1840年，一个人彻底改变了英国人的旅行方式,他的名字叫乔治-布莱德萧，其编写的火车指南鼓励了维多利亚时代的英国人乘火车进行旅行，对于每一站，他都会告诉大家该去哪里，去哪里参观以及在哪里住宿，现在，170后的今天，主持人将在全国范围内进行4段长途旅行，看看当年布莱德萧的英国如今变成了什么样子。

中国的在校生有三千五百万。在这个系列中，我们只把焦点放在几个学生身上。 《中国学校》以安徽省一个小镇为缩影，集中拍摄了一组家庭、老师、孩子们一个学年的生活。 这个故事里有艰难痛苦也有欢乐喜悦，通过它可以了解中国成千上万个同它一样的学校。不仅对一群孩子和一个小镇的印象有了新的了解，而且能见到中国教育鲜为人知的一面。 There are 350 million children enrolled in education across China, and, in this series, we focus on just a few of them. Chinese School takes as its subject one small town in rural Anhui, and focuses on the lives of a group of families, teachers and children during the course of a single academic year. The schools are schools like many thousands of others across this vast nation, but through the individual stories of hardship, joy and success, an extraordinary portrait emerges, not just of a group of children and a town, but of a side of the Chinese nation seldom seen.

俯瞰德国第一季分城市、乡村、河流三集不同地貌特征鸟瞰全景，在展示自然景致的同时，也涉及到很多当代科技和历史文化，是一部很不错的国家形象宣传片。

The Impressionists, a three part factual drama for BBC ONE, vividly reconstructs the movement's remarkable story. Based on archive letters, records and interviews from the time, the series records the lives of the artists who were to transform the art world. It is a tale of poverty and of a struggle for recognition, set against a backdrop of war and revolution. But at the heart is the brotherhood of artists, bound by enduring friendships and their commitment to a new type of art which survived rows, rivalries, duels and crises. The story is led by the paintings. Some of the world's most memorable art works are recreated here following the same techniques that the artists used at the time. The series reveals how Monet took just 40 minutes to paint his seminal work Impression: Sunrise in a race against time to capture the light; why Manet's depiction of Olympia, in which his model brazenly gazes out of the canvas, so outraged Parisian society; and how Cézanne's 60 paintings of one mountain, Montagne Saint-Victoire, laid the foundations for cubism and modern art.

《非洲》由《Life》原班人马打造，是一部大型原生态纪录片。镜头将跟随主持人David Attenborough一起穿越神奇的非洲大陆，探索那些从未被发现、被记录的生物物种和壮观的非洲奇迹。

20年前，J·K·罗琳所著的《哈利·波特与魔法石》第一次在全球读者中引起轰动。为了纪念此书出版20周年，BBC制作了这部全新的纪录片，追寻了哈利波特心中真实的魔法世界。 这部好玩又惊险的纪录片中满是现实世界的神话、信仰和传说，也正是这些引燃了J·K·罗琳的想象力和创造力。J·K·罗琳在片中还来到大英图书馆《哈利波特：魔法的历史》展览，为我们展现魔法世界背后的真实故事，把现实生活和她脑海中的魔法世界做了对比。从怪异有趣的曼德拉草到伊丽莎白隐形术，从商代甲骨文上的神秘字符再到寻找现实中的魔法石，本片将带你开启神秘的魔法世界之旅。 《哈利波特》的演员们，大卫·休里斯、伊文娜·林奇、米瑞安·玛格莱斯和马克·威廉姆斯等将在片中献声朗读，而本书的插画师吉姆·凯伊也将在片中现身。 本片帮白由艾美达·斯丹顿担当。

Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger. Berger lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps, where the nearness to nature, the world of the peasants and his motorcycle, which for him deals so much with presence, inspired his drawing and writing. The film introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film-director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohr as well as two of his children, film-critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger. The prelude and starting point is Berger's mind-boggling experience of restored vision following a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of his clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers the irredeemable wonder of seeing. Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with John Berger leading in his favourite role of the storyteller.

Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen. At a time of jingoism and wartime propaganda, one Shropshire lad was compelled to tell the truth. Jeremy Paxman travels to the battlefields of France to discover how the ugliest and most terrible arena imaginable gave birth to some of the most poignant and powerful poetry in the English language.

