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OU programmes on the BBC
Week Beginning:
Details are regularly updated, but can be subject to change.Saturday 28 November
19:30
BBC TWO (not Scotland, Wales)
Coast: Channel Islands to Dover
The team make their way from the Channel Islands to Dover. Alice Roberts explores Jersey's remarkable post war transformation from Nazi occupied stronghold, to 'Honeymoon Island'. To discover the island's unique appeal to 1950's newlyweds Alice meets a couple returning fifty years after their honeymoon night on Jersey. Mark Horton reveals how the forts on Guernsey explain why the islanders remain loyal to the Queen, even though they remain proudly outside the United Kingdom. Neil Oliver investigates the tragic story of the first channel swimmer, Victorian celebrity Captain Webb. Webb became a hero as famous as David Beckham, but he died in a desperate attempt to recapture fame and fortune.
The team make their way from the Channel Islands to Dover. Alice Roberts explores Jersey's remarkable post war transformation from Nazi occupied stronghold, to 'Honeymoon Island'. To discover the island's unique appeal to 1950's newlyweds Alice meets a couple returning fifty years after their honeymoon night on Jersey. Mark Horton reveals how the forts on Guernsey explain why the islanders remain loyal to the Queen, even though they remain proudly outside the United Kingdom. Neil Oliver investigates the tragic story of the first channel swimmer, Victorian celebrity Captain Webb. Webb became a hero as famous as David Beckham, but he died in a desperate attempt to recapture fame and fortune.
20:00
BBC TWO
Berlin: Ich bin ein Berliner
The life and character of Berliners has been defined by a struggle for freedom. In 1963 president Kennedy declared that "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin". But centuries earlier, the rulers of the city offered freedom to the oppressed. Jews moved to the city from Vienna and eastern Europe, and were instrumental in creating the city we know today. But during the Nazi years, Berlin's Jews were driven under-ground, many unable to leave the city they loved. When the Russians arrived at the end of the Second World War, Berlin's women found themselves at the mercy of rapists rather than liberators. Citizens became pawns in a global game through the Berlin blockade, and when the Berlin Wall was built, both East and West held themselves up as beacons of freedom. But only when it fell did Berliners attain the freedom that their early rulers had promised them.
The life and character of Berliners has been defined by a struggle for freedom. In 1963 president Kennedy declared that "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin". But centuries earlier, the rulers of the city offered freedom to the oppressed. Jews moved to the city from Vienna and eastern Europe, and were instrumental in creating the city we know today. But during the Nazi years, Berlin's Jews were driven under-ground, many unable to leave the city they loved. When the Russians arrived at the end of the Second World War, Berlin's women found themselves at the mercy of rapists rather than liberators. Citizens became pawns in a global game through the Berlin blockade, and when the Berlin Wall was built, both East and West held themselves up as beacons of freedom. But only when it fell did Berliners attain the freedom that their early rulers had promised them.
Sunday 29 November
18:00
BBC ONE
Life: Hunters and Hunted
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of the hunters and hunted. In a TV first a killer whale off the Falklands does something unique. It sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim. It snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. Slow motion cameras reveal the star nosed mole's newly-discovered technique for smelling prey underwater. It exhales, then inhales a bubble of air, ten times per second. Young ibex soon learn the only way to escape a fox - run up an almost vertical cliff face. Young stoats fight mock battles, learning the skills to become one of the world's most efficient predators.
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of the hunters and hunted. In a TV first a killer whale off the Falklands does something unique. It sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim. It snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. Slow motion cameras reveal the star nosed mole's newly-discovered technique for smelling prey underwater. It exhales, then inhales a bubble of air, ten times per second. Young ibex soon learn the only way to escape a fox - run up an almost vertical cliff face. Young stoats fight mock battles, learning the skills to become one of the world's most efficient predators.
19:00
BBC FOUR
A History of Christianity: Reformation - The Individual before God
The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In the fourth part of his History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and of how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. He shows how Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Ulrich Zwingli - a Swiss Reformer - to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny that communion bread and wine were the body and blood of Christ. "Jesus ascended into heaven" declared Zwingli, "he's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zurich."
