大象传媒 TWO - Winter highlights 2005
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Auschwitz
- The Nazis & 'The Final Solution'
Sixty years on, Auschwitz still has a unique place in history.
Within its walls the biggest mass murder ever recorded occurred.
Yet it is hard to grasp how and why such a chilling place existed.
Now the full, untold story of Auschwitz can be revealed in a definitive
大象传媒 documentary series to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation
of the camp next January.
And for the first time ever on television, photo-real graphics rebuild
Auschwitz as it looked under the Nazis, in order to properly tell the
true and accurate story of what actually happened.
Written and produced by Bafta Award-winning producer Laurence Rees,
using fresh new research, Auschwitz - The Nazis & The 'Final Solution'
offers viewers a unique perspective on a camp in which more than one
million people were ruthlessly murdered.
The series follows the trail of evil from the very first discussions
about the Jewish question, to the creation of labour camps and the development
of Auschwitz as a mechanised factory for mass murder.
It interweaves new testimony from camp survivors and members of the
SS with archive footage and drama reconstructions of some of the key
decision-making moments.
CR
Holocaust - A Music
Memorial Film From Auschwitz
To mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
大象传媒 TWO presents a landmark music film reflecting and remembering the
human tragedy of the Holocaust.
The film features performances, recorded for the first time on location
in Auschwitz, from acclaimed international artists including violinist
Maxim Vengerov, pianist Emanuel Ax, soprano Isabel
Bayrakdarian, baritone Gerald Finley and clarinettist David
Krakauer.
For many victims and survivors of the camps, music played a unique
and precious role as part of daily life.
It formed part of a complex relationship between life and death, yet
for many was their salvation.
The concentration camps are sadly synonymous with many famous musicians,
including Jewish composers Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann
and women's orchestra director Alma Ros茅, the niece of the composer
Gustav Mahler.
Film from Auschwitz, archive material and orchestral performances are
combined with powerful stories from three camp survivors to form a moving
and challenging musical sequence that takes the audience on a factual,
emotional and musical journey.
SD
Holocaust Memorial
Day Event In 2005
Holocaust Memorial Day coincides with the 60th anniversary of the liberation
of Auschwitz concentration camp.
To commemorate the anniversary, Westminster Hall will host the biggest
ever assembly of British-based survivors of the camps and ghettos of
Nazi Europe.
The event, organised by the Home Office in conjunction with the 大象传媒,
will be attended by HM The Queen, accompanied by the HRH Duke of Edinburgh,
and major political leaders.
The broadcast sees the worldwide premiere of Annelies, an original
oratorio based on the diaries of Anne Frank and performed by The Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra with Clare College Choir.
Cantor Stephen Leas performs the memorial prayer at the event.
CR
My Life As A Child
Television has tried various ways to give an insight into a child's
view of the world but this series takes on an entirely new approach.
Avoiding interviewers and outside interference as much as possible,
My Life As A Child gives cameras to children, aged from seven to 11, allowing
them to capture their own unique perspective on the world.
Viewers discover how the world looks through a child's eyes, and what
really matters to them.
The kids set the agenda and call the shots, and their perspective makes
the everyday extraordinary as they take viewers through their days at
home and with their friends, all filmed in their own time and on their own terms.
The series promises to be funny, touching and revealing, and to challenge
adult preconceptions about what's important and meaningful to young
minds.
KA
Blame The Parents
From anti-social behaviour to youth crime and truancy, teenagers often
make headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the blame placed firmly
at the feet of the parents.
Blame The Parents follows the parents of five different families, all
with troublesome teenagers.
Faced with the fact that they can no longer keep their teens in line,
the parents have volunteered to join a government-run course designed
to help them with their parenting skills.
Capturing the rows, tantrums and angry confrontations, these are parents
at their wits' end, struggling to cope.
With the pressure piling on, the series follows their progress on the
course, what they learn and how they fare as they attempt to take back
control at home.
