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Horizons New ten part series starts on 7th April With the global population now at 7 billion there are questions around how we will provide enough food, energy and clean water in the future. What will be the biggest advances in health and medicine and the best prospects for protecting the environment? The second series of Horizons will continue the journey across the globe in search of ideas and businesses that may succeed over the next decade in tackling the planet's biggest challenges. Adam Shaw and Saima Mohsin report from a wide range of countries, including India, Brazil, the US and China on ground-breaking research and technologies that could determine our future. |
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Billion Dollar Hippy 7th - 8th April Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout, but infinitely ambitious, and an inspirational perfectionist. A man of contradictions, he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology. Insiders, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the chairman who ousted Jobs from the company he founded, and Jobs' chief of software, tell extraordinary stories of the rise, fall and rise again of Apple with Steve Jobs at its helm. With actor Stephen Fry, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and branding guru Rita Clifton, Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy. This programme cannot be shown in North America for rights reasons. |
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Inside Facebook 14th - 15th April In just seven years, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from his Harvard college dorm to running a business with 800 million users, and a possible value of $100 billion. His idea to 'make the world more open and connected' has sparked a revolution in communication, and now looks set to have a huge impact on business too. Emily Maitlis reports on life inside Facebook. Featuring a rare interview with Zuckerberg himself, the film tells the story of Facebook's creation, looks at the accuracy of The Social Network film, and examines Facebook's plans to use the personal information it has collected to power a new kind of online advertising. This programme cannot be shown in North America for rights reasons. |
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World Olympic Dreams: Afghanistan 14th - 15th April Ten years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, World Olympic Dreams finds out how sport is transforming the lives of some Afghanis. Four times Olympic Gold Medallist, Matthew Pinsent, visits the country for the first time, meeting young athletes, athletes with disabilities and women athletes. There he discovers that many of them couldn't take part in sport until recently and he'll also find out about the huge challenges remaining -not least the lack of funding, poor facilities and the ever present threat that the Taliban pose. |
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My Country India This is a mini-series of 3 films shown over weekends between 14th- 29th April, starting with The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar on 14th April. |
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The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar 14th, 15th April The 'Great Indian Wedding' is one of India's obsessions, on par with cricket and film as the top things that capture the country's imagination. Forty percent of the world's marriages take place in India and the vast majority of those are arranged. Our story follows three young women and their journey through the Great Indian Marriage Bazaar. |
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The Culture Show 14th - 15th April A new monthly programme on World News. Art Critic Alastair Sooke presents the best of the month's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more. |
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This month Country Direct explores Poland and looks at a range of issues and topics, from the economy and the challenges facing workforces, to the standards of living for people at every level of society. The programmes explore different facets of Poland through the eyes of local filmmakers and BBC correspondents. Poland Direct starts on 20th April and ends on 22nd April | |
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POLAND DIRECT Working Lives: Krakow 21st, 22nd April Kasia Madera travels to Krakow to find out what it's like to live and work in Poland's second largest city more than 20 years after the fall of Communism. She begins her journey at the vast Nowa Huta steelworks, a former site of anti communist protests, where she gets an insight into the working life of a steel worker. Back in the medieval city of Krakow, she takes a trip with a female tram driver to discover a tram network at the forefront of the country's modernisation process. Kasia then travels a 40km journey into the countryside to meet a farmer trying to keep traditional family farms viable in 21st Century Poland. She also meets a fire fighter with an unusual historic role at the top of St Mary's Basilica as well as a boss of a window company, part of the country's new breed of wealthy entrepreneurs. |
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POLAND DIRECT fast:track 21st, 22nd April Economically, Poland is gaining strength while its Eurozone neighbours struggle. It is also expecting a big influx of fans for the European Football Championship while Jewish people from all over the world are being encouraged to return to trace their roots. fast:track travels to Krakow and Warsaw, then up to Poland's primeval forest and the coast to discover if the country is ready to be a big-hitter in the travel game. Presented by Rajan Datar. POLAND DIRECT also includes One Square Mile: Warsaw (21st, 22nd April) and Weekend World: Warsaw (20th, 21st April) |
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