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1945: The Year that changed the world - The Beginning of the End
Tensions between the Allies mount. The British want to strike into the heart of Germany but the Americans are cautious and don’t want to loose men. This allows the Russians to advance deep into Eastern Europe.
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1945: The Year that changed the world - War in the Pacific
The Japanese industrialised early in the Twentieth Century but with no supply of natural resources, they embarked on a strategy of territorial expansionism and sought to stamp their mark on the region. The Americans and British were not happy about this and wanted to protect their own colonial interests in the region. The Americans put an embargo on trade with Japan. The Japanese choice was to give in to American wishes or launch a war against the USA.
‘The British UFO Files’ reveals for the first time the secret history of alien aircraft investigations led by the most powerful forces within the British government. Featuring eye-witness accounts by top ranking military personnel, previously unseen top secret documentation and rare archive footage, the film examines in detail a cache of information ranging from the alleged production of Nazi UFOs to the landing of an alien spacecraft at a British air-force base.
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The former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects will examine how design has affected one Georgian house and its inhabitants in Bristol, from when it was first built in 1779 right up to the present day. Throughout the series Maxwell reveals how fashions in interior design have mirrored social, political and economic trends. The opening programme reveals how the house was built as part of a boom in speculative building in Bristol and who the early residents were. Covering the period from 1779 – 1845 the main characters are John Britton, a young gentleman who decorated the house in late Georgian simplicity and Mrs Hobbs, a widow who lived in the house for thirty years and followed the latest Regency interior trends.
In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines against the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. At ten minutes to midnight, the bombs exploded, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira. The French government were desperately trying to hide the truth about the bombing and the truth about its nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific ocean, and would have gone to any lengths to silence its opponents. This is a film about international espionage, government cover-up and the nuclear arms race, which has disturbing parallels with today’s ‘War on Terror’.
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The third secret of Fatima was purportedly known by only two people: the Pope and Lucia, the Portuguese visionary who in an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917 was given dire prophecies of the future of the planet. Within 7 weeks of each other these two key players have died. This extraordinary story examines the original Fatima visions and how Pope John Paul II believed he was himself the fulfilment of the third secret and that through his obsession with this obscure message saved the world from a thermo nuclear holocaust.
Presented by Maxwell Hutchinson, this third programme looks at No 57 between 1880-1905 and shows how Victorian Gothic and the influence of the aesthetic and arts and crafts movement affected the house. No 57 is by now not as fashionable as it once was and the whole area has come down in the world a little bit. The occupants are the Alders - who turn one room into a nursery for their children and Mrs Annie Edwards, a music teacher with grown up children is a lodger in the house.
In 1976 Peter Hogg killed his unfaithful wife Margaret, wrapped her body in a roll of carpet and dumped it in the Wast Water in Cumbria. The accidental discovery of the body seven years later led to Hogg’s arrest and details of his ‘awful marriage’ coming to light. The Honeymoon Murder is about two wealthy Chinese newlyweds who arrived in the Lake District in 1928 to enjoy their honeymoon. Husband Chung Yi Mao became distraught when his wife’s body was found dead in local waters. Despite his law degree, he slipped up when giving evidence to the police and it emerged that he had murdered her for her vast fortune
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