SAT 31/07/09: 7pm Elizabeth 1/4 (The Queen Ep2 Follows)

From the Prison to the Palace David Starkey presents this four-part series examining the life of Elizabeth I, beginning with her early years, up to her coronation in 1559. Prior to ruling, she lived a turbulent life, which saw her sexually abused and imprisoned in the Tower under threat of execution after witnessing the death of her mother at the hands of her father Henry VIII
Category Documentary

Season 1 Episode 2 of 5
Samantha Bond stars as Elizabeth II in this episode set two decades into her reign, when she has to make friends with her enemies across the political divide. The 1970s present the monarch with fresh challenges, including an ongoing terrorist threat from the IRA in Britain, a shortfall in the civil list, personal financial problems and a kidnap attempt on Princess Anne

Watch the episode on Youtube now!

FRI 30/7/10 10pm ITV3 - AIR AMERICA

Lighthearted action tale about a pair of maverick US pilots who smuggle anything and everything for a covert CIA operation during the Vietnam War. When they catch wind of a seamy plot in the secret service hierarchy, they decide to turn the tables on their paymasters.
(Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr) 15 - 135mins

THUR 29/7/10 3/8pm: "Worst Job" The Stuarts on Knowledge

WED 28/7/10 3/8pm: "Worst Jobs" - The Tudors on Knowledge

TUE 27/7/10 3/8pm: "Worst Jobs" - The Middle Ages on Knowledge

This Week's Highlights

MON 26/7/10: 9pm BBC 1 Who Do You Think You Are? Rupert Everett

MON-THUR 27-29th July - The Worst Jobs in History-
3pm & 8pm on Discovery Knowledge

MON 26/7/10 Worst Jobs - The Dark Ages

TUE 27/7/10 Worst Jobs - The Middle Ages

WED 28/7/10 Worst Jobs - The Tudors

THU 29/7/10 Worst Jobs - The Staurts

FRI 30/7/10 10pm ITV3 - AIR AMERICA

MON 26/7/10: 9pm BBC 1 Who Do You Think You Are?

Rupert Everett’s varied acting career has involved starring in Hollywood films as diverse as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Shrek 2 and The Importance of Being Earnest. Rupert has a rigidly conservative background, and feels that much of his own life has been a reaction against it. Following the recent death of his father six months ago, he wants to investigate the paternal side of his family.

clipped from www.bbc.co.uk On next: Rupert Everett Online now: Bruce Forsyth Follow the links to watch the show on the BBC iPlayer

MON-THUR 27-29th July - The Worst Jobs in History- 3pm & 8pm on Discovery Knowledge

Monday Season 1 below, season 2 on Youtube

Tony Robinson looks at some of the worst jobs from the Dark Ages, including guillemot egg collector, bog iron hunter, monk and coin stamper.
Tuesday
Tony Robinson continues to investigate life in the underbelly of history and finds some of the rubbish careers that propped up the age of chivalry. Middle Ages
Wednesday
Tony gets himself on the bottom rung of the Tudor careers ladder. Amongst other jobs, he learns the nightmares suffered by the masked executioner.
Thursday
Tony finds that the Stuarts gunpowder business relied on the saltpetre-men, who collected urine and dug up latrines to get the vital ingredients needed.

SUN 25/07/10: 1pm-6pm Finding the Fallen: Ypres

1pm Archaeologists, forensic experts and historians excavate the farmlands of Ypres to preserve the memories of those that fell here in World War I.
2pm Fighting raged for years at Serre in France during WWI, and many died. Historians, archaeologists and forensic scientists search for the fallen.
3pm Tunnels and craters in a French coal field hide horrors from WWI. More than 50,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded here in a hellish battle.
4pm This rolling landscape serenely disguises the trenches that ran red with the blood of 60,000. The team is looking for evidence of what happened.
5pm Excavating the site of the infamous battle of Passchendaele, fought in 1917, where many drowned in a churning sea of mud.
THEN REPEATED

SAT 24/07/10: Sky Drama 6:10pm The Young Victoria

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. DVD Site
Trailer below

SAT 24/07/10: C4 8pm The Queen

Five different actors will portray the Queen at different stages in a new docudrama for Channel 4 that will examine five "pivotal years" in the monarch's life.

