Today 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Today 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Today 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Today 19:00 - 19:30
Scott Mills presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 2 April 1999 and featuring Cartoons, Des'ree, New Radicals, Billie Piper, Mariah Carey, B*Witched and Flat Beat. [S]
Today 19:30 - 20:00
Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 4 April 1999 and featuring New Radicals, Another Level, Phats & Small, Reef, Catatonia, Eminem and Flat Beat. [S]
Today 20:00 - 20:35
Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, featuring The Dooleys, Generation X, Alan Price, The Pretenders, Lene Lovich, The Skids and Blondie. Dance sequences by Legs & Co. [S]
Today 20:35 - 21:05
Simon Mayo and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 12 February 1987, featuring Level 42, Pepsi & Shirlie, and Aretha Franklin and George Michael. [S]
Today 21:05 - 21:45
David Hamilton presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 24 June 1976 and featuring Pilot, The New Seekers, Johnny Nash, Lee Garrett, Art Garfunkel, The Real Thing and The Beach Boys. [S]
Today 21:45 - 22:20
Tony Blackburn presents the pop chart programme, featuring Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Billy Ocean, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 5000 Volts and The Real Thing. [S]
Today 22:20 - 23:20
A selection of classic heartbreaking BBC performances from some of music's biggest stars, including George Michael, Amy Winehouse, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and soul legend Dionne Warwick. [S] [HD]
Today 23:20 - 00:20
More of the greatest sad songs ever, featuring classic tracks from the likes of Sade, The Righteous Brothers, Toni Braxton and Lewis Capaldi. [S] [HD]
Tomorrow 00:20 - 01:20
Some of music's biggest stars pour their hearts out in this selection of classic performances from the BBC's archives. [S] [HD]
Tomorrow 01:20 - 02:20
Exploring Kate Bush's career and music through the testimony of collaborators and fans. [S] [HD]
Tomorrow 02:20 - 03:20
Kate Bush performs songs such as Wuthering Heights, Babooshka and Running up That Hill on BBC TV shows, alongside other intriguing and lesser-known material in the BBC studios. [S]
Tomorrow 03:20 - 03:50
Tony Blackburn presents the pop chart programme, featuring Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Billy Ocean, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 5000 Volts and The Real Thing. [S]
Tomorrow 03:50 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Tomorrow 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Tomorrow 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30
4/6. Julian Richards joins a team of investigative officers and archaeologists in a field in Orkney to look at a burial chamber untouched for 5,000 years. [S]
Tomorrow 19:30 - 20:00
13/15. Michael Portillo's railway journey reaches the heart of the Warwickshire countryside. [S,AD] [HD]
Tomorrow 20:00 - 20:45
Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall programme. Guests include Nick Moll, Bernard Cribbins, Valerie Masterson, Bill Pertwee, Terence Alexander, Des Lane and Ray C Davis. [S]
Tomorrow 20:45 - 21:35
1/6. Whilst Hetty tries to help a stricken village, can Robert and Geoffrey conduct their own case? [S]
Tomorrow 21:35 - 23:45
French romance set in 1889, focusing on the enduring bond between gourmet chef Dodin and his cook of 20 years, Eugénie. Dodin resolves to woo Eugénie by cooking for her. [2023] [S] [HD]
Tomorrow 23:45 - 00:15
Actor Juliette Binoche talks to John Wilson about the formative influences that shaped her career. [S] [HD]
Sunday 00:15 - 00:55
6/6. In this compilation of clips from five of his eight appearances on Parkinson, Kenneth Williams gives vent to his dislike of theatre critics. [S]
Sunday 00:55 - 01:45
1/6. Whilst Hetty tries to help a stricken village, can Robert and Geoffrey conduct their own case? [S]
Sunday 01:45 - 02:30
Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall programme. Guests include Nick Moll, Bernard Cribbins, Valerie Masterson, Bill Pertwee, Terence Alexander, Des Lane and Ray C Davis. [S]
Sunday 02:30 - 03:00
13/15. Michael Portillo's railway journey reaches the heart of the Warwickshire countryside. [S,AD] [HD]
Sunday 03:00 - 03:30
4/6. Julian Richards joins a team of investigative officers and archaeologists in a field in Orkney to look at a burial chamber untouched for 5,000 years. [S]
Sunday 03:30 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Sunday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Sunday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Sunday 19:00 - 20:00
