BBC4
Greenlit: Goth at the BBC, BBC4
Goth at the BBC w/t (1 x 60′) – A compilation of performances from the BBC to explore the ‘Goth’ style of British rock and pop in the 80s. This was a period of music in which dry ice, doomy lyrics and dyed black hair tortured skywards were only some of the constituent parts of this very British […]
Greenlit: The Genius of Gothic, BBC4
The Genius of Gothic w/t (1 x 60′) – Medieval historian Dr Janina Ramirez looks back at the 14th century, a time when craftsman and their patrons created the Perpendicular Gothic, a new form of architecture that was to be Britain’s first cultural style. Dr Janina Ramirez recites Britain’s Perpendicular legacy, from its first stirrings at Gloucester Cathedral […]
Greenlit: The Art of Gothic: The Shock of the Old, BBC4
The Art Of Gothic: The Shock Of The Old w/t (3 x 60′) – Andrew Graham-Dixon looks back at 19th century Britain and its obsession with all things Gothic. The series explores how an inspired group of architects and artists spurned the modern age, turning to Britain’s medieval past to create some of Britain’s most iconic works and […]
Greenlit: Great Scotts! The Family That Built Britain, BBC4
Great Scotts! The Family That Built Britain w/t (1 x 60′) – Dan Cruickshank explores how the great icons of Gothic British architecture were all created by one brilliant, if highly dysfunctional family – the mighty Scotts. Built by the Scotts over a single century, St Pancras Station, the Albert Memorial, Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station, Dulwich […]
Greenlit: 112 Weddings, BBC4
113 Weddings (1 x ) – A funny, intimate and candid exploration of love and marital commitment over the long haul. As a part-time wedding videographer hired for his intimate documentary style, filmmaker Doug Block videotaped 112 weddings in total, and long wondered what became of these couples with whom he shared such an emotional experience. Is married […]
Greenlit: The Love Hotel, BBC4
The Love Hotel (1 x ) – This film takes viewers inside a Japanese Love Hotel. While the Love Hotel culture is being threatened with closure from conservative politicians and corporate interests, the clients still visit to play out their fantasies. An intimate film about the Japanese psyche. Channel: BBC4 TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: Love Is All: 100 Years Of Love And Courtship, BBC4
Love Is All: 100 Years Of Love And Courtship (1 x ) – From the very first kisses ever caught on film, through the birth of youth culture, gay liberation and free love, this is the celluloid story of love and courtship since the birth of the movie camera. Told with spellbinding footage from the British […]
Greenlit: Treasures of the Indus, BBC4
Treasures Of The Indus (3 x 60′) – Art historian Sona Datta presents a landmark series exploring the treasures of the Indian subcontinent. From the plains of Pakistan to the foothills of the Himalaya, from northern India and Rajasthan to the deep south and Tamil Nadu, Sona will explore the people, places and dynasties that have […]
Greenlit: Spider House, BBC4
Spider House (1 x 90′) – Amazingly, spiders have never been studied in a domestic environment. This film reveals the highs and lows of this secret spidery world by taking over a gothic family house and with the help of foremost arachnologist and breeding expert, Graham Smith, populating it with the top UK domestic spider species, each […]
Greenlit: Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance, BBC4
Dancing Cheek To Cheek: An Intimate History Of Dance (3 x 60′) – Lucy Worsley and Len Goodman take to the floor to reveal the untold story of British dance. They’ll show how Britain’s favourite popular dances from over the centuries offer a fascinating window into British society and our relationships with one another. Each week, […]
Greenlit: The Beauty of Anatomy, BBC4
The Beauty of Anatomy (5 x 30′) – Scientist Adam Rutherford presents a series that looks at how discoveries about the human body has influenced illustrators and artists such as Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci. Channel: BBC4 (Financed by BBC Arts, BBC Worldwide and Northern Ireland Screen) Producer: Tern TV TX: TBC Source: Realscreen
Greenlit: Abstract Artists in Their Own Words, BBC4
Abstract Artists In Their Own Words (1 x 60′) – Documentary that unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of abstract art in Britain. The film features memorable clips from the archive, including the BBC’s landmark 1961 film profiling Barbara Hepworth, and a classic episode of Arena in which the painter John Hoyland works […]
