BBC Four

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BBC Four Compiles Archive Of London Documentaries

27 wonderful films about London.

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V&A To Star In BBC Four Season: Handmade In Britain

Three, three-part series and a selection of individual hour-long films will look at all aspects of the decorative arts

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Fire At The Royal Albert Hall

A BBC Proms concert due to take place yesterday evening had to be cancelled after a small fire at the Royal Albert Hall. According to the Beeb part of the building was ‘filled with smoke’ after a fire broke out in the artists’ bar but …

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A for Andromeda

This is exciting news. The Beeb continues its renewed love affair with the best kind of science: fictional! Following in the footsteps of BBC FOUR’s popular success The Quatermass Experiment last year, comes another compelling adaptation of a science fiction classic: A for Andromeda. The …

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BBC4′s Bus Night

BBC4 are giving the beloved Routemaster a sendoff with a night of dedicated double decker telly: On Friday 9 December, the most famous bus in the world – the Routemaster – will take its final journey through the streets of London. BBC Four and Arena …

BBC’s Beethoven Bargain Bonanza

News of more free stuff here at Londonist, this time for those of you who can’t actually be arsed to go out. Anyone with a passing acquaintance with BBC TV or BBC Radio may have noticed they’ve gone a bit Beethoven barmy. Between BBC Four, …

TV Sets and The City – The American David Brent?

Curb Your Enthusiasm We’re still be waiting to see whether the American version of The Office (The Office: An American Workplace) will really take off in the States. However, in the meantime HBO has a sort of glamourous version of The Office with Curb Your …

Music News (And Pete Doherty, Too)

Guerilla-gigging rockers The Others will feature in an event at the V&A on 25th February. According to the V&A, ‘Agitate – Educate – Organise’ is a “Social documentary on today’s everyday life voiced by young poets, novelists, artists and musicians. Poetry reading, story telling and …