The business of film
In this program, Channel 4 commissioning editor John Richmond, producer Rachel Gesua, director Tim Supple, screenwriter Andrew Bannerman, and members of the cast and crew talk about the business of making a modest TV adaptation of Twelfth Night. Ste...
Breathing
This program begins by looking at a typical day in the life of a cystic fibrosis sufferer. The structure and function of the lungs are seen through a mixture of computer graphics and real-life video. The problems encountered with cystic fibrosis are...
Childhood: Program 3. Love's labors
This program provides an exploration of the fascinating period between six months and three years, when almost every day brings startling evidence of rapid maturation in brain and body - improved coordination, increased mobility, the acquisition of ...
Childhood: Program 7. The house of tomorrow
The CHILDHOOD journey concludes with a look at the many emotional and physical transformations that characterize puberty and adolescence. This program shows how that biological metamorphosis - when boys and girls become men and women - is marked in ...
Civilization: Is the West History? - Episode 5: Consumerism
Today the world is becoming more homogenous and, with increasingly few exceptions, big-name brands dominate main streets, high streets and shopping malls all over the globe.
We dress the same; we want the same latest technological kit; we drive the...
Civilization: Is the West History? - Episode 6: Work
The sixth element that enabled the West to dominate the rest was the work ethic. Max Weber famously linked it to Protestantism, but the reality is that any culture, regardless of religion, is capable of embracing the spirit of capitalism by working ...
The senses
This program examines the role that our senses play in providing us with information about the world around us. Our brain depends upon the information from all our senses being integrated so that the brain is provided with consistent data that it ca...
Belle & bunty fashions: attracting investments through brand image
Alice Shreeve and Hannah Coniam are the founders/designers for Belle & Bunty, London. Their trendy garments can be found in upscale boutiques and in the pages of Vogue, Glamour, and Elle - but they have yet to turn enough profit to expand their busi...
Civilization: Is the West History? - Episode 2: Science
In 1683 the Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna, the capital of Europe's most powerful empire. Domination of West by East was an alarmingly plausible scenario. But Islam was defeated: not so much by firepower as by science.
Niall Ferguson asks why th...
Civilization: Is the West History? - Episode 3: Property
Professor Ferguson asks why North America succeeded while South America for so many centuries lagged behind.
The two had much in common (not least the subjugation of indigenous peoples and the use of slavery by European immigrants), but they differ...