Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Winter/Spring 2008
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Abortion
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Whether or not to have an abortion is often the biggest decision a woman will ever make. For the 190,000 annually who choose to go ahead, it's a decision they will live with for the rest of their lives.
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In this testimony-based film, women explore the experience of abortion; emotional, upsetting and divisive, it remains one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. For some it's a liberator, an essential human right; for others, an act of murder.
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This landmark documentary presents an uncompromising, timely and honest look at modern abortion.
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GM
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The Age Of Terror
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Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor's series explores four major terrorist attacks from the past 30 years – each of which marked a key point in the "age of terror".
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For the first time, Peter tells the story of his experiences during 40 years of reporting, trying to understand the motives for terrorism while revealing the events around each terrorist attack. The Age Of Terror provides a chronicle of conflict over the past three decades and an insight into its impact on international politics, psychology and culture today.
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The films include: the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane by Palestinians in alliance with German Marxist revolutionaries that ended with an Israeli raid on the Entebbe airport in Amin's Uganda; the 1987 bombing of Enniskillen by the IRA; the 1994 hijacking of an Air France plane by Islamist extremists – their plans a chilling precursor to 9/11; and the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi, which killed 224 people and brought Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda to the attention of the Western world.
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KR
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Alternative Therapies
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Professor Kathy Sykes sets off on a personal and scientific journey to explore three popular and fast-growing alternative therapies: meditation, hypnotherapy and reflexology.
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People are turning to these therapies to help a wide range of conditions, and some claims are impressive: for instance, it's claimed meditation can help heart disease, reflexology can aid pregnancy and hypnotherapy can help against intense pain. But where do these therapies originate, why are they valued so much and can science tell us if and how they "work"?
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To tackle these questions, Kathy travels to Nepal, China, Italy and America to uncover historical origins full of allure and mysticism. She tries each therapy for herself, sharing her honest reactions, and looks at some of the claims made, investigating how these square with the clinical and scientific evidence.
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She also explores how scientists are currently trying to unravel what, exactly, lies at the heart of these therapies.
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LG
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Around The World In 80 Gardens
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In a visually stunning new series, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two's resident gardening expert, Monty Don, sets off on an enchanting journey that takes in 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens, running the gamut from ancient to modern, large to small and grand to humble.
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And if the sights, smells and delights of the gardens aren't enough in themselves, they act as lenses through which Monty brings the culture and history of each country he visits into focus.
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The much-celebrated gardens of the Taj Mahal and Alhambra; the floating gardens of the Amazon; a Zen garden in Japan; and many important botanic and royal gardens from Thailand, Bali, New Zealand, Europe, China and Mexico; all play their part in building a sumptuous picture of the world's horticultural heritage.
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SD2
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Class Of 62 At 60
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From the beginning of 2006, and for the next 19 years, a baby boomer will turn 60 in Britain every 30 minutes.
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This film is a unique observation of the lives of six of the first boomers, from the ages of 16 to 60. All born in 1946, Sally, Denise, Gillian, Margaret, Dorothy and Katy have lived, loved, laughed and cried their way from the Swinging Sixties to the Naughty Noughties.
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Film-maker and classmate Marilyn Gaunt has been filming them since their first class reunion as they approached 40, and now returns as they turn 60 to see if they, like her, intended to grow old disgracefully.
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The film includes material from Marilyn's previous two films and traces the dramatic journey of this very specific sample of white working-class Northerners through the last 40 years: partners and jobs lost and found, hopes dashed and fulfilled.
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What are the expectations of these baby boomers as they become pensioners; is it the beginning of the end or a new beginning for the girls of the Class Of 62?
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SB
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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures In Architecture
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This extraordinary series tells the history of humankind through architecture. It's both a personal history of architecture and a series of incredible journeys following architectural historian Dan Cruickshank on an unexpected treasure trail of locations.
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Dan believes that architecture marks our aspirations, ingenuity and beliefs. On a voyage of discovery, he travels around the globe exploring examples of architecture that celebrate the many different motivations for building.
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Along the way, Dan takes in locations that include mountain-top kingdoms, modern-day conurbations, beach paradises and war zones. Each week, his journey is driven by a single theme.
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The selection of architecture included in the series is bold and sometimes surprising, and Dan visits all kinds of buildings – from cathedrals to brothels, hotels to harems, palaces to hovels and igloos to skyscrapers.
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Front Desk
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Delia Smith
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Delia Smith is back. After six years away from television, the queen of cooking is ready to return to the kitchen – and this time she breaks the rules.
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In a cookery series that also gives a glimpse into the life of one of Britain's most celebrated cooks, Delia uses a mixture of ready-made products alongside her own techniques to reveal the shortcuts that take the effort out of cooking but not the quality out of the end dish.
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And getting things done quickly in the kitchen means Delia can spend time on her other passions – football, religion and business.
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KA
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