As usual, the schedule may be subject to change towards the end of the evening.
16:30 – Intro Music
16:33 – Musical Train Journey – A cab-ride entitled “4K Cab ride from Schaffhausen over the Rhine Falls to Zürich (Switzerland _ S24 Thayngen – Zürich)” set to music from A.R. Kane, Throwing Muses, and Andrew Poppy.
17:37 – Assorted Music Videos
18:00 – Rainbow – more adventures with Geoffrey, Bungle, Zippy & co. Seems to be an aeronautical theme this time.
18:15 – The Story of Maths: 2. The Genius of the East – Radio Times: “Marcus du Sautoy looks at the rise of mathematics in the east, discovering how it helped build imperial China and finding out about the invention of algebra. When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress stagnated as Europe entered the Dark Ages, but in the east mathematics reached new heights. Du Sautoy visits China and explores how maths helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering as the Great Wall. In India, he discovers how the symbol for the number zero was invented and Indian mathematicians’ understanding of the new concepts of infinity and negative numbers. In the Middle East, he looks at the invention of the new language of algebra and the spread of eastern knowledge to the west through mathematicians such as Leonardo Fibonacci, creator of the Fibonacci Sequence.” First broadcast Mon 13th Oct 2008, 21:00 on BBC4. NOTE: The first 3m18¼s of this documentary is from an upload that has a severe vignette effect applied to it, presumably in order to defeat YT copyright bots. DON’T PANIC! You don’t miss anything important, and the rest of it is fine, sourced from a different upload that did the same thing by chopping off the start.
19:12 – Scandalous Women – From a short series of documentaries examining Victorian life, this film “looks at the status of married women in Victorian England. They had no rights to property, earnings, children or even their own bodies – all belonged to the husband, to use as he pleased. Only one woman was exempt – Queen Victoria. Three women dared to break the rules: Caroline Norton, Harriet Mordaunt and Josephine Butler. Their rebellion struck at the heart of the establishment and resulted in a British Prime Minister being taken to court and the heir to the throne taking the witness stand in two of the most scandalous court cases of the 19th century.” (Radio Times) First broadcast 3rd Jan 2001 on BBC2.
20:01 – James Burke – Connections – S01E09 – “Countdown” – The penultimate episode of the legendary series exploring the history of technology in a non-conventional way. From the Radio Times listing: “James Burke takes a look at 2,000 years of human ingenuity. In the ninth of ten historical detective stories, he searches for the clues that link yesterday’s amazing inventions to our modern-day world. This week he asks: ‘What’s the connection between Little Jack Horner and Bonnie Prince Charlie, or between the repeating telegraph and The Sound of Music – and what would Tuesday nights be like without that connection?’” First broadcast Tue 12th December 1978, 7.20pm, BBC1.
20:50 – FILM: Dallas Doll (1994) – An Australian black comedy-drama film starring Sandra Bernhard, David Ngoombujarra, Roy Billing, Victoria Longley, Frank Gallacher, Jake Blundell, Rose Byrne and written and directed by Ann Turner. A feisty independent golf player wreaks havoc in a suburban Sydney home by attempting to seduce every member of the family.
22:35 – Extreme Constructions: 1. The Paris Metro – A 2017 French-made documentary, (mostly) in English, directed by Jean-François Méplon, produced by Eclectic Press, and distributed independently by Java Films. From the latter’s website: “More than a century old, Paris’ metro is the beating heart of the city. With its 220 km of rail, 302 stations and 13 lines, the metro transports more than five million people every day. Invented by Fulgence Bienvenüe, the Parisian Metro tested many construction methods: wooden tunnels, boring machines, shields, ground freezing systems, steel viaducts and submerged chambers in the Seine. Today, the Parisian metro exceeds the capitals boundaries and connects itself with the new 200km-wide network of Grand Paris Express.” I guess it’s about that stuff, then.
23:27 – A repeat of the Musical Train Journey for those who weren’t around earlier.
00:31 – Likewise, a repeat of the Assorted Music Videos.
00:54 – Closedown Music.
00:59 – Closedown.