Category: Â鶹Éç; Factual & Arts TV
Date: 23.11.2005
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The Â鶹Éç has picked up two prestigious awards at the 33rd International Emmy Awards ceremony in New York.
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The awards, which honour excellence in programming, were given to Arts and Entertainment productions screened on Â鶹Éç TWO - with Holocaust - A Musical Memorial Film From Auschwitz wining the Arts programming category and Top Gear winning in the Non-Scripted Entertainment category.
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Holocaust - A Musical Memorial Film From Auschwitz marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, music was a part of daily life. There were several orchestras and bands in the two camps, made up entirely of inmates.
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In a unique tribute to the millions who died in the Nazi genocide, and for the first time in its history, the Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau allowed a number of leading musicians from around the world to come to the camps and perform in a 90-minute film shot entirely on location.
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A sequence of carefully chosen music, all of it connected in some way with the Holocaust, was interwoven with the powerful accounts of three survivors from the men's and women's orchestras.
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Top Gear, now in its fifth series in its studio-based format, combines factual entertainment with motoring information.
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The programme's mixture of daredevil stunts, star in a reasonably priced car, hard-hitting reviews and the trademark irreverent banter between the three presenters - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - make Top Gear the must-see show for Sunday nights.
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