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Madonna
At Radio 1's Big Weekend
Tuesday 13 May
10.35-11.15pm BBC ONE |
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BBC One's Madonna special
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performances from the Queen
of Pop BBC One broadcasts Madonna's exclusive performance from BBC Radio 1's annual flagship event, Big Weekend. Radio 1's Jo Whiley interviews the Queen of Pop and presents Madonna's exclusive performance headlining Radio 1's Big Weekend main stage at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, on Saturday 10 May.
This Madonna special features exclusive performances of her No. 1 single, 4 Minutes, as well as songs from her new album, Hard Candy. The programme also features reactions from fans and artists at the event.
Digital TV viewers can press the Red button from any BBC channel to watch performances from Radio 1's Big Weekend, presented by Nihal. Coverage of all the artists performing on the Main Stage and on the In New Music We Trust stage will be available from 4pm-2am on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May. Highlights will be broadcast on the Red button service for a week after the event.
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BBC
FOCUS ON CHINA
Wild China – Heart Of The Dragon Ep 1/6
Sunday 11 May
8.05-9.05pm BBC TWO
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Fishing cormorants are among
the wonderful wildlife of China After years of Communism and distrust of Western media, China remains one of the last hidden parts of the world. Now, for the first time, BBC Two's unique new series, Wild China – a full co-production with CTV (China Central Television) in Beijing – has gained access to all of China.
The series explores in depth this enigmatic place and reveals a land of fabulous landscapes, architectural treasures, rare and surprising wildlife, and diverse people. Pioneering images – shot in
high-definition – capture the dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful landscapes.
Over six episodes, the series travels the length and breadth of China to reveal the full extent of its many wonders, illustrating how unique wildlife interacts with one of the fastest-growing populations on Earth.
In episode one, the series investigates the humid sub-tropical climate of southern China. This is quintessential rural China – a landscape where peasants follow wooden ploughs pulled by their water buffaloes. In the rivers, men fish with their tame cormorants. It's an unusual tradition that has been practised in the area for centuries.
In China, every aspect of rural life is closely bound up with nature. Among the Miao minority, the arrival of swallows in the spring marks the start of the rice-planting season, while in many areas, the paddies double as fish ponds where carp are reared for food.
Almost half of southern China is occupied by limestone hills. They have a peculiar property – the rock is dissolved by rainwater, creating the spectacular egg-carton landform known as karst. Beneath the karst lie vast caverns traversed by mysterious subterranean rivers, which are home to blind cave fish, and shelter huge numbers of nesting swifts, as well as bats.
The programme also travels to recently established nature reserves in the area to investigate creatures such as the dwarf Chinese alligator, and the athletic François leaf monkey.
Wild China is part of a pan-BBC collection of programmes on TV, radio, and online, examining China in its Olympics year. In May, the BBC launches its Focus On China website pulling together all the BBC's formidable expertise, knowledge and archive on China.
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This observational documentary looks at life in a pupil referral unit for school-age girls who are either pregnant or have recently become a mum.
With a crèche where the girls can leave their babies, it is not a typical high school. It is one of a small number of specialist pupil referral units around the UK for schoolgirls who choose not to terminate their pregnancies or for whom termination isn't an option.
Teachers, specialist midwives and health workers help the students prepare for their labour and motherhood while they also study for SATs and GCSEs. Lessons range from English, maths and cookery to safe sex, birth plans, bottle feeding and baby baths.
This insightful and touching documentary shows the work of the dedicated headmistress and staff and intertwines the girls' personal stories with their daily life at school, following some of the pupils as they struggle balancing being a teen mum with continuing their education.
This film is part of the Bare Facts initiative from BBC Learning. It aims to provide information, support and advice to parents on how to communicate with their children about love, sex and relationships. The website at bbc.co.uk/barefacts features information and video advice from expert Maria Schopman, who answers the main questions parents have about talking to their children about these subjects. Two other films, Abortion – The Choice and Virgin Memories, also shed light on the difficult decisions people take around sex.
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Whether or not to have an abortion might be the biggest decision a woman will ever make, and it's one they will live with for the rest of their lives. In the UK, more than 200,000 women every year choose to go ahead with the procedure but, 40 years after it was legalised in this country, it is a subject that continues to divide people.
For some, it's a liberator, an essential human right; for others, an act of murder. Emotional, upsetting and divisive, it remains one of the most hotly debated issues of our time, but the voices of those who actually go through the procedure often get lost in the debate. This sensitively filmed documentary gives a voice to some of those women.
Through their powerful and honest testimony, the documentary explores five women's experiences of having a termination in contemporary Britain. As they tell their poignant stories, what is clear is that there is nothing black and white about this subject.
This film is part of the Bare Facts initiative from BBC Learning. It aims to provide information, support and advice to parents on how to communicate with their children about love, sex and relationships. The website at bbc.co.uk/barefacts features information and video advice from expert Maria Schopman, who answers the main questions parents have about talking to their children about these subjects. Two other films, Teen Mum High and Virgin Memories, also shed light on the difficult decisions people take around sex.
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