91Èȱ¬
TWO Winter highlights 2004 - Factual
My
Week In The Real World
Dunkirk
Who Killed PC Blakelock?
Care (part of the Taking Care season)
This World
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Third World War – Al
Qaeda
What The World Thinks About God
Bee In Your Bonnet (working title)
The Miners' Strike
The Genius Of Mozart
Private Life Of A Masterpiece
Arena: Alec Guinness
Jeremy Clarkson's Inventions That Changed The
World
Crafty Tricks Of War
Terry Jones's Medieval Lives
SAS Desert - Are You Tough Enough?
Notorious
The Property People
The New Servants
Britain Goes Wild With Bill Oddie
Diet Junkies
Living the Dream
The 91Èȱ¬ Team (working title)
Seaside Parish
My
Week In The Real World
 Another
politician swaps Whitehall's corridors of power for a week in the
real world.
Following
in the footsteps of Michael Portillo - who became a single mum for
a week last year in a similar project - former Overseas Development
Minister Clare Short finds out what every day life is like outside
Westminster.
She
takes on the role of a geography teacher in a south London school
to see if she can cope with the pressures faced by teachers on a
daily basis.
MPs
Alan Duncan and Peter Kilfoyle also step into someone else's shoes
for a week.
Alan
Duncan becomes a youth worker for a week and leads a group of challenging
teenagers on an outward-bound course in Wales while Peter Kilfoyle
runs a shoot on a country estate in Scotland. (TE)
Dunkirk
What
happened at Dunkirk in May 1940 ranks among the greatest maritime
evacuations in history.
Told
from the perspective of the decision-makers and the soldiers on
the ground, this drama-documentary follows the incredible race against
time to save the Allied army trapped in France.
As
British and French troops were forced back onto an ever-diminishing
pocket of land by the relentless onslaught of the Germans, the British
Navy launched a momentous effort to rescue them - and miraculously
managed to save more than 325,000 men.
2003
Olivier Award winner for best actor, Simon Russell Beale, plays
Churchill, and the series also stars Kevin McNally (Pirates of the
Caribbean), Ricci Harnett (28 Days), Michael Legge (Angela's Ashes)
and John Carlisle (The Forsythe Saga). (KB)
Who
Killed PC Blakelock? (previously known as Broadwater
Farm)
On
6 October 1985, on a troubled North London housing estate, police
constable Keith Blakelock was brutally murdered and some 250 police
officers were injured.
That
night saw one of the most ferocious spates of rioting in living
memory.
The
programme explores what really happened and hears from rioters and
police, together with detectives and suspects, who relive one of
the country's biggest-ever murder inquiries. (TE)
Care
(part of the Taking Care season)
As
part of major 91Èȱ¬ season Taking Care - about children in care -
91Èȱ¬ TWO presents a one off drama which explores themes of love,
friendship and teenage life through the lives of three young people
who grew up in care together.
It
is 1990 and 15-year-olds Lee, Martin and Bella are a close-knit
trio living in a residential home in south London. But everything
changes when Martin finds Lee and Bella in bed together.
Thirteen
years later, Martin meets Bella again. He learns that life has been
tough for her and Lee. Martin is still in love with Bella, but will
his love be enough to help her? (ED)
This
World
This
World is a new series of international current affairs programmes
on 91Èȱ¬ TWO.
This
World offers viewers a range of compelling documentaries from around
the globe, including an insight into the workings and people behind
one of the world's most notorious motorcycle gangs, the Hell's Angels;
human stories from America to Africa; and exclusive investigations
into the most contentious global issues. (PR)
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A combination
of drama and documentary, If takes the major current topics of debate,
including inequality, ageing and obesity, and projects them into
the near future.
Each
storyline realises predictions which may shock, disturb or delight
as the series assembles world-renowned experts to share their vision
in stylised testimonies, which weave in and out of the drama.
If
stands at the cutting edge of science, social engineering and politics,
where the future is predicted before it happens.
