BBC Documentaries Collection

BBC This WorldThe Fastest Changing Place on Earth (2012)


This World - The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Monday 5 March 7.00-8.00pm BBC TWO

White Horse Village is a tiny farming community deep in rural China. A decade
ago, it became part of the biggest urbanisation project in human history, as
the Chinese government decided to take half a billion farmers and turn them
into city-dwelling consumers. White Horse Village was to become a city of
200,000 in just a few years.

White Horse Village is a tiny farming community deep in rural China. A decade
ago, it became part of the biggest urbanisation project in human history, as
the Chinese government decided to take half a billion farmers and turn them
into city-dwelling consumers. White Horse Village was to become a city of
200,000 in just a few years.

Filmed over the past six years, Carrie Gracie follows the lives of three local
people during this upheaval. She meets Xiao Zhang, a mother and rice farmer
desperate to see her children have a better life, Xie Tingming, an entrepreneur
determined to make money and push the development forward and the local
Communist Party Secretary, who is caught between what the party wants and a way
of life that has endured for centuries.

The Fastest Changing Place on Earth, is an extraordinary story of ordinary
people in one tiny village as the Government's epic plans sweep through China
at a speed and scale unimaginable anywhere else on earth. In just ten years
they plan to build thousands of new cities, a new road network to rival the
USA's and three hundred of the world's biggest dams.


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BBC Riots and Revolutions My Arab Journey (2012)


Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey

Monday 05 March
9.00pm - 10.00pm
BBC3

1/2 - Egypt and Bahrain
In a two-part series, Nel Hedayat meets the young rebels of the Arab spring and witnesses a new wave of violence breaking out around them. She gets caught up in rioting in Egypt and Bahrain and finds out from the people on the streets what they are living through a year after the first revolutions.
Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey

Monday 12 March
9.00pm - 10.00pm
BBC3

2/2 - Libya and Syria
In the second of two films, Nel Hedayat meets the young rebels of the two countries which have suffered the worst violence of the Arab spring. In Libya she meets heavily-armed militias asserting their power, before travelling to the Syrian border in search of first-hand accounts of the horror unfolding beyond.


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BBC Stop My Stutter (2012)


Stop My Stutter

Monday 20 February
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC3

Stammering or stuttering is a debilitating affliction which can impact on a person's life every single day. Finding the right words to say how you feel can be hard for anyone, but for Britain's 600,000 stammerers it can be impossible. This documentary follows a group of young people who have taken that important decision to tackle their stammers by enrolling on an intense speech therapy course led by pop star Gareth Gates. At the end of the course, they have to face an audience and deliver a speech. Can Gareth help them take control of their stammers?


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BBC Panorama The Money Farmers (2012)


BBC1 20.30-21.00 5th March 2012

Panorama - The Money Farmers

An investigation into the farming subsidy system, following allegations that millions of pounds in public money is being paid out to businessmen and farmers without them doing any work. Reporter Samantha Poling sets out to see if she can become rich by taking advantage of the loophole, and there is further criticism of large payments to wealthy individuals simply on the basis of owning large amounts of land


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BBC Amanda Burton Born to Be Wild Black Bear Rescue (2001)

Amanda Burton: Born to Be Wild - Black Bear Rescue
Wed 8 Aug 2001
21:00
BBC One
DURATION: 50 MINUTES
Actress Amanda Burton finds herself part of a team to rescue orphaned black bear cubs from certain death.
Filmed in the mountains of Idaho, this documentary follows the progress of the bears, and Amanda's attempts to become their surrogate mother, nurturing them through the first year of their lives until they are old enough to be returned to the wild.


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BBC Children of the Tsunami (2012)



Children of the Tsunami
Thu 1 Mar 2012 21:00 BBC Two

On March 11th 2011 Japan was hit by the greatest tsunami in a thousand years.

Through compelling testimony from 7-10 year-old survivors, this film reveals how the deadly wave
and the Fukushima nuclear accident have changed children's lives forever.

The story unfolds at two key locations: a primary school where 74 children were killed by the
tsunami; and a school close to the Fukushima nuclear plant, attended by children evacuated from the
nuclear exclusion zone.


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BBC My Hometown Fanatics Stacey Dooley Investigates (2012)



BBC 3
Monday 20th February 2012
21:00 to 22:00

Stacey Dooley investigates what is going on in her hometown of Luton and finds out why it is known as the extremist capital of Britain.

Stacey has spent her whole life in Luton. Media commentators all have their theories about what is happening there, but Stacey is uniquely placed to tell the story through the generation she grew up with - the people who are now shaping one of the most controversial towns in Britain.

Stacey meets friends - some wearing veils and others who are fully fledged EDL supporters. She goes to the heart of the Muslim community, dominated by one of the country's most extreme Muslim groups, meeting both self-proclaimed radicals and those trying to counter them.

Is it all hype? Or is 'L-town' such a pick-and-mix of culture that extremists are attracted here like no other town in Britain?


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BBC The man who loved sherlock holmes (2005)


A true story of how the Chairman of the British Sherlock Holmes society of London a 50 year old millionaire bachelor died in Mysterious circumstances
And was it connected to his collection of Holmes Memorabilia worth Millions.... also a weird insight into the world of Holmes fans who live and breath Holmes
Sherlockians as they are known...

