BBC Four TV Guide
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- 2:30pm
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BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013Season 1 Episode 2: Concert Round Two
Petroc Trelawny presents coverage of the second round of the biennial contest, with opera singers Maria Celeng from Hungary, Alexey Bogdanchikov from Russia, Gala El Hadidi from Egypt, Loriana Castellano from Italy and Luthando Qave from South Africa competing at St David's Hall. Petroc is joined by acclaimed Swedish mezzo Katarina Karneus, who won the competition in 1995
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- 4:00pm
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Who Killed the Honey Bee?
Martha Kearney examines the decline in the bee population due to a mystery affliction dubbed 'colony collapse disorder', which is believed to have wiped out more than a third of the UK's colonies. The programme explores the effect the extinction of the insect and the loss of pollination would have on nature and the world's food supply. Previously shown on BBC4
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- 5:00pm
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Quick CutsSeason 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1
Semi-improvised sitcom by Georgia Pritchett (Life of Riley, High Heels and Low Lifes) set in a hairdressing salon. Sue chucks Trevor out, Marianne contemplates having breast implants, Gavin is sick on a pigeon, Becky stalks her lover and Annie has a blind date with someone experiencing an unusual problem. Sue struggles to handle all this, as well as a shop full of customers. Starring Doon Mackichan and Paul Reynolds
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- 5:30pm
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?Season 1 Episode 9: Storm in a Tea Chest
Thelma looks on with disapproval as Terry helps Bob move his most treasured possessions to his new house, releasing a flood of nostalgic memories about their youthful misadventures. Comedy, starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam. First broadcast March 6, 1973
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- 6:00pm
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Up the WomenSeason 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3
Margaret has written to Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragette movement, to tell her about the efforts of The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage and are surprised when a response arrives, announcing that she will be taking in the town on her tour of Oxfordshire. The ladies prepare for her arrival, with Gwen making a trifle, but when she appears she doesn't match up to what they had envisioned. Guest starring Sandi Toksvig
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- 6:30pm
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The Dark Ages: An Age of LightSeason 1 Episode 4: The Men of the North
In the final programme, Waldemar Januszczak turns his attention to the north of Europe, examining how Vikings marked their territory with rune stones, and decorated their long ships with intricate embellishment. He also investigates the jewellery and manuscript illumination created by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons, and examines how the Carolingians forecast their future as successors to Rome in the art they left behind
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- 7:30pm
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Michael Grade and the World's Oldest Joke
The broadcast executive traces the history of the joke with a little help from a host of historians, academics, comedy experts and stand-ups including Ken Dodd, Tim Vine and Barry Cryer. Along the way he discovers what tickled the Tudors, ribbed the Romans and made Renaissance wits roar as he sets out to discover whether jokes come and go with the rise and fall of civilisations, or whether people are still laughing at the same things their ancestors did
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- 8:30pm
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Quick CutsSeason 1 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1
Semi-improvised sitcom by Georgia Pritchett (Life of Riley, High Heels and Low Lifes) set in a hairdressing salon. Sue chucks Trevor out, Marianne contemplates having breast implants, Gavin is sick on a pigeon, Becky stalks her lover and Annie has a blind date with someone experiencing an unusual problem. Sue struggles to handle all this, as well as a shop full of customers. Starring Doon Mackichan and Paul Reynolds
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- 9:00pm
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?Season 1 Episode 9: Storm in a Tea Chest
Thelma looks on with disapproval as Terry helps Bob move his most treasured possessions to his new house, releasing a flood of nostalgic memories about their youthful misadventures. Comedy, starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam. First broadcast March 6, 1973
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- 9:30pm
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Who Killed the Honey Bee?
Martha Kearney examines the decline in the bee population due to a mystery affliction dubbed 'colony collapse disorder', which is believed to have wiped out more than a third of the UK's colonies. The programme explores the effect the extinction of the insect and the loss of pollination would have on nature and the world's food supply. Previously shown on BBC4
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- 10:35pm
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