12 BBC documentaries not to be missed

Plus, the history of hoaxing on April Fool's Day Having difficulty reading this email? [View it online]( More for you to enjoy from the BBC [desmond morris bbc four]( [The Secret Surrealist: Desmond Morris]( | BBC FOUR 22:00 TUE 4 APR Desmond Morris has been known as a zoologist and expert on human behaviour, but the bestselling author has led a double life. By day, a rational scientist and broadcaster; by night, a surrealist painter of dreamlike images. He first began painting in the surrealist style while still at school, and still does so today, at the age of 89. In his long career he has been friends with such great surrealists as Joan Miro and Henry Moore. [smaller-chevron-white.png] [Dreams on canvas]( New this week [timeshift the family car]( [Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car]( | BBC FOUR 21:00 MON 3 APR We grow up in the back seat - and before we know it, we find ourselves in the driving seat. Timeshift explores the British experience of the family car from the groundbreaking Morris Minor to the latest Jaguar F-Pace. [The joy of being on the road together]( [50 years of reporting]( [Reporting Terror: 50 Years Behind the Headlines]( | BBC RADIO 4 20:00 SAT 1 APR Back in 1967 "terrorism" was barely in our vocabulary. Peter Taylor reflects on the hundred or so documentaries he has made on the subject since then. Charting the evolution of terrorism he recalls some memorable interviews. [An extraordinary archive]( Celebrate April Fool’s Day [hoax]( [Hoax!]( | BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA 09:00 SAT 1 APR [Jake Yapp celebrates the history of hoaxing and explores this form of deception through clips and shows. Includes some lesser known treasures including Sir David Attenborough’s report on the sounds of the fictitious Sheba Islands. »]( Documentaries to watch now on BBC iPlayer - Kick back this weekend and enjoy some outstanding factual adventures [Dust Storms]( | BBC iPLAYER Exploring the growing menace created by these phenomena and how human activity is making them worse. The world's top scientists look at why dust storms happen, how they affect our health and what we can do about them. [Five billion tons of dust]( [science of bubbles]( [The Science of Bubbles]( | BBC iPLAYER The soap bubble with its delicate, fragile skin tells us about how nature works on scales as large as a solar system and as small as a single wavelength of light. Dr Helen Czerski shows how bubbles affect our world. [How bubbles affect us all]( [Timewatch: The Last Day of World War One]( | BBC iPLAYER Michael Palin tells the personal stories of the last soldiers to die as the minutes and seconds ticked away to the 11 o'clock ceasefire on the 11th November 1918. [The shocking truth]( [who were the greeks]( [Who Were the Greeks?]( | BBC iPLAYER Dr Michael Scott goes in search of this ancient world of gods, democrats and warriors. Inhabited by people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant. How did they really live and what have they given us? [Strange, unsettling and downright outrageous]( [countrier than you]( [Rich Hall's Countrier Than You]( | BBC iPLAYER Award-winning Comedian Rich Hall takes a country music journey from Tennessee to Texas and discovers how the genre has always reinvented itself with the help of other styles like bluegrass and americana. [Always reinventing itself]( [blondie]( [Blondie: One Way or Another]( | BBC iPLAYER The story of the most successful band fronted by a woman ever! Blondie crossed pop with punk, reggae and rap. Includes in-depth interviews with band members and friends like Iggy Pop and Tina Weymouth. [CBGBs to Hall of Fame]( [talking pictures]( [Talking Pictures - British War Films]( | BBC iPLAYER Legends of the big screen including Noel Coward, Richard Attenborough and John Mills recount their exploits. Featuring classic films like Reach for the Sky, Bridge on the River Kwai and The Dam Busters. [Film stars that never fade]( [galapagos]( [Galapagos: Cauldron of Life]( | BBC iPLAYER Liz Bonnin joins a scientific team aboard the research vessel the Alucia on an expedition across the Galapagos Islands. Travelling in the foot steps of Charles Darwin, whose theories transformed the way we think about all life on earth. s. 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