Samantha Bond, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in the Bond movies, and Lisa Dillon, who recently appeared in BBC1 costume drama Cranford, are the first two actors to be signed up as the Queen, with The Tudors' Katie McGrath set to play a young Princess Margaret.

Episode 1 deals with the 1952 scandal with Princess Margaret.

Or watch the entire show and the next four shows on YouTube.

ALSO History Channel 9pm The Dark Ages

FRI 23/7/10 9pm: THE BLACK DEATH on The History Channel

Chronicle of the 14th century plague that wiped out a third of Europe's population. The diaries of victims and survivors offer an insight into one of the darkest periods in history.
LINK TO HISTORY CHANNEL WEBSITE

2min summary of Black Death below

THUR 22/07/10 9pm BBC 2 - Victorian Pharmacy

BBC2 at 9pm on Thursday 15th July. This four part series features our very own Professor Nick Barber who will be re-creating the role of a Victorian pharmacist and testing out remedies and medicines popular at the time.

A world where traditional remedies, such as leeches, oil of earthworm and potions laced with cannabis and opium, held sway. After sampling some of the old ways, the team venture into new discoveries, such as the Malvern water cure, the bronchial kettle for curing coughs, and the invention of Indian tonic water.

OR YOU COULD HAVE VICTORIAN SURGERY

WED 21/07/10: 7pm The Roman Invasion of Britain on The History Channel

It comes as no surprise to learn that the Roman invasion of Britain was a savage affair.

The Roman forces, under the control of Caesar, tried to take Britain in 54BC, but it was not fully conquered until 43AD when Claudius established mighty garrisons in the cities of Lincoln, York and Chester.

Bettany Hughes travels the country in search of clues as to how Britons grew to love the civilised way of life.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL WEBSITE LINK

What the Romans Did For Us? Video below

TUES 20/07/10: 8pm Nat Geo - Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard

Terry Herbert is one very lucky man.

The amateur metal detecting enthusiast hit the motherload when he found 1,600 pieces of gold and silver treasures.

Terry's collection was like nothing that's ever been found in Britain before. The collection is known to be over 1,500 years old but nobody knows quite how it came to be. Containing exquisite pieces, crafted in precious metals and jewels, that apparently came from various countries around the world. Did they all belong to a king? Were they treasures plundered in battles across the globe?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WEBSITE

FRI 16/7/10: 8pm History Channel Richard Hammond and the HOLY GRAIL

Exploring hundreds of years of history, Richard Hammond embarks on an entertaining travelogue examining the popular and enduring myths and legends surrounding the Holy Grail.



It is a quest that takes Richard to ancient scrolls in the Vatican's secret archive; medieval knights and hidden treasure in the South of France; Hitler's search for the Grail; holy relics in Constantinople; a psychic in Scotland; a crop circle symposium in Glastonbury; and to Paris where he explores the latest Grail fever phenomenon.

But Indiana Jones got there first!

THU 15/7/10: 9pm BBC2 Victorian Pharmacy

BBC2 at 9pm on Thursday 15th July. This four part series features our very own Professor Nick Barber who will be re-creating the role of a Victorian pharmacist and testing out remedies and medicines popular at the time.

Victorian Pharmacy is a living history series and comes from the makers of Victorian Farm, also shown on BBC 2. Staff at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Museum have been directly involved in developing ideas for the series, which was filmed in a fully-functioning Victorian pharmacy in the re-created Victorian town of Blists Hill, in Ironbridge, Shropshire.

A world where traditional remedies, such as leeches, oil of earthworm and potions laced with cannabis and opium, held sway. After sampling some of the old ways, the team venture into new discoveries, such as the Malvern water cure, the bronchial kettle for curing coughs, and the invention of Indian tonic water.

