Entertainment
Our Dementia Choir
To try and help those faced with the condition, actor Vicky McClure returns to her hometown of Nottingham and recruits people with dementia to form a choir. She believes that music has a unique power to heal and soothe suffering. But she doesn’t just want these people to sing in private. She arranges a concert to show off the choir’s talents. But can the choir cope with the pressure?
Fantastic Friends
Actors and twin brothers James and Oliver Phelps, best known for playing Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, are traveling the globe. Along the way they meet spellbinding guests (including some old Harry Potter pals), explore enchanting cities and take on phenomenal challenges while managing all kinds of mischief along the way.
Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century
Icons profiles the people who helped create our modern world. It showcases the explorers and sportspeople who took human achievement to its limit, the artists who inspired the planet, and the leaders who shaped it. Famous faces celebrate and advocate for some of the greatest figures of the 20th century and then asks the audience to decide who is the greatest icon of them all.
Dance Fever
Dancers from all over the UK meet in the northern town of Blackpool with more than 600 competitors in the different classes and categories. It’s a heady atmosphere as Bailey and Summer, two ambitious competitors, are joined by their whole family on the sidelines cheering them on. After all the months of training, they finally get to battle it out on the ballroom floor.
Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution
Disco embodied the height of 1970s glamour. It was a dancefloor culture born in New York that took over the world. But its success also obscured its wider significance. Disco originally belonged to the marginalized and dispossessed: gay, black and Hispanic men and women. This fascinating music documentary untangles the complicated roots of Disco and reveals its influence and its legacy.