著名演员和唱诗班指挥Simon Russel带领观众们走进繁荣的西方圣乐。(文：life_is_good@YDY)
Renowned actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explored the flowering of Western sacred music in this four part documentary series for BBC FOUR.

A TV screening of a production of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by the Royal Ballet, staged at the Royal Opera House in London. It's the first full-length score commissioned for the Royal Ballet in 20 years.

来自英国的裁剪师伦纳德（马克·里朗斯 饰）在芝加哥开着一家小小的手工定制西服店。一天晚上，黑帮老大的儿子里奇和杀手弗朗西斯忽然闯进门来，里奇挨了一枪，而弗朗西斯则更关注那个装着内鬼录音带的箱子……

作为莎士比亚戏剧双峰之一的《李尔王》，讲述了一个古代版的分家故事，年老昏聩的李尔王受到了虚伪而谄媚的大女儿和二女儿的哄骗，决定把自己的王土全部分给她们，而对于耿直的小女儿考狄利亚则一无所予。没想到分家之后，李尔王在大女儿和二女儿家先后遭到了冷遇与凌辱，甚至在暴风雨中流落于荒郊野外。李尔疯了，却比从前更加明白孰是孰非。成为法兰西皇后的考狄利亚赶来解救父亲，恶人都遭到了恶报，但考狄利亚也被杀死，李尔王伤心地死在了她身旁。

Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare' they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature.
Unique among ancient poets, Ovid left us an autobiography, full of riveting intimacy, as well as ironical and slippery self-justification. Using Ovid's own words, brought to life by one of Britain's leading actors, Simon Russell Beale, the film tells the story of the poet's fame, and his fateful falling out with the most powerful man in the world, the Roman emperor Augustus.
Born in Sulmona in central Italy, Ovid moved to Rome to study law but, seduced by 'the muse of poetry', he soon abandoned that career path. Part of Rome's post-war, young generation, Ovid rose to spectacular fame with his poems about sex - Love Affairs (Amores) and The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) - an amoral guide to seduction and adultery. Today some of his poems are seen as problematic and even carry a health warning when studied in US universities. But he is difficult to pigeonhole as he also took the female side in a powerful series of fictional letters by women heroes.
By his twenties he was a literary superstar and a thorn in the emperor's side, his poetry of sex and seduction falling foul of the emperor's new puritanism, which had even outlawed adultery. In the midst of a sensational sex scandal involving his daughter, the Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the farthest edge of the empire - the wilds of the Black Sea coast and the marshes of the Danube delta. It's a tale full of sex, drama and scandal, but his banishment is still a mystery- as he put it, 'my downfall was all because of a poem - and a mistake- and on the latter my lips are sealed forever'.
Exile in Romania was unbelievably harsh and dangerous, but worse for Ovid was a sense of separation and loss. His poetry from the Black Sea has inspired the European literature of exile for millennia, from Dante and Petrarch to Mandelstam and Seamus Heaney. The poems, the mystery, and Ovid's immense legacy in world literature and art, are discussed with leading experts, who trace his influence on, among others, Titian, Turner and even Bob Dylan, whose Modern Times album quarries Ovid's exile poetry. His greatest and most influential work Metamorphoses, a compendium of the great tales of Greek myth, became one of the core texts of Western culture. Artistic director of the RSC, Greg Doran looks at Ovid's influence on Shakespeare and the myths in the Metamorphoses that pervade our art, music, and literature. Professor Alessandro Schiesaro discusses Ovid and the postmodern imagination; Professor Roy Gibson untangles his relations with Augustus; while Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, author of a new study on Roman sexual politics, looks at Ovid's ambition, psychology and influence. Lisa Dwan -the leading interpreter of the drama of Samuel Beckett, another exile and Ovid fan, explores the poet's use of the female voice and his poetry of exile, which has influenced western writers and artists for the last two millennia.
Following in Ovid's footsteps, Michael Wood travels from the poet's birthplace in the beautiful town of Sulmona, to the bright lights of the capital, Rome. Here we visit the Houses of Augustus and Livia, recently opened after 25 years of excavation and conservation. Inside the emperor's private rooms glow with the colour of their newly restored frescoes. Wood then follows Ovid into exile in Constanta in today's Romania, and on to the Danube delta, where dramatic footage shows the Danube and the Black Sea frozen over in winter just as Ovid described in his letters.
Throughout the film Ovid's own words reveal an engaging personality: a voice of startling modernity. 'He is funny, irreverent, focused on pleasure and obsessed with sex' says Prof Roy Gibson. But, says Greg Doran, he is also a poet of cruelty and violence, which especially fascinated Shakespeare. Ovid raises very modern questions about the fluidity of identity and gender, and the mutability of nature. He also explores the relationship between writers and power and the experience of exile, themes especially relevant in our time when, as Lisa Dwan observes, exile has become part of the human condition. But above all, says Michael Wood, Ovid is the Poet of Love, and 2,000 years after his death he is back in focus as one of the world's greatest poets: ironical, profound, and relevant.