GM
Tribe
Explorer Bruce Parry embarks on a real-life Boy's
Own adventure as he spends a month living with each of the six remotest
tribes in the world.
From the poisonous and sometimes fatal rebirthing initiations practised
by the Babongo people of Gabon, to the fierce fighting displays of the
Suri in Ethiopia's Omo Valley; from taking dinner with a cannibal in
Papua New Guinea to having a sharpened bone put through his nose, Bruce
shares lives and customs increasingly threatened and gives a voice to
those the corporate, capitalist world is too swift to ignore.
JW
This World - Coming Of Age
Children across the world, from widely different backgrounds, celebrate
their coming of age.
Each child tells their own personal story, revealing the political,
social and religious themes that divide people and the universal human
themes that bring them together.
The children's stories are also a testament to the age-old struggle
between traditional ways of life and the pressure to modernise.
The programme travels to Israel for a bar mitzvah; Uganda for a circumcision
ceremony; Canada for an Inuit boy's coming of age; Russia for a skinhead
gang member's initiation; and Malaysia for a boy's first reading of
the Quran.
Coming Of Age is a special programme that launches the new series of
This World.
PR
Pay Off Your Mortgage In Two
Years
In Pay Off Your Mortgage In Two Years, eight households across the
UK will attempt to do just that.
Eighty-five per cent of 23 to 40-year olds cite paying off their mortgage
as their biggest single ambition - and most people say the need to pay
their mortgage each month is the primary barrier to them taking off
and living their dream life.
With personal debt in the UK now topping 拢1 trillion and many people
struggling to manage escalating debts, this is a timely project.
This ambitious new documentary series challenges eight households to
take part in a major experiment to discover whether it is possible -
through maximising their income and minimising their outgoings - to
clear their mortgages in just two years.
The series is packed full of practical advice, money-making suggestions
and money-saving tips, designed to offer ideas, support and inspiration
to viewers attempting to manage their finances more efficiently and
ditch their debt.
Financial consultant Jasmine Birtles, who maximises
her own income by working part-time as a stand-up comedienne, promises
to be tough on the volunteers to try to help them reach their target.
BJO
Grown Up Gappers
Eight people share a common fantasy - to step off the treadmill of
daily life, pack their life into a rucksack and go exploring the world
as travellers, rather than cosseted tourists.
All have reached a stage in their lives at which they want to give
up their everyday responsibilities in favour of a major lifestyle change.
But rather than just selling up and heading for the easy life abroad,
they are seeking out new experiences, adventures and personal fulfilment.
Travelling to a range of far-flung destinations, and sampling everything
from voluntary work in Bolivia to carnival in Brazil, the series follows
the highs and lows of these very personal journeys.
BJO
The
Reclaimers
There's a gargoyle out there with your name on it.
The trend for recycling salvaged sinks, tiles, parquet flooring and
gargoyles, or anything else that can be gleaned from about-to-be-demolished
noteworthy buildings, has boomed.
Architectural salvage websites have seen a 1,500 per cent increase
in visits in the past five years.
The reclaimers are the antique dealers who inhabit the creaky, competitive
world of salvage and scour condemned buildings against the clock for
the perfect Victorian hospital sink or Fifties door handles for period
restoration enthusiasts.
They have to claim the hidden gems before they get sent to the skip
or are demolished and turned to dust.
Clients range from those desperate to restore precise historical detail
to their home to those who just want to use a font for a bird bath.
GM
Around the World In
80 Treasures
From the Taj Mahal to the Kremlin, through to the Parthenon and the
Great Wall of China, historian and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank
has been set a monumental challenge - to journey non-stop across the
globe in search of the most significant man-made treasures on the planet.
In this major new series, Cruickshank charts the rise and fall of many
of the world's greatest civilisations to create a unique picture of
humankind through history.
Travelling in an epic round-the-world trip to 44 countries in just
five months, he risks life and limb to reach and re-evaluate some of
our most remote and revered treasures.
Around The World In 80 Treasures celebrates the world as a diverse
treasure house of art and ancient artefacts.
