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Sean Pertwee narrates a series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it. Today, some 730 million people live in Europe. How is wildlife adapting to this brave new world, who are the winners and losers, and what efforts are we making to help? Given the problems with unwelcome and invasive species on the continent through international trade, and an increasingly fickle climate, the future could bring all sorts of surprises.

Tom Ang invites three eminent photographers to use unfamiliar digital cameras to produce compelling images of Britain’s rural, urban and industrial landscape. Richard Billingham returns to where he grew up in the Black Country to photograph his childhood haunts. David Shrigley also returns home, turning his eye on Leicester, and Robert Taylor visits Birmingham’s jewellery quarter and the track where his father once raced greyhounds

Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River in a Birmingham Opera Company production, directed by Graham Vick. Starring Mark Wilde (tenor), Rodney Clarke (baritone), Iain Paterson (baritone), Keel Watson (bass). Simon Halsey conducts the Birmingham Opera Company Chorus and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Sean Pertwee narrates a series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it. Today, some 730 million people live in Europe. How is wildlife adapting to this brave new world, who are the winners and losers, and what efforts are we making to help? Given the problems with unwelcome and invasive species on the continent through international trade, and an increasingly fickle climate, the future could bring all sorts of surprises.

Series recalling history’s defining moments. This edition remembers the last days of the Russsian Tsar Nicholas II and his family in July 1917, as Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. Over 70 years later, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Novermber 1989 signified the end of Communist domination of Eastern Europe

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

Sitcom about a British government minister and the advisers who surround him

The story of the Modern Review, a magazine launched in 1991 by Julie Burchill, her husband Cosmo Landesman and her best friend Toby Young. The publication set out to write intelligently about mass culture and for five years it shocked, provoked and irritated with articles that treated Schwarznegger as seriously as Shakespeare. But after only 21 issues The Modern Review was dead

Comedy series set behind the closed doors of government. Newly appointed Minister for Social Affairs Hugh Abbot is on his way to a secondary school in Wiltshire to announce the setting up of a Snooper Squad. Unfortunately, he is ordered by Number Ten’s communications supremo Malcolm Tucker to kill the policy stone dead. Hugh and his advisors have just forty minutes to come up with an extremely popular policy that costs nothing

Drama documentary on the life of critic, impresario and dandy at the vanguard of the 1960s sexual revolution, Kenneth Tynan. During a period of social and cultural change he was a man at the top of his game, with his theatre criticism celebrated both for the incisive wit with which he records the chief actors of the day and for its meditations on the very nature of theatre itself

Series recalling history’s defining moments. This edition remembers the last days of the Russsian Tsar Nicholas II and his family in July 1917, as Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. Over 70 years later, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Novermber 1989 signified the end of Communist domination of Eastern Europe