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Britain From Above: 24 Hour Britain [Part 1]
[Part 1] New documentary series in which Andrew Marr journeys across the country, revealing the habits, rhythms and secrets of British life, visible only from a bird's-eye view. In this first edition, the broadcaster takes note of how the supply-and-demand culture of modern Britain expresses itself on the landscape through all the invisible networks that keep the population warm, fed and watered.
[Part 2] Molly Dineen's RTS award-winning 1989 documentary about the men and women who work in Islington's Angel Tube station.
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The Moscow Theatre Siege [Part 1]
[Part 1] In October 2002, Chechen terrorists took a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre and threatened to kill them. The problem was how to get them out alive. A bloodbath seemed inevitable. Three days later Russian special forces stormed the theatre using a secret gas to knock everybody out. 129 hostages died - apparently killed by the very gas that was meant to save them.
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The Colour of Money: Hardman [Part 2]
[Part 2] Essex boxer and hardman Dominic Negus shot to notoriety in July 2002 when he head-butted Olympic heavy weight champ Audley Harrison. Negus lost the bout and went back to working as hired muscle, which is where this eye-opening film starts. Funny and foul-mouthed, Negus is a compelling character who offers a fascinating insight into the Essex underworld. Following Negus through six turbulent months the film asks what price does he pay for his violent profession, and where does he draw the line?
The past is not the past until you stop reliving it. Seventy-one-year-old Johnny Murphy spent 40 years fighting as a mercenary in the African jungle, but his biggest battle is perhaps the one he's now fighting with boredom, in a Surrey retirement home.
[Part 1] Molly Dineen's RTS award-winning 1989 documentary about the men and women who work in Islington's Angel Tube station.
[Part 2] This mini series documents a remarkable and unprecedented insight into Jewish life in Britain today. It looks at religion, orthodoxy and secularism, documenting the beliefs and culture of very different kinds of Jews - ranging from atheist and secular Jews through to ultra-orthodox Jews.
[Part 2] For the last 30 years, Norman Wisdom has lived independently of his family in a house he designed for himself on the Isle of Man. But his live-in carer has decided that she can't cope with looking after him any more. Norman's children, who live 300 miles away in Sussex, don't know what to do with him. He insists on daily trips around his beloved island, looking for opportunities to perform his songs and- despite having lost his driving licence several years before- trying to buy a car.
[Part 1] These pensioners prove that older doesn't necessarily mean wiser. Introducing the elderly tearaways on Anti Social Behaviour Orders.
[Part 1] This mini series documents a remarkable and unprecedented insight into Jewish life in Britain today. It looks at religion, orthodoxy and secularism, documenting the beliefs and culture of very different kinds of Jews - ranging from atheist and secular Jews through to ultra-orthodox Jews.
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