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- Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and foeticide and her questionable relationships with wealthy religious and political leaders.
- 1990–199625m7.1 (20)TV EpisodeIce-T Looks at the history of 1970s Blaxploitation cinema and its continuing influence.
- Jonathan Meades attacks the myths and culture surrounding vegetarianism.
- Robert McKee dismisses Orson Welles film, Citizen Kane as a mish-mash of stylistic excess and clichéd content.
- A documentary on the life of actress Carol White, the lead in the 1960s BBC drama 'Up The Junction'.
- The spoof arts magazine show presents a drama exploring the short cuts television takes in its treatment of art. Lucrezia Borgia, one of the most glamorous women of Renaissance Italy, discusses her role as patron of Italian art.
- Terry Eagleton critiques poet Philip Larkin. Larkin is considered a darling of the post-war British poetry scene. Terry Eagleton accuses him of being racist, emotionally stunted and lugubrious.
- A documentary that follows a woman through her pregnancy.
- A documentary that looks at the escapist world of hotels and boarding houses.
- Dramatised scenes from Errol Flynn's life.
- A tribute to the long-running cult 1960's spy adventure series.
- Russell Davies questions Laurence Olivier's position as the pre-eminent actor of our times.
- There are over 50,000 words of slang in common usage today. Lexicographer Jonathon Green points out that most of them come from sex, drugs and music.
- Germaine Greer launches an attack on the cult of youth. She argues that the obsession with youth has led to a morbid fear of aging at a time when old people outnumber the young.
- Cosmo Landesman accuses comedians of the nineties of becoming a force for political reaction 'the court jesters of the chattering classes'. He argues that politicians now wield the weapon of humour which was once turned against them.
- Rory Bremner argues that having set herself up as a satirist on suburban values, Dame Edna now personifies the same values that she once abhorred.
- Rock critic Sean O'Hagan argues that the Rolling Stones are a burnt-out collection of middle-aged men who have failed to mature or find a late style. He also suggests that they have become the opposite of much of what they once stood for.
- Documentary. Tony Parsons investigates the controversy surrounding the film 'A Clockwork Orange'.
- A celebration of the satellite dish, looking at their history and considering the prospects for designer dishes.
- An appraisal of cultural icon, Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell in the TV series Till Death Do Us Part and In Sickness and in Health).
- Allison Pearson criticizes the news values of the BBC and ITN, saying that they are trivial, sycophantic and and prisoners to new technology.
- Camille Paglia, a lesbian academic, looks at how lesbianism has become chic. She traces its history, from the writings of Sappho to the recent lesbian culture.
- American film critic, Joe Queenan, adopts the persona of a male film star to assess his contribution to the cinema.
- Tony Parsons delivers an essay on the state of the sex war, he suggests that there are some things that women do better than men: weeping, shopping and housework.
- Janet Street-Porter takes the Internet to task, claiming its main use is to provide an occupation for boring, inadequate and socially inept people.
- Trial of the book and the acquittal of Penguin Books ushered in the freedom of the Sixties. With dramatic reconstructions this programme recreates the atmosphere of the time and tells the story of Lawrence's lifelong battle with the censors.
- Paul Morley looks at Christmas decorations. Why do we want them? What do they mean to us and what do they say about us? How do the stores entice us to buy them? Do they offer a taste of a traditional Christmas or plastic nostalgia for a non-existent Golden Age?
- Paul Morley looks at prisons, historic and new, and at the "interior design" practiced by prisoners within their cells.
- Inspired by the footballer, Paul Gascoigne, this documentary with music from Smokey Robinson and Sydney Devine, looks at men in tears - in art, pop, music, sport, the cinema and politics.
- The mutual mistrust between the French and the English goes back centuries. A British television team looks at the way the French are adjusting to a world in which many of their ideals - revolution, patriotism and national culture - seem to be increasingly irrelevant.
- A French television team looks behind the stereotypes and asks what the public role of British intellectuals is at a time when the channel tunnel is forcing the two societies together.
- The Reduced Shakespeare Company's interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle, compressing 16 hours into 30 minutes.
- Looking at the Royal Ballet's film started in the 1960s and left unfinished.
- Looks at the hype behind the Mozart bicentennial celebrations.
- An examination of Proust's fascination with sex and food with a look at the psycho-sexual history evoked in 'Remembrance of Things Past'(A La Recherché Du Temps Perdu).
- Looking at the career of child star phenomenon Macaulay Culkin and how he compares to other child actors of the past and present.
- 1990–1996TV Episode
- 1990–1996TV Episode
- Five performances by the Royal Ballet in Kenya in aid of elephant conservation.
- Examines the ideas of Martin Bernal set out in book Black Athena (1987) in which he argues that the Wests view of Greek civilization has been distorted to promote the Aryan model to the detriment of black African and Semitic cultures.
- Looks at the cult of the Radio1 DJ. Links from Mike Smash (Paul Whitehouse) and featuring Tony Blackburn, Gary Davies, Mike Read and Dave Lee Travis.
- A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.
- 'Margaret Rutherford' (Tim Spall in drag) tells her life story in cabaret form before an audience.
- Jerry Sadowitz presents a history of swearing on television.
- Nabil Shaban argues that disabled people are misrepresented by Hollywood, the bad guy always being portrayed with a limp and scars and heroes are physically perfect. If there is a disabled part on offer it is played by an able-bodied actor.