What's on the TV today?

Just spotted that The Story of GI Joe - based on the writings of the legendary war correspondent Ernie Pyle and covering the US campaign in N Africa and Italy - is on BBC2 at 11.40am today:

Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - IMDb

 

Featuring the Dunkirk Little boats and interviews with Dunkirk veterans


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Tonight's episode of QI XL should have a brief segment on WWII propaganda or so I'm led to believe. (BBC2, 9:20 p.m.)

 

Turned out to be quite amusing and longer than I was expecting. See here, one minute in:
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Most of the information and images of malingering booklets and leaflets were supplied by me.

I've only just noticed this has been on YouTube for the last five months. The UK broadcast was supposed to have taken place last December but was rescheduled til today due to the Clarkson public sector strike controversy.

Tonight's episode of QI XL should have a brief segment on WWII propaganda or so I'm led to believe. (BBC2, 9:20 p.m.)

 

Just started on BBC4, Wellington bomber........ traces six of the workers that built the bomber.

 

Just a quick heads-up

Who Betrayed The Bomber Boys?
Yesterday Channel Thursday 28th June 9pm
Sky 537, Freeview 12, Virgin 203

Lesley

 

C4 now Colditz glider!

 

BBC FOUR Tonight Wednesday 22 August 9pm

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
Military Marvels


Episode 1 of 2

Duration: 1 hour
In the heady post-war years of the 1950s and 60s, British flying was at its zenith and its aircraft industry flourished in a dazzling display of ingenuity and design brilliance. Having invented the jet engine, Britain was now set to lead the world into the jet age with a new generation of fighters and bombers. The daring test pilots who flew them were as well-known as the football stars of today, while their futuristic-looking aircraft, including the Meteor, Canberra, Valiant, Vulcan and the English Electric Lightning, were the military marvels of the age.

 

BBC 1- Starts tonight 9pm

Andrew Marr's History Of The World

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In the opening episode of a major new eight-part series, Andrew Marr sets off on an epic journey through the explosive events, changes, conflicts and triumphs that shaped 70,000 years of human history. From our earliest beginnings in Africa, Marr traces the story of our nomadic ancestors as they spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers and townspeople.
He uncovers extraordinary handprints left in European caves nearly 30,000 years ago and shows how human ingenuity led to brilliant inventions that are still with us today. Marr discovers how the first civilisations were driven to extremes to try to overcome the forces of nature. And he reveals how day-to-day life in ancient Egypt had more in common with today’s soap operas than might be imagined. It’s all part of an incredible human story about adapting and surviving – against the odds.
From our origins in Africa, global colonization and battles with nature to the first farmers and the emergence of religion and philosophy; from the rise of empires, brutal wars, revolutions in blood and iron to astonishing discoveries and the wonders of the digital age, Marr charts the major turning points, decisive moments and pivotal questions – questions with which we’re still grappling now.
“We can’t hope to know all of the human story, but it does help to have the big picture because it’s really the story of who we are now,” says Marr. “We've been brilliantly clever at reshaping the world around us – almost as clever as we think we are – though not perhaps as wise. There will be challenges, triumphs and surprises – all the essentials of the story, except, of course, how it ends…”

 

Sorry it's late! All this week-

Remembrance Week
Every morning 9.15am BBC1

 

Sorry it's late! All this week-

Remembrance Week
Every morning 9.15am BBC1

I'm off work this morning and just caught today's program, very interesting and moving. Not too late for me 4jonboy.

 

Sorry it's late! All this week-

Remembrance Week
Every morning 9.15am BBC1

If you are able to access BBC iplayer, you can watch it on there if you've missed it.

 

BBC TWO
New Series Starts Tonight 9pm


Episode 1 of 3

Duration: 1 hour
Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader - fuelled by anger, incapable of forming normal human relationships and unwilling to debate political issues. Such was the depth of his hatred that he would become a war criminal arguably without precedent in history.
Yet this strange character was once loved by millions. How was this possible, and what role did Hitler's alleged 'charisma' play in his success?
With the help of testimony from those who lived through those times, film archive - including colour home movies - and specially shot documentary footage, this film reveals how Hitler managed to turn from a nobody in 1913 - someone thought 'peculiar' - into the chancellor and fuehrer of the German people.
This is the first episode in a three-part series written and produced by Laurence Rees, who won a BAFTA for his previous series Nazis: A Warning from History and a Grierson Award for his Auschwitz: the Nazis and the 'Final Solution'.

 

Laurence Rees has in the past produced some quality documentaries on the Nazi era and this three programme series should maintain that quality.

Should provide the answer why the German population would have never succumbed to a policy of aerial bombing, contrary to the view outlined by Lieut.Col W F Moore USAF in his research paper,Overlord:The Unnecessary Invasion

 

Rome's Lost Empire
BBC1 Tonight 20.40pm

Rome's Lost Empire


Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Dan Snow attempts to use the latest satellite technology to reveal the secrets of the Roman Empire. Together with space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, Dan sets out to identify and then track down lost cities, amphitheatres and forts in an adventure that sees him travel through some of the most spectacular parts of the vast empire. Cutting-edge technology and traditional archaeology help build a better understanding of how Rome held such a large empire together for so long.

 

Lord Ashcroft and the Cockleshell Heroes at 7pm BBC2, then on C4 at 8pm How the Bismark sunk the Hood.

 

BBC2 tonight 21:00 hrs, Sunday 6th Jan

Tankies: Tank heroes of WW2

6 members of 5th RTR in France

Ron

 

Sirs! I must strongly object that the Malta doc. of yesterday was not posted here. Luckily - as a true male - I zap through channels a lot so I bumped into it. Luckily there is a dec. 13 repeat so I can record it.

 

BBC2 Tonight 9pm
Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways

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Episode 1


Episode 1 of 3

Duration: 1 hour
From their beginnings as a primitive system of track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways quickly developed into the driving force behind the industrial revolution and the pivotal technology for modern Britain, and a connected world.
Rapid industrial growth during the early 19th century, coupled with the prospect of vast profits, drove inventors and entrepreneurs to develop steam locomotives, metal tracks and an array of daring tunnels, cuttings and bridges that created a nationwide system of railways in just 30 years.
George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway became the model for future inter-city travel for the next century and his fast, reliable locomotive, The Rocket, began a quest for speed that has defined our modern world.

Lesley