Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th April to Fri 10th April 2009)

• THE VICTORY OF CEZANNE

For the 100th anniversary of Cezanne's death, this documentary explores how his artistic work went largely unnoticed during his lifetime but shot to fame and value after his death.
Saturday 4 April 2009 3.25pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS,Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• SUNDAY ARTS

This week Sunday Arts focuses on the visual arts: Fenella Kernebone looks at the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition on new Australian drawing; and we feature artists Peter Alwast and Sydney Ball.
Sunday 5 April 2009 5.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 2 - EP 4 OF 10

Honest, funny and revealing, The Gruen Transfer, a runaway hit in 2008, is about how advertising works and how it works on us. It lifts the bonnet on the carefully constructed and manufactured messages that surround us all. Examining the best and worst of advertising, acknowledging the art and science involved, The Gruen Transfer brings some of the pointiest and most creative minds in the ad industry together to discuss the power of persuasion.
Wednesday 8 April 2009 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (HD)
Duration: 30 mins

• JUST TO GET A REP

More than 30 years ago, the youth of New York's neglected neighbourhoods started spray-painting their names on subway trains. Here is the true story of aerosol art as told by its pioneers, and today's innovators.
Wednesday 8 April 2009 9.20pm
ABC2 Rating: (M)
Duration: 55 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: CHELTENHAM

In this episode Kevin meets Tim and Zoe Bawtree who live in an elegant Regency house in Cheltenham, UK. But lovely as it is, the four storey house is expensive to run. With the aim of becoming mortgage free, Tim and Zoe decide to sell their house and build an ultra modern, low maintenance house in their large back garden. However, the garden is surrounded by grade two listed houses and, because of height restrictions, Tim and Zoe are forced to build 60 per cent of their new home underground. This doesn't deter them, neither do the 90 objections to their planning application from the neighbours.
Thursday 9 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this program available for loan

• DAVID OGILVY: THE FIRST MAD MAN

In the week prior to the SBS series premiere of the stylish cult hit Mad Men, the network will screen the documentary David Ogilvy: The First Mad Man. David Ogilvy is a man famous for leading a revolution in advertising, feeding dreams and shaping aspirations with famous campaigns, slogans and jingles. After an erratic education, a spell at Oxford and a year in France working as an apprentice chef, Ogilvy started selling cooking stoves door to door in Scotland. Although a natural salesman, Ogilvy turned his back on the profession at the end of World War Two, and retreated to the Amish community in Pennsylvania. Paradoxically, it was during this period that Ogilvy began to think about starting a career in Advertising.
Thursday 9 April 2009 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• VOYAGE TO THE AMERICAN STONEHENGE

In the magnificently stark landscape of the Bolivian highlands lies Tiwanaku, a 2,000 year old city that was home to one of the most influential civilizations in pre-Inca South America. Scattered throughout this remarkable metropolis are huge temples, pyramids and delicately carved monoliths constructed from colossal slabs of stone. But Tiwanaku's beauty comes with an equally beguiling mystery. The nearest quarry that could have produced the city's rocks lies some 40 kilometres on the other side of Lake Titicaca, the second largest lake in South America. How could these multi-ton stones possibly have made their way to Tiwanaku?
Thursday 9 April 2009 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 60 mins

• UNFOLDING FLORENCE

Acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of flamboyant Australian design pioneer Florence Broadhurst in the feature-length documentary Unfolding Florence which had it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Featuring interviews with Maggie Tabberer, fashion designer Akira Isogawa and Florence Broadhurst's son Robert Lloyd-Lewis, Unfolding Florence also includes dramatised sequences.
Friday 10 April 2009 8.00pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 90 mins
*The Learning Centre has this available for loan