The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. They were radicals - Protestants - who tore apart the Catholic Church. In the fourth part of his History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch makes sense of the Reformation, and of how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. He shows how Luther wrote hymns to teach people the message of the Bible, and how a tasty sausage became the rallying cry for Ulrich Zwingli - a Swiss Reformer - to tear down statues of saints, allow married clergy and deny that communion bread and wine were the body and blood of Christ. "Jesus ascended into heaven" declared Zwingli, "he's sitting at the right hand of the Father, not on a table here in Zurich."
21:00
BBC ONE (Scotland only)
A History of Scotland: This Land Is Our Land
At the start of the 19th century, everything familiar was swept away. People fled from the countryside into the industrial towns of Scotland's central belt. Rural workers became factory workers - in some of the worst conditions in Europe. This new Scotland became a seedbed of revolution. But it wasn't just force that kept the Scottish people in their place, it was fantasy. Neil Oliver reveals how Sir Walter Scott created so powerful a myth, it haunts the Scots collective imagination to this day.
At the start of the 19th century, everything familiar was swept away. People fled from the countryside into the industrial towns of Scotland's central belt. Rural workers became factory workers - in some of the worst conditions in Europe. This new Scotland became a seedbed of revolution. But it wasn't just force that kept the Scottish people in their place, it was fantasy. Neil Oliver reveals how Sir Walter Scott created so powerful a myth, it haunts the Scots collective imagination to this day.
Monday 30 November
02:20
BBC FOUR
A History of Christianity: Reformation - The Individual before God
(As shown on Sunday)
(As shown on Sunday)
21:00
BBC ONE (not Northern Ireland)
Life: Creatures of the Deep
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet. They thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans. Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs. When cuttlefish gather to mate their bodies flash in stroboscopic colours. Timelapse photography reveals thousands of starfish gathering under the arctic ice to devour a seal carcass. A giant octopus commits suicide for her young. A camera follows her into a cave which she walls up, then she protects her eggs until she starves. The greatest living structures on earth, coral reefs, are created by tiny animals in some of the world's most inhospitable waters.
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet. They thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans. Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs. When cuttlefish gather to mate their bodies flash in stroboscopic colours. Timelapse photography reveals thousands of starfish gathering under the arctic ice to devour a seal carcass. A giant octopus commits suicide for her young. A camera follows her into a cave which she walls up, then she protects her eggs until she starves. The greatest living structures on earth, coral reefs, are created by tiny animals in some of the world's most inhospitable waters.
22:35
BBC ONE (Northern Ireland only)
Life: Creatures of the Deep
(As shown in the rest of the UK at 21.00)
(As shown in the rest of the UK at 21.00)
Tuesday 1 December
20:00
BBC TWO
A History of Scotland: Lets Pretend
Bitterly divided by politics and religion for centuries, this is the infamous story of how Scotland and England came together in 1707 to form Great Britain. Over time, the Union matured into one of the longest in European history. But it very nearly ended in divorce. Exploiting the Union's unpopularity, the exiled Stuarts staged several comebacks, selling themselves as a credible and liberal alternative to the Hanoverian regime. Neil Oliver reveals just how close they came to succeeding.
Bitterly divided by politics and religion for centuries, this is the infamous story of how Scotland and England came together in 1707 to form Great Britain. Over time, the Union matured into one of the longest in European history. But it very nearly ended in divorce. Exploiting the Union's unpopularity, the exiled Stuarts staged several comebacks, selling themselves as a credible and liberal alternative to the Hanoverian regime. Neil Oliver reveals just how close they came to succeeding.
