Arts Channel free to SKY basic subscribers this weekend

ARTS channel (SKY Channel 079) are delighted to bring you an exclusive weekend of Arts and entertainment programming open to all SKY Basic subscribers for more that two days beginning Friday 5th August at 4.00pm.

ARTS channel’s Open Weekend is the perfect opportunity to get a taste for yourself and sample some of the quality programming available from The Arts Channel. Fascinating documentaries, intelligent interviews, inspiring performances and in-depth shows on modern and classical art.

Highlights include:

STARS OF THE SILVER SCREEN: Audrey Hepburn
Friday 5 August 7.30pm

Stars Of The Silver Screen delves into the lives of cinema’s most glamorous movie stars.

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929) was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world’s most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century.

IN CONFIDENCE: Sheila Hancock
Friday 5 Aug 8.30pm

In Confidence delves beneath the surface of some of the most creative spirits of the decade in probing interviews conducted by critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 presenter and Sociology Professor Laurie Taylor.

Our guest this week, prominent English actress and Author Sheila Hancock.

GOD IN AMERICA
Friday 5 August 9.20pm

In the history of America, religion has always mattered, and America’s story cannot be fully understood without understanding its religious history. For the first time on television, this six part documentary series will tell the sweeping and dramatic history of religious life in America as it has played out in public life.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Saturday 6 August 8.30pm

As a young man in 19th-century Colombia, Florentino Ariza (played primarily by Javier Bardem) falls in love with a beautiful woman named Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). But an overprotective father (John Leguizamo) and too much reality intrude on their romance, and Fermina marries a successful doctor, Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt).However, a wedding ring and the passing decades are not enough to dissuade Florentino from his love & undying passion for Fermina.

WHO IS HARRY NILSSON?
Sunday 7 August 8.30pm

The Beatles said that Harry Nilsson was their favourite American musician.

Nilsson won two Grammys and was the recipient of 17 gold records, yet he is relatively unknown today. The film reveals how his personal life was as complex and contradictory as his music, from his spirited relationship with John Lennon to his close bond with Ringo Starr. Who Is Harry Nilsson? A wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary, tells the story of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history.

- ARTS CHANNEL