BBC Four - Storyville Newsletter

Bulletproof Salesman (Fidelis Cloer in Kabul, Afghanistan)

Coming in the next weeks
Our season of enthralling and entertaining Storyville films continues on BBC Four on Mondays at 10pm, as well as on BBC iPlayer. Below, we also highlight key repeats and future films to look forward to on BBC Four and BBC Two.

STORYVILLE ON BBC FOUR
	MARADONA - IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS Mon 23 Feb 10pm-11.30pm Five young British freestyle footballers, aged 17 to 22 and from diverse backgrounds, hope to fulfil a lifelong dream. They travel from London to Argentina with the aim of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona. More Storyville tonight: Barça - The Inside Story at 11.30pm And still more: Gods of Brazil follows at 1am
	BULLETPROOF SALESMAN Mon 2 Mar 10pm-11pm Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, he has supplied kings, presidents and the odd dictator or two with the finest luxury armoured vehicles that money can buy.
	THE CHILDREN'S WARD Mon 9 Mar 10pm-11pm (TBC) Not all casualties of war are combatants. This film looks at two children who are victims of conflict, both directly (playing with a landmine) and indirectly (waiting for surgery in a devastated medical system), in Afghanistan and Sudan. More Storyville this week: Robert Capa - In Love and War (Sat 7 Mar)
	CAMPAIGN! - THE KAWASAKI CANDIDATE Coming mid March (TBC) Originally shown as part of Why Democracy? this film is being repeated as part of BBC Four's Japan season. It follows a candidate on the campaign trail, with six weeks to make an impact as he runs for a seat on the Japanese council.
	JAZZ BARONESS Coming mid April (TBC) Pannonica Rothschild was born with everything, got married and had five children. But one track on one jazz record by a man she'd never met inspired her to leave it all and start a new life on the other side of the world.
FILMS ON BBC TWO
	SOLITARY ENDEAVOUR ON THE SOUTHERN OCEAN Sun 22 Feb 9pm-10pm The extraordinary journey of a man who refused to be ordinary: this moving story charts the fatal attempt of Andrew McAuley to cross from Australia to New Zealand in a kayak. Read about Andrew's voyages on the late adventurer's website
STORYVILLE ON BBC iPLAYER
	GHOSTS OF THE 7TH CAVALRY Online now Award-winning director Tom Roberts explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the personal journey of Robert 'Snuffy' Gray, a retired US major. Watch all Storyville films currently available on BBC iPlayer

STORYVILLE NEWS

Man on Wire continues to do well on the awards circuit. It won Best British Film at the 2009 Bafta Film Awards and is up for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature this Sunday.

The Time of Their Lives, directed by Jocelyn Cammack and produced by Hilary Durman for Storyville, will be having its North American premiere at the prestigious SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas (13-22 March 2009). The film will be broadcast as part of BBC Four's season about old age later this year.

Transmission times for Storyvilles to be broadcast in the next seven days are available on the Programmes pages of the BBC Four website. Here, you'll also find details of all Storyville films broadcast in the past year or so. In addition, you can keep an eye out for news of upcoming films in the weekly BBC Four newsletter and on the Storyville homepage.

Most Storyvilles will be available to watch or download on BBC iPlayer for one week after broadcast; some films (such as repeats of older Storyvilles) may be unavailable due to rights issues. You can see a list of all available BBC Four programmes or search for Storyvilles specifically on iPlayer.

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