Wednesday 2 December
01:15
BBC ONE
Saving Britain's Past: The Street
In a city of immigrants and their diverse communities, no street embraces and wrestles with the debates generated by multiculturalism and heritage as vibrantly as Brick Lane in East London. It has probably absorbed more communities than any other into its fabric, from the Huguenots to the Jews to the current predominant community of Bangladeshis. As each community has moved on, the buildings have remained the same, even as their usage changes. In this last programme of the series, presenter Tom Dyckhoff investigates how residents view the area and its buildings in light of its history and the present. (Signed Version)
In a city of immigrants and their diverse communities, no street embraces and wrestles with the debates generated by multiculturalism and heritage as vibrantly as Brick Lane in East London. It has probably absorbed more communities than any other into its fabric, from the Huguenots to the Jews to the current predominant community of Bangladeshis. As each community has moved on, the buildings have remained the same, even as their usage changes. In this last programme of the series, presenter Tom Dyckhoff investigates how residents view the area and its buildings in light of its history and the present. (Signed Version)
Thursday 3 December
21:00
BBC FOUR
A History of Christianity: Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion
In his fifth part of a History of Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe - Evangelical Protestantism. Today, it's associated with conservative politics, but the whole story is not what you might expect. It's easily forgotten that the Evangelical explosion has been driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that you could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God. It allowed the Protestant faith to burst its boundaries from its homeland in Europe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with all the flair and swashbuckling enterprise of American commerce. In Africa it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions, and now it's expanding into Asia. But is Korean Pentecostalism and its message of prosperity in the here and now an adaptation too far?
In his fifth part of a History of Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe - Evangelical Protestantism. Today, it's associated with conservative politics, but the whole story is not what you might expect. It's easily forgotten that the Evangelical explosion has been driven by a concern for social justice and the claim that you could stand in a direct emotional relationship with God. It allowed the Protestant faith to burst its boundaries from its homeland in Europe. In America, its preachers marketed Christianity with all the flair and swashbuckling enterprise of American commerce. In Africa it converted much of the continent by adapting to local traditions, and now it's expanding into Asia. But is Korean Pentecostalism and its message of prosperity in the here and now an adaptation too far?
Friday 4 December
00:25
BBC FOUR
A History of Christianity: Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion
(As shown on Thursday)
(As shown on Thursday)
00:55
BBC ONE
Life: Hunters and Hunted
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of the hunters and hunted. In a TV first a killer whale off the Falklands does something unique. It sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim. It snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. Slow motion cameras reveal the star nosed mole's newly-discovered technique for smelling prey underwater. It exhales, then inhales a bubble of air, ten times per second. Young ibex soon learn the only way to escape a fox - run up an almost vertical cliff face. Young stoats fight mock battles, learning the skills to become one of the world's most efficient predators. (Signed Version)
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of the hunters and hunted. In a TV first a killer whale off the Falklands does something unique. It sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim. It snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. Slow motion cameras reveal the star nosed mole's newly-discovered technique for smelling prey underwater. It exhales, then inhales a bubble of air, ten times per second. Young ibex soon learn the only way to escape a fox - run up an almost vertical cliff face. Young stoats fight mock battles, learning the skills to become one of the world's most efficient predators. (Signed Version)
02:55
BBC FOUR
A History of Christianity: Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion
(As shown on Thursday - Signed Version)
(As shown on Thursday - Signed Version)
19:30
BBC TWO (Scotland only)
Coast: Channel Islands to Dover
The team make their way from the Channel Islands to Dover. Alice Roberts explores Jersey's remarkable post war transformation from Nazi occupied stronghold, to 'Honeymoon Island'. To discover the island's unique appeal to 1950's newlyweds Alice meets a couple returning fifty years after their honeymoon night on Jersey. Mark Horton reveals how the forts on Guernsey explain why the islanders remain loyal to the Queen, even though they remain proudly outside the United Kingdom. Neil Oliver investigates the tragic story of the first channel swimmer, Victorian celebrity Captain Webb. Webb became a hero as famous as David Beckham, but he died in a desperate attempt to recapture fame and fortune.
The team make their way from the Channel Islands to Dover. Alice Roberts explores Jersey's remarkable post war transformation from Nazi occupied stronghold, to 'Honeymoon Island'. To discover the island's unique appeal to 1950's newlyweds Alice meets a couple returning fifty years after their honeymoon night on Jersey. Mark Horton reveals how the forts on Guernsey explain why the islanders remain loyal to the Queen, even though they remain proudly outside the United Kingdom. Neil Oliver investigates the tragic story of the first channel swimmer, Victorian celebrity Captain Webb. Webb became a hero as famous as David Beckham, but he died in a desperate attempt to recapture fame and fortune.