The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
Documentary series which explores the history of Britain through changes and developments in fashion. A look at the 'make-do-and-mend' years of the Second World War, when clothes rationing tested the ingenuity of the nation.
1965 concert by folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Songs include When the Ship Comes In, The First Time, San Francisco Bay Blues, Jesus Met the Woman, Early Morning Rain, For Lovin' Me and Early in the Morning.
Three-part documentary series about Savile Row, the London street famous for its bespoke tailoring establishments. The tailors face their toughest challenge - encouraging the next generation to take up their mantle and become apprentices. Training is long and arduous, with limited financial rewards so companies treat new recruits with care and compassion. The programme follows those hoping to make the cut as they try to win The Golden Shears - tailoring's equivalent of the Oscars.
Stuart Maconie and Lauren Laverne put British style and fashion between the 1940s and the 1990s into the dock. They are joined in the studio by design specialist Ben de Lisi, singer and fashion broadcaster Mica Paris and musician, model and designer Pearl Lowe to discuss whether the 90s will be remembered as the golden age of celebrity, glamour and the triumph of the high street or as a bland, joyless decade in which the globalisation led to homogeneity of style.
Werner Herzog's 1982 classic set in early 20th century Peru. To achieve his dream of building an opera house in the Peruvian rainforest, Brian 'Fitzcarraldo' Fitzgerald leases an inaccessible tract of land rich in rubber, hoping to mine it. But to reach it, deep in the Amazon, he must enlist the help of the natives in an outlandish plan to move his steamship across land from one river to another.
THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2009
THU 19:00 World News Today (b00h6x4g)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
THU 19:40 The New Avengers (b00hbk3z)
Series 1
Sleeper
1970s action adventure series. Steed and his team are present at the test of a new sleeping gas called S-95, so they are immunised to its effects. On Sunday morning, they wake up to find the whole city of London fast asleep. The city's banks and jewellery shops are unprotected and the Avengers are the only people awake, apart from the unknown enemy.
THU 20:30 Tonight in Person (b00hbjbq)
Peter, Paul and Mary Part 2
1965 concert by folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Songs include The Times are a Changing, Hangman, In My Dreams, Puff the Magic Dragon, Rising of the Moon, Great Day, Blowing in the Wind and If I Had My Way.
THU 21:00 Reputations (b0074t0v)
Chanel - A Private Life
Profile of the perennially influential fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, who devoted her life to becoming the symbol of chic and the style of France. But behind her image she hid a secret past as a nightclub singer, mistress and spy.
THU 21:45 Men, Women and Clothes (b00h6x4j)
How Fashions Come and Go
Doris Langley Moore presents a 1950s fashion series from the Museum of Costume at Eridge Castle, Sussex.
THU 22:00 Style on Trial (b00h6x4l)
Finale
Stuart Maconie and Lauren Laverne's quest to identify Britain's most stylish decade ends with advocates putting the case for their favourite fashion era to an expert judging panel. Doing the honours are Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen for the 40s, Brix Smith-Start for the 50s, Jill Kennington for the 60s, Wayne Hemingway for the 70s, Caryn Franklin for the 80s and Ben de Lisi for the 90s.
THU 23:30 The Look (b00h6x4n)
Uniform and Function
Fashion industry series looks at how identity can be bought off the peg, from the Ralph Lauren preppy look to Chanel's interlocking C's for the shiny set.
THU 00:20 Folk America at the Barbican (b00gvk93)
Hollerers, Stompers and Old-Time Ramblers
Hosted by maverick bluesman Seasick Steve, this concert from the Barbican in London showcases an exciting revival of the old-time musical traditions first recorded in the American South in the 1920s.
It features Appalachian mountain string band music, vaudeville swing, junk shop blues, creole dance tunes and folk country ballads, all delivered via energetic performances with a fresh twist. An eclectic line-up of young and emerging talent includes CW Stoneking, The Wiyos, Allison Williams and Chance McCoy, Diana Jones, and Cedric Watson and Bijoux Creole.