“三小时的苦难、绝望、英雄事蹟与溷乱”…星期日时报英国在１９４０年５月极度濒临输掉二次大战，当在法国的英军被击败到海岸地带，英国的命\悬而未决达十天之久…英国远征军企图拯救被围困在敦克尔克的四十万大军，俨然是史上最重大的海路撤退行动之一。当希特勒的军队出乎意料地从比利时 突围，英国远征军随即发现退路被切断且被居优势的德军包围。如果希特勒趁胜追击，或是如果英国当时的新首相邱吉尔，听从哈里法克斯爵士以及那些想要居中调停的人，战争将会立刻结束。反之，在这场军事史上最辉煌的救援行动中，英国在十天之内成功撤出３３万８千人。节目对于代号”发电机行动”阐述独特的观点，以及透视整起行动的经过。真人实事配上档桉影片、地图与评述，以被围官兵、奉命前往援救的人以及未被救出的人的角度，忠实重现震撼人心的故事。

1、与海伦·亨特聊《无事生非》“Much Ado About Nothing” with Helen Hunt
2、与F·莫里·亚伯拉罕聊《威尼斯商人》“The Merchant of Venice” with F. Murray Abraham
3、与蕾梦娜·葛瑞聊《一报还一报》“Measure for Measure” with Romola Garai
4、与布莱恩·考克斯聊《凯撒大帝》“Julius Caesar” with Brian Cox
5、与西蒙·罗素·比尔聊《冬天的故事》“The Winter’s Tale” with Simon Russell Beale
6、与安东尼·舍尔爵士聊《理查三世》“Richard III” with Sir Antony Sher

BBC Four partners with the Royal Shakespeare Company to introduce highlights from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. Shakespeare's best lines reference these shape-shifting characters, but do today's audiences know why Niobe was "all tears", or of Phaethon and his "unruly jades"?
Featuring spellbinding contributions from Britain's leading actors including Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale, this film delivers a series of dramatic monologues, interspersed with behind the scenes discussions chaired by RSC artistic director Gregory Doran on the significance of the original texts and their continuing influence on art and literature. By letting Ovid's original tales speak for themselves, we see exactly why the Roman poet is still regarded as one of the world's greatest storytellers, 2,000 years after his death.

The first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, marking his 80th birthday.Marking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert includes excerpts from hit shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods performed by a starry cast of leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds with Bryn Terfel, Maria Friedman, Simon Russell Beale and some special guests. Also on stage is the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abel. Introduced by Katie Derham.

在看过大卫·田纳特版的《理查二世》和本·卫肖出演的BBC剧集《空王冠》版本之后，你还能否想象另一番模样的《理查二世》？
以NT Live版《李尔王》为中国观众所熟知的两度奥利弗奖得主西蒙·拉塞尔·比尔，此次在以犀利的当代改编而闻名的阿尔梅达剧院挑战这部莎翁经典，演绎理查二世在权力倾轧下扭曲的心理。导演乔·希尔-吉宾斯对这部剧进行了大刀阔斧的改编，甚至删去了原作中的不少段落，集中于危险的权力运作及其心理学研究：王宫大臣们如同秃鹰一样围着理查二世的王冠，而理查时而刚愎自用，时而手足无措。舞美设计所采用的半封闭式极简舞台，如冰冷的金属盒子，将历史上硝烟四起的内战化为政治惊悚片一样的殊死搏斗。

Based on the novel "The Young Visiters (or Mr Salteena's Plan)", published in Britain in 1919 and written by Daisy Ashford who was only 8 years old at the time.

Alfred Salteena is a slightly bumbling gentleman who meets a young lady on a train and invites her to his home in London. She comes to see society and meet young men and bothers him to go out and meet important people. They travel to see Lord Bernard where Alfred realises that he is not "high society" enough to win the beautiful social climber Ethel. Bernard offers to send him to a training school to help gentlemen "improve themselves", while he "entertains" Ethel at his home.

《英国国家剧院50周年庆典》于11月2日在bbc2播出，各路戏骨轮番演绎英国国家剧院经典舞台剧，演出嘉宾包括朱迪丹奇，迈克尔甘本，海伦米勒，Maggie Smith，Christopher Eccleston【神秘博士9叔】，拉尔夫费因斯，卷福，Andrew Scott等。

改编自著名历史真实事件：以色列摩萨德组织追捕纳粹德国高官、被称为“死刑执行者”的阿道夫·艾希曼的故事。
金斯利饰演艾希曼；阿尔文饰他最年长的儿子克劳斯，在追捕行动期间为了隐藏父亲的身份而谎称是他叔叔；伊萨克饰摩萨德小队领导Peter Malkin，与罗兰饰演的小队唯一女性、麻醉学者Hanna有感情戏；理查森饰克劳斯的女友Sylvia Herman，她起初不顾家人警告和反对疯狂爱上了克劳斯，最终转投摩萨德；阿隆诺夫饰摩萨德特工Zvi Aharoni，傲慢不羁，经常和Peter Malkin发生争执；拉兹饰摩萨德局长Isser Harel。

基于Lauren Redniss所著小说《Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout》，聚焦玛丽·居里和皮埃尔·居里夫妻对科学的探索和两人之间的关系。

《博物馆》讲述的故事发生在1985年，一群罪犯为了嘲笑墨西哥人类学博物馆的安全指数，而去盗窃博物馆中的140多件前西班牙的文物。尽管电影取材于1985年发生的真实事件，电影与原始事件本身一样让人吃惊，它以精细的手法接近真相，又在每一个转折处进行重塑，并借鉴了多种电影类型 。

一战时期诗人西格夫里·萨松曾因在西线作战时的英勇表现而被授予勋章，他最令人难忘的作品是关于一战的诗歌，这些诗歌为他赢得了公众和评论界的赞誉。而当他独自提出反战抗议时，他成为了军队中持不同政见的焦点。

1943年，盟军决定打破希特勒对欧洲的统治。情报官员埃文(科林·费尔斯 饰)和查尔斯(马修·麦克菲迪恩 饰)想出了一个妙不可言的假情报策略：用一具携带虚假机密的尸体误导德军，将其注意力引向希腊。希特勒中计后，盟军成功登陆西西里岛，歼灭近20万德军，为欧洲战场的胜利奠定了坚实的基础。

Six classic British books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors' original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers bring their personal insights to these great works.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.