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Director Pascale Lamche explores the allure of French actresses, which has fascinated generations of movie-goers. Interviewees include Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Sophie Marceau and Audrey Tautou

Documentary looking at the paintings, drawings and sculptures of dancers by Edgar Degas. Of all the works of this great genius of the nineteenth century, more than half take ballet as their theme. The film goes backstage at the Paris Opera, hardly changed since Degas’s day, and dramatically reconstructs his Montmartre studio

Sue MacGregor presents live coverage of the final of the 2005 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, rewarding the best and brightest of current non-fiction writing. The ceremony includes short films about each of the books on the shortlist and features the judges’ discussions

Director Pascale Lamche explores the allure of French actresses, which has fascinated generations of movie-goers. Interviewees include Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Sophie Marceau and Audrey Tautou

Series examining the short-listed contenders. Jonathan Coe’s Like A Fiery Elephant is an unconventional biography of the British novelist B S Johnson

Sean Pertwee narrates a series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it. In the last 10,000 years Europe has been transformed from a largely forested, virgin landscape into the manicured continent we know today, and at an ever-accelerating rate. As mankind's influence spread, animals were tamed, seeds planted, forests decimated and minerals excavated. How did wildlife cope with these drastic changes and what impact did they have on ourselves?

Series exploring six English counties, inspired by Nikolaus Pevsner’s architectural guides ‘The Buildings of England’. Lucinda Lambton, who grew up in County Durham, returns to pursue her lifelong fascination with its landscape and architecture. Including visits to Durham Cathedral, Bishop Auckland Palace, Raby Castle, Lambton Castle and the Doric garden retreat of a Polish count

Series examining the short-listed contenders. Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City tells the story of the author’s return to Mumbai after a 21-year absence. He finds a world where crime, sex and celebrity mix uneasily with religion, extreme poverty and tradition, and attempts to discover how it all hangs together

As the war approaches its end, Maria and Otto are reunited. Schabbach comes under fire from the advancing American troops

Tom Ang invites three eminent photographers to use unfamiliar digital cameras to produce compelling images of Britain’s rural, urban and industrial landscape. Edinburgh’s Calum Colvin goes in search of stags in the wild, Glasgow artist Graham Fagen braves the high seas to photograph Scotland’s fishing industry, and Mary McIntyre scales the Goliath crane in Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard

Aubrey Manning sets out to uncover the history of Britain’s ever-changing landscape. He visits the Cairngorms and discovers evidence of the communities who once lived there and a way of life which has now disappeared

Documentary exploring the history of Britain’s landscape. In Shetland, on the far edge of Europe, a series of monumental stone towers called brochs once dominated the landscape, but their origin is a mystery. Aubrey Manning sets off on a journey to discover who might have built the towers and to find out what purpose they served

Sean Pertwee narrates a series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it. In the last 10,000 years Europe has been transformed from a largely forested, virgin landscape into the manicured continent we know today, and at an ever-accelerating rate. As mankind's influence spread, animals were tamed, seeds planted, forests decimated and minerals excavated. How did wildlife cope with these drastic changes and what impact did they have on ourselves?