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James May’s Toy Stories
James May’s Toy Stories is a television series presented by James May. The series was commissioned for BBC Two from Plum Pictures. The first episode, “Airfix”, was shown on BBC Two at 8:00 pm on Tuesday 27 October 2009.
The premise of the 6-part show was to bring favourite toys of the past into the modern era, by using the toys in real life large scale enterprises. In each episode, he also explores the history of each toy.
In “Airfix”, he builds a full-sized model of a Spitfire WWII fighter plane, using the plastic moulding and assembly technique used in the Airfix self-assembly plastic toy scale model range. In “Plasticine”, he models a full-sized garden out of the toy modelling clay Plasticine, as an exhibit in the Chelsea Flower Show. In “Meccano”, he builds a full-sized footbridge out of the mechanical construction toy range Meccano, to cross a canal in Liverpool. In “Scalextric”, he reconstructs the Brooklands racing circuit in full size using the slot-car toy racing track used by the Scalextric range. In “Lego”, he builds a full-sized house in Dorking out of the Lego toy model brick range. In “Hornby”, he re-lays a railway track along 10 miles of a disused full-sized railway, the Tarka Trail, using the 1:76.2 scale track used in the Hornby Railways model train range. Of the six episodes, the Hornby attempt was the only one that failed; May revisited it in 2011 with a follow-up episode, “The Great Train Race”. A new edition, “Flight Club”, focusing on an attempt to fly a balsa wood glider across the English Channel, aired just before Christmas 2012. It was announced on BBC News on 31st August 2013 that a new episode with a motorbike and sidecar would air just before Christmas 2013.
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The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain
The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain is a 2009 BBC television cookery programme which is presented by The Hairy Bikers: Dave Myers and Si King.
The 30-part series, which aired weekdays at 17:15 on BBC Two in the United Kingdom began on 24 August 2009. In each show the Hairy Bikers visit a county of the United Kingdom, and learn about its food culture and heritage. One episode was postponed during its original run, due to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Football Final.
Each episode features a “taste-off” competition, pitting the Bikers against a renowned chef currently based in the county. Whilst showcasing the chef, the riff from Elbow song “Grounds for Divorce” is occasionally featured.
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Terry Jones’ Great Map Mystery
Terry Jones’ Great Map Mystery is a four-part television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two Wales in 2008 and presented by ex-Python Terry Jones. As described on the BBC’s website, “Terry Jones sets out on a series of journeys through Wales following the world’s first road atlas: John Ogilby’s Britannia, published in 1675.”
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Madame Bovary
Francesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic tale of one woman’s attempts to mold her own unfulfilling life in the shape of her favorite romantic novels.
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How Art Made The World
Why does our world look like it does? That great modern mystery is spectacularly unraveled in this international landmark series and epic quest across five continents and 100,000 years, via some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world — to the heart of human creativity. Encompassing everything from cave paintings to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, How Art Made the World probes the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of death and the afterlife; and, crucially, why we use imagery at all.
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A Bucket O’ French And Saunders
Twenty years of the French and Saunders sketch show are celebrated in a selection of new and vintage sketches from the popular comedy double act. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders raid their back catalogue and present favourite sketches and new material. It’s another chance to visit the country home of the Fat Men, watch Britney Spears take on Madonna and no series would be complete without the famed movie pastiches. Alan Sugar, Simon Cowell and Amy Winehouse are some of the new faces who are tackled in a fresh batch of sketches. Take a good look as it may be the last we see of the French and Saunders sketch show as we know it.
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