The
programme promises to be a bold and entertaining wake-up call which
will break new ground in the way 91Èȱ¬ TWO examines the big issues
of the day. (TE)
Third
World War – Al Qaeda (previously known as The Secret
War Against Terror)
 Third
World War – Al Qaeda
is the most authoritative and revealing account to date of the secret
war between the Western intelligence agencies and al-Qaeda's networks.
Soon
after 9/11, it became clear that a global enemy could only be countered
by a global response.
That
would mean unprecedented international co-operation and, critically,
the sharing of intelligence between governments and counter-terrorism
agencies.
Presented
by Peter Taylor, who has covered international security matters
for 30 years, this series focuses on the response of the United
States, Western Europe and South East Asia. (PR)
What
The World Thinks About God
Following
the recent What The World Thinks Of America, the 91Èȱ¬ hosts another
ambitious broadcasting event, bringing together a host of international
broadcasters for a conversation asking what the world thinks about
God.
The
programme reveals the results of a poll of 10,000 people across
the globe gauging the relevance of God in today's world.
It
explores whether the British are any more or less interested in
God than other nations or whether a belief in God has been replaced
by a belief in something quite different.
It
also explores the role of prayer in the modern world and asks whether
a belief in God has made the world a better place.
A
range of people with differing opinions visit studios in London
and around the world to discuss these findings and discover what
people really think about God. (KR)
Bee
In Your Bonnet (working title)
Bee
In Your Bonnet is a new campaigners' series, featuring people who
have an almost obsessive desire to get their voices heard.
Amanda
Platell - former national newspaper editor and senior political
spin doctor - is the expert helping to make that happen.
In
her TV presenting debut, Platell uses her skills and expertise to
advise campaigners on the best ways to make their message hit home.
This
lively series empowers viewers who have a burning desire to campaign
on local issues close to their hearts but simply don't know where
to start. (KR)
The
Miners' Strike
In
1984, five young men from an ordinary Yorkshire mining village were
thrown into an extraordinary conflict.
Searing
emotion, terrifying violence, deep hatred and sheer adrenaline engulfed
them as they hurtled through the great miners' strike of 1984/5.
The
Miners' Strike follows these five flying pickets through their year
of living dangerously, depicting the excitement and fear of picket-line
confrontation, the intense strain on family and community, and the
twists and turns of Scargill's union, Thatcher's Government and
a police force that was at war with the miners. (KR)
The
Genius Of Mozart
Mozart's
short life was full of drama and passion, and musically he revolutionised
the history of western civilisation.
This
unique drama-documentary series dramatically reconstructs key moments
in Mozart's life and relates them to his musical development.
These
drama sequences and 'contemporary' interviews are factually based
on the numerous letters exchanged between Mozart, his family and
friends.
The
series starts with Mozart's prodigious childhood talent, as seen
through the eyes of his family and friends, and in particular his
domineering father Leopold.
The
second programme looks as Mozart's operas - in which he expressed
his most passionately held beliefs on society, politics and the
human condition - and the final programme follows the latter years
of Mozart's life through the eyes of his loving wife Constanze and
their friends.
The
cast include Kenneth Cranham as Mozart's father, Claire Skinner
as Mozart's sister, Emma Cunniffe as his wife, and introducing Jack
Tarlton as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The
conductor Charles Hazlewood is our musical guide, with each programme
dealing with a different area of Mozart's genius - keyboard, opera
and instrumental. (TH)
Private
Life Of A Masterpiece
A new
series of programmes tells the life stories of celebrated works
of art - from the artist's first idea, through development and execution,
to its reception, who bought it, who sold it and even who attacked
it.
Private
Life Of A Masterpiece also explores the less conventional incarnations
of some art works in today's society - as fridge magnets or in commercials
- and how they have provoked modern artists to do their own, often
surprising, versions.
