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Words and Music - Symphony of the City (BBC3)

Sunday 12th September, 10.45 pm - 11.45 pm, GMT

Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox will read poetry and prose from Swift, Dickens and Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and William Carlos Williams on the theme of a 'Symphony of a City'. This episode, which uses the music of Gershwin, Varese, Byrd, Steve Reich and Charles Ives, is drawn from the silent 'city symphony' documentaries of the 1920s, from Walter Ruttmann's 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City' to Dziga Vertov's 'The Man with a Movie Camera'.

"These were among the first documentaries to take the city as both character and subject, highlighting the inherent musicality of the heterogeneous mass of the modernist city. The rhythms of daily city life are evoked not just in the subject matter of this poetry and prose but in the very rhythms of their performance. And yet, we also see that the study of these daily movements of city life does not just belong to the modernists. The beauty, the energy, and the strange terror of city life, are evoked here by poets and authors across time".

 

Surgery School (ITV1)

Monday 6th September, 2010, 10.35 pm - 11.35 pm;
Monday 13th September, 2010, 10.35 pm - 11.35 pm
Monday 20th September, 2010, 10.35 pm - 11.35 pm

Produced by Tiger Aspect, directed by Trevor Docksey and narrated by Richard Armitage, "Surgery School" is a brand new series for ITV1 which follows the personal stories and real life medical dramas of 10 high flying trainee surgeons in the London School of Surgery. Every year only 100 or so students are chosen from the two thousand who apply to the London School of Surgery for training to become consultants.  Of those, only 3% of students will get the chance to become a world class consultant surgeon.

The programme begins with the students' first shift and ends with the final first year assessments and examinations which will determine who goes on to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.