How Do I Get Up There?
Comedy sketch show written by and starring Chris Forbes, James Allenby-Kirk and Kevin Main, and based on their popular live act.
Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been the most famous pharaoh of all ancient Egypt. But his mysterious death, at just 19 years old, has never been explained.
In this BBC One special, presenter Dallas Campbell reveals new scientific research and carries out unique experiments to get to the truth.
For the first time, a virtual autopsy of Tut’s mummified body reveals astonishing secrets about the pharaoh. Using CT scan data, the programme creates the first ever full size, scientifically accurate image of the real Tutankhamun.
Brand new DNA analysis uncovers a shocking secret about Tut’s family background, and the genetic trail of clues leads to a radical and revolutionary new theory to explain Tut’s sudden and unexpected death.
This is an epic detective story that uncovers the extraordinary truth of the boy behind the golden mask.
Blow Your Mind – Spectacular Space
Dr Chris and Dr Xand delve into the world of nature to bring you facts and clips that will – yes, you guessed it – blow your mind!
The Sunny
Welcome to the Sunshine Centre Community Halls, otherwise known as the Sunny. A big part of life in a small area of north Glasgow, the Sunny is a cultural and social hub, a venue to some, a second home to others. The Sunny is a warm sitcom celebration of life, friendship, patter and early evening yoga classes.
Rankin Shoots Rembrandt: A Culture Show Special
World-renowned photographer Rankin takes on the challenge of interpreting Rembrandt’s portraits of old age, adapting the Dutch master’s techniques for his camera. Rembrandt’s portraits are some of the most arresting images of old age in western art. He captured the vitality and vulnerability of his subjects, highlighting the effects of time in a candid way that still resonates today.
Rankin collaborates with Terry Gilliam, Ken Loach, Zandra Rhodes and Una Stubbs to create his own contemporary versions of four Rembrandt portraits. He explores Rembrandt’s use of light, his technique with paint and his ability to capture the ambiguities of facial expression and subtleties of personality with startling effect. Drawing on all these elements, Rankin attempts to produce photographs that capture the essence of these 17th-century images, created by one of the world’s greatest portrait painters.
Hilary Mantel – Case Histories
Hilary Mantel is one of our most assured and successful novelists. She writes blackly comic novels set in the present and confronts our Tudor past in her Thomas Cromwell novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She reimagines famous figures from our history, or imagines for herself the life of a psychic medium in the suburbs of Surrey and Berkshire. In fact, everything she writes is historical fiction, because everyone she writes about must deal with their own past.
James Runcie meets a writer who has conjured the ghosts of Henry VIII and Lady Diana, and whose latest collection of short stories contemplates the possibility that Margaret Thatcher was assassinated in 1983.
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