Works
featured include: La Primavera by Botticelli; Rodin's celebrated
statue, The Kiss; The Night Watch by Rembrandt; Portrait Of The
Artist's Mother by Whistler; Van Gogh's Sunflowers; Les Desmoiselles
D'Avignon by Picasso, often seen as the first modernist painting;
and Goya's terrifying picture of war, The Third Of May. (KG)
Arena:
Alec Guinness
For
the younger generation Alec Guinness is probably best remembered
as the wise old Jedi knight, Obi Wan Kenobi, in the Star Wars films.
But
his brilliant acting career, launched on stage at the age of 24,
spanned over five decades of TV, film and stage work.
Arena
presents the first-ever in-depth film profile of Guinness, one of
the best-loved British actors of the last century.
With
film footage, interviews from close friends and family and access
to Guinness's private journals and letters, Arena goes behind the
many masks of the incredibly private Guinness to reveal a complicated,
fascinating and immensely talented man. (IC)
Jeremy
Clarkson's Inventions That Changed The World
From
what we eat and wear to how we travel, our lives are governed by
inventions.
Sometimes
a new invention comes along that doesn't just change our way of
life, it changes the world - television, for instance, which has
had an enormous impact on our culture.
Jeremy
Clarkson makes a passionate champion for the inventions and the
inventors he believes have changed the way the modern world operates.
The
gun, the car, the jet engine, the television, the telephone and
the computer are all subject to Jeremy's polemical enthusiasm. (KC)
Crafty
Tricks Of War
From
exploding rats and pigeon-guided missiles to underwater canoes,
army veteran Dick Strawbridge tracks down the craziest military
inventions in Crafty Tricks Of War.
A man
on a mission, Dick draws on his extensive technical and military
knowledge to uncover the blueprints, then reconstruct and test the
most ingenious contraptions, with, in some cases, surprisingly explosive
results.
In
his workshop, he learns from unique archive footage, and is guided
by the inventors themselves, as he pieces together the history,
science and engineering behind the crafty tricks and cunning plans
of conflict. (BR/LS)
Terry
Jones's Medieval Lives
Champion
of the Middle Ages and author of several myth-busting books on Medieval
England, Terry Jones embarks on a mission to rescue this period
from moth-eaten clichés and well-worn platitudes.
In
this new series he takes viewers on a voyeuristic rampage through
the lives of eight archetypal medieval figures: a knight, a monk,
a peasant, a damsel, an outlaw, a king, a philosopher and a minstrel.
Using
the very latest research, fantastic locations across Europe and
his unrivalled storytelling talents, Jones reveals that, contrary
to popular belief, far from being an age of dreariness and servitude,
the Middle Ages was a time of splendour and laughter - and that
even dental hygiene was better than it is today! (EF/CC)
SAS
Desert - Are You Tough Enough?
Twenty-four
super-fit members of the public go back to the roots of the SAS,
taking on weeks of Special Forces training in the desert environment
in which the regiment first fought.
Dermot
O'Leary is once again on hand to commentate on the new recruits'
progress, as Staff Sergeant Eddie Stone puts them through their
paces.
SAS
survival expert Barry Davies and Dr Mike Stroud also check up on
the volunteers.
The
unforgiving terrain of Namibia's Skeleton Coast is the setting for
the gruelling challenge, as the men and women learn to live, travel
and fight like the military elite. (PC)
Notorious
High-profile
lawyer Giovanni di Stefano pushes the legal boundaries to find the
loopholes which could give high profile clients - such as Harold
Shipman - grounds for appeal, while Nick Cracknell made millions
running a perfectly legal premium phone line scam.
Vance
Miller has been exposed by the 91Èȱ¬'s Rogue Traders programme for
selling cheap substandard kitchens while paparazzi king Darren Lyons
has brought misery to celebs everywhere by getting the photos they
just didn't want seen.
From
the makers of Lifters and Easy Money, Notorious features edgy and
intimate portraits of four men whose desire to make money lets them
ride roughshod over other people's lives.