Wed 14/7/10: 10pm Gold: Blackadder II & 7:20pm Film4:Titanic

10pm Gold - Blackadder II
Edmund embarks on a global voyage.
Sky 110 Virgin 126 Top-Up 17
Lord Flashhard Entrance

7:20pm Film4 - Titanic
A present day salvage crew are searching the wreck of the Titanic for a valuable jewel bit find a sketch instead. Rose now an elderly woman responds to the discovery and recounts are tale as a young woman on the doom 1912 voyage.

Tue 13/7/10: 9pm Film4 - Kingdom of Heaven

Ridley Scott's epic historical drama starring Orlando Bloom. A widowed French blacksmith travels to Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades and helps defend the city against the forces of legendary Muslim leader Saladin. 15 (144mins)

and 8pm Sky Premiere Night at the Museum 2

Mon 12/7/10: 10:35pm BBC1 - "Who Do You Think You Are?" & Pearl Habor

10:35pm BBC1 - "Who Do You Think You Are?"
Susan Sarandon visits New York, believing her grandmother may have worked as a showgirl in the city, and uncovers details of a poverty-stricken childhood.



8pm Sky Premiere Night at the Museum 2



3:40pm Sky Action Pearl Harbor (183mins)

Sun 11/07/10: 9pm ITV3 - The Queen (& Titanic)

9pm ITV3 - The Queen
Fact based drama starring Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen, looking at the events behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace and Downing Street in the week after the death of Princess Diana in 1997. 12 and 103mins.



9pm Film4 - Titanic
A present day salvage crew are searching the wreck of the Titanic for a valuable jewel bit find a sketch instead. Rose now an elderly woman responds to the discovery and recounts are tale as a young woman on the doom 1912 voyage.

Sat 10/7/10: 10:40pm BBC2 Munich

Steven Spielberg's political thriller starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush. A Mossad hit squad gets caught in a spiral of violence when it targets Palestinian terrorists responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. 155mins and 15 certificate.

ALSO 8pm Night at the Museum 2 on Sky Premiere

Fri 9/7/10: 8pm Sky Premiere - Night at the Museum 2

THIS FILM WILL BE SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WEEK AT SIMILAR TIMES ON SKY301 or VIRGIN 401.

Fantasy comedy sequel starring Ben Stiller. A former museum security guard has to rescue his pals, a group of exhibits who come to life at night, when they are moved to Washington DC. 2009 PG

Safe for primary and secondary school and perhaps ideal for the last week. Great film when showing the diversity within world history.

Great trailer which is of course safe for work

Thu 8/7/10: 8pm The History Channel - "Ancient Discoveries"

How modern discoveries owe much to the scienctists and inventors of the past.
History Channel's site

Example of the show below

WED 7/7/10: 9pm The History Channel - "The Lost Pyramid"

The Lost Pyramid

The Lost Pyramid: Expert archaeologists and Egyptologists believe they have found Radjedef's pyramid, the missing pyramid of Giza. Follow their technological trail of discovery. Also in HD Channel 4's Egypt Website

The BBC also did their own series

Tue 6/7/10: 9pm BBC4 To Kill a Mockingbird at 50

Marking the 50th anniversary of the influential novel To Kill A Mockingbird, writer Andrew Smith visits Monroeville in Alabama, the setting of the book, to see how things have changed in half a century.
BBC VIDEO LINK
BBC ARTICLE LINK

THE FILM FOLLOWS THIS DOCUMENTARY

Below, a clip from the film

MON 5/7/10: 9pm Yesterday Channel - WORLD WAR TWO: Behind Closed Doors

SERIES CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK

BBC LINK

Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
Joseph Stalin was a tyrant responsible for the death of millions, yet he was also a vital ally of Britain and America during the Second World War.

Trailer for the series below

FRI 2/7/10: Braveheart & The Wall Street Crash

More 4 9PM BRAVEHEART
Mel Gibson produces, directs and stars in this fictionalisation of the story of William Wallace (from the pen of Randall Wallace) and cops a barrel-load of Oscars for his trouble. This is three hours' worth of gripping drama, which spares nothing on either the visceral or the emotional front.

Yesterday Channel - 10pm - THE GREAT CRASH

A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.
Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual wealth was lost. Later, three thousand banks failed, taking people's savings with them. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financial catastrophe in history.