The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.

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SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2024

SAT 19:00 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (m000scwr)
Series 2

The Minotaur's Palace

Janina is in Crete on the trail of the millionaire who discovered the mythical palace of the Minotaur and the first western civilisation, but who is now mired in controversy.


SAT 20:00 Voyages of Discovery (b0074t6g)
Hanging by a Thread

Explorer Paul Rose tells the story of the USS Squalus submarine which became stranded on the bottom of the Atlantic in 1937. No one had ever been saved from a stricken sub beneath the ocean before, but maverick designer Charles Momsen, who had been ignored by the navy top brass, was suddenly called into action to bring up the crew.

Rose meets the last living survivor from the sub and one of the men, now 103, who helped save him. The rescue kick-started a whole new era of technology, laying the foundation for modern deep-sea diving.


SAT 21:00 Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime (m0021ct5)
Series 1

Winckler (The Commander)

Winter 2012. Etienne Winckler, a detective specialising in cold cases, is handed the old 'Sambre rapist' case to see if it can be closed. As he pours over files at the local police archives, he discovers more victims - including Christine.

In French with English subtitles.


SAT 22:05 Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime (m0021ct7)
Series 1

Enzo (The Rapist)

Winter 2018. Enzo Salina has finally made a mistake and been captured on CCTV close to the scene of one of his attacks. As his arrest is made known, his friends, family and community react in disbelief. How can such an ordinary man be responsible for such callous attacks?

In French with English subtitles.


SAT 23:10 Parkinson (m002334q)
Kenneth Allsop, Lauren Bacall, Tom Paxton and Danny Thompson

Michael Parkinson in conversation with Kenneth Allsop, Lauren Bacall, Tom Paxton and Danny Thompson. First transmitted in 1972.


SAT 00:10 Porridge (b00789bm)
Prisoner and Escort

The pilot episode of the classic comedy series about the inmates of HM Slade Prison. For wily old lag Fletcher, en route to incarceration, the prospect of spending the next five years studying woodwork and botany in the halls as a guest of the Queen provokes only one thought - escape.


SAT 00:40 Porridge (b007sf76)
Series 1

New Faces, Old Hands

Classic sitcom set in Slade Prison. Veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cellmate Godber.


SAT 01:10 Voyages of Discovery (b0074t6g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


SAT 02:10 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (m000scwr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]



SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2024

SUN 19:00 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m00239w9)
Series 1

Episode 1

Victor Borge presents the first programme in a series of one-man shows performed before a studio audience where he jokes, chats and plays piano. Ronnie Hazlehurst conducts the orchestra.


SUN 19:30 BBC Young Musician (m00232yn)
2024

Auditions 1

The competition that has launched the careers of some of the UK’s biggest names in classical music is back with some amazing young talent to enjoy.

In this first programme of the series, the brilliant saxophonist Jess Gillam, a former Young Musician finalist herself, presents highlights from the live audition stage.

Completely reimagined for 2024, the new series is showcasing even more exceptionally talented young performers than previous years, with 25 featured in this, the first of two programmes filmed in Cardiff.

With some mesmerising performances to choose from, the task of selecting the musicians who will go through to the next stage is in the hands of the Young Musician judges: world-renowned trumpet player Alison Balsom (like Jess, a previous finalist in this competition), chart-topping composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench and multi-instrumentalist and conductor Hannah Catherine Jones.

From the several hundred who entered the competition, 50 were chosen to attend the live auditions. With the level of talent on display, it’s a difficult and emotional challenge for the judges to agree on who goes through to the next round. We hear musicians ranging from pianists, trombonists and double bassists to percussionists, harpists and cellists.


SUN 21:00 Golf: Solheim Cup (m00232yr)
2024

Final Day Highlights

Highlights of the final day’s action at the Solheim Cup as holders Europe look to continue their recent success and retain their title against hosts USA.


SUN 22:00 Peter Kosminsky Remembers... The Project (m00232yt)
As a new Labour government settles into power with a huge majority under Keir Starmer, director Peter Kosminsky considers this an ideal time to revisit and reflect on the lessons to be learned from his 2002 BBC drama The Project.

The two-part series told the fictional story of the MPs and activists behind Tony Blair’s election victory in 1997 and focused on their challenges, love affairs and personality clashes that were all a vital part of the Labour Party’s success at the ballot boxes after years stuck in opposition.

The Project featured an exciting young cast that included future stars like Matthew Macfadyen and Naomie Harris, and here Peter looks back on casting them as well as exploring why this was the particular story that he chose to tell and the importance of the show’s much-missed screenwriter, the late Leigh Jackson.


