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Razorlight premiered their new album Slipway Fires at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall. Despite being in a seated venue, the crowd sprung to their feet upon the opening track Golden Touch and remained so, singing and dancing up until the set closer Rip It Up. As well as reeling off previous hits such as Somewhere Else and 2006 UK Number One single America, the band previewed their forthcoming album Slipway Fires in its entirety.
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[2020]
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English
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This film shows how Nicolaus Copernicus; an early astronomer, scientist and priest in Poland, thought the sun was at the centre of the solar system. In this vlog style film, he compares his ideas with Aristotle and Ptolemy, who believed the celestial model of Earth at the centre of the solar system, with the sun and other planets in its orbit.
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Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
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[2020]
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English
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Jon Chase is on Croyde Beach in Devon, headquarters of the junior GB surfing team. His mission is to find out what different types of wave there are and how they work. With Britain's best young surfers, Jon investigates sea waves. How does the wave travel towards the shore, but the sea water does not?
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[2020]
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English
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Petro, Diaco, Donnel and Hedia form the panel of steely potential investors with cacao beans to present to Maya inventors, if they can impress the panel with their products. The products are real Mayan innovations and include jewellery, a “world first” in agricultural irrigation, a load-carrying tumpline, and the complex Maya calendar.
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A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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[2011]
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English
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Tradition meets high jinks as Edward Gardner conducts his first Last Night of the Proms. For this grandest of grand finales there are two very special guests. Since her first Proms appearance in 1995, Susan Bullock has emerged as Britain's leading dramatic soprano, specialising in what she calls 'the large ladies' of the repertoire. Also featured is a classical music superstar as popular in the West as in his native China. On his sixth visit to the...
13) The BBC At War
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[2015]
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English
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In the first installment of the series, BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby hones in on the effects of World War II on the then infant broadcasting corporation of BBC. World War II was the first broadcast war, which BBC was entirely unprepared for, so pioneers in broadcasting including Dimbleby's own father Richard Dimbleby broke through barriers and restrictions in order to communicate the truth, and renditions of the truth, to the British public and...
15) Emma
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2004.
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An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
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[2000]
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"Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home--to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America."--Container.
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[2016]
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English
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"More stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. In this series Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Shelagh rushes to put together a children's choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara?...
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[2002]
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English
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After the radical changes to last year's Last Night, Leonard Slatkin brings back tradition, refreshed with a program that celebrates the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the contrasting centenaries of William Walton and Richard Rodgers, and the first decade of BBC Music Magazine. Part I includes works by Walton and Grieg, plus the world premiere of Bright Cecilia: Variations of a Theme by Purcell (commissioned by BBC Music Magazine). Part II includes works...
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[2004]
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English
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Russian Soprano joins conductor Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a selection of arias and scenes from Italian and Czech opera. Anna Netrebko recently scored major successes - on disc and on stage - with Gianandrea Noseda. Her performance here includes popular favourites from the operatic repertoire. The prom also includes a full performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which premiered at the height of Stalin's terror and...
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