Fiona and the team visit Portchester Castle in Hampshire, where treasures include punk clothing, paintings by 20th-century Indian artists and a rare set of Battle of Britain medals. [S] [HD]
Sunday 20:00 - 21:00
Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne, also featuring music by Lyadov, Stravinsky's teacher. [S] [HD]
Sunday 21:00 - 22:00
1/3. Lucy explores British history as a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power. This episode debunks the foundation myth of the Tudors. [S,AD] [HD]
Sunday 22:00 - 00:15
Oppressed by past tragedies and an unhappy marriage, a master builder is terrified of losing his stature to the next generation. 1988 adaption of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. [S]
Monday 00:15 - 01:15
1/3. How modern-day Sydney was the first battleground of the frontier wars. Contains some violent scenes. [S,AD] [HD]
Monday 01:15 - 02:10
Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne, also featuring music by Lyadov, Stravinsky's teacher. [S] [HD]
Monday 02:10 - 03:10
1/3. Lucy explores British history as a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power. This episode debunks the foundation myth of the Tudors. [S,AD,SL] [HD]
Monday 03:10 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Monday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Monday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Monday 19:00 - 20:00
5/6. Documentary series. China's heartland is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization and home to the giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey and the golden takin. [S,AD] [HD]
Monday 20:00 - 20:30
Robert Robinson hosts the game of word definitions and deceptions. Patrick Campbell, Nanette Newman and Patrick Mower do battle with Frank Muir, Gabrielle Drake and Russell Harty. [S]
Monday 20:30 - 21:00
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Polly Elwes, Richard Baker and John Julius Norwich. With guest musician Yvonne Minton. [S]
Monday 21:00 - 22:00
5/17. The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. [S] [HD]
Monday 22:00 - 23:30
The story of Voyager, an epic of human achievement, personal drama and miraculous success. [S] [HD]
Monday 23:30 - 00:30
1/3. A look at how the era's sculpture casts a new light on medieval times in Britain. Contains some strong language. [S] [HD]
Tuesday 00:30 - 01:00
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Polly Elwes, Richard Baker and John Julius Norwich. With guest musician Yvonne Minton. [S]
Tuesday 01:00 - 02:00
1/3. How modern-day Sydney was the first battleground of the frontier wars. Contains some violent scenes. [S,AD] [HD]
Tuesday 02:00 - 03:00
5/6. Documentary series. China's heartland is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization and home to the giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey and the golden takin. [S,AD,SL]
Tuesday 03:00 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Tuesday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Tuesday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Tuesday 19:00 - 19:20
Post-war architectural innovations in the Big Apple. [S]
Tuesday 19:20 - 20:00
Kenneth Williams stands in for Terry Wogan, chatting with guests Barbara Windsor and husband Steve Hollings, Stephen Fry and Michael Palin. Music by Hank Marvin & The Shadows. [S]
Tuesday 20:00 - 21:30
Documentary exploring Britain's funniest and most complex comic performer. Deals with adult themes. [S] [HD]
Tuesday 21:30 - 22:00
Kenneth Williams explores his roots in and around London's St Pancras, where he grew up. [S]
Tuesday 22:00 - 23:25
Documentary following undercover police as they investigate online crime against children. Contains some strong language and disturbing scenes. [S] [HD]
Tuesday 23:25 - 00:55
A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom. Contains some strong language. [S] [HD]
Wednesday 00:55 - 02:25
Documentary exploring Britain's funniest and most complex comic performer. Deals with adult themes. [S] [HD]
Wednesday 02:25 - 03:25
5/17. The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. [S,SL] [HD]
Wednesday 03:25 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Wednesday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Wednesday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30
14/15. Michael finds out about the impact of a famous Enoch Powell speech across the nation. [S,AD] [HD]
Wednesday 19:30 - 20:00
1/5. Rugby legend Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen try steam trains and rallying in Machynlleth. [S] [HD]
Wednesday 20:00 - 21:00
4/4. Brian explores the enigma of time - a phenomenon that we take for granted but which, as far as physicists are concerned, is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. [S,AD] [HD]
Wednesday 21:00 - 22:00