John Minton was for a time one of the most popular 20th century British artists, more famous even than his contemporaries Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. But his seemingly charmed life was cut tragically short and his work is now largely forgotten. For the actor and writer Mark Gatiss, Minton has been something of an obsession since he first came across his work as a teenager, and in this personal, authored film, he tells the story of Minton’s colourful, complex life for the first time on television. A prolific and talented painter, Minton was one of the leading figures in post-war British art, known for his landscapes, portraits and large-scale murals. He was also a brilliant and commercially successful illustrator, whose work on books, magazines, and film and travel posters brought him real fame. But this artistic tension wasn’t the only one in his life. As a gay man living in a deeply repressive era, he struggled with his own sexuality and sought refuge in the hard drinking culture of Soho and its tight circle of fellow bohemians. Mark plunges back into Minton’s world, from the headiness of Soho to the serenity and beauty of Corsica, where Minton produced some of his most influential work. Meeting his friends, contemporaries, former models and students, including Bridget Riley and Peter Blake, he comes across unseen photos, lost paintings and rare recordings of a man whose life and work seemed to disappear overnight. For Mark, it’s time to invite John Minton back to the party he left all too soon.

The kings of Italian cuisine Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy together to remember their own pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats. Travelling to different Italian regions, they uncover a changed Italy in some areas and a fiercely traditional, mostly untouched world in others. In each of the four hour-long episodes, Carluccio and Contaldo will create dishes using recipes, ingredients and influences they discover along their gastronomic journey as well as some of their own favourite traditional meals. The journey is distinctly personal, drawing upon Antonio and Gennaro’s upbringing in Italy through their memories and anecdotes, whilst reflecting their sometimes fractious, often hilarious relationship.

本部纪录片是BBC地平线系列推出的一档探索科学界至今为止最大谜题“自我意识”为命题的纪录片。马科斯·杜·索托伊教授将作为一只实验的小白鼠，亲身经历一系列神秘而奇妙的实验，来探索那些看似平淡无奇，但却无法解释的事情。在这项被特别设计用来挖掘自我意识的医学实验中，他将被带入意识的边缘，可能会丧失所有的意识甚至于生命。马科斯教授从何时意识到自我开始研究，对大脑里的物质进行解剖分析，甚至在麻醉的情况下测试意识为何物，身体与意识到底存在着什么样的联系，意识与无意识……日益发展和健全的技术与理论，的确可以帮助我们了解自己，可越是深入我们的疑问也便更多。 地平线系列纪录片是英国广播公司BBC制作的一档流行并且播放已久的科学纪录片，于1964年5月2日首播，到2013年为止已有49个系列超过1100集。本系列纪录片从历史、人文、宗教、地理、设计、艺术、生物、哲学、环保、伦理等多个方面，提供世界上最伟大科学家和哲学家一个可以交流他们看法和观点的平台，并将他们对世界的新看法引入到我们的日常知识中来的科教节目。

如果你被问到“你知道现在的时间吗”，是否会觉得这是一个太过简单的问题？看看腕上的手表，或是翻出手机，精确到分秒的时间就能被轻易知晓。然而今天，粒子物理学家布莱恩·考克斯教授也如此问到。布莱恩探访了墨西哥的古玛雅金字塔，在那里古玛雅人是靠建神殿来计时的。他惊人地发现，符合地球本身规律的“时间”，从来都不是一天24小时。那么这个我们早已习以为常的“公理”，到底是个物质周期变化的规律，还是我们对于时间和空间认知上的一种错觉呢？ 此次BBC地平线系列纪录片的摄制组，将跟随布莱恩教授的脚步，从时间的起点开始入手研究，走访了多个支持“弦理论”的国度，并研究了时间的极限，试图解开这个抽象概念背后的神奇奥秘。

Sue Perkins带你一起探究英国室内装饰的变革。 The Art on Your Wall Sue Perkins charts the changes in British taste towards domestic art by delving into the stories of contemporary bestsellers, charting the history of post-war prints and aiming to see first hand what the average British person displays above their mantelpiece. Half of British living rooms have art on their wall bought from high street stores, and many of the British artists who created them are among the country's most successful - but we've never heard of them. Sue also tracks down the creators of recent history's most popular prints to discover their opinions on the images that changed their lives. Some of these iconic images are reproductions of famous artists, and some are unknowns, but who are these artists, and why are they so popular? She discusses Tretchikoff, the artist behind the bestselling prints of the 50s and 60s such as the Green Lady, with Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemmingway, and meets Scottish miner-turned-painter Jack Vettriano, the artist who created the popular Singing Butler. Sue tracks down Ullswater snapper Mel Allen and chats to Spencer Rowell, the photographer behind Athena's Man and Baby, before heading to Cornwall to get to the bottom of the two million selling Tennis Girl by meeting its flamboyant creator Martin Elliot. Finally, Sue meets Sam Toft, creator of Mr Mustard, the quirky figure featured in a series of bestselling prints. Sue also meets Terence Conran to find out about the revolution in interior design that took place after the Second World War, including the introduction of Habitat onto the high street, which made good design accessible to the whole community, and how that in turn has influenced the post-war taste of Great Britain.