56 MIns long...English Language...Widescreen... Format PAL Divx... Source TV rip (UK BBC4)


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BBC Our Man In The Vatican (2010)



Our Man in the Vatican
BBC 1 Northern Ireland
17th February to 3rd March 2010

Factual series following local man Francis Campbell in his role as the UK's ambassador to the Vatican. Delving beneath the ceremonial duties, we get an unique glimpse into the real life of a diplomat operating within the hidden world of the Vatican.

Episode 1 - This episode sees Francis hear the Pope's new year address to the diplomatic core, and he also deals with news of a hastily arranged visit by the Prime Minister to the Vatican.

Episode 2 - This week, ahead of the G8 summit, cameras follow him deep into the Vatican for high-level meetings.

Episode 3 - Francis is back in Belfast to pick up an honorary degree at Queen's, and work in the embassy steps up a gear when official confirmation arrives of the Pope's plan to visit the UK in 2010.


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BBC Storyville Meet The Climate Sceptics


(BBC4, 10:00pm Monday 31st January, 2011. Duration 58Mins.)

Rupert Murray gets to the heart of climate scepticism to examine the key arguments against man-made global warming and to try to understand the people who are making them. Do they have the evidence that we are heating up the atmosphere or are they taking a grave risk with our future by dabbling in complicated science they don't fully understand? Britain's pre-eminent sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton tours the world broadcasting his message to the public and politicians, but can he convince them and Murray that there is nothing to worry about?


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BBC Panorama The Cost of Raising Britain (2012)



BBC1 20.30-21.00 27th Feb 2012

Panorama - The Cost of Raising Britain

Nurseries and childminders are costing some families up to a third of their income, and working mums are feeling squeezed out of the workplace. Shelley Jofre investigates the rising cost of childcare, meeting a family who moved abroad for a better deal, and revealing why a group of Yorkshire parents is considering taking over the running of a nursery which has been earmarked for closure



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BBC A case of sherlock holmes (1987)


My Favorite documentary on Sherlock Holmes hosted by Tim Piggott Smith.. Quality is only Fair to good but it is very very rare.


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BBC Lockerbie The Lost Evidence (2012)



Lockerbie - The Lost Evidence

(BBC1 Scotland 7:30pm Monday 27th February, 2012. Duration 44Mins.)

A BBC Scotland Investigates documentary, featuring an interview with Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who claims the full truth about the 1988 bombing has never been revealed. Plus, previously unbroadcast evidence that casts doubt over whether Libya was involved in the disaster at all. Al-Megrahi was found guilty of the largest case of mass murder in the history of the British Isles at the time, but was released on compassionate grounds having been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2009.


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BBC Conan doyle for the defence (2005)



A Look at the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and how his life imitated his Holmes stories and how he actually solved Crime cases himself even quite chilling ones.. (Very enjoyable)


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BBC Wonderstuff (2011)



Wonderstuff
A factual entertainment format that examines the science behind everyday products such as toothpaste, washing detergent and drain openers. The series sees Jane investigating the different ingredients used in the manufacture of everyday products. Hosted by journalist Jane Moore.

Episode 1
The first programme of the series taps into the nation’s obsession with personal hygiene, as Jane Moore flings open the bathroom cabinet to decode what’s in the stuff we rely on every day to stay cleaned and preened. To find the wonderstuffs hidden in soap and toothpaste, Jane puts her own home-made versions to the test. She also discovers the secret soap in shampoo and whether conditioners really are worth it.

Episode 2
The second episode investigates some of the natural wonderstuffs in our household cleaners. What precisely makes an effective cleaner and why doesn’t one cleaner suit all jobs? Jane Moore reveals some unexpected natural science in action in biological washing powder, citrus degreasers and shiny surface cleaners.

Episode 3
In this episode, Jane Moore pulls apart three of the most trusted domestic life-savers. She reveals how the clue to fixing a frozen car engine lies in a tiny insect from the Antarctic and which ingredient in drain cleaner does the dirty work. She also unravels the amazing science at work inside mobile phone batteries.

Episode 4
Jane Moore busts open the stuff we rely on when it comes to waging domestic germ warfare. Jane has her own home scrutinized for germs in order to put antibacterial spray to the test, finds out how some mind-blowingly clever molecules in air freshener manage to combat dirt in mid air, and discovers the best wonderstuff on offer for the dirtiest of all household jobs – cleaning the loo.

Episode 5
Jane Moore busts open the stuff we rely on when it comes to waging domestic germ warfare. Jane’s investigates the stickiness of household essentials. She discovers the wonderstuff in super-strength glues, how paint manages to stick to the wall and, on the flip side, what’s on non-stick frying pans that makes it the world’s slipperiest substance.

Episode 6
Jane Moore investigates the science behind three things we slap on our skin. She uncovers the wonderstuff in sunscreen that prevents premature ageing, looks at how an old-fashioned baking ingredient is the magic in moisturisers, and reveals precisely what cleverness is in antiperspirants that makes them different from deodorants.