THU 01:25 Seasick Steve: Bringing It All Back Home (b00gvk8x)
Documentary which joins former hobo and festival favourite bluesman Seasick Steve on a trip back to his old stomping grounds in America's Deep South. Filmed in Mississippi and Tennessee, the programme follows the musician into his natural habitat of run-down juke joints, roadside diners and freight-train yards, as he reflects on his past life and recent rise to fame.
In addition to Steve's raw, stomping tunes, the soundtrack features Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Johnson, RL Burnside and BB King.
THU 01:55 Seasick Steve at Reading 2008 (b00gvk8z)
Seasick Steve and his band bring their unique brand of 'Hill Country' delta blues to the young audience at Reading festival in August 2008.
THU 02:25 Style on Trial (b00h6x4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 today]
FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2009
FRI 19:00 World News Today (b00h6xm6)
The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
FRI 19:30 Transatlantic Sessions (b00hhhlw)
Series 1
Episode 5
Folk musicians come together in what have been called 'the greatest backporch shows ever' at Strathgarry House in the Perthshire Highlands, introduced by Aly Bain and Jay Ungar. Featuring Emmylou Harris, Dougie McLean, Kathy Mattea, Iris Dement, Guy Clark, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Michelle Wright.
FRI 20:00 BBC Four Sessions (b0074sjm)
Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band
Series of unique concerts by musicians from around the world.
Bruce Springsteen makes a departure from his rock 'n' roll superstar persona, singing the songs made famous by Pete Seeger in the 1950s. Backed by a hootenanny-style 18-piece ensemble including horns, fiddles and accordion, he performs songs from his album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.
FRI 21:00 Folk America (b00h6xmb)
This Land is Your Land
Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.
In the depression of the 1930s, John Lomax found convicted murderer Leadbelly in a southern jail. Leadbelly's music was never quite as pure and untouched by pop as Lomax believed, but it set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed.
Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with Lomax's son Alan, Pete Seeger and Josh White - a group of friends who believed 'they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it'. Their songs and their radical politics took them to high places of influence, but brought about their downfall in the blacklisting 1950s.
Contributors include Pete Seeger, Rambling Jack Elliot, Anna Lomax, Tom Paxton, Roger McGuinn, Woody Guthrie's sister and daughter and Josh White's son.
FRI 22:00 Later... Folk America (b00h6xmd)
Compilation of performances by artists from the American folk, blues, bluegrass and country scenes that revisits the spirit of the 1920s and beyond with a distinctly Southern flavour.
Including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Blind Boys of Alabama, Norah Jones, Odetta, Old Crow Medicine Show, Chatham County Line, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris and Buddy Guy and many more.
FRI 23:00 Arena (b00hbj01)
Woody Guthrie
First transmitted in 1988, Arena presents a documentary programme exploring the life of Woody Guthrie, the travelling American singer-songwriter who paved the way for the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
Born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912, Guthrie became a spokesman for a whole generation of downtrodden Americans during the 1930s, with poignant songs like Vigilante Man, Pastures of Plenty and the anthemic, This Land is Your Land.
