The Weald and Downland Living Museum is an open-air museum in Singleton,West Sussex. The museum is a registered charity.
The Two Ronnies Sketchbook is a collection of sketches from the BBC comedy series The Two Ronnies,with newly filmed introductions by the stars,Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was first broadcast 34 years after the first episode of The Two Ronnies was aired and 18 years after the final episode aired.
Tales from the Green Valley is a British historical documentary TV series in 12 parts,first shown on BBC Two from 19 August to 4 November 2005. The series,the first in the historic farm series,made for the BBC by independent production company Lion TV,follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate farm life from the age of the Stuarts;they wear the clothes,eat the food and use the tools,skills and technology of the 1620s.
Victorian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in six parts,first shown on BBC Two in January 2009,and followed by three Christmas-themed parts in December of the same year. The series,the second in the BBC historic farm series,recreates everyday life on a farm in Shropshire in the 1880s,using authentic replica equipment and clothing,original recipes and reconstructed building techniques. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at a preserved Victorian era living museum farm,Acton Scott Historic Working Farm,Shropshire. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman,and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn.
David Upshal is a British television producer. His work includes Victorian Farm,Victorian Pharmacy,Edwardian Farm,Wartime Farm,Tales from the Green Valley,Tudor Monastery Farm,The True Face of War,Days That Shook The World,Outbreak Investigation,Tony Benn:Free at Last,Gordon Brown's Missing Billions,Summer of Noise,The Gospel of Gospel,Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve,On Tour with the Queen,Lulu:Something to Shout About,Secrets of the Castle,The Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship and the historical skills game show Escape in Time,for which he is also credited as format devisor.
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow is a British stand-up comedy television series hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre from different venues around the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first series was broadcast with six episodes in 2009. Each episode features a routine from McIntyre,followed by three other comedians before the headline act. A second six-episode series in the same format followed in 2010.
Ruth Goodman is a British freelance historian of the early modern period,specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions.
Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-produced Irish television sitcom created by and starring Brendan O'Carroll and produced in the United Kingdom by BBC and BBC Studios in partnership with BOC-PIX and Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted,first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012. The series,the fourth in the historic farm series,following the original,Tales from the Green Valley,was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television in association with the Open University,and was filmed at Manor Farm Country Park,now Manor Farm and River Hamble Country Park respectively,close to Southampton. The farming team consisted of historian Ruth Goodman,and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The Wartime Farm commissioning executives for the BBC are Emma Willis and James Hayes,and the Executive Producer for Lion Television is David Upshal.
The White Queen is a British historical drama television drama serial based on Philippa Gregory's historical novel series The Cousins' War. The first episode premiered on BBC One on 16 June 2013 in the UK.
Family Tree is a documentary-style television comedy created by Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock. The series premiered on 12 May 2013,on the American pay television network HBO,and appeared on the British channel BBC Two in July 2013. Guest,Piddock,Karen Murphy,Deborah Oppenheimer,and Mario Stylianides serve as the show's executive producers.
Legacy is a British thriller television film that broadcast on BBC Two on 28 November 2013. It is an adaptation of Alan Judd's 2001 spy novel of the same name.
Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series,set and filmed in the Calder Valley,West Yorkshire. Starring Sarah Lancashire,James Norton and Siobhan Finneran,it was written and created by Sally Wainwright and directed by Wainwright,Euros Lyn and Tim Fywell. The first series began on BBC One on 29 April 2014,the second on 9 February 2016,and the third and final series on 1 January 2023. It won the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series,and won another BAFTA for Best Drama for the second series.
"Episode 1" is the first episode of British miniseries The Casual Vacancy based on the novel of the same title by J. K. Rowling.
Secrets of the Castle,or Secrets of the Castle with Ruth,Peter and Tom is a British factual television series that first broadcast on BBC Two from 18 November to 17 December 2014. The series stars archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold,and historian Ruth Goodman. In the series,the team takes part in the medieval construction project at Guédelon Castle in Treigny,France. During their stay there,they reveal what kind of skills and crafts were needed to build a castle in the 13th century,by using the techniques,tools and materials of the era.
Planet Earth II is a 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to Planet Earth,which was broadcast in 2006. The series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer.
The Witness for the Prosecution is a 2016 British mystery drama thriller television serial broadcast on BBC One over Christmas 2016. The two-part programme was adapted by Sarah Phelps and directed by Julian Jarrold and is based on Agatha Christie's short story of the same name. The expanded plot is based on Christie's original short story with the original ending,which is different than that of previous stage,film and television versions,including Billy Wilder's 1957 film version.
BBC Two's historical farm series are five documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two from 2005 to 2013. They illustrate the lives of people:farmers,labourers,fishermen,housewives,etc. in a variety of historical contexts. Historians and archaeologists play the parts of ordinary people and live and work immersed in the time specified. The team perform the everyday crafts such as hunting,gathering,sowing and reaping as well as experimenting with more specialised work like blacksmithing,woodcutting and mining under the eyes of an experienced tutor. Each series has taken place at a public living history site that provides external in-period experts,experience,and flavour. The Wartime Farm series includes conversations with men and women who remember the time. All were produced by David Upshal for Lion Television.
The Repair Shop is a British daytime and primetime television show made by production company Ricochet that aired on BBC Two for series 1 to 3 and on BBC One for series 4 onwards,in which family heirlooms are restored for their owners by numerous experts with a broad range of specialisms. Furniture restorer Jay Blades acts as the foreman.
Torvill &Dean is a British television biopic written by William Ivory,directed by Gillies MacKinnon,and broadcast on ITV on Christmas Day 2018. It is about the early life and careers of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean,the Nottinghamshire ice dancers who went on to record a perfect score and win the Olympic gold medal in Sarajevo at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
