Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.
In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.
Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.
Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.
Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.
Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.
A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.
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With unprecedented access, this series goes inside the Bank of England during 2018 as it navigates turbulent economic times – including the challenges posed by Brexit.
身高一米八三、身形魁梧、胃口极佳、常常被人误叫做“sir”的名副其实的女汉子Miranda（米兰达·哈特 Miranda Hart 饰）第三季归来！
与观众阔别多时，她的生活发生了不少变化：她开的那家半吊子“玩笑商店”终于因经营不善而迎来破产，好朋友兼店老板Stevie（萨拉·哈德兰 Sarah Hadland 饰）找了另一份更加“正经”的行政工作。受其刺激，Miranda也找了一份新的办公室工作，第一天上班的她又洋相百出。另一方面，Miranda和暧昧许久的男神Gary（汤姆·艾利斯 Tom Ellis 饰）决定不再约会，做回普通朋友。妈妈Penny（派翠西亚·霍吉 Patricia Hodge 饰）又要操心Miranda的终身大事了……
Miranda（米兰达·哈特 Miranda Hart 饰）是一个身高一米八三、身形魁梧、胃口极佳、常常被人误叫做“sir”的名副其实的女汉子。她开了一家半吊子的玩笑商店，请了自己最好的朋友Stevie（萨拉·哈德兰 Sarah Hadland 饰）做店老板。Miranda妈妈最大的愿望就是把芳龄35的女儿嫁出去，积极为她安排各种各样的相亲。事实上，Miranda早就有意中人，他就是帅气高大又带点憨直的厨师Gary（汤姆·艾利斯 Tom Ellis 饰）。
在第一季的结尾，Miranda没来得及告诉Gary自己的心意，他就接受了新工作，远赴香港。三个月过去了，Miranda还没走出低潮期，餐厅里却来新的大厨。Miranda和新大厨竟擦出火花，但就在这时，Gary回来了……
《米兰达》是一部在英国的BBC TWO台播出的情景喜剧，源于一档电台节目“Miranda Hart的玩笑商店”。
Miranda（米兰达·哈特 Miranda Hart 饰）总是让她妈妈失望，她对此也无能为力。妈妈每天的任务是一心把她嫁出去，但Miranda的相貌身材即使搭配晚装依然被认为异装癖；参与任何正式的女人谈话聚会总是洋相百出时。Miranda经营一家玩笑商店，雇员是她的老朋友娇小可人跟她反差鲜明的Stevie（萨拉·哈德兰 Sarah Hadland 饰）。无厘头的潮爆老妈，吐槽女神兼死党店员，帅气天然呆的暧昧男友。这一切就是Miranda生活的全部，她就用自己的方式一直积极快乐着......
The documentary follows the investigation of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996.
Isolated from the rest of the world since the time of the dinosaurs, New Zealand’s magnificent wildlife has been left to its own devices for 80 million years, with surprising consequences.
Narrated by actor Sam Neill, this three-part wildlife series transports viewers to an exotic and mysterious island chain, revealing how the country’s rich, intriguing wildlife manages to survive.
The Polish doco for the BFI’s Century of Cinema distinguishes itself from all the others in the series by being the only one not to have any film critics, academics, directors, etc providing a commentary. Instead it takes the refreshing route of having ordinary people of all ages talking about what’s special to them about movies – so we get some old folks describing their first trip to the cinema when a lot of people didn’t even know what a film was, memories of what it was like to go to the movies as children, teenagers, and adults before, during, and after WWII, and especially the key scenes from films that have made lasting impressions upon them (not unexpectedly, Wajda’s KANAL strikes a nerve), which are shown in accompaniment, so that it becomes the interviewees who ultimately decide what’s shown in the doco. This kind of stuff is what the ‘100 Years of Cinema’ celebration is really about.
