BBC4
Greenlit: Stein Tastes the Blues, BBC4
Stein Tastes The Blues (3 x 60′) – explores references to food ingrained in the lyrics of the blues. Many of the dishes stand the test of time in family-run restaurants up and down the Mississippi. A celebration of Southern food and the Afro-American music born out of melancholia and despair in the Deep South, [...]
Greenlit: New Power Generation: African-American Music Legends of the 1980s
New Power Generation: African-American Music Legends Of The 1980s w/t (4 x 60′) - The Eighties was a defining decade for African-American pop music. After the successes of soul, funk and disco in the previous two decades, the Eighties were the years when young talent took centre stage and became some of the biggest-selling artists [...]
Greenlit: The Great Hip Hop Hoax, BBC4
The Great Hip Hop Hoax (1 x 60′ + 1 x 80′) – Documentary about two Scottish students, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who pretended to be Californian rappers (as Silibil n’ Brains) in order to win a recording deal with Sony. Told via interviews and animation. Channel: BBC4 (Storyville) / BBC Scotland Producer: Glimmer [...]
Greenlit: Judge Chen’s Court, BBC4
Judge Chen’s Court (4 x 60′ ) - Documentary offering a rare insight into the lives of China’s rural poor, seen through the prism of its legal system. The series takes a fresh look at this vast and culturally rich country, examining how justice is served in rural areas so remote and isolated that the [...]
Greenlit: The Great Estate, BBC4
The Great Estate (1 x 60′) - Journalist and author Michael Collins presents a hard-hitting and heart-warming history of one of Britain’s greatest social revolutions: the story of council housing. Along the way, Collins meets the people whose lives were shaped by an extraordinary social experiment that began with a bang at the start of [...]
Greenlit: Big Spring Clean, BBC4
Big Spring Clean (1 x 60′) – Andrew Graham-Dixon goes behind the scenes at one of Britain’s most beautiful stately homes – spending a winter working with the National Trust’s conservation team at Petworth House in West Sussex. As a mammoth exercise in spring cleaning, it requires not just elbow grease, but in-depth specialist knowledge [...]
Greenlit: If Walls Could Talk, BBC4
If Walls Could Talk (1 x 60′) – The story of British domestic life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Through the prism of four rooms – the kitchen, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lounge – Lucy examines ever-shifting attitudes to privacy, class, cleanliness and technology. Featuring interviews with a range of [...]
Greenlit: Unnatural Histories, BBC4
Unnatural Histories – Documentary that takes a new look at three of the world’s most iconic wild places and discovers that each has been shaped over time by man. The Serengeti first became wild when a colonial disease crippled the economic livelihoods of local people, emptying the land and allowing the modern vision of Africa [...]
Greenlit: Hidcote, BBC4
Hidcote (1 x 60′) – Documentary about the most influential garden of the 20th century, and its enigmatic creator Major Lawrence Johnston. The Gloucestershire garden is considered by many to be the epitome of the English country garden, yet until recently little was known about the tortured genius behind it. But as part of a [...]
Greenlit: Apples – British to the Core, BBC4
Apples – British to the Core (1 x 60′) – Garden designer and presenter Chris Beardshaw looks at how Britain has helped to shape the apple and explores the history of some favourite varieties. He visits a piece of living history – the original Bramley apple tree from which every Bramley apple ever eaten has [...]
