1985年1月28日晚至29日早晨，数十位音乐界大腕聚集在洛杉矶的一个录音室，放下身段，共同录制了一首旨在支持非洲饥荒救援的歌曲，并因此改变了全球流行文化的历史。《流行乐最传奇一夜》记录了在那个手机和电子邮件尚未普及的年代，组建起世界上最令人惊叹的超级团队是一项多么浩大的工程。这群艺 术家由这首 歌的联合创作者、20 世纪两位最重要的音乐人迈克尔·杰克逊和莱昂纳尔·里奇领导，他们虽然来自不同的世界，但齐心协力录制了《We Are the World》。本片以前所未见的方式详细介绍了早期的策划阶段，包括与里奇和杰克逊的创作过程，并深入到著名的 Henson Studios，那里是《We Are the World》的录制地。里奇、布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀、史摩基·罗宾逊、辛迪·劳帕、肯尼·罗根斯、狄昂·华薇克和休易·路易斯等许多艺术家都出席了那个传奇之夜，他们与音乐家、工程师和制作人员一起回忆了那个音乐史上最具传奇色彩的夜晚。
Professor Mary Beard, renowned classicist and TV historian, is to explore what life was like in one of the world’s most extraordinary and iconic archaeological sites, in Pompeii: Life Before Death, a new landmark programme for BBC One.
Mary Beard – a world Pompeii expert and author of Pompeii: Life Of A Roman Town – will be joining an international team as they bring the very latest technology to bear on this most extraordinary of archaeological sites.
Mary Beard says: “This is a really exciting chance to find out more about the ordinary people who lived in ancient Pompeii. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'm hoping we're going to unlock some if the secrets about who the people were.”
For the first time, a team is CT scanning and fully investigating the world-famous casts of the bodies to analyse the skeletons trapped within, to ascertain all they can about who they were, where they came from and how they lived. A team is also conducting DNA analysis of the bodies for the first time.
Elsewhere, the documentary will follow the work of recovering damaged frescoes and mosaics, the excavation and rebuilding of certain key buildings and the organisation and cataloguing of the thousands of astonishing artefacts in the storerooms – from loaves of bread to pet monkeys, paint pots to purses. It will shine a light on the work of archaeologists who are exploring the third of the town that has never been excavated, and will present a unique first look at the complete Pompeii in stunning CGI.
Using the evidence gleaned from all this research, the BBC One film will piece together a full picture of daily life in Pompeii before the town was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79.