SUN 22:20 The Project (m00232yw)
Series 1

Opposition

1992: Housemates Paul Tibbenham and Maggie Dunn are dedicated to bringing Labour to power. But as the party restyles itself, the lovers' passion for politics and each other starts to tear them apart.


SUN 00:05 The Project (m00232yz)
Series 1

Government

As Labour begins its first term, Maggie joins the Commons, while Paul gets a job at Downing Street.


SUN 01:55 Genius of the Ancient World (b064jf28)
Buddha

Historian Bettany Hughes embarks on an expedition to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy: Buddha, Socrates and Confucius. All three physically travelled great distances philosophising as they went and drawing conclusions from their journeys. With Bettany as our guide, she gets under the skin of these three great minds and shines a light on the overlooked significance of the 5th century BC in shaping modern thought across the world. In this first episode, Bettany investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.


SUN 02:55 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m00239w9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]



MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2024

MON 19:00 Great American Railroad Journeys (b08ndbb0)
Series 2 (Extended Versions)

Chicago to Champaign, Illinois

Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey from the northern state of Minnesota to the home of the blues in Memphis, Tennessee. In the nation's rail capital, where tracks pass underground and over ground and are elevated into the air, he investigates the ultimate marshalling yard. At the ornate Palmer House Hotel, Michael recreates the original chocolate brownie, invented by Bertha Palmer in 1893. He discovers the origins of the Sanitary and Ship Canal and uncovers the history of an incredible civil engineering project which raised the city to new heights. Heading deep underground, Michael inspects a modern-day scheme on a similarly awesome scale, described by the boss as the largest toilet in the world!

On the trail of one of America's most famous railroad names, Michael heads south to Pullman to investigate the legacy of its founder, George Pullman. Beside the Kankakee River, Michael is invited to visit the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house that changed the face of American architecture. On the platform at Kankakee station, Michael parties with the locals as they celebrate the City of New Orleans rail service, immortalised in song by Arlo Guthrie. He gets his hands on a vintage hooter riding on the Monticello Heritage rail line and in Champaign learns a thing or two at a railroad university.


MON 20:00 Meet the Ancestors (b0074j87)
Series 1

Friends, Romans or Countrymen?

Julian Richards joins a team excavating a massive stone coffin from a building site in Bristol, which could shed light on the Romans' lifestyle.


MON 20:30 Meet the Ancestors (b0074j98)
Series 1

The Rose Garden Mystery

Julian Richards investigates a coffin from Malmesbury Abbey. The body inside could have been a Saxon king or a monk who attempted to fly off a tower.


MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m002336q)
Robert Robinson referees a duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Joanna Lumley and Derek Jacobi and Patrick Campbell, June Bolton and Richard Briers.


MON 21:30 Going for a Song (m002336s)
Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus welcome guest connoisseur Richard Came and customers Clare Francis and Terry Wogan to explore the world of antiques at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire.


MON 22:00 The Joy of Mozart (b04yrj6n)
Tom Service plunges into the life and times of Mozart to try and rediscover the greatness and humanity of the living man in his moment. Mozart's prodigious output and untimely death have helped place him on a pedestal that can often blind us to the unique brilliance of his work in the context of his life and times. Tackling the sentimental tourist industry of Salzburg and the cloying reverence in which Mozart is too often held, Service visits the key cities and rooms in which Mozart lived and worked, plays some of Mozart's original instruments and scores, and gradually uncovers the brilliance and originality of his work as the 18th century turns into the early 19th.

There is the prodigious childhood when Mozart was feted as an infant phenomenon around Europe's most glittering courts, and his golden decade in Vienna in which masterpiece followed masterpiece - operas, symphonies, piano concertos, string quartets - as if this short, high-voiced man-child must have been taking dictation from some divine source, until his death at the age of just 35 in 1791.

Even more than the music, Mozart's tragic demise sets the seal on his myth. The trajectory of Mozart's life sets the template for the romantic paradigm whose throes we are still in today, which requires our creative heroes to die young to prove that they were too good for this madding world, whether it be Wolfgang Amadeus or Jimi Hendrix.

Service travels from London to Vienna and Salzberg, unpicking the living, breathing genius that was Mozart. With Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nicola Benedetti, Paul Morley and others.


MON 23:00 Genius of the Ancient World (b065gv2m)
Socrates

Historian Bettany Hughes is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates, who was executed for his beliefs.


