TV: Rich Hall's The Dirty South
Last chance to watch or download this excellent history of the American south on film. Rich Hall (right) followed up his equally interesting wild west history lesson with this one-off TV essay, picking apart the Southern belles and good ol' boy cliches with clips from A Streetcar Named Desire, Deliverance and, of course, Gone With The Wind.
BBC iPlayer, until Sun 10.29pm
TV: Master Of The Universe
With Prof Stephen Hawking's Brave New World beginning on Monday, here's a chance to bone up on his earlier mind-blowing journey through some of the bigger questions around: is an all-encompassing Theory Of Everything possible? Is there a grand design to the cosmos? Whatever happened to She-Ra? That sort of thing.
TV: The Walking Dead Webisodes
Six mini-instalments to get you, er, warmed up for the second series, filling in the back-story of "Bicycle Girl" ? the young zombie Rick Grimes shot in the gory pilot.
Radio: BBC Radio 1Xtra's Stories ? Gone Too Soon: Jam-Master Jay
"We got the master of a disco scratch/ There's not a break that he can't catch/ Jam-Master Jay that is his name/ And all wild DJs he will tame ?" 1Xtra's Gone Too Soon series profiles Run DMC's innovative DJ, his impact on hip-hop, and retells the story of his murder in 2002.
TV: Kirstie's Homemade Home
Craft work ? In which Ms Allsopp leaves Phil behind with all the Location couples who won't listen to her, and heads out in search of a more eco-friendly, recession-busting approach to accommodation. It's cosy, draw-the-curtains viewing ? Why Don't You? for grown-ups. To accompany the new series on Wednesday, 4OD is replaying the second, where she finds out about stained-glass windows, heads to a blacksmiths, and meets a crochet expert.
Audio: Demetri Martin, Stand-Up Guy
The NPR archive is a great online source for a quick catch-up. Here's a 2004 profile of this week's cover star, Demetri Martin, featuring wisdom like: "The cool thing about cakes is that they write on them ?"
TV: Imagine ? U2: From The Sky Down
Sometimes you forget that when Bono is not haranguing the UN he's in a band. This Imagine doc following studio sessions for Achtung Baby is worth catching for the moment when they listen to a DAT tape of an early version of Mysterious Ways and realise that the chords they're trying would be better as a whole new song: One.
BBC iPlayer, until Sun 11.54pm
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/15/catch-up-tv-guide
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