew Livingstone—helped to protect the newly formed Ritz night club from a rival club owner, Mad Mick, played by Richard Ridings.Strange Days: Cold War Britain
2013
star 9BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.