MON 00:00 Parkinson (m002334q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:10 on Saturday]


MON 01:05 Talking Pictures (b01rnc0b)
Lauren Bacall

A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall, following the changes and highlights of her life and career. Narrated by Sylvia Syms.


MON 01:40 Great American Railroad Journeys (b08ndbb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


MON 02:40 Meet the Ancestors (b0074j87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


MON 03:10 Meet the Ancestors (b0074j98)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]



TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2024

TUE 19:00 Great American Railroad Journeys (b08ndfg9)
Series 2 (Extended Versions)

Illinois to Tennessee

Michael Portillo continues his 1,000-mile journey from Minnesota to Tennessee, beginning and ending on the Mississippi River. Riding the mainline of mid-America, Michael stops at rural Mattoon, where he gets a taste of the tough early life which shaped President Abraham Lincoln. Wiping the sweat from his brow, Michael struggles to split one rail compared with Lincoln's estimated 700-a-day. Basket in hand, Michael joins the Schwartz family apple harvest in Centralia and learns how to make apple butter. He uncovers industrial unrest in the coal mines of Carbondale, then heads to Kentucky and the banks of the Mississippi, where a bloody conflict unfolded, which proved decisive in victory for Lincoln's Union.

Aboard a paddle steamer on the lower Mississippi, Michael hears about the life and work of former riverboat captain Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. In the city of Memphis, Tennessee, he visits the historic Elmwood Cemetery, where he uncovers the story of a devastating epidemic. In the home of the blues, Michael meets contemporary musician Cedric Burnside in the studio before joining millions of Elvis fans at Graceland. Fellow rail fans at Memphis Station share their passion, and an invitation to a duck palace and the honorary position of Duck Master carry curious responsibilities at the 19th-century Peabody Hotel.


TUE 20:00 Porridge (b00789j3)
Series 1

The Hustler

Classic prison sitcom. Fletcher gets a permanent job with the pigs on the prison farm and dreams up a novel way to relieve the boredom of prison life. But when the stakes run high, honour among thieves is sorely tried.


TUE 20:30 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074s30)
Series 2

The Patron of the Arts

Jim is the guest of honour at the British Theatre Awards, but the Arts Council grant is going to be cut. Jim wants to avoid bad publicity and Sir Humphrey, National Theatre board member, wants to avoid cuts - who will win?


TUE 21:00 The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth (b04g80p8)
A unique amateur film provides the centrepiece of a documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Scotland's great landmarks, the Forth Road Bridge. The documentary traces the memories of the people who built the bridge, the biggest of its kind in Europe at the time, as well as those who ran the Forth ferries that stopped running when it opened in 1964.


TUE 22:00 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (m0020xx9)
Series 1

Syria – The Risk of Doing Nothing

In his acceptance speech for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama stated: 'I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans'. When the Arab Spring-driven demonstrations against the Syrian regime were brutally put down, Obama, stung by failure in Libya, did not want to be dragged into another war in the Middle East. But when the Syrian regime began to consider the use of chemical weapons, Obama warned they would be crossing a red line.


TUE 23:00 Inside Culture (m001040x)
Series 4

When Mary Met Hillary Clinton

In this very special episode of Inside Culture, Mary Beard meets former US Secretary of State, First Lady, senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In a wide ranging discussion, Mary asks Secretary Clinton about women and power and her long career at the heart of American politics. She also asks Secretary Clinton about the culture that has inspired, sustained or challenged her throughout her life, and the surprising role that the arts can play in politics and in the lives of political leaders. A best-selling author herself, Secretary Clinton will also talk to Mary about her own creative process.


TUE 23:30 Andy Warhol's America (p0b5mswc)
Series 1

Life after Death

The final episode sees a much more cautious Warhol: a man obsessed with money and security as he reflects on the upper echelons of American society, drag queens and racism.


TUE 00:30 Great American Railroad Journeys (b08ndfg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 01:30 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (m0020xx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]


TUE 02:30 The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth (b04g80p8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]



WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2024

WED 19:00 Around the World in 80 Gardens (b008yw0l)
South America: Brazil, Argentina and Chile

Monty Don visits the world's 80 most inspiring gardens. This time he is in South America, a continent twice the size of Europe and the home of more than 50,000 endemic plant species. In Rio de Janeiro, Monty visits the private garden of Brazil's most famous artist, Burle Marx. He views the ingenious floating gardens of the Amazon. He visits a crumbling estancia (ranch) in the windy Pampas. He ends his journey on the Pacific coast of Chile in a garden that sits harmoniously in its landscape.