威尼斯的风情总离不开“水”，蜿蜒的水巷，流动的清波，她就好像一个漂浮在酽酽碧波上浪漫的梦，诗情画意久久挥之不去。 这个不到8平方公里的城市，却被一百多条蛛网般密布的运河割成一百多座小岛，岛与岛之间只凭各式桥梁错落连接，初来乍到很快便会迷失在这座“水城”中。好在有大运河（Grand Canal）呈S形贯穿整个城市，沿着这条号称“威尼斯最长的街道”，可以饱览威尼斯的 精华而不用担心迷路。沿岸的近200栋宫殿豪宅和七座教堂，多半建于14至16世纪，有拜占庭风格、哥特风格、巴洛克风格、威尼斯式等等，所有的建筑地基都淹没在水中，看起来就像水中升起的一座艺术长廊。平日里大运河真的像一条熙熙攘攘的大街一样，各式船只往来穿梭其上，最别致的当然还是贡多拉（Gondola）。 虽说威尼斯的守护神和城市象征是圣马克广场上那头带翅膀的狮子，可在人们心中，说到威尼斯就自然会想到穿梭于水巷中的贡多拉。这是一种月牙形的黑色平底小船，几百年前，威尼斯贵族们喜欢乘坐雕刻精美，装饰着绫罗绸缎的贡多拉互相斗富。为了刹住这种奢靡的风气，威尼斯政府颁布了一条发令，禁止把贡多拉漆成彩色，于是，曾经争奇斗艳的贡多拉都变成了今天人们看到的黑色小船。 晚上乘一小时贡多拉的花费可以乘“水上公交”（Vaporetto）绕威尼斯30圈，可是即便昂贵，你又怎么舍得放弃夜游威尼斯的终极浪漫？夜晚的水面倒影着月色，经过一天的喧嚣，此时的河面重归平静，贡多拉在如丝般的碧波上静静前行。两岸爬满青苔的古老墙根发出特殊的潮湿气味，仿佛伸手可触。河水汩汩，船儿荡漾，让人忍不住幻想自己回到几百年前艺术辉煌一时的威尼斯，自己是王公贵族，正乘坐贡多拉，赴一场假面舞会。只有撑船的威尼斯小伙儿在狭窄水巷拐弯处的一声吆喝，才把人又带回到现实世界中来。 船行之处，处处有桥。威尼斯的桥有350座之多，最有名的莫过于叹息桥。它是连接总督府和监狱的一座封闭式的巴洛克风格的桥。至于为什么这座桥有这么个无奈的名字，说法很多。有个说法是一名死囚走过叹息桥时，透过桥上的窗户看到对面房子里自己的女友拥抱着新情人，不禁深深叹息。叹息桥因此得名。不管这个传说是不是有来由，至少现在的叹息桥已经成了恋人见证爱情的地方，据说只要在桥下拥吻，爱情就能天长地久。无数情侣在这里上演深情一幕，也算得是威尼斯的一景。 威尼斯的浪漫中多少掺杂一些凄美，地下水抽取过多，造成威尼斯的陆地不断下沉，再加上周期性的潮水，因水而美丽的威尼斯正在被洪水慢慢侵蚀。她还会为我们的世界美丽多久？这已经不是我们能够左右得了的事情。我们能做的仅仅靠近她，欣赏她，把心盛满浪漫的感受再离开。 威尼斯（意大利文Venezia）是意大利东北部的城市，市区涵盖意大利东北部亚得里亚海海边的小岛和邻近一处半岛。威尼斯有很多运河，有水乡的美誉。威尼斯中心旧市区街道狭窄，是行人徒步区，禁止汽车进入，是欧洲最大的无汽车地区。2003年人口274000人。 威尼斯的成立可回溯到568年。当时，意大利北部遭受伦巴底人（''Lombards''）的侵略，许多难民逃到威尼斯岛避难。在8世纪中，威尼斯人抵抗贝宾三世（''Pepin III''）的帝国扩展，而附属于拜占庭帝国。过后，威尼斯逐渐发展强大。当拜占庭帝国没落之时，威尼斯的自治权渐增，最后取得独立，成立威尼斯共和国 （9世纪至18世纪，1797年）。几百年来，统治威尼斯共和国的首领是威尼斯公爵（''Doge''）。 威尼斯城有七百年历史。最初由一群逃荒的人在一座小岛上建成。十三世纪十字军东征的时候，威尼斯人贡献了君士坦丁堡，成了地中海的霸主，后来威尼斯的繁荣富贵，艺术、回话、建筑、音乐的登峰造极都来源于此后三四百年间威尼斯在地中海的称霸和敛财。 本系列由威尼斯人Francesco da Mosto 通过电脑制作以及生动的描述，带我们领略意大利名城威尼斯的历史和文化。 共分四集： 第一集：Blood 血腥 一个宫殿的城市，一个充满黄金珠宝以及无与伦比的财富的城市，一个艺术之都-----威尼斯，她是怎样从沼泽中诞生，Da Mosto还向我们解释了威尼斯是怎样成为一个享有至高无上的荣誉的高贵之都 一个孤单的人怎样忍受各种各样的痛苦折磨，领导他的人民、他的城市实现复仇的 第二集：Beauty 美丽 一个拥有如此惊人的美丽的城市怎样脱胎于一个卑微的、木制结构的城市 史上最伟大的艺术家、建筑设计师包括Palladio和Titian等对于建设这个美丽城市作出怎样的贡献 第三集：Sex 性 到十八世纪的威尼斯，有两种东西深入人们的思想----那就是艺术和性. Casanova的《A History of My Life》详细的叙述了他本人的好色之性, 通宵达旦的开宴会，以艺术为借口，狂欢节的化妆舞会代表这种奢华的最高潮 第四集：Death 死亡 自从拜伦把这个城市作为游历的一个地方起，生活对于威尼斯人变得异常的艰难。1966年威尼斯经历了一场大洪水，之后现代化的思想也威胁着威尼斯----从把威尼斯和意大利本土连系起来的桥到扁平的教堂，大运河以及高速公路等等，这些都在改变这威尼斯

