What TV documentary permiered on BBC1 on March 19 1985 that was written and presented by the same person who is responsible for "Connections"?
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The Day the Universe Changed The Day the Universe Changed: A Personal View by James Burke is a British documentary television series written and presented by science historian James Burke, originally broadcast on BBC1 from 19 March until 21 May 1985 by the BBC. The series' primary focus is on the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.
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James Burke (science historian) James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television series "Connections" (1978), and for its more philosophically oriented companion series, "The Day the Universe Changed" (1985), which is about the history of science and technology. "The Washington Post" called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".
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Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann (] ; born 27 November 1925) is a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film "Shoah" (1985).
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Mike Dibb Mike Dibb (born Leeds, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an award-winning English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in "The Guardian": "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
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Christopher Barry Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director best known for his work on the science-fiction series "Doctor Who". He also directed the direct to video Doctor Who spin-off Downtime in 1995.
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Richard Heffner Richard Douglas Heffner (August 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was the creator and host of "The Open Mind," a public affairs television show first broadcast in 1956. He was a University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University and also taught an honors seminar at New York University. He was the author of "A Documentary History of the United States," a verbatim anthology of important public documents in American history, among them the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Heffner collaborated with Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel on the publication of "Conversations With Elie Wiesel", released by Schochen books in 2001.
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Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OBE', '4': "} (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.
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Bilder, die die Welt bewegten Bilder, die die Welt bewegten is a German documentary series, broadcast between 1980 and 1984 on ZDF. The title translates as "Images That Changed The World". The series presented film footage of major natural disasters, technological disasters, and accidents. The series was directed and narrated by journalist Peter von Zahn.
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Your Life in Their Hands Your Life in Their Hands is a long-running BBC TV documentary series on the subject of surgery, examining surgical practice from the point of view of both surgeons and patients. Its first run lasted from 1958 to 1964 and was presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher. An early 1970s revival (the first in colour) was presented by Jonathan Miller, and another revival, lasting from 1979 to 1987, was presented by Robert Winston. The series was revived again in the early 2000s and was still running as of 2005.
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Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Labour Party in Britain. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report "The Reshaping of British Railways", commonly referred to as "The Beeching Report", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as the Beeching Axe.
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How Science Changed Our World How Science Changed Our World is a 2010 BBC television documentary presented by Robert Winston (first broadcast on 23 December 2010 on BBC One). It focuses on ten scientific advances, which according to the producers, had the biggest impact on our lives. Viewers were asked to vote on their favourite advancement.
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Jennie Bond Jennifer "Jennie" Bond (born 19 August 1950) is an English journalist and television presenter. Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. She has most recently hosted "Cash in the Attic" and narrated the programme "Great British Menu".
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The Connection (play) The Connection is a 1959 play by Jack Gelber. It was first produced by the Living Theatre, directed by Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina, and designed by co-founder Julian Beck. The play has a play-within-a-play format, with characters Jim Dunn as the "producer" and Jaybird as the "writer". They are attempting to stage a production about the underbelly of society using "real" addicts. Some of the addicts are jazz musicians. They all (except for the "producer", "writer", and two "photographers") have one thing in common: they are waiting around for their drug dealer, their "connection". The dialogue of the characters is interspersed with performances of jazz. The music was composed by jazz pianist Freddie Redd.
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Tony Bilbow Tony Bilbow (born 17 April 1932) is a British television interviewer, film expert and writer. He was a presenter of BBC Television's "Late Night Line-Up" discussion programme which was broadcast on BBC 2 between 1964 and 1972.
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Anna Home Anna Margaret Home ( ) OBE (born 13 January 1938) is an English television producer and executive who worked for most of her career at the BBC.
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Andrew Olle John Andrew Durrant Olle (28 December 194712 December 1995), always known as Andrew Olle, was a radio and television presenter on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, beginning his career in 1967 as a news cadet and, until his death, working in a wide variety of programs, including "The 7.30 Report", ABC Radio 2BL, Sydney, "Nationwide", "Four Corners" and "A Big Country". It was also at 2BL that he met and worked with his long-time friend Paul Lyneham.
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Drama Connections Drama Connections is a BBC One documentary series which looks at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's most popular drama television programmes, showing how they tie in with the production of other drama shows (hence the name). The shows feature interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as classic footage from the series.
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Short Trips: The Centenarian Short Trips: The Centenarian is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The collection follows the life of a man, Edward Grainger, from his birth through to his death and explores the history of the twentieth century.
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Peter Morley (filmmaker) Peter Morley, OBE (26 June 1924 – 23 June 2016) was a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year-old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he lived until his death. He made several documentaries about the Holocaust, winning several awards, both in England and abroad.
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Mark Carwardine Mark Carwardine (born 9 March 1959) is a zoologist who achieved widespread recognition for his "Last Chance to See" conservation expeditions with Douglas Adams, first aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Since then he has become a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer.
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Documentary Photography Archive The Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) is a founded in 1985 and held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office by Manchester City Council. The archive captures aspects of the people and places of the Greater Manchester region in the UK and includes over 100,000 images from family albums and elsewhere, from the 1840s to the 1950s. It also commissioned contemporary photographers to document aspects of everyday life from the mid 1980s to the 1990s, which is also held in the archive.
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Reel History of Britain Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series presented by Melvyn Bragg about the history of modern Britain through the eyes of people who were there. It was first broadcast on BBC Two, from 5–30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years since the advent of moving film.