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Green Originals
Episode Thirteen - Joni Mitchell
- Broadcast
- 2020 (13 mins)
Folk Singer Sam Lee takes a look at the legacy of Joni Mitchell’s environmental anthem Big Yellow Taxi.
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In episode one, Vicky starts the search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris whose...
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the second episode, Vicky sets out to see the impact of music on people in the later stages of dementia when she visits a care home offering exemplary music therapy and sees how their unique approach is...
Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Episode 1 - Making Sound
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
In this programme, Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the sounds we’re familiar with and the sounds that we normally can’t hear. She begins by exploring the simplest of ideas:...
Prejudice & Pride: The People’s History of LGBTQ Britain
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
Every so often the world changes beyond your wildest dreams. In 1967 the Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised homosexuality, offering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people the...
Prejudice & Pride: The People’s History of LGBTQ Britain
Episode Two
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
The landmark 1967 Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised homosexuality offering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people the opportunity to start living openly for the first time. Presented...
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 1 - Wrecking Ball
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
This first programme in a three-part series on the avant-garde revolution in 20th century music asks, "What happened to classical music?" It looks at the shift in the language and sound of music from the...
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 2 - Free For All
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In the second film in the series, we see how the freewheeling modernism that had shocked, scandalised and titillated audiences in the Twentieth Century’s first two decades comes under state control....
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 3 - Easy Listening?
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In this last film in the series, the focus shifts to the United States in the post-war years of the 1950s and beyond. Beginning with arguably the most notorious work of 20th century classical music, John...
Symphony
Genesis and Genius
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Simon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world and explores the surprising way in which it has shaped our history and identity. The first episode begins...