4/6. Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, who live on the savannah. Contains some strong language. [S,AD]
Wednesday 22:00 - 22:15
Sir Derek Jacobi looks back on the 1997 BBC drama about mathematician Alan Turing. [S] [HD]
Wednesday 22:15 - 23:45
Factual drama about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code. Deals with adult themes. [S]
Wednesday 23:45 - 00:45
2/3. Sam Willis tells the story of the English ruler who left the most indelible mark on the castle, Edward I, as he turned it into an instrument of colonisation. [S,AD] [HD]
Thursday 00:45 - 01:15
14/15. Michael finds out about the impact of a famous Enoch Powell speech across the nation. [S,AD] [HD]
Thursday 01:15 - 01:45
1/5. Rugby legend Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen try steam trains and rallying in Machynlleth. [S] [HD]
Thursday 01:45 - 02:45
4/6. Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, who live on the savannah. Contains some strong language. [S,AD]
Thursday 02:45 - 03:45
4/4. Brian explores one of the greatest mysteries in physics today - what is time? [S,AD,SL] [HD]
Thursday 03:45 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Thursday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Thursday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Thursday 19:00 - 19:30
15/15. Michael visits the fairy-tale castle of Eastnor at the foot of the Malvern Hills, before heading to the Severn Estuary and Filton, the centre of Britain's postwar aviation industry. [S,AD] [HD]
Thursday 19:30 - 20:00
2/5. The Edwards mark their 49th wedding anniversary in the picturesque seaside town of Tenby. [S] [HD]
Thursday 20:00 - 20:30
2/6. Dr Helen Czerski looks at volcanoes. New thermal imagery and ultra high-speed photography capture the complex processes crucial to understanding how and why they erupt. [S] [HD]
Thursday 20:30 - 21:00
Celia Imrie tells the story behind one of the most groundbreaking and influential films of the sixties, 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. [S] [HD]
Thursday 21:00 - 22:45
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America. Contains some violent scenes. [1967] [S,AD]
Thursday 22:45 - 23:45
Timewatch goes in search of the true story of Bonnie and Clyde, with unprecedented access to gang members' memoirs, family archives and police records. [S] [HD]
Thursday 23:45 - 00:45
Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture. [S,AD]
Friday 00:45 - 01:15
15/15. Michael visits the fairy-tale castle of Eastnor at the foot of the Malvern Hills, before heading to the Severn Estuary and Filton, the centre of Britain's postwar aviation industry. [S,AD] [HD]
Friday 01:15 - 01:45
2/5. The Edwards mark their 49th wedding anniversary in the picturesque seaside town of Tenby. [S] [HD]
Friday 01:45 - 02:05
Post-war architectural innovations in the Big Apple. [S]
Friday 02:05 - 02:35
Celia Imrie tells the story behind one of the most groundbreaking and influential films of the sixties, 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. [S] [HD]
Friday 02:35 - 03:35
2/3. Sam Willis tells the story of the English ruler who left the most indelible mark on the castle, Edward I, as he turned it into an instrument of colonisation. [S,AD,SL] [HD]
Friday 03:35 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Friday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]
Friday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Friday 19:00 - 19:30
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 April 1999 and featuring Phats & Small, TLC, The Cranberries, New Radicals and Martine McCutcheon. [S]
Friday 19:30 - 20:00
Gail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1999 and featuring Whitney Houston, Phats & Small, Electronic, Honeyz, Suede, TLC and Martine McCutcheon. [S]
Friday 20:00 - 20:35
Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, featuring Shakin' Stevens, Blondie, The Beat, The Buggles, The Tourists, Fern Kinney, The Ramones, Iron Maiden and Kenny Rogers. [S]
Friday 20:35 - 21:05
Janice Long and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 February 1986. Featuring Paul Hardcastle, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode and Public Image Limited. [S]
Friday 21:05 - 22:05
A look through the BBC archives for moment after moment from the 'empress of soul', Gladys Knight, including songs like Baby Don't Change Your Mind and The Way We Were. [S] [HD]
Friday 22:05 - 22:40
The first of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of the group's early hits. [S]
Friday 22:40 - 23:15
The second of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of their more recent hits. [S]
Friday 23:15 - 00:15
Performances by legendary female soul singers including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Angie Stone, Mary J Blige, Beyonce and many more. [S]