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World News Today: 03/09/2008

03/09/2008

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Pop Go the Sixties: Dusty Springfield

Pop Go the Sixties

Colourful nuggets of pop mined from the BBC's archive.

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 2: Episode 3: Dusty Springfield

Episode 3

Episode 3: Dusty Springfield

Series 2

Dusty Springfield

BBC Four - Pop Go the Sixties, Series 2, Dusty Springfield

From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs Sunny.

A nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny.

A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive. From her own series recorded in 1967, Dusty Springfield performs the Bobby Hebb classic, Sunny, which had been a hit in the UK for Cher and Georgie Fame.

Pop Go the Sixties: Series 2

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

Dusty Springfield performs Sunny on her 1967 television series.

Batman

Classic adventure series following the adventures of the dynamic duo in Gotham City.

Classic adventure series following the adventures of dynamic crimefighting duo Batman and Robin in Gotham City.

Batman: Series 2

Batman: Series 2: Episode 58: Flop Goes the Joker

Episode 58

Episode 58: Flop Goes the Joker

Flop Goes the Joker

BBC Four - Batman, Series 2, Flop Goes the Joker

Fantasy drama series. Robin reckons he is a hamburger.

Life in Cold Blood

Life in Cold Blood: Episode 3: Dragons of the Dry

Episode 3: Dragons of the Dry

Dragons of the Dry

BBC One - Life in Cold Blood, Dragons of the Dry

David Attenborough takes a look at lizards and chameleons from around the world.

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians, including wrestling beaded lizards.

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians, including jacky lizards that wave, wrestling beaded lizards and the largest chameleons in the world jousting in the trees. He also comes across the world's smallest chameleon, which is no bigger than his thumbnail, and the biggest lizard in Australia.

BBC One

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David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the lives of reptiles and amphibians

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. These animals are as dramatic, as colourful and as tender as any other animals.

3/5. When David Attenborough delves into the world of lizards, he comes face to face with a monitor lizard that stands on tiptoe.

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery: Episode 3: Spare Parts

Episode 3: Spare Parts

Spare Parts

BBC Four - Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery, Spare Parts

Transplant surgery development, from  a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations.

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery, from a Nazi sympathiser to the latest miraculous operations.

Documentary series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery, from a Nazi sympathiser to the latest miraculous life- and limb-saving operations.

These days, transplant surgery saves thousands of lives every year and almost everything, from heart to eyes, can be replaced. But in the beginning, transplants killed rather than cured, because surgeons didn't understand that they were taking on one of the most efficient killing systems we know of - the human immune system.

Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.

Blood and Guts: a History ofSurgery

New. 3/5. An insight into transplant surgery, revealing how the rates of success have increased as knowledge of the human immune system has evolved. See panel.

The Consequences of Love

BBC Four - The Consequences of Love

Italian drama about the misanthropic resident of a dull Swiss hotel.

Drama in which the long-term resident of a dull Swiss hotel, banished to a life of boredom by the Mafia, considers escaping exile after striking up a relationship with a barmaid.

Challenging, understated drama revolving around the misanthropic resident of a dull Swiss hotel who, it transpires, has been banished to a life of eternal boredom because of an error that cost the Mafia a fortune. Eventually, he strikes up a relationship with the hotel barmaid which prompts him to reconsider his situation, a decision set to bring him into a confrontation with his criminal employers once again.

Crime drama starring Toni Servillo. 
A minor minion of the Mob is tempted into considering a double-cross after he is exiled to a Swiss-Italian backwater. In Italian with English subtitles. Film of the Day: page 35. 
Director Paolo Sorrentino (2004, 15)

Coal House

Living history reality series set in Wales.

Coal House: Series 1: Episode 9: Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 9: Episode 8

Series 1

Episode 8

BBC One - Coal House, Series 1, Episode 8

Will the children be saying goodbye to the pigs and their mums goodbye to the tin baths?

Three families time-travel back to face the hardships of life in a 1927 mining community. Will the kids be saying goodbye to the pigs and their mums goodbye to the tin baths?

Deep in the Welsh Valleys three families give up their 21st century creature comforts and time-travel back to face the hardships of life in a 1927 mining community. 

The families add preparation for the final concert to their exhausting daily life. As the community thinks about its goodbye to life in 1927, will the children be saying goodbye to the pigs and their mums goodbye to the tin baths?

Coal House: Series 1

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Three families are transported back to the south Wales coalfield of the 1920s.

The fathers and sons are exhausted by work at the coal face - but the end is in sight.

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Medical Mavericks

An exploration of how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine

An exploration of the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves

Medical Mavericks: Series 1

Medical Mavericks: Series 1: Episode 2: Discovering Vaccines

Episode 2

Episode 2: Discovering Vaccines

Discovering Vaccines

BBC Four - Medical Mavericks, Series 1, Discovering Vaccines

Dr Michael Mosley looks at how doctors learnt to harness the immune system.

Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.

Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves. 

Mosley explores the unbelievable ways in which doctors learnt to harness the immune system by deliberately exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio. He meets the team of Nottingham doctors who are infecting themselves with hookworms to see if they can shut down the immune system in order to cope with allergies like hayfever and asthma.

The programme includes the story of living self-experimenter Dr Hilary Koprowski, who mixed up a potion of ground-up rats' brains in the 1950s and drank it in his efforts to develop an oral polio vaccine. Mosley charts the terrible consequences of releasing an unproven vaccine too early, which happened in the race to control polio in the 1930s and the 1950s. One of the contributors describes the 1950s polio trial which involved millions of children as 'the worst man-made biological disaster in American history'.

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine

Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On: Episode 3: The Casualty Doctor's Tale

Episode 3: The Casualty Doctor's Tale

The Casualty Doctor's Tale

BBC Four - Doctors to Be: 20 Years On, The Casualty Doctor's Tale

Looking at what happened to Fey Probst, a single parent who is now a consultant in A&E.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of young doctors. Fey Probst is now an A&E consultant who fears today's doctors are being overly fast-tracked.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers. Fey Probst was a single parent who could only settle down to study after her children had gone to bed. Finally qualified, Fey sailed through the punishing hours on a tide of euphoria and is now a consultant in A&E. But Fey is worried by the way young doctors are now rising to the top of the hierarchy in much less time than it took her generation, and she fears that they may not have the knowledge they need.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers.

Doctors to Be: Twenty Years On

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On: Episode 4: The Family Doctor's Tale

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Family Doctor's Tale

The Family Doctor's Tale

BBC Four - Doctors to Be: 20 Years On, The Family Doctor's Tale

This edition looks at a doctor who chose to be a GP when its popularity was at its nadir.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of young doctors. This edition looks at David Copping, who chose to be a GP when its popularity was at its nadir.

Update on the 1980s series about a group of doctors just starting out on their careers. David Copping always wanted to be a GP, even though it was the less glamorous side of medicine. But by choosing general practice at its nadir meant David had the pick of the jobs, and now the government has boosted GPs' salaries and cut their night work. Working four days a week for a high salary, life is good. Life may be better for GPs, but are the patients getting what they need from them?

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