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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

The great Israeli violinist Pinchas Zukerman returns to the Proms to perform Elgar’s glorious Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis. This year’s Czech theme is honoured with a performance of Dvorak’s Mass in D. Presenter Tommy Pearson is joined in the interval by Pinchas Zukerman

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 focusing on some of the defining moments of history. This edition recalls two memorable days in man’s quest for speed. On 14 October 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to fly faster than sound. 20 years later, Donald Campbell’s last attempt to break the water speed record on Coniston Water ended in disaster

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Political sitcom. The minister is shocked to discover that his department is responsible for supplying all of the government’s electronic surveillance equipment

David Adjaye traverses Africa to reveal the secrets of the continent’s architectural history. His journey takes him from the mud buildings of Mali to Mussolini’s experiment in modernism in Eritrea. Passing through Rwanda and Ghana, David’s odyssey ends in South Africa, where a new High Court building is being constructed using bricks reclaimed from an old prison dating back to the apartheid era

A look at the landmark films that have defined sub-Saharan movie-making during the past half century. Visiting this year’s Cannes Film Festival and the centre for West African film-making, Burkina Faso, this programme talks to some of today’s best African film-makers to present a fascinating portrait of a much underrated force in world cinema

Dramatic comedy in which two young children find one morning that their father has moved out of the house. When they go to try and find him, they recognise him on screen in a cinema

Series focusing on some of the defining moments of history. This edition recalls two memorable days in man’s quest for speed. On 14 October 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to fly faster than sound. 20 years later, Donald Campbell’s last attempt to break the water speed record on Coniston Water ended in disaster