documentary
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To TravelTuesday, 18 September 2012
It is said of many people, but for Diana Vreeland it was true: she remains fashion’s once and future queen. An enduring legend of a notoriously vicious and ephemeral world, the Paris-loving Anglo-American had a magical life as a heralded columnist... Read more... |
Shut Up and Play the HitsTuesday, 04 September 2012
According to US television anchor Stephen Colbert, there are only three ways to end your career as a rock star: overdose, overstay your welcome or write Spiderman: The Musical. Rockers, he says, during a televised interview with LCD Soundsystem... Read more... |
F For FakeThursday, 23 August 2012
For all that’s been said about Orson Welles – usually focusing on his towering genius and sizable ego - he was above all a great contrarian. In interviews he was often genial and self-effacing and of course a scintillating raconteur. During his... Read more... |
The ImposterMonday, 20 August 2012
In 1994, a boy vanishes from Texas. Over three years later, he is found by Interpol alive in Spain and shipped back to his family in San Antonio. As improbable as this is in itself, it marks the beginning of an even more incredible story revealed in... Read more... |
DVD: MisinforMationFriday, 10 August 2012
Britain’s New Towns – constructed to address post-World War II housing shortages – were meant to be places of dreams. Modern amenities abounded. The clean lines of post-Le Corbusier architecture screamed “this is the future”. Yet there was no sense... Read more... |
Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Still Lose Weight, BBC OneFriday, 03 August 2012
What do you do after nine series celebrating the cooking and eating of food? You make another, charting the effort to lose some of the weight gained. This time out, the bike-riding Si King and David Myers are still eating and travelling, but trying... Read more... |
Barenboim on Beethoven: Nine Symphonies That Changed the World, BBC TwoSunday, 29 July 2012
If he isn't careful, Daniel Barenboim is going to find himself on a plinth in Trafalgar Square. He was feted at the Olympic opening ceremony as a great humanitarian, and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is being held up as a model for how music... Read more... |
Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest, C4Friday, 06 July 2012
What a dicey subject for debate Michael Johnson opened here, one that has scuppered the career of academics and social commentators alike, and which will have made many of his audience feeling deeply troubled. Johnson, now 44, competed at... Read more... |
Punk Britannia: Post-Punk (1978-1981), BBC FourSaturday, 16 June 2012
The Sex Pistols played their final live show on 14 January 1978 in San Francisco. According to the third and final programme in the Punk Britannia series, “for many, it would be the end of punk”. It certainly was for ex-Pistol John Lydon, who'd form... Read more... |
Personal BestFriday, 25 May 2012
Of the rash of Olympic-themed films lining up on the startline, there is a double entry from Chariots of Fire, digitally remastered on film and freshly rebooted for the stage, as well as a forthcoming feelgood drama about young women in a relay... Read more... |
Hitler's Children, BBC TwoThursday, 24 May 2012
Did Magda Goebbels do her children a favour by murdering all six of them in the bunker? Her rationale, as reported in the film Downfall, was the impossibility of imagining a life after Hitler for anyone called Goebbels.Most descendants of the Nazi... Read more... |
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, BBC FourWednesday, 23 May 2012
Ooh look, she’s at it again. Fresh from hurling insults at David Starkey (well, he started it) and provoking the ire of historian Alison Light - who presumably didn’t make it through BBC casting - for daring to try on a bonnet on the box and thus “... Read more... |