Greenlit: Zaha Hadid on Malevich, BBC4
Zaha Hadid On Malevich (1 x 60′) – One of the world’s leading architects, Zaha Hadid is known for her futuristic architecture, but her work has its roots in an art movement that is 100 years old. She has long cited the Russian abstract artist Kazimir Malevich as one of her greatest inspirations and in […]
Greenlit: Matthew Collings on Abstract Art, BBC4
Matthew Collings On Abstract Art – Art critic and painter Matthew Collings explores the rise of the most influential and mysterious artistic development of the modern era: abstract art. Drawing on both his knowledge as a critic and his experience as an artist, Matthew reveals how and why abstract art came about, and how it […]
Greenlit: Glyndebourne: The Untold History, BBC4
Glyndebourne: The Untold History– A documentary marking the 80th anniversary of Glyndebourne Festival. Channel: BBC4 Producer: BBC TX: 22nd June 2014 Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: Herbert Von Karajan Documentary, BBC4
Herbert Von Karajan Documentary w/t- A portrait of Herbert Von Karajan, exploring his legendary career as one of the 20th century’s greatest and most controversial conductors and his life-long determination to bring classical music to the widest possible audience. Channel: BBC4 Producer: 1212 Productions TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: The Joy of Mozart, BBC4
The Joy Of Mozart – Tom Service discovers the true essence of the composer’s genius with the help of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nicola Benedetti, Paul Morley and others. Channel: BBC4 Producer: BBC TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: Funk, BBC4
Funk (1 x 60′) – A documentary that tells its story, exploring the music and artists who created a positive soundtrack at a negative time for African Americans. Channel: BBC4 Producer: BBC TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: Northern Soul: Living for the Weekend, BBC4
Northern Soul: Living For The Weekend (1 x 60′) – Tells the story of a genre of music unlike any other. It’s 40 years since DJ Russ Winstanley unleashed the Wigan Casino on the world, playing Northern Soul to thousands of young people in the club’s legendary all-nighters. The Wigan Casino even beat New York’s […]
Greenlit: We Need to Talk About Kate, BBC4
We Need To Talk About Kate w/t (1 x 60′) – Kate Bush has always danced to her own tune and we love her for it. This documentary explores what makes this singer-songwriter unique through the recollections of her colleagues and friends as well as those she has influenced down the years. Interviews include Sir […]
Greenlit: Oh You Pretty Things, BBC4
Oh You Pretty Things! w/t (3 x 60′) – Documentary series that explores the relationship between British rock and pop music and the fashions that have accompanied it. From the mid-60s to the early 90s, it examines these two aspects of British creativity and identity through Cilla Black’s Biba dresses, Bowie’s androgynous glamour, Zandra Rhodes […]
Greenlit: Bob Harris: My Nashville, BBC4
Bob Harris: My Nashville (1 x 60′) – ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris journeys to America’s country music capital and reveals why Nashville became Music City USA. From the beginnings of the Grand Ole Opry on commercial radio, through the threatening onset of rock ‘n’ roll in the 50s, right up to the modern mainstream hits of […]
Greenlit: Kenny Rogers: The Gambler, BBC4
Kenny Rogers: The Gambler w/t (1 x 60′) – Examines the life and career of the artist who “knows when to hold ’em and knows when to fold ’em”, recounting Kenny’s remarkable rise to the top of his game and bringing a golden era of country music to life. Featuring exclusive access to Rogers on […]
Greenlit: Nashville: Country Capital, BBC4
Nashville: Country Capital (1 x 60′ ) gets under the skin of Nashville, the Hollywood of country music. Nashville is the city of dreams – and big business – to which all country music gravitates and from where it makes its way to the outside world. Exploring the evolution of country music from the 1920s […]
Greenlit: The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins, BBC4
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (1 x 60′) – In the early 1960s, American neuroscientist John Lilly began attempts to communicate with dolphins, by teaching them to speak English. To perform the experiment, he built a large white concrete house on the coast of the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, and hired a […]
Greenlit: The History of Contemporary Dance, BBC4