WED 20:00 Wild Weather with Richard Hammond (b04v5lng)
Original Series

Water: The Shape Shifter

Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role water plays. Without water there would be almost no weather: no rain, no snow, no hail, no clouds. So Richard goes in pursuit of water in all its forms. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how rain could crush a car, and gets involved in starting an avalanche.

Along the way, he tries to find out why clouds float by building his own cloud with the aid of a cattle trough, some humidifiers and atmospheric scientist Dr Jim McQuaid. But will their cloud float in the air like a real cloud?

He also drops in on renowned hail scientist Charles Knight in his lab in Boulder, Colorado, to discover that there is far more to hail than meets the eye. In a scientific first, and with the help of Jim Stratton and Craig Zehrung from Purdue University, Richard sets about firing ice and hail at a board to find out which does the most damage.

Finally, in conjunction with the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Richard joins Walter Steinkogler as he starts an avalanche in an attempt to find out how something as delicate and fragile as a snowflake can travel at extraordinary speeds of up to 250mph on the ground.


WED 21:00 Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (m000vlmw)
Series 1

Taking a Drink

By the late 1970s, armed robbery had been brought to a state of near-perfection. Seen as a ‘glamour crime’, it was committed by men prepared to take big risks, survive shootouts with the police and die for the prize. But despite violent armed robbers being arrested, evidence was being watered down, and criminals were being granted bail. Money seemed to be passed to bent cops via middlemen to get lawbreakers released.

Despite sweeping changes brought in by Sir Robert Mark in the Metropolitan Police, this final instalment reveals how, in the late 1970s, corruption within the City of London’s CID had grown out of control - and how Operation Countryman was launched in response.


WED 22:00 Alison O'Donnell Remembers... Shetland (m002339f)
As fans prepare for the arrival of series nine of the BBC’s long-running crime drama Shetland, actor Alison O’Donnell, who plays the much-loved character Tosh, takes an affectionate look back on the series. She recalls how she got the part and her experiences of working on the show – from the instant rapport she struck up with leading man Douglas Henshall to fake-vomiting in episode one with mouthfuls of cold potato soup, courtesy of the props department.

Alison also talks about the challenges that came when cast and crew all thought Shetland was coming to an end in series seven and the experience of swapping Douglas for new leading lady Ashley Jensen when the news came that the show would be running well into next year… and beyond?


WED 22:20 Shetland (b0c3h5b1)
Series 5

Episode 1

A severed hand washes up on a Shetland beach, with further body parts discovered in a holdall that has been dumped at sea. Perez and the team begin a complex murder investigation.


WED 23:20 Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle (m0011203)
Series 1

Shetland

At the end of his spiritual journey, Ben Fogle visits six islands across Shetland.

On the beautiful and uninhabited St Ninian’s Isle, he contemplates those in the distant past who sought out remote spots for quiet contemplation. And he visits the Isle of Oxna with a father and daughter whose ancestors once lived there.

Andy and Sabina Holt moved from a hippy lifestyle to live on the island of Papa Stour 48 years ago. Sabina then had what she calls 'a marvellous encounter' with Jesus, and she and Andy have been living as committed Christians since. Ben discusses the effect living somewhere as remote and beautiful as this has on their faith.

Ben also meets crofter Vic Thomas, who shares his belief in the life cycles of birth, growth and death, and their spiritual meaning in a place where Mother Nature is so much in evidence.

Ben catches up with Shetland chef Akshay Borges, a champion of the island’s ‘sea harvest’. Akshay arrived from Goa in 2011, a life-changing decision he made on the flip of a coin.

Travelling to the Isle of Yell, Ben visits a chicken shed converted into one of the UK’s smallest chapels. Its keeper, Anne Dobbing, explains that Shetland’s many Christian denominations seem to blend into one, as if the remote wildness forges a common spirituality.

And on Unst, the UK’s most northerly inhabited isle, Ben meets Orthodox nun Mother Mary, who lives a solitary life of prayer and contemplation in this very remote place.


WED 00:20 Around the World in 80 Gardens (b008yw0l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 01:20 Wild Weather with Richard Hammond (b04v5lng)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


WED 02:15 Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty (m000vlmw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]



THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2024

THU 19:00 Around the World in 80 Gardens (b0091tl6)
USA

Monty Don continues his extraordinary journey to see the world through 80 of its most inspiring gardens with a visit to the richest and most powerful nation in the world: the United States of America.

