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A portrait of Robert Wyatt, a unique figure in the British musical establishment. Originally the drummer with 1960s progressive band Soft Machine, he was paralysed from the waist down in a fall, yet forged ahead with an idiosyncratic solo career as well as becoming a political activist. Friends and colleagues pay tribute and he performs live for the first time in many years

John McLaughlin’s groundbreaking jazz-rock fusion band captured in concert in 1972

Singer-songwriter Salif Keita performs songs from his album Moffou at Islington’s Union Chapel. Includes a profile of the man widely regarded as being one of the founders of the Afro-pop genre and who received a Grammy nomination for his first album Amen

Profile of the late Joe Zawinul, one of the jazz world’s most exciting and creative keyboard players and composers. He was a major influence on Miles Davis, for whom he wrote In a Silent Way, and co-founded the internationally feted fusion band Weather Report with Wayne Shorter. This portrait features live music from the Joe Zawinul Syndicate and conversations filmed at his home in Malibu and in Vienna where he was born

Series recalling history’s defining moments. This edition looks at the shooting down of America’s top secret U-2 spy plane. It is 1st May, 1960 and it appears that Cold War relations are starting to thaw, yet behind the facade America is playing a game of ‘cat and mouse’, desperate to find out the full extent of the Soviet’s military capabilities. The U-2 spy plane is their secret weapon

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

Interview with the former Monty Python star turned globetrotter. Palin talks about growing up in Sheffield with a stuttering father, his early forays in comedy at college, the chance events which led to his second career as Britain’s face of travel and the tragedies in his personal life. He also refutes the most serious of all allegations ? that he is notoriously nice

Michael Palin and Terry Jones’s spoof comedy series tells the dark and tragic tale of the terminally boring Eric, whose mind-boggling tediousness forces his parents to leave home. Undaunted, Eric joins forces with a hardened criminal and proceeds to write his name in the history books

Michael Palin takes a journey through Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, starting on the Khyber Pass and ending near K2 on the Chinese border.

Seminal comedy sketch show. In this edition: Mr Pither’s cycling tour of Cornwall, a man who thinks he is Clodagh Rodgers, and the internal power struggles of the Soviet Union

A celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Secret Policeman’s Ball. Contributors include Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry.