Week 47 Highlights

4 November 2011

Forty-seven is the fifteenth prime number, a safe prime, the thirteenth supersingular prime, and the sixth Lucas prime. Forty-seven is a highly cototient number. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n - 1.

Forty-seven 47 is also the quintessential random number. Many have noticed. Many have wondered, why? Many more have wondered, so what? The 47 society is dedicated to exploring the phenomenon that is 47.

 

WEEK 47

 

Sunday, 20/11/2011

08:25 T4: BATTLEFRONT 1/3

The series that encourages young people to engage with the serious issues that matter to them returns for a new three-part run. Battlefront campaigner Shereece Marcantonio is trying to get better sex education onto the national curriculum. She wants Jamal Edwards - the founder of SBTV, the UK's biggest online music channel, and one of Britain's youngest entrepreneurs - to officially endorse her campaign. But Jamal's a hard man to pin down: he was once four hours late for a meeting with Richard Branson.

 

 

Monday, 21/11/2011

21:00 BRITAIN'S GREATEST CODEBREAKER

This drama documentary records the brilliance - and the destruction - of one of the 20th century's greatest minds. Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German Naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. He was also the visionary scientist who gave birth to the computer age, pioneered artificial intelligence, and was the first to investigate the mathematical underpinnings of the living world. Turing's achievements went unrecognised during his lifetime. Instead he ended up being treated as a common criminal, for being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were a crime. In 1952, he was convicted of 'gross indecency' with another man and was forced to undergo so-called 'organo-therapy' or chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41.

22:35 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DAD

The Johnson family appeared to have it all after two decades of happy marriage: professional success, a beautiful house in Kent, flaxen-haired children... But one day Nick told his wife he had a surprise for, led her blind-folded into the garden, and committed an act of violence far worse than anything they could have imagined. We Need to Talk about Dad meets the Johnsons as they reunite for Christmas, as son Henry confronts what happened.

 

 

Tuesday, 22/11/2011

21:00 JAMIE'S GREAT BRITAIN 5/6

Jamie visits the West Country, where he tastes some traditional Jamaican cooking with chef Neufville at his restaurant in Bristol's St Pauls. He also joins Jules Davis from a local radio station to try her mum's Guyanese specialities. Jamie forages for wild mushrooms with local chef Toby Gritten, cooks up a centuries-old recipe of bath chaps (pigs' cheeks), and tries some local scrumpy with the Wilkins family at their apple farm in Somerset.

 

 

Wednesday, 23/11/2011

22:00 CHRIS MOYLES' QUIZ NIGHT 1/8

Quiz master Chris Moyles returns to host a brand new, fifth series of Quiz Night, with new rounds and challenges, including a giant, specially built keyboard game. Jeremy Clarkson, Katherine Jenkins and Jason Manford battle it out in this first episode, and there are appearances from Britney Spears and Robbie Williams.

 

 

Thursday, 24/11/2011

21:00 - LIVING WITH THE AMISH 1/4

Living with the Amish follows six British teenagers leaving their mobile phones, Facebook accounts and partying behind, as they head to Ohio and Pennsylvania to see what they can learn from six weeks of hard work and simple living. No Amish community has ever opened up in this way before, and the Amish families who are taking part in the series hope that it will reveal the advantages of a pure, uncluttered way of life.

21:00 - SOUTHLAND (More4)

Brand New Series: Lydia gets suspended from duty and bonds with an injured witness. A high-speed chase haunts Chickie, and John tries to clean up a neighbourhood.

 

 

Friday, 25/11/2011

22:00 JIMMY CARR: MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH

Jimmy Carr performs live at the SECC Glasgow for his latest tour, Making People Laugh.