New Wave: Dare To Be Different
Wednesday 3 April 9:35pm
U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash: Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY: WLIR.
In 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn’t compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew, and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America.
Take A Chance
Wednesday 10 April 9:30 pm
Take A Chance is an unimaginable documentary about a stalker, Gert Van Der Graaf and ABBA superstar Agnetha Fältskog.
Set against the backdrop of ABBA’s rise to fame, the story follows Gert’s discovery of ABBA at just 8 years old. That discovery rapidly turns into an obsession over Agnetha Fältskog. That passion motivates Gert to save money, learn Swedish, and eventually move to Sweden. After several chance encounters, the unimaginable happens and the two strike a relationship. For Agnetha their relationship would eventually come to an abrupt end. But for Gert, it was just beginning…
Follow the hair-raising, intertwining story about stalkers and stardom, reality… and the far-reaching lengths of the imagination. Dive deep into the minds of obsessed superfans, the explosive media and friends who rallied behind Agnetha, and Gert– a complex character whose intentions seem innocent, but whose actions tell a different story.
Mass Shooting USA
Friday 12 April 10:10 pm
Mass Shooting USA will bring the viewer inside their lives and the shootings that left them shattered, make real the scale of daily gun violence, and demonstrate how consistent gun violence makes America a uniquely dangerous country amongst the industrialized democracies of the world. And by connecting directly with a diversity of victims of gun violence, viewers will find themselves in these stories.
Faithless
From Monday 15 April 9:30 pm
After Sam and Tracy attend a tense meeting at their daughter’s school, Tracy is tragically killed by an ice-cream-van.
Egyptian-Irish Sam must raise his three daughters with some support from his Egyptian father and Irish mother-in-law, and his narcissistic half-brother. The girls struggle to cope with their loss: Layla turns to Islam, Nancy finds comfort with her family, whilst Lina struggles the most. Hard for Sam to help when she can’t stand him.
Somehow, they find light in darkness and humour in these sad times and Sam discovers the strength to step up and carry on.
Travel Man - Season 12
From Tuesday 23 April 8:30 pm
Travel Man is back for a quartet of minibreaks starting in Trieste, where Alan Davies accompanies Joe Lycett for 48 hours in northern Italy. They soak up the history of this former major seaport of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the moment they check in to their heritage hotel, housed in a former insurance company.