在非洲东岸3百哩外，有一座被时间遗忘的小岛。在这里，我们熟悉的生物进化成奇特的物种。与非洲本土分离100多万年间，此地的生物依循特有的步调进化。这里住有许多独一无二的生物，形成另一个不同的独立世界。在这个神奇天地里，茂密雨林让位给被烈日烤炙的平原，树根似乎都往天上窜升。这里有奇异的有刺植物，以及高耸的岩塔。这个遗世独立的世界，就是名为马达加斯加的人间伊甸园。

Science is who we are, where we come from and what happens next. But how science established itself as the way for us to understand existence and to take control of our destiny is an integral, and often overlooked part of our nation’s story. In a new three-part series for BBC Two, Professor Brian Cox introduces Britain’s science heroes, taking us to the places they made their discoveries, recreating their experiments and examining the legacy left to their scientific descendants. He will find that the British tradition of innovation and discovery owes everything to the early pioneers and how the business of discovery and innovation is a process of creative inspiration, collaboration and true grit – an endeavour in which Britain has consistently set the pace. Professor Cox begins this intimate portrait of British science with a face to face encounter with Isaac Newton’s death mask. Starting with Newton, Brian investigates the personality of scientists, showing how their greatest achievement is the scientific method – removing personal bias in interest from discovery. He meets one of the few remaining people who worked on the wartime British nuclear bomb programme, whilst discovering the way in which the acquisition of knowledge can sometimes be at odds with public morality. Finally Brian meets the current president of the Royal Society, Professor Sir Paul Nurse, who reveals a new approach to the business of discovery in what he believes will be the most successful British biomedical research initiative ever – the Crick Institute, currently under construction in London’s King’s Cross.

Note By Note is a feature-length independent documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037. It explores the relationship between musician and instrument, chronicles the manufacturing process, and investigates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production. From the factory floor in Queens to Steinway Hall in Manhattan, each piano's journey is complex, spanning 12 months, 12,000 parts, 450 craftsmen, and countless hours of fine-tuned labor.Filmed in key locations including Steinway's the factory and reserved Bank,and private auditions. Note By Note is the first documentary to portray the patience, craft, and personality built into each Steinway. Note by Note is a loving celebration of not just craftsmanship, but of a dying breed of craftsperson who is deeply connected to working by hand. Featuring interviews with and performances by such world-class artistis as Lang Lang, Hélène Grimaud, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick Jr., and jazz greats Hank Jones, Marcus Roberts, Kenny Barron, and Bill Charlap.

Simon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world and explores the surprising way in which it has shaped our history and identity