Bent Coppers Crossing the Line of Duty episode 2
The second episode dives into the sleazy underbelly of London’s Soho in the early 1970s, where an explosion of dirty pornographic bookshops provides an open invitation for corrupt cops to be greedy.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 8 – Pleasure
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 8 – Pleasure: In the final episode, Dan explores how architecture gives us pleasure – both to its creators and to the people who enjoy the buildings today.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 7 – Dreams
Architecture is the stuff of dreams. Since building began, architects have tried to build the future, tried to build fantasy worlds, tried even to change humanity by dreams of new inventions in bricks and mortar.
Herbert von Karajan and Yehudi Menuhin
Combining two of the 20th Century’s greatest musicians — Yehudi Menuhin and Herbert von Karajan in their only recorded performance together — this magnificent programme marks a high point in filmed classical music.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 6 – Power
Dan Cruickshank explores buildings as gigantic statements of power when he visits palaces in Romania, the Middle East, the American South, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 5 – Connections
Dan sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world. He finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings and towns across the globe – but why do some places succeed and others fail?
The Men Who Built America episode 4 – Empire or Liberty
In 1836, General Santa Anna and his Mexican army defeat the Texian uprising at the Alamo, along with Davy Crockett, who was one of the last survivors.
The Men Who Built America episode 3 – Live Free or Die
With the British and Tecumseh’s Pan-Indian alliance broken in the north, the south is threatened by the Red Sticks of the Creek tribe when they massacre 500 settlers at Fort Mims.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 4 – Disaster
Some of the world’s greatest architecture has been forged in the face of adversity, terror and war. Dan explores buildings shaped and threatened by disaster.
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 3 – Paradise
Dan looks at buildings that evoke the image of heaven across religions and cultures, travelling to Egypt’s Sinai desert, China’s Hanging Temple, and Turkey’s Suleymaniye Mosque, a building that evokes the gates of paradise.