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Art of America BBC 2011 written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.

Episode two of a three part series which looks at American social history through the medium of art.

This instalment examines the the first half of the 20th century from the Ashcan School to the Abstract Expressionists and looks at some of the most iconic paintings from this period by the likes of Bellows, Sheeler, Hopper, Wood, Pollock and Rothko:

Outlander S3 Ep 'the next one'

"You're hiding the body in a barrel of Crème de menthe? Won't somebody find it there?"

"Dinna worry, naebody in Scotland drinks Crème de menthe"

Fareed Zakaria - Global Public Square
After recent guests of the calibre of David Miliband, Jared Kushner and Tony Blair, this week he hit paydirt with Hillary Clinton.

Smallville Ep 19 “Precipice” Season 2.

Clive James - Postcard From Miami
He talks to Don Johnson, and later Gloria Estefan. But alas no roller-skating chicks in bikinis here.

Clive James - Postcard From Chicago
They showed a double bill this week for some reason. Less celebrities, and a different class of crime from Miami. But he didn't get to go para-sailing this time either.

Repeat of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

One with John Cooper Clarke judging the panel's poems where they all collapse in hysterics over Joe Wilkinson's ode about naming the penises of random strangers in a public toilet , with its repeated refrain: "...you're welcome, I just named your penis"

Einsatzgruppen - Nazi Death Squads
2009 directed by Michael Prazan for French TV shown on PBS America.



The Einsatzgruppen were four units which operated in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and other territories captured by the Germans in Operation Barbarossa from 1941-43 before the death camps came into operation. Their purpose was to kill mainly jews but also gypsies, partisans, asylum inmates etc. About 1.5 million people were killed mainly by shooting and the killings were mostly carried out not by the invaders but by their collaborators in the captured territories.

This is a three hour programme in four parts and consists of eyewiness and survivor accounts with new photographs and other material uncovered by the production team. The testimonies are put into context by expert historians who deliver their commentary in a matter of fact way which somehow just adds to the horror of what we are hearing and seeing.

This is extremely grim viewing and I really didn't want to watch it but you feel like you owe it to the victims to understand what happened to them.

McDonald & Dodds.

Quirky whodunnit in the mould of Death in Paradise.
I quite like these lightweight shows where the emphasis is just on solving the puzzle, rather than weaving some dark back-story for the main characters.
I hope they do some more

Star Trek: Picard S1 ep 8 “Broken Pieces”

The truth behind the attack on mars is revealed & Seven Of Nine returns