Current
affairs dominate the heart of the schedule this winter on Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO
This
winter Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO examines the scientific, social and political landscape
of the past, explores the big moral questions of the present and
predicts the global issues which will dominate our lives for the
next decade to come.
With
imagination and high impact, contemporary current affairs, documentary
and drama will dominate the heart of the peak schedule this season
on Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO.
Says
Jane Root, Controller of Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO: "The world has changed beyond
recognition since the events of 9/11 and we now know that audiences
crave intelligent and revealing documentaries and current affairs
programming that explain the issues. This season Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO delivers
just that.
 "From
investigations by Peter Taylor in Third World War,
via new international current affairs series This World,
to the future social and economic predictions of If,
Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO tackles the issues that politicians and other channels might
shy away from this winter.
"And
in Who Killed PC Blakelock? we have exclusive interviews
with participants on both sides of the front line in Broadwater
Farm back in 1985, including Winston Silcott – it promises
to be a gripping and relevant watch."
Who
Killed PC Blakelock? reviews the events of 6 October 1985
when PC Blakelock was brutally murdered on Broadwater Farm Estate.
The
film looks at the context in which the killing was able to take
place, talks to both sides of the front line from that night and
subsequently, and includes an extensive interview with Winston Silcott
about the night itself.
The
Ö÷²¥´óÐã has been working with and interviewing detectives involved in
the case, and has been across the developments of past days and
their impact on the case.
Third
World War is the most authoritative and revealing account
to date of the secret war between the Western intelligence agencies
and Al Qaeda's networks.
Presented
by Peter Taylor the series has his trademark amazing access, including
interviews with the Bali bombers from their prison cells.
Building
on the success of Smallpox and The Day Britain Stopped, Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO
has commissioned a major new analytical strand this winter.
If
will take the big issues of the future, which are not even on the
public or politicans' radars today, and scope out what their potential
effects will be, and what we can do now to lessen their impact.
Issues
covered will include ageing, obesity, inequality and the very real
threat of an energy crisis in the UK.
This
World is the powerful new peaktime international current
affairs series which replaces Correspondent. The series will confront
strong, powerful stories that affect people's lives around the world,
including exclusive investigations into the most contentious global
issues.
Following
the success of What the World Thinks of America Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO hosts another
ambitious broadcasting event this season, bringing together a host
of international broadcasters for a conversation asking what the
world thinks about God.
Hosted
by Jeremy Vine, What The World Thinks About God
will be polling over 10,000 people in ten countries across the globe
and aims to gauge the relevance of God in today's world.
In
1984, five young men from an ordinary Yorkshire mining village were
thrown into an extraordinary conflict. The Miners' Strike
follows five flying pickets through their year of living dangerously.
Drama
this winter on Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO will grip audiences with its historical relevance
and documentary and factual authenticity.
Dunkirk is the documentary that would have been made had
you perfect access to events back in 1940. All the characters are
based on real people, and all the events actually happened.
The
product of 18 months of original research, the drama documentary
retells the events of May 1940 from the perspective of the decision
makers and the soldiers on the ground as we follow the incredible
race against time to save the Allied army trapped in France.
Made by the
department that produced Fighting the War, the team have turned
over every archive in Britain, France and Germany and gone into
previously unseen and un-researched records in the public record
office to track down the information at the very roots of the story
of Dunkirk.
Hawking
is an exciting collaboration between drama and science and brings
to the screen the story of the early years of world-renowned theoretical
physicist Stephen Hawking.
Made
with his full co-operation, the drama covers Hawking's years as
a bright and ambitious PhD student at Cambridge University, as well
as his diagnosis with the debilitating motor neurone disease.
 Gunpowder,
Treason & Plot is a personal, signature drama from
Jimmy McGovern and his take on the first act of mass terrorism.
This
is his first historical piece, and it tells the story of Mary, Queen
of Scots, her son James VI of Scotland (who became king of England
on the death of Elizabeth I), and the plot to blow up the Houses
of Parliament and rid the nation of an oppressive Protestant monarch.
Filmed
entirely on location in Romania, it stars Robert Carlyle as James
in the performance of his career.
Strong
supporting cast includes French newcomer Clemence Poesy as Mary,
with hot talent Kevin McKidd, Emilia Fox, Catherine McCormack, Richard
Coyle and Paul Nicholls.
Following the success of recent dramatised accounts of arts subjects
(Byron, Beethoven's Eroica, Philip Larkin et al) Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO continues
to build on its arts portfolio this season with a lavish three-part
series about arguably the world's greatest classical composer.
The
Genius of Mozart stars Kenneth Cranham and Claire Skinner,
and introduces new talent Jack Tarlton as Wolfgang Amadeus.
The
wide sweep of the drama illuminates Mozart's complex emotional life
and helps explain the enduring appeal of his powerful music.
It
covers the early years and the child prodigy's turbulent relationship
with his domineering father (Cranham), explores the social and political
impact of his music for the theatre, and ends with his final descent
into illness and debt and a burial in a pauper's grave.
Audiences delighted
at seeing Michael Portillo swap his political life for a week in
the real world as a single mum earlier this year, and this winter
the team are back with two more political figures keen to experience
life away from the corridors of power.
In
My Week In The Real World former Overseas Development
Minister Clare Short samples life as a geography
teacher in a South London comprehensive and Alan Duncan,
Conservative libertarian, becomes a youth worker for a week, taking
a group of children from one of the UK's largest council estates
on an outward bounds course.
Catherine
Tate is a brilliant Perrier Award nominated comedienne who writes
and stars in her own sketch show for Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO this winter.
The
Catherine Tate Show introduces irreverent characters including
the rancid pensioner, the overprotective new parents, the randy
nurse and the nervous housewife.
Other highlights
of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO winter season include:
•
Property People follows the hungry, up-and-coming
estate agents at one of Britain's most successful companies
•
Britain's Best Sitcom, hosted by Jonathan Ross,
will divide friends and families across the UK as the public decides
on their favourite sitcom of all time
•
Bee In Your Bonnet, is a new campaigners series
fronted by former political spin doctor Amanda Platell
•
Private Life Of A Masterpiece, second series of
the programme that tells the life story of celebrated works of art
•
Inventions That Changed The World, Jeremy Clarkson
champions the inventions and inventors who he believes have changed
the way the modern world operates
•
The Sack Race, takes the sting out of getting the
sack by asking two upcoming comedians to attempt to do it on purpose
– on their first day at work
•
Crafty Tricks Of War, Dick Strawbridge tracks down
the craziest military inventions
•
Seaside Parish, following the success of A Country
Parish, Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO goes to the seaside to explore parish life
•
Britain Goes Wild With Bill Oddie, Britain's biggest
ever nationwide wildlife event
Notes
to Editors
Éù
Third World War – Al Qaeda
was previously known as The Secret War Against Terror.
Éù
Who Killed PC Blakelock? was previously known as Broadwater Farm.
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