A idade dourada dos tranvías

Move along the car! Timeshift takes a nostalgic trip on the tram car and explores how it liberated overcrowded cities and launched the age of commuter. The film maps the tram's journey from early horse-drawn carriages on rails, through steam to electric power.
Overhead wires hung over Britain's towns and cities for nearly 50 years from the beginning of the 20th century until they were phased out everywhere except Blackpool. Manchester, the last city to lose its trams was, however, among the first to reintroduce them as the solution to modern day traffic problems.

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No tempo no que houbo algún banqueiro bo

Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative film about the colourful Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving financial recklessness.
Victorian bankers achieved wealth on a scale never envisaged by previous generations, but many of them were far from comfortable about their new-found riches, which caused them intense soul-searching amidst furious national debate about the moral purpose of money and its potential to corrupt.
Like so many other Victorian bankers, Samuel Gurney was a Quaker. Banking and its rewards seemed at odds with a faith that valued modest simplicity, but Gurney's wealth helped the work of his sister, prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, who is immortalised on today's five-pound note.
Self-made millionaire George Peabody was a merchant banker who made an enormous donation to London housing. 150 years on, his housing estates still provide accommodation to 50,000 Londoners.
Angela Burdett-Coutts became an overnight celebrity after she inherited the enormous Coutts fortune. With her love of small dogs and her vast stash, she could have been the Paris Hilton of her day. Instead, she went on to become a great philanthropist.
Perhaps the richest of them all was Natty Rothschild, who tried not just to ensure that his personal wealth did good, but that his bank's did too.

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Nómadas en Norteamérica

Beneath the America we think we know lies a nation hidden from view - a nomadic nation, living on the roads, the rails and in the wild open spaces. In its deserts, forests, mountain ranges and on the plains, a huge population of modern nomads pursues its version of the American dream - to live free from the world of careers, mortgages and the gife picket fence.
When British writer Richard Grant moved to the USA more than 20 years ago it wasn't just a change of country. He soon found himself in a world of travellers and the culture of roadside America - existing alongside, but separate from, conventional society. In this film he takes to the road again, on a journey without destination.
In a series of encounters and unplanned meetings, Richard is guided by his own instincts and experiences - and the serendipity of the road. Travelling with loners and groups, he encounters the different 'tribes' of nomads as he journeys across the deserts of America's south west.

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Cesária Évora, 1941-2011

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Como Escocia fundou o mundo moderno

A profile of the Scottish explorers instrumental in opening up Africa to western eyes.
Scottish explorers in Canada endured some of the world's wildest and most beautiful lands.
Scottish exploration of Australia - a tale of astonishing skill, bravery and fortitude.

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Westminster: o traballo d*s servidor*s públic*s

Documentary series following the inner workings of Westminster Council, showing the real-life work and people that keep London at the forefront of the world's leading cities

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Arte norteamericana

In the first episode of a series exploring the history of American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon embarks on an epic journey from east to west, following in the footsteps of the pioneers who built the foundations of modern America.
In the second part of his fascinating journey exploring American art gets under the skin of the modern American metropolis. Starting his journey at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, which he describes as a pioneering early skyscraper, Andrew discovers how the ambitions of visionary artists and architects helped America remove itself from the shadow of Europe and become the most advanced civilisation on earth.
In the final part of his United States odyssey feels the pulse of contemporary America. Beginning in Levittown - the first mass-produced suburb - Andrew uncovers the dark side of post-war consumerism and the role artists have played in challenging the status quo.

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Planeta xeado

Frozen Planet is a nature documentary series, co-produced by the BBC, the Discovery Channel and The Open University. It was filmed by the BBC Natural History Unit. The production team were previously responsible for the award-winning series The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006), and Frozen Planet is billed as a sequel of sorts. David Attenborough returns as narrator, and the series was shot entirely in HD.

The seven-part series focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. The production team were keen to film a comprehensive record of the natural history of the polar regions, because climate change is affecting landforms such as glaciers, ice shelves, and the extent of sea ice.

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O futuro do estado do benestar

Meanwhile, on BBC2, John Humphrys was examining who in our own country needs a good slap or not. The Future State of Welfare, presented by the former working-class boy from Splott (I know – home town of Shirley Bassey too! Surely an embarrassment of riches), examined whether Britain's welfare system had strayed too far from its original Beveridgian aims of slaying the five giant evils of want, ignorance, squalor, idleness and disease, and bred instead a culture of entitlement that has caused the benefits bill to increase by £60bn over the last decade. The programme had commissioned a Mori poll to prove how much more unsympathetic the public mood has become towards those on benefits, but the truest barometer was the existence of the programme itself, which asked as overtly as I have yet seen whether there is a distinction to be drawn once again between the deserving and the undeserving poor. No word yet on who gets to decide that, or on how close to the bone we must cut everything to make sure not one chancer gets a single unearned penny from the state, but I'm sure we'll all find out over the next few bleak, bleak years.

