Saturday
16:55 1989: Day by day, radio, BBC2
18:45 Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour of Europe, (See Kevin’s review of the series, here), tv, Ch4
19:00 The Lyric feature: fifty years of music in Dublin (on the history of the National Concert Hall), RTE Lyric fm
19:30 More than museums: the Natural History Museum, radio, RTE1
20:30 Blitz: the bombing of Coventry, tv, BBC2
21:30 All the King’s Men (remake of 1949 film on US politics), RTE2, tv
Sunday
13:30 A short history of Ireland Omnibus, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
16:55 1989: day by day, radio, BBC4
17:00 1989: How the wall fell, radio, BBC4
19:00 The human zoo: science’s dirty secret (on exhibitions of people in the 19th and 20th C), tv, Ch4
19:00 Talking history, radio, Newstalk 106
21:00 Garrow’s law: tales from the Old Bailey (new historical legal drama), tv, BBC1
23:00 1989: day by day omnibus, radio, BBC Radio 4
Monday
14:20 Lost voices of World War I, tv, Ch4
15:45 A history of private life (see Lean’s review here), radio, BBC4
16:55 1989: day by day
21:00 The great escape: the reckoning (documentary on escape of 76 airmen from German POW camp, 1944)
Tuesday
15:45 A history of private life, radio, BBC4
16:55 1989: day by day, radio, BBC4
18:55 A short history of Ireland, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
20:15 Beyond the Berlin Wall, tv, RTE1
Wednesday
15:45 A history of private life, radio, BBC4
16:55 1989: day by day, radio, BBC4
18:55 A short history of Ireland, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
21:00 Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain, tv, BBC2
Thursday
5:45 A history of private life, radio, BBC4
16:55 1989: day by day, radio, BBC4
18:55 A short history of Ireland, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
19:30 A short history of Ireland omnibus, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
21:30 Cowboys (Fiachna O Broanain visits the Ok Corral), tv, TG4
Friday
5:45 A history of private life, radio, BBC4
16:55 1989: day by day, radio, BBC4
18:55 A short history of Ireland, radio, BBC Radio Ulster
20:30 The way we worked, tv, RTE1
20:30 Cowboys (documentary on Butch Cassidy, followed by the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), tv, TG4
Pue's Occurrences 
2 November 2009 at 19:50 |
Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner Taylor Branch on his new book, ‘The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President’, Pat Kenny Show, Tuesday 3 November
3 November 2009 at 09:54 |
Derek Scally began the first of his four part series on the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday in the Irish Times to be followed up every Saturday for the next three weeks. Not quiet Tv but owrth a look nonetheless.
Lisa