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Stephen Fry On Wagner

Stephen Fry was 10-years-old when he first heard Richard Wagner's Tannhauser Overture on his father's record player. A revelatory experience, it ignited in him a lifelong passion for Wagner's music.

Confronting Wagner's troubled legacy, Stephen explores his fascination with the controversial composer against the backdrop of preparations for the Bayreuth Festival – the annual Wagner extravaganza held in a theatre purpose-built by the composer.

Immersing himself in preparations for the festival, Stephen eavesdrops on rehearsals and discovers more about the music he loves. He explores the labyrinthine backstage workings of the opera house, plays music on Wagner's own piano and meets the composer's great grand-daughter, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, who, alongside her sister, recently took control of the Bayreuth Festival.

KS4

A Wavelength Films production

Goldsmiths – This is Modern Art

Goldsmiths has produced six Turner prize winners in its illustrious history, notably Damien Hirst. But what lies behind the famous institution's unrivalled reputation for producing the artistic stars of the future?

This new two-part documentary follows a group of Goldsmiths artists as they struggle to create art and make a name for themselves during the run-up to their final masters' show, a showcase at which dealers and collectors jostle to sign the latest sensation.

These programmes follow the artists in the vital months following graduation as they take their first steps into professional careers, exploring the culture of contemporary art through the ambitions, influences and attitudes of the next generation of young British artists.

All are desperate to create the kind of work that will propel them to centre stage in the art world, but only a select few will succeed.

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For The Love Of Mockingbirds

Marking the 50th anniversary of the influential novel To Kill A Mockingbird, writer Andrew Smith visits Monroeville in Alabama, the setting of the book, to see how things have changed in half a century.

Born in New York in the year the novel was published, Andrew recalls the simmering racial tension that filled his early years and provides the theme of the book.

He traces the locations and the people that provided the inspiration for the novel – exploring the new America of Barack Obama and asking whether, beneath the surface, racial tension is very much a thing of the present

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Rich Hall's The Dirty South

Rich Hall sets his keen eye and acerbic wit on his homeland once again as he sifts truth from fiction in Hollywood's version of the southern states of the USA.

Using specially shot interviews and featuring archive from classic movies such as Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Deliverance, Rich discovers a South that is about so much more than just rednecks, racism and hillbillies.

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Rude Britannia

Despite some of the illusions we have of ourselves, the British are not and have never been a polite people.

Some of our greatest writers and artists have mixed high art with a good measure of filth and red-blooded rudeness.

In Rude Britannia, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ FourΜύcomes over all vulgar as it uncovers more than three centuries of satirical, lewd and bawdyΜύart, literature and popular culture.

Through all its incarnations from painting and cartooning toΜύtheatre and music hall, peep shows and comics to television and radio, this series will leave no stone unturned in its exploration of Britain's rich history ofΜύrude.

KA

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Productions, Bristol

Frost On Satire

Sir David Frost charts the story of satire in the UK and America and its impact on 20th-century politics.Μύ

Featuring archive gems including material from That Was The Week That Was and Saturday NightΜύLive, Sir David talks to satirical veteransΜύfrom both sides of the Atlantic.

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Music Performance

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms

Last year's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms was the biggest ever and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four, in partnership with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two and Radio 3, continues its commitment to the musical extravaganza throughout the summer of 2010 with regular live relays and broadcasts for the duration of the festival.

The Proms on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four this season will have a fresh new look with editorial and technical innovations bringing the audience even closer to the music and musicians.

KS4

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Productions

P Is For Pyramid: An A-Z Of 40 Years Of Glastonbury

This year is the 40th anniversary of the first Glastonbury Festival held at Worthy Farm back in 1971.

Twenty-eight festivals later, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four celebrates all the iconic people, performances and things that makes Glastonbury the greatest performing arts festival in the world. From Arabella and Avalon, to cows and Coldplay, from Jazzworld and Jay-Z, to weather and β€œwhere's the nearest toilet?”.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four also continues its coverage with the best live performances from this year's festival.

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Productions