Programmes 2011

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    1 X 90' on BBC FOUR

    Is it possible to make beautiful music out of garbage? Inspirational conductor Charles Hazlewood is going to find out. This 90-minute documentary follows him challenging a group of the UK's top instrument makers to transform junk, broken furniture and the contents of road-side skips, into instruments worthy of a place in a symphony orchestra.

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    1 X 60' on BBC THREE

    Two couples - Sam and Rachel from Wigan and Tony and Serena from Liverpool - have never met, but they do have one thing in common. They are both planning to tie the knot. But are they marrying the right person?

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    13 x 30' on CBBC

    Thirty two of the country's best bakers – aged 9 to 12 – take part in the first ever Junior Bake Off.
    Over three weeks, their cake making, biscuit baking, pastry and bread making skills are tested to the limit. 

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    4 X 60' & 1 X 30' on BBC THREE

    UP FOR HIRE LIVE is a unique interactive series for BBC Three, transmitting from 17 – 20 October, which aims to help young people who are out of work, or in temporary jobs, to start a new career.

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    11 x 60' on BBC TWO

    Over eight weeks twelve of the country’s best amateur bakers face increasingly difficult challenges as their cake-baking, pastry, bread-making and patisserie skills are tested to the limit. The series is presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins and the challenges are devised and judged by legendary cookery writer and baker Mary Berry and acclaimed Master Baker Paul Hollywood.

     

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    4 X 60' on BBC ONE

    We love it, we hate it, but we never stop talking about it. The Great British Weather is the top topic of conversation in the UK, and this show celebrates it.

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    1 x 60' on BBC ONE

    In this film, parents of children in a Leicester primary school are given a rare opportunity to see how their children really behave in class. The classroom of a year 4 class in Humberstone Junior School is rigged with fixed cameras and filmed over the course of one week.

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    1 x 60' on BBC1

    Hundreds of thousands of economic migrants risk their lives and cross continents to try to illegally enter Britain every year.

    In this ground breaking film two reporters set out to immerse themselves in the journeys that migrants take along the most popular and dangerous routes to the UK. 

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    3 x 60' on ITV1

    As a result of the recession, homelessness is expected to rise dramatically. So should more of us open our doors to help? This documentary series follows four celebrity households doing just that.

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    1 x 60' on BBC TWO

    The Great British Bake Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood explore the history of the British wedding cake and reunite the three finalists from last year’s Great British Bake Off in a one off wedding cake Bake Off...