His plan is to see how America expresses its vast wealth and incredible energy through its gardens. And at a time when the USA is grappling to define its environmental goals, Monty inevitably hopes to find a powerful movement towards sustainable gardening. Beginning in New York, where garden guerrillas are creating community gardens from derelict land, he then travels south to Virginia, to visit a garden that reflects the birth of the nation's relationship with the land. Finally, he travels west to California, to see if gardens there reflect more than the glitz of the movie industry.


THU 20:00 Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal (b0bk8xcp)
Series 1

Pleasure vs Duty

This intimate two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed Britain during the 20th century. With sumptuous archive and revealing interviews, the series follows Margaret's life as she redefined our image of the modern princess.

This deeply personal account reveals how Princess Margaret's character combined the rebellious force of modernity and respect for tradition.


THU 21:00 Operation Crossbow (m000qsf1)
World War II drama. A small group of agents is sent on a vital mission to destroy a Nazi V-2 rocket base in Holland. Their aim is to prevent flying bombs from falling on London.


THU 22:50 Talking Pictures (b045cct6)
Sophia Loren

An examination of the life and career of one of cinema's most glamorous stars, Sophia Loren, with rarely seen archive material telling the story of her hugely successful career.


THU 23:25 El Cid (b0077tfh)
The epic story of the 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid. Involved in a tempestuous marriage to the beautiful Chimene, Rodrigo plots against various royal factions to gain power after the death of King Ferdinand, but his greatest campaign is to rid Spain of its Moorish invaders. He drives the Moors to their last outpost - Valencia - for a tumultuous and decisive battle.


THU 02:15 Around the World in 80 Gardens (b0091tl6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]



FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m00233yy)
Julia Carling presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 21 June 1996 and featuring Longpigs, Gabrielle, Mariah Carey, Let Loose, Crowded House, Simply Red, Maxi Priest feat Shaggy, Black Grape, Fugees and Beck.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m00233z0)
Gina G presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 28 June 1996 and featuring Everything but the Girl, The Divine Comedy, Celine Dion, Shampoo, Black Grape, Fugees and The Sex Pistols.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b03b45h2)
Paul Burnett presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 21 September 1978 and featuring Buzzcocks, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, Brotherhood of Man, The Jam, Leo Sayer, Stephen Bishop, The Three Degrees, Abba, David Essex, 10cc and a Legs & Co dance sequence.


FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (b0844w9t)
John Peel presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 23 September 1982. Includes appearances from David Christie, Culture Club, Fat Larry's Band, Depeche Mode, Musical Youth, Survivor and Evelyn King. Also includes a dance performance from Zoo.


FRI 21:00 Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two (m00233z2)
Part One

A concert by well-known American folk singers Peter, Paul and Mary,
recorded on location at the Southport Theatre. From 1983.


FRI 21:30 Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two (m00233z5)
Part Two

Second part of a concert given by well-known American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary during a visit to the UK in 1983. Recorded on location at the Southport Theatre.


FRI 22:00 Folk America at the Barbican (m00233z7)
Judy Collins

Legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins performs songs from throughout her career, delving back into the early days in Greenwich Village and beyond. She is on radiant form, and the Barbican set includes some of her best-loved songs like Both Sides Now and Someday Soon.


FRI 22:30 Tonight in Person (b00w8s1r)
Judy Collins

1966 concert by American folk singer Judy Collins, featuring Turn Turn Turn, Hey Nelly Nelly and My Rambling Boy.


FRI 23:00 BBC Four Sessions (m00233z9)
Martin Carthy and Friends

Recorded at Islington's Union Chapel, this concert brings together English folk legend Martin Carthy and some of his most important collaborators - including wife Norma and daughter Eliza, known collectively as Waterson-Carthy. Fiddling partner Dave Swarbrick, who joined Fairport Convention in the late 1960s, also features, as does extraordinary brass band Brass Monkey.


FRI 00:00 Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park (p031y885)
2015

Kate Rusby

The Barnsley singer-songwriter delivers her own brand of new and traditional folk.