KA
Cathedral
Britain's cathedrals rank amongst the world's finest buildings.
More than just architectural masterpieces, they have provided the
backdrop and focus to the nation's belief.
Cathedral tells their story, revealing the faith behind the foundations.
Beneath the breathtaking beauty and engineering ingenuity of these
buildings lie some dramatic stories of riot, fire, war and even cold-blooded
murder.
This five-part series recreates these key moments in the buildings'
extraordinary history.
With dramatic reconstruction and CGI, the programme focuses on some
of Britain's best-loved cathedrals - Canterbury, York, Lincoln, Edinburgh
and Winchester - and shows how the buildings, the locations and the
nation itself were shaped by faith.
It also explains how the buildings were built and rebuilt, and unravels
the mysteries of how political, design and engineering obstacles were
overcome.
DC
In Search
Of Myths And Heroes
Michael Wood goes in search of four of the most famous myths
in the world: the legend of Shangri-la, Jason and the Golden Fleece,
the Queen of Sheba and King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
These four romantic journeys take him to some of the remotest and most
exciting places on earth including Western Tibet, the plains of Southern
Iraq and the Horn of Africa.
Here he seeks out not only the historic past and literal truth, but
also the mythic spirit of these legends which still captivate us today.
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Jerry Springer - The Opera
From TV to the theatre and back to TV again, the talk show phenomenon
that was turned into a hit stage show comes to 大象传媒 TWO.
Written by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas, the outrageous musical-comedy-opera
hybrid that is Jerry Springer - The Opera made theatre history by winning
all possible theatre awards for Best Musical including The Olivier Awards
and The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
Filmed in the West End's Cambridge Theatre it stars David Soul
(Starsky & Hutch) as Jerry Springer, America's favourite talk show host
who suffers the worst day in his career when faced with trailer trash,
transsexuals, nappy wearers and a tap-dancing troupe of Ku Klux Klansmen.
KA
Arena - Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon's notorious penchant for alcohol, his addiction to roulette
and chaotic private life made him a scandalously decadent figure.
But in his lifetime he created some of the greatest paintings in the
history of Western art.
His complex and disturbing canvases are instantly recognisable and
enormously valuable.
Yet Bacon, born in Ireland, only began painting in his late thirties
after a career as a furniture designer.
大象传媒 Arena is the only broadcaster, since Bacon's death in 1992, to
be granted exclusive permission to make a film about his life.
With unlimited access to Bacon's work and previously unseen archive
footage, this is a definitive account of a true genius.
IC
The Culture Show
Covering everything and anything - from architecture to art house
cinema, computer games to choreography, and shock resignations to startlingly
original works of art - The Culture Show returns for a second season
of arts and culture news.
Lively, fast-moving and authoritative, The Culture Show features some
of the UK's most passionate and outspoken voices and offers a range
of views, interviews and breaking news from the worlds of high art,
popular culture and everything else in between.
Brought to viewers from a different city or venue every week, The Culture
Show explores the range and diversity of arts across the country.
IC
Horizon - Einstein
Continuing its 40th anniversary season, Horizon celebrates the centenary
of Einstein's Theory of Relativity with a two-part documentary which
looks at the life and work of the legendary genius.
Albert Einstein cemented his reputation as one of the greatest thinkers
of all time in 1905, the year he published his work on relativity.
Other work completed during 1905 would ultimately develop into quantum
mechanics and the natural law (the e=mc虏 formula) which would make
the atomic bomb possible.
Using dramatic reconstruction Horizon examines both Einstein's triumphs
and how he subsequently became alienated by the scientific community
in his futile pursuit of a Theory of Everything.
Other topics covered in the season include the truth about MMR and
Neanderthal man.
KC
Sweeney Investigates
John Sweeney digs deep to find the truth behind people
and issues in the news in this new investigative series.
He delves into the secrets of the Kaballah celebrity cult
made famous by devotees including Madonna and Demi Moore, and finds
disturbing evidence of damaged lives and battered bank balances.
