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Discovering Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in 1883. After the death of her mother, she was sent to an orphanage. Here she learned how to sew. In 1910 Chanel opened her first shop in Paris, as well as Deauville, where a simple reinvention of a jersey shirt to a dress changed the world of fashion: “my fortune is built on that old jersey”. Today, there are more than 300 Chanel stores worldwide. Coco Chanel was Time Magazine’s only designer to top its “100 most important people of the 20th century – artists and entertainers”.
The Video Game Years (1977-1989)
Discovering Sci-Fi on Film
The 90-minute programme features the “Discovering” team gathered for an evening to discuss and review their Top 25 Sci-Fi films of the last 100 years. Our team comprises Ian Nathan, the author of “Stephen King at the Movies” & contributing editor of Empire Magazine; Neil Norman, a film critic and writer; and Stephen Armstrong, a writer and film critic of The Sunday Times.
The Day the Rock Star Died, David Bowie
David Bowie was the leading figure in popular music for over five decades. Acclaimed by critics and musicians for his innovative work, his career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft significantly influenced popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of the bestselling music artists. He stopped concert touring after 2004, and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006. He remained musically active until his death two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar.
