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[Part 1] Originally broadcast in 1991 as part of the Arena series of programmes and reshown on BBC4 on 5 September 2007 as part of the Hidden Lives season. A profile of the legendary maverick producer and song writer Joe Meek, composer of the massive hit Telstar who recorded most of his hits in a home studio using innovative recording methods in Holloway Road. Meek was obsessed with the occult and suffered from depression and paranoia, and in 1963 had been charged with 'importuning for immoral purposes'. In 1967 after becoming paranoid he'd be framed for a murder of someone he knew, he killed himself and his landlady.

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Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard. They shared one common goal - a forward-looking desire to transcend Germany's gruesome past - but that didn't stop the music press in war-obsessed Britain from calling them Krautrock.

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musicdox

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Phil Spector is the most renowned and reclusive music producer of all time, but his ground-breaking achievements have recently been eclipsed by his sensational Hollywood murder trial.

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Hilton1949

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[Part 2] Frinton-on-Sea is a town that doesn't like change. The shops, the sea front and even the people haven't changed for decades. So when Network Rail announced it was going to automate the town's manually operated level-crossing gates, there was a call to arms. Filmmaker Marc Isaacs meets the people who have decided to grow old in England's most conservative seaside resort.

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The end of the World idea always fascinates us. We have a chance knowing how the World will end. Modern tools of science reveal new and unexpected threats to life on Earth. Simple calculations can tell us what should we really fear and what should we dismiss as little more than science fiction. In this film you will explore the forces which could destroy us with popular science fiction writer and mathematician Ian Nicholas Stewart.

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Blackpleague

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[Part 1] Frinton-on-Sea is a town that doesn't like change. The shops, the sea front and even the people haven't changed for decades. So when Network Rail announced it was going to automate the town's manually operated level-crossing gates, there was a call to arms. Filmmaker Marc Isaacs meets the people who have decided to grow old in England's most conservative seaside resort.

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A brilliant and pretty obscure look at the flip side of swinging sixties London. Narrated by a rather sardonic and sometimes scathing James Mason, we are taken on a tour of the underbelly of London. The film is artfully edited and offers straight factual history with real life characters/ street performers/ vendors who seem very unaware of the camera. The documentary has extremely surreal and quite tragic scenes by turn and encapsulates a London undocumented in the media of the time. The film is too short and could easily have been extended to a series of particular areas of London. The film has occasional screenings in art-house cinemas and should be seen by anyone interested in the history of London and documentary makers.

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documentaries

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[Part 1] Situated on the seafront in Minehead, and where the majority of the staff have learning difficulties, Foxhills is open to fee-paying guests all year round.

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The F***ing Fulfords is a documentary-style programme shown in August of 2004 about Francis Fulford and his family showcased on the United Kingdom's Channel 4 TV series Cutting Edge. The protagonist Fulford is the 24th in the line of his family to have inherited Great Fulford, an 800-year old crumbling manor in Dunsford, near Cheriton Bishop, Devon. He was educated at Milton Abbey. Great Fulford is on a 3,000-acre (12 km²) estate. Fulford's son, Arthur, is in line to inherit the estate.

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[Part 1] 40 Minutes On is a series revisiting stories from the classic documentary strand 40 Minutes. In this episode we catch up with Michael 'Mini' Cooper, who had been in and out of institutions since the age of eight.

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documentaries

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751

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