The
Property People
 Buying
a house ranks among the most traumatic events in people's lives.
A recent
survey named estate agents as Britain's least favourite professionals,
and the relationship between agent and client is potentially explosive.
This
series follows the hungry, up-and-coming estate agents at one of
Britain's most successful companies.
In
an environment where the deal is king, The Property People witnesses
the cut-throat competition both in-house and externally as, along
with the 18 other estate agents in their street, they fight tooth
and nail to bag the fee. (RI)
The
New Servants
In
an age in which there are more labour-saving devices than ever before
and women are largely liberated from domestic drudgery, there are
now more servants in Britain than there were in the Victorian age.
This
new series takes a wry look at the continuing rise of The New Servants
- personal trainers, lifestyle coaches, time-savers, dog-walkers,
household managers and personal shoppers - and the people who use
them.
It
examines how an entire service culture has grown in response to
the desire of a cash-rich, time-poor generation to contract out
virtually every onerous aspect of their personal and family lives.
(ED)
Britain
Goes Wild With Bill Oddie
Building
on the success of 2003's Wild In Your Garden, 91Èȱ¬ TWO launches Britain's
biggest-ever nationwide wildlife event, bringing viewers face to
face with a whole new world right on their doorsteps.
Through
TV, radio, online, interactive television and local events up and
down the country, Britain Goes Wild With Bill Oddie aims to be a
truly enriching experience for all those who take part, listen or
watch.
Wildlife
lives all around us and this series of programmes reveals the abundance
and diversity of creatures that can be found in every neighbourhood.
(DC)
Diet
Junkies
Diet
Junkies tells the story of 50 years of dieting.
The
series hears from the doctors who first faced up to the obesity
epidemic, the pharmaceutical companies searching for the miracle
diet pills, the "diet gurus" and the men and women who've
looked to all of them for help in the battle with their weight.
The
programmes trace the cultural history of the movement from the Fifties
housewives who took amphetamines, through the rise of Dr Atkins
and the fat-free food craze of the Eighties, to the future of dieting
at the start of a new century.
This
is the first time British television has taken such an in-depth
look at the subject, and it is the definitive history of a phenomenon
that has touched us all. (PR)
Living
the Dream
Whether
people feel trapped in an unfulfilling job, ground down by the pressures
of the rat race or stressed out by their precarious financial situation,
most people can identify with the dream of getting away from it
all and starting again.
Living
The Dream returns to follow the ventures of those who, spurred on
by visions of sun-baked foreign climes or rural country idylls,
have had the courage and determination to follow their hearts and
set up their dream business.
The
series re-visits some of the favourite families from the last series.
(PR)
The
91Èȱ¬ Team (working title)
The
real-life stories and human dramas of moving house are revealed
in this brand-new series which follows potential buyers and sellers
as they struggle with the biggest investment of their lives.
Professional
estate agent Emma Basdon and builder Jason Malloney use their expertise
to try and guide hopeful househunters through the mire of buying,
selling and renovating property.
Filmed
over a year, the crises - including family break-ups and repossessions
- would make anyone think twice about embarking on one of the most
stressful of life's journeys. (BR/LS)
Seaside
Parish
Following
the success of A Country Parish, 91Èȱ¬ TWO goes to the seaside to
explore parish life in a Cornish fishing village.
The
Rev Christine Musser and her American husband arrived in the parish
less than a year ago.
As
well as looking after the spiritual needs of an ever-changing population,
Christine has to care for seven churches in various states of repair
and reconcile the traditional views of some of her congregation
with the need to win over new, younger converts.
If
that wasn't enough, Christine also faces competition from an unexpected
sourceÂ… witchcraft. (CR)
BACK
TO MAIN RELEASE
All the
91Èȱ¬'s digital services are now available on ,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the 91Èȱ¬'s eight television channels, interactive services
from 91Èȱ¬i, as well as 11 national 91Èȱ¬ radio networks.
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