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Cerámica - unha fráxil historia

Ceramics are where art meets function - one of our oldest and most fundamental art forms, that sits at the centre of our homes.
The first film in this three-part series looks at a history of domestic pottery in Britain from Tudor times onwards, tracing the evolution of its different techniques and styles, and examining what our pots can tell us in intimate detail how preceeding generations lived and saw themselves.
The second film charts the rags to riches-to-rags epic of Stoke-on-Trent, a city built on clay and the heart of Britain's once world-beating ceramics empire. On the back of the 17th century phenomenon of tea, pottery in Britain exploded into a cutting-edge industry and a source of enormous national pride.
We meet the key characters responsible for putting British ceramic art on the map: from Josiah Wedgwood, innovator, artist and marketing genius, and Josiah Spode (who made it his life's work to invent a British version of Chinese porcelain and came up, aged 60, with bone china, which revolutionised the industry) to the great 20th century ceramicists Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper.
We see how demands for cheap labour since the 1980s have forced the closure of all but a handful of these great factories, leaving Stoke's crumbling overgrown ruins as our Pompeii.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a group of craftsmen decided to break the monopoly of the great ceramic factories. Studio pottery was born, a movement that celebrated traditional artisanship and decorative flair over the monotony of the production line. Through practitioners like William De Morgan, Bernard Leach and William Staite Murray, studio pottery was soon recognised as a powerful and uniquely British contribution to the story of modern art, drawing disciples from all over Europe. In the second half of the 20th century, female ceramicists like Lucie Rie and Alison Britton re-energised the movement. The programme ends with portraits of Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal, two of the greatest potters working anywhere in the world today.

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Britania mesturada

The previously untold history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it.

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A lus

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements.
Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.

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A sabedoría da tribo

Monty Don, a huge fan of traditional crafts, presents a series which celebrates six of the craft skills that built Britain and its heritage, ranging from thatching to stonemasonry. Under Monty's watchful eye, three hopefuls who are passionate about learning these trades are put through their paces by the country's leading practitioners of wood craft, metalwork, thatching, stonemasonry, weaving and stained glass. After six weeks of apprenticeship and labour, their work and achievements are judged by experts in their chosen field to see who has best mastered the craft.

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Marqueyssac

À Marqueyssac, l'art topiaire met le buis en valeur avec une fantaisie pleine de mouvement. Le tracé du jardin aux allées sinueuses est typique des aménagements réalisés en France sous Napoléon III. Les rondeurs et la taille moutonnante des buis confèrent à Marqueyssac douceur et romantisme et contribuent à la concordance des jardins avec les collines de la vallée de la Dordogne dont ils sont indissociables.

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Palácios da República

The Queen has three official residences - the best known, Buckingham Palace; the oldest, Windsor Castle; and the most romantic, Palace of Holyroodhouse. Among the few working royal palaces in the world today, they serve as both family homes and as the setting for the http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifbusiness of Monarchy.
Each has its own distinctive story - long histories that reflect good and bad times, triumph and tragedy and, of course, the lives of some of our most memorable kings and queens. But they all share certain features - incredible collections of treasures that reflect both the tastes of their occupants and the artistic development of the nation, and architecture that has evolved across the centuries to meet the needs of different ages, reflecting the story of Britain and its people like no other buildings.

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Vilas

In this series, Nicholas Crane will reveal the unique nature and identity of towns, and the hidden details that set them apart from our cities and our villages.

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Pensar

There is an image of intellectuals as being cut off from the real world. But in the twentieth century, thinkers broke out of the academy and onto the airwaves. This series mines the BBC archive for footage of the great minds of the modern age – presenting these thinkers in their own words.
Episode one (‘Human, All Too Human’) looks at how scientists and psychologists sought to find out what makes human beings tick, with rarely seen footage of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, RD Laing, Margaret Mead and Richard Dawkins. Episode two (‘The Grand Experiment’) shows how political and economic thinkers (John Maynard Keynes, William Beveridge, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman) shaped British society in the twentieth century. And finally, episode three (‘The Culture Wars’) examines how thinkers as diverse as Raymond Williams, FR Leavis, Edward Said and Stuart Hall turned the polite world of ‘culture’ into a political battlefield.
The series features over twenty newly-shot interviews with great thinkers and opinion-formers of the modern age – the likes of Germaine Greer, John Gray, Roger Scruton, Sir David Hare, Sir David Attenborough, David Miliband, John Redwood and Tariq Ali discuss what these thinkers contributed to the modern age.

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Elegancia e Decadencia - A idade da Rexéncia

Colourful series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history. It presents a vivid portrait of an age of elegance presided over by a prince of decadence - the infamous Prince Regent himself, a man with legendary appetites for women, food and self-indulgence. Yet this was the same man who would rebuild London, carving out the great thoroughfare of Regent Street and help establish the Regency look as the epitome of British style through his extravagant patronage of art and design.

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No forno

The Great British Bake Off is a British television baking competition first shown by the BBC in 2010.
The judges were cookery writer Mary Berry and professional baker Paul Hollywood; presenting the show were Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, who trace the very particular history of British baking by visiting local baking landmarks, such as Bakewell and discovering why people bake what they bake today.

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Non dispoñible na súa área

Looking at the secret lives of the wildlife in one of Britain's favourite gardens. Shot by Charlie Hamilton-James, this film follows various animals, from the family of foxes that play after hours in the pleasure gardens, to the toads in the Italian garden and the badgers that clear up the tea rooms at night. Set against the background of the gardening year, these stories reveal life behind the scenes at Heligan.

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