FRI 00:10 The New Avengers (b00hbk3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:40 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Cowards (b00h6syx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 on Tuesday]
FRI 01:30 Folk America (b00h6xmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
FRI 02:30 BBC Four Sessions (b0074sjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
FRI 03:35 Later... Folk America (b00h6xmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 today]
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Aguirre, Wrath of God
23:30 MON (b0074rnc)
Alistair Cooke's America
22:00 SAT (b0074npp)
Arena
23:00 FRI (b00hbj01)
BBC Four Sessions
20:00 FRI (b0074sjm)
BBC Four Sessions
02:30 FRI (b0074sjm)
Cowards
23:00 MON (b00gvhjn)
Cowards
22:00 TUE (b00h6syx)
Cowards
02:10 TUE (b00h6syx)
Cowards
01:00 FRI (b00h6syx)
Early Doors
21:30 TUE (b0078k7h)
Fitzcarraldo
23:00 WED (b00cl39k)
Folk America at the Barbican
00:20 THU (b00gvk93)
Folk America
20:00 SUN (b00gvk91)
Folk America
00:30 SUN (b00gvk91)
Folk America
21:00 FRI (b00h6xmb)
Folk America
01:30 FRI (b00h6xmb)
Gerry Robinson and the Money Makers
22:30 MON (b00fqpn2)
Gerry Robinson and the Money Makers
02:00 MON (b00fqpn2)
In Concert
23:15 TUE (b00h6sz0)
In Concert
23:55 TUE (b00h6sz2)
In Concert
00:25 TUE (b00h6t99)
In Concert
01:00 TUE (b00h6wtr)
In Concert
01:40 TUE (b0074srl)
Later... Folk America
22:00 FRI (b00h6xmd)
Later... Folk America
03:35 FRI (b00h6xmd)
Little Dorrit Omnibus
19:30 SAT (b00g778l)
Little Dorrit Omnibus
02:15 SAT (b00g778l)
Little Dorrit
19:00 SAT (b00fvg86)
Little Dorrit
01:45 SAT (b00fvg86)
Mad Men
22:30 TUE (b00bfkjw)
Mark Lawson Talks To...
22:30 SUN (b00csk55)
Mark Lawson Talks To...
03:00 SUN (b00csk55)
Mark Lawson Talks To...
02:00 WED (b00csk55)
Men, Women and Clothes
21:45 THU (b00h6x4j)
People's Century
22:50 SAT (b00ffp16)
Ready to Wear
19:30 WED (b0077rxs)
Reputations
21:00 THU (b0074t0v)
Robert Burns: The People's Poet
21:00 SUN (b00h6s23)
Robert Burns: The People's Poet
01:30 SUN (b00h6s23)
Savile Row
21:00 WED (b00909d4)
Seasick Steve at Reading 2008
01:55 THU (b00gvk8z)
Seasick Steve: Bringing It All Back Home
01:25 THU (b00gvk8x)
Stephen Fry in America
19:00 SUN (b00fcvbq)
Stephen Fry in America
23:30 SUN (b00fcvbq)
Style on Trial
23:45 SAT (b00gvb2y)
Style on Trial
00:45 SAT (b00h4x56)
Style on Trial
22:00 WED (b00h6wty)
Style on Trial
03:00 WED (b00h6wty)
Style on Trial
22:00 THU (b00h6x4l)
Style on Trial
02:25 THU (b00h6x4l)
The American Future: A History, by Simon Schama
19:30 MON (b00fbd0d)
The Book Quiz
20:30 MON (b00h6sbr)
The Book Quiz
02:30 MON (b00h6sbr)
The Book Quiz
20:00 WED (b00h6sbr)
The Book Quiz
01:30 WED (b00h6sbr)
The High Life
21:00 TUE (b00h6syv)
The Look
23:30 THU (b00h6x4n)
The New Avengers
19:40 THU (b00hbk3z)
The New Avengers
00:10 FRI (b00hbk3z)
Timeshift
21:00 SAT (b00gks10)
Tonight in Person
20:30 WED (b00h6wtw)
Tonight in Person
20:30 THU (b00hbjbq)
Transatlantic Sessions
19:30 FRI (b00hhhlw)
What Darwin Didn't Know
21:00 MON (b00h6sbt)
What Darwin Didn't Know
03:00 MON (b00h6sbt)
What Darwin Didn't Know
19:30 TUE (b00h6sbt)
What Darwin Didn't Know
02:40 TUE (b00h6sbt)
World News Today
19:00 MON (b00h6sbp)
World News Today
19:00 TUE (b00h6sys)
World News Today
19:00 WED (b00h6wtt)
World News Today
19:00 THU (b00h6x4g)
World News Today
19:00 FRI (b00h6xm6)
imagine...
01:00 MON (b00ccgp3)