The History Of Contemporary Dance – Brings together the dance community in a new documentary. Channel: BBC4 Producer: Fresh One Productions in partnership with Sadler’s Wells TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: The Golden Age of Singing, BBC4
The Golden Age Of Singing – Sees Sir Antonio Pappano explore the story of the classical voice across the last 500 years Channel: BBC4 TX: TBC Source: BBC press release
Greenlit: Tearing Up History, BBC4
Tearing Up History – A journey through the dramatic and destructive years of the French Revolution, telling history in a way not seen before – through the extraordinary story of its art. Our guide through this turbulent decade is the constantly surprising Dr Richard Clay, an art historian who has spent his life decoding the […]
Greenlit: The Music That Made Britain – Patriotism, Pleasure And Perfection, BBC4
The Music That Made Britain – Patriotism, Pleasure And Perfection w/t (3 x 60′) – Suzy Klein, broadcaster and BBC Radio 3 presenter, charts English music’s increased credibility with the fashionable upper classes in the 1700s along with the rise of the fashionable ‘English Oratorio’. It examines the emergence of mass popularity of music in […]
Greenlit: The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, BBC4
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain w/t (3 x 60′) – Three hundred years ago the Hanoverians succeeded to the British throne. This series presents the surprising story of Britain in the reigns of George I and George II – the age of the ‘German Georges’. Lucy Worsley will reveal how this […]
Greenlit: Dirt, BBC4
Dirt (1 x 60′) – What is it that makes this thin and fragile layer of ‘stuff’ that covers some of our planet able to sustain life on Earth? In a new science programme presented by Chris Beardshaw, we delve into the micro-world of soil to reveal what it is, how it works and why […]
Greenlit: Magic of Mushrooms, BBC4
Magic of Mushrooms (1 x 60′) – Mushroom enthusiast Professor Richard Fortey explores the strange and surprising science of fungi, unlocking the astonishing story of their evolution, their mysterious life cycle and their value to both the planet and us. In a purpose-built mushroom lab, Richard and mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey investigate the secret life […]
Greenlit: The Wonder of Bees With Martha Kearney, BBC4
The Wonder Of Bees with Martha Kearney (4 x 60′) – Follows Martha Kearney through her bee-keeping year, exploring the science, art and culture of the honey bee – the most ingenious insect known to humankind. As a keen amateur with no training, Martha is determined to become an expert beekeeper and harvest her first […]
Greenlit: Everyday Eden: A Potted History of the Suburban Garden, BBC4
Everyday Eden: A Potted History Of The Suburban Garden – Because it’s not grand, the story of the suburban garden has barely been told – and yet 8 out of 10 people in England live in the suburbs. Writer and historian Michael Collins delivers a riposte to the urban intelligentsia who have spent a century […]
Greenlit: British Gardens in Time, BBC4
British Gardens In Time (4 x 60′) – This series explores four iconic gardens. From Christopher Lloyd’s Arts and Craft Great Dixter to Georgian Stowe and from Victorian Biddulph Grange to the quintessentially English Nyman’s, this series brings these four glorious gardens to life. Featuring garden designer Chris Beardshaw, historian Andrea Wulf and National Trust […]
Greenlit: Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake, BBC4
Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake (1 x 60′) – Tamara Rojo, world-famous ballerina and Artistic Director of English National Ballet, will take viewers backstage as she prepares for one of classical ballet’s biggest challenges, the dual lead in Swan Lake. It is the ultimate role for any dancer requiring her to play the […]
Greenlit: Secrets of the Dolphin House, BBC4
Secrets of The Dolphin House (1 x 50′) – Documentary that explores an extraordinary inter-species experiment which took place in the 1960s. In 1965, physicist and neuroscientist John Lilly began a unique experiment, in which a fully grown male bottle-nosed dolphin and a young woman lived together, 24 hours a day, in a flooded house. […]
Greenlit: Dancing in the Blitz: How WW2 Made British Ballet, BBC4
Dancing In The Blitz: How WW2 Made British Ballet (1 x 60′) – David Bintley, Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, explores how the Second World War was the making of British ballet and how fundamental the years of hardship and adversity were in getting the British public to embrace ballet. Bintley shows how the […]
