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The latest news and business developments.

World News Today: 09/09/2008

09/09/2008

BBC News Channel - World News Today, 09/09/2008

The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events.

The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

BBC News Channel

An impartial and independent news service offering breaking news, analysis and insight.

A 24-hour impartial and independent news service offering breaking news, analysis and insight. It provides fast and comprehensive coverage of local, UK and international events.

The Sky at Night

Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy.

Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see in the night sky.

The Sky at Night: Galaxy Zoo

Galaxy Zoo

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Galaxy Zoo

A look at the results of the Galaxy Zoo project, which aims to classify the galaxies.

Patrick Moore looks at the results recorded by more than 150,000 volunteers who've taken part in the Galaxy Zoo project, which aims to classify over a million galaxies.

Only a tiny fraction of the billions of galaxies in our Universe have ever been seen, yet sorting them into beautiful spirals and giant ellipticals remains a task best carried out not by computers but by the human brain. 

Sir Patrick Moore looks at the results recorded by more than 150,000 volunteers who've taken part in the Galaxy Zoo project, and talks to a Dutch schoolteacher who discovered something unique.

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.

Patrick Moore speaks to a Dutch teacher whose nightly observations have uncovered something unusual. 
Shown on Sunday on BBC1

Wild China

Wild China: Episode 3: Tibet

Episode 3

Episode 3: Tibet

Tibet

BBC Two - Wild China, Tibet

A look at the remote Tibetan Plateau, home to chiru antelopes, wild yaks, foxes and bears.

Series about the creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes. This episode looks at the remote Tibetan Plateau, home to chiru antelopes, wild yaks and bears.

Documentary capturing pioneering images to exhibit the dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes. 

The vast Tibetan Plateau is one of the world's most remote places and home to chiru antelopes, wild yaks, foxes and bears. It has a remarkable culture shaped by over one 1,000 years of Buddhism, while its mountains and glaciers provide a vital life support system for half the planet.

BBC Two

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Documentary exposing the wonderful creatures that live in China's beautiful landscapes

Documentary featuring pioneering images that capture the dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes

3/6. A look at the vast windswept wilderness of the Tibetan plateau, one of the world's most remote, brutal and inhospitable places. 
First shown on BBC2

That Mitchell and Webb Look

Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Series 1

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Series 1: Episode 1

Episode 1

Series 1

BBC Two - That Mitchell and Webb Look, Series 1, Episode 1

Includes the snooker commentators and crime fighting duo Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit.

Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Includes anxious Nazis, distracted snooker commentators and a mismatched crime fighting duo.

Robert Webb and David Mitchell invite you into their lop-sided world of sketch comedy, featuring anxious Nazis, some easily distracted snooker commentators, and the not-terribly-well-matched crime fighting duo of Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit. 

Plus Numberwang, the exciting new quiz game that everyone's talking about but nobody really understands.

1/6; series one. The first episode of the Peep Show duo's sketch series.

Flight of the Conchords

Sitcom about two Kiwi folk musicians as they to try to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in New York.

Flight of the Conchords: Series 1

Flight of the Conchords: Series 1: Episode 1: Sally

Episode 1: Sally

Sally

BBC Four - Flight of the Conchords, Series 1, Sally

Jemaine pulls the most beautiful girl in the room at Dave's party.

Comedy series about two Kiwi folk musicians in New York. Jemaine pulls the most beautiful girl in the room at Dave's party, and the boys decide to make a music video.

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York. Jemaine pulls the most beautiful girl in the room at Dave's party, and the boys decide to make a music video.

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians trying to make it big in New York

Comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine as they to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York

1/12. Comedy about a New Zealand folk duo in New York.

Call the Cops

Call the Cops: Episode 5: The Sweeney

Episode 5

Episode 5: The Sweeney

The Sweeney

BBC Four - Call the Cops, The Sweeney

How The Sweeney ushered in an age where television coppers acted just like the villains.

Series about the history of British police dramas looks at The Sweeney, which ushered in a new age where television coppers talked and acted just like the villains.

A look at groundbreaking 1970s police drama The Sweeney, created when writer Ian Kennedy Martin realised that the real police were not behaving quite like their TV counterparts on Z Cars and wanted a more accurate portrayal of the new breed of coppers. 

Interviews with the cast and crew reveal that The Sweeney's fictional version of the Flying Squad was only slightly exaggerated. After its launch, despite the show getting no direct help from Slipper of the Yard, the Met's serious crime boys very quickly adopted the extra trappings of their screen equivalents - punch first and ask questions later, drive fast, drink hard and be the biggest, hardest gang on the block.

With lead characters Regan and Carter looking and talking just like the villains, the series was unrelentingly macho, with explicit violence, ripe language and a studiedly old-fashioned attitude towards women. However, it was massively entertaining, consciously funny and managed to attract a large number of children among its viewers.

Interviewees include creator Ian Kennedy Martin , producer Ted Childs and actors Stephanie Turner and Garfield Morgan.

A look at the history of police-based TV drama

New. 5/5. The story of The Sweeney, which ran from 1975 to 1978. Featuring an interview with creator Ian Kennedy Martin. See panel.

A for Andromeda

27/03/2006

BBC Four - A for Andromeda

Richard Fell's adaptation of Fred Hoyle and John Elliot's 1961 sci-fi classic.

Contemporary adaptation of the 1961 sci-fi classic about a super-computer which becomes more powerful than anyone could have anticipated, fashioning a robot to perform its wishes.

Richard Fell's contemporary adaptation of Fred Hoyle and John Elliot's 1961 sci-fi classic. A radio signal from the Andromeda constellation provides instructions on how to build a computer. 

In a very short period of time, the machine amasses a wealth of information about life on Earth and soon becomes more powerful than anyone could have anticipated. Using its vast intelligence, and with the connivance of the MoD, it fashions a robot from flesh and blood to carry out its wishes.

Remake of the classic sci-fi tale, starring Tom Hardy and Charlie Cox.

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet

Edwardians In Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Original Series

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Original Series: Episode 4: The Soldiers' Story

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Soldiers' Story

Original Series

The Soldiers' Story

BBC Two - Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn, Original Series, The Soldiers' Story

During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the French battlefields.

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the battlefields.

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. 

For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with the world's first colour camera system and dispatched them across the globe. Their films and 72,000 photographs offer a unique insight into the formative years of the 20th Century.

During the First World War, Kahn dispatched his photographers to the battlefields, where they recorded in remarkably intimate detail the everyday lives of French troops fighting on the Western Front. The Soldiers' Story shows the poignant images they captured as they journeyed through shattered landscapes of Eastern France. Their remarkable pictures also document the horrifyingly crude medical procedures at field hospitals; the first aeroplanes and the heavy armaments that were appearing in the war zone; the heroism of the nurses; and the endurance of an army which sustained more casualties than any other during The Great War.

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Original Series

A series of films exploring Albert Kahn's photographic archive of the planet

A series of films exploring the work of pioneering French financier and philanthropist Albert Kahn who, in 1908, launched an ambitious project to create a photographic archive of the planet

Edwardians in Colour: the Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

Chronicling the adventures of Albert Khan 's photographers.

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