FRI 00:30 Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two (m00233z2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


FRI 01:00 Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two (m00233z5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today]


FRI 01:30 Top of the Pops (m00233yy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 02:00 Top of the Pops (m00233z0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


FRI 02:30 Top of the Pops (b03b45h2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


FRI 03:05 Top of the Pops (b0844w9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]




LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)

Alison O'Donnell Remembers... Shetland 22:00 WED (m002339f)

Andy Warhol's America 23:30 TUE (p0b5mswc)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 00:20 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 THU (b0091tl6)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 02:15 THU (b0091tl6)

BBC Four Sessions 23:00 FRI (m00233z9)

BBC Young Musician 19:30 SUN (m00232yn)

Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty 21:00 WED (m000vlmw)

Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty 02:15 WED (m000vlmw)

Call My Bluff 21:00 MON (m002336q)

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 22:00 TUE (m0020xx9)

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 01:30 TUE (m0020xx9)

El Cid 23:25 THU (b0077tfh)

Folk America at the Barbican 22:00 FRI (m00233z7)

Genius of the Ancient World 01:55 SUN (b064jf28)

Genius of the Ancient World 23:00 MON (b065gv2m)

Going for a Song 21:30 MON (m002336s)

Golf: Solheim Cup 21:00 SUN (m00232yr)

Great American Railroad Journeys 19:00 MON (b08ndbb0)

Great American Railroad Journeys 01:40 MON (b08ndbb0)

Great American Railroad Journeys 19:00 TUE (b08ndfg9)

Great American Railroad Journeys 00:30 TUE (b08ndfg9)

Inside Culture 23:00 TUE (m001040x)

Meet the Ancestors 20:00 MON (b0074j87)

Meet the Ancestors 20:30 MON (b0074j98)

Meet the Ancestors 02:40 MON (b0074j87)

Meet the Ancestors 03:10 MON (b0074j98)

Operation Crossbow 21:00 THU (m000qsf1)

Parkinson 23:10 SAT (m002334q)

Parkinson 00:00 MON (m002334q)

Peter Kosminsky Remembers... The Project 22:00 SUN (m00232yt)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 21:00 FRI (m00233z2)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 21:30 FRI (m00233z5)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 00:30 FRI (m00233z2)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 01:00 FRI (m00233z5)

Porridge 00:10 SAT (b00789bm)

Porridge 00:40 SAT (b007sf76)

Porridge 20:00 TUE (b00789j3)

Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal 20:00 THU (b0bk8xcp)

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 00:00 FRI (p031y885)

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 19:00 SAT (m000scwr)

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 02:10 SAT (m000scwr)

Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime 21:00 SAT (m0021ct5)

Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime 22:05 SAT (m0021ct7)

Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle 23:20 WED (m0011203)

Shetland 22:20 WED (b0c3h5b1)

Talking Pictures 01:05 MON (b01rnc0b)

Talking Pictures 22:50 THU (b045cct6)

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth 21:00 TUE (b04g80p8)

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth 02:30 TUE (b04g80p8)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 19:00 SUN (m00239w9)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 02:55 SUN (m00239w9)

The Joy of Mozart 22:00 MON (b04yrj6n)

The Project 22:20 SUN (m00232yw)

The Project 00:05 SUN (m00232yz)

Tonight in Person 22:30 FRI (b00w8s1r)

Top of the Pops 19:00 FRI (m00233yy)

Top of the Pops 19:30 FRI (m00233z0)

Top of the Pops 20:00 FRI (b03b45h2)

Top of the Pops 20:30 FRI (b0844w9t)

Top of the Pops 01:30 FRI (m00233yy)

Top of the Pops 02:00 FRI (m00233z0)

Top of the Pops 02:30 FRI (b03b45h2)

Top of the Pops 03:05 FRI (b0844w9t)

Voyages of Discovery 20:00 SAT (b0074t6g)

Voyages of Discovery 01:10 SAT (b0074t6g)

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond 20:00 WED (b04v5lng)

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond 01:20 WED (b04v5lng)

Yes, Prime Minister 20:30 TUE (b0074s30)




LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES ORDERED BY GENRE
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)

Comedy: Satire

Yes, Prime Minister 20:30 TUE (b0074s30)

Comedy: Sitcoms

Porridge 00:10 SAT (b00789bm)

Porridge 00:40 SAT (b007sf76)

Porridge 20:00 TUE (b00789j3)

Yes, Prime Minister 20:30 TUE (b0074s30)

Drama

Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime 21:00 SAT (m0021ct5)

Sambre - Anatomy of a Crime 22:05 SAT (m0021ct7)

Drama: Crime

Shetland 22:20 WED (b0c3h5b1)

Drama: Historical

El Cid 23:25 THU (b0077tfh)

Drama: Political

The Project 22:20 SUN (m00232yw)

The Project 00:05 SUN (m00232yz)

Drama: War & Disaster

Operation Crossbow 21:00 THU (m000qsf1)

Entertainment

Call My Bluff 21:00 MON (m002336q)