Greenlit: Fonteyn ’59: Sleeping Beauty, BBC4
Fonteyn ’59: Sleeping Beauty (1 x 60′) – Prima ballerina Darcey Bussell introduces the highlights from Sleeping Beauty, a hidden treasure of the BBC archive featuring legendary ballerina Margot Fonteyn in the leading role, in this unique performance from the 1950s. The original BBC Television version was specially produced and shot in a studio for […]
Greenlit: The Man Who Fought the Planners: The Story of Ian Nairn, BBC4
The Man Who Fought The Planners: The Story Of Ian Nairn (1 x 60′) – This programme looks back at Ian Nairn, who in the 1950s, was part of a new breed of Angry Young Men. Aged just 25 and fresh out of the RAF, he burst onto the architectural scene with Outrage, a blistering […]
Greenlit: The Brits Who Built the Modern World, BBC4
The Brits Who Built The Modern World (3 x 60′) – The definitive story of five of the most successful and globally recognised British architects of all time: Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell. The series will gives insights into how their youthful dreams of building a better world turned […]
Out: Janice Hadlow, Controller, BBC2 & BBC4
Janice Hadlow, Controller of BBC Two and BBC Four, is to step down from her role and take up a new post within the BBC. In her new role as Controller, Special Projects and Seasons, she will develop and originate high impact cross-platform series, seasons and other major television events. Janice will also advise Danny […]
Greenlit: After the Dance, BBC4
Storyville: After the Dance (1 x feature doc) – Daisy Asquith directs a documentary that explores her family history, focusing on how her unmarried grandmother was forced to give up her baby for adoption in Ireland. Channel: BBC4 / Irish Film Board Producer: Roads Entertainment TX: Spring 2014 Source: Broadcast
Greenlit: Fossil Wonderlands: Nature’s Hidden Treasures, BBC4
Fossil Wonderlands: Nature’s Hidden Treasures (3 x 60′) – Professor Richard Fortey explores the distant past, locked in stone, in . He travels to some of the greatest fossil sites on earth to discover more about the distant past. He journeys high into the Rocky Mountains to explore a 520-million-year-old fossilised seabed containing bizarre and […]
Greenlit: Hormones, BBC4
Hormones – Professor John Wass examines the well-known but little-understood chemicals that govern our bodies and shape who we are. From our weight and appetite to how we grow and reproduce, hormones are a crucial part of what makes us human, even affecting how we behave and feel. They are also among the body’s most […]
Greenlit: Dissected, BBC4
Dissected (2 x 60′) – Dr George McGavin explores two of the most amazing body parts in the natural world: human hands and feet. In Dissected: The Incredible Human Hand and Dissected: The Incredible Human Foot, he is joined by leading anatomy experts in a specially created dissection lab. Layer by layer, the team take […]
Greenlit: Infested, BBC4
Infested – Michael Mosley itches and scratches his way to a greater understanding of our relationship with parasites. Found in almost every animal on earth, the connection between animal and host is everywhere in nature. This most complex and intimate of relationships is a delicate balancing act, where the parasite must extract the food they […]
Greenlit: Michael Grade’s Stars of the Musical Theatre, BBC4
Michael Grade’s Stars of the Musical Theatre (1 x 60′) – Michael Grade explores the appeal of musical theatre productions such asOklahoma! and West Side Story and talks to some of the biggest names in musical theatre, such as Michael Ball, Elaine Paige and Trevor Nunn. Channel: BBC4 Producer: Finestripe Productions TX: Late 2013 Source: […]
Greenlit: In Search Of Blind Joe Death: The Saga Of John Fahey, BBC4
In Search Of Blind Joe Death: The Saga Of John Fahey (1 x 60′) – Exploration of the great ‘Primitivist’ guitarist John Fahey, who pioneered independent labels with his Takoma imprint, forged a unique guitar style that would build on early blues masters, indian music and eventually industrial music. Fahey was also key in the rediscovery […]
Greenlit: Big Bill Broonzy: The Man Who Brought The Blues To Britain, BBC4
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man Who Brought The Blues To Britain (1 x 60′) – Biography of Big Bill Broonzy, the American who brought the blues to 1950s Britain and went on to inspire a generation of musicians. Itmixes rare footage with archive and specially-shot live performances to trace the colourful and sometimes disturbing past […]
