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The Music Of Time
Cuba
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Why Cubans love their famous and irresistible music called ‘son’, and consider it a part of their identity and ‘the DNA of Cuban culture. This style of music, which spawned the likes of salsa, has been...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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 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...
Symphony
Revolution and Rebirth
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In the final programme of the series, Simon Russell Beale’s journey takes him into the 20th century, a time when the certainties of Empire were falling away, war was looming and the world was changing...
Symphony
New Nations and New Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In this third programme, Simon Russell Beale takes us on a musical journey through the rise of nationalism in Europe into the New World. He discovers how nationalist voices such as Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and...
Symphony
Beethoven and Beyond
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Simon Russell Beale continues his journey into the world of the Symphony with the story of the revolutionary later symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven and their phenomenal impact over the last two centuries....