Red Caps Down examines the deaths of six British Military
Police in Al Majar last year.
Sweeney raises new questions about the competence of the investigation
and the state of the British Army.
Sweeney also investigates the secretive world of Roman Abramovich,
owner of Chelsea Football Club.
In 1995 he was a 29-year-old oil trader in Moscow. Nine years later
he is the richest man in Britain, the richest man in Russia and the
22nd richest man in the world.
KR
Torture - The Cruel Science
Torture - The Cruel Science charts the rise of modern torture, examining
the people, science and even artistry behind the cruelty.
It examines governments' changing attitude to the use of torture and
looks at the shifts in public attitudes towards such state-sanctioned
activity.
The art of the interrogator has never been more in demand. In today's
age of terrorism, extracting information from the enemy can be more
important than flexing military might.
The attacks of 9/11 triggered the subsequent capture, confinement and
interrogation of thousands of terrorist suspects in Afghanistan, Guantanamo
and Iraq.
Torture - The Cruel Science examines how the lessons of the last 50
years have been put to use in the hunt for al-Qaeda, and how Western
democracies such as America have redefined their approach to interrogation
and torture.
KR
Cockerell On Howard
Tory Leader Michael Howard is the subject of Michael Cockerell's
latest TV portrait.
Cockerell has gained behind-the-scenes access to Howard, who has, previously,
been notably camera-shy.
Both Howard and his wife, the former fashion model Sandra Paul, are
filmed at work and play and they talk candidly about their lives.
Michael Howard's is a remarkable political and personal journey.
The son of Jewish political refugees from Hitler's Europe, he was born
in Wales and from grammar school in the Valleys rose to join the Cambridge
Mafia of future Tory Cabinet Ministers.
Despite the memorable 'something of the night' tag, Howard was chosen
Tory leader by acclamation last year.
However, opinion polls suggest that he faces an extremely tough challenge
in ousting Tony Blair.
PR
Compulsion
Whether it's drugs, booze or gambling, Compulsion is a series of films
giving an insight into the forces that drive people to the edge and
revealing the devastating effects of living with addiction.
James is a charming and articulate man - until he gets money in his
pocket.
A compulsive gambler, his cycle of self-destruction has lost him a
life of respectability.
While James fights his demons in The Confession, his friend
is the subject of Waiting For Brian.
Living in a hostel, Brian's drinking problem has spiralled out of control.
Matt and Camilla try to repair their relationship after living a life
of rock 'n' roll excess in Love Will Tear Us Apart; The Trouble
With Jonny follows a man on a destructive journey out of psychiatric
care; and Casino Dreamer peels back the causes of Jan's gambling
addiction.
CD2
No Win, No Fee
This six-part observational documentary series offers viewers an absorbing
insight into the personal injury industry.
The UK's centre for personal injury is the North West of England and
the programme is given unrestricted access to one of the UK's leading
personal injury companies, the Manchester-based Amelans.
No Win, No Fee follows the company, including bosses Andrew and Martin,
as it tries to generate new business, sift through new claims to separate
the genuine from the fraudulent and use whatever legal means necessary
to deliver their clients the compensation they deserve.
MB
Pakistani Nights
A five-part series of provocative documentaries for 大象传媒 TWO reflecting
on what it means to be a British Pakistani.
The programmes offer an upbeat look at Pakistani lives across the UK
and are as diverse as the community they reflect, from charting the
experience and history of Pakistanis in Britain - including tracing
the evolution of the word 'Paki' from being a term of abuse to one which
is being reclaimed - to exploring why Pakistanis continue to marry within
the family despite medical risks.
The acting career of Atta Yaqub (Ae Fond Kiss) as
he is plucked from relative obscurity is also documented in the series,
as the programmes offer a revealing insight into the Pakistani experience
in Britain.
Pakistani Nights is a 大象传媒 Birmingham production for 大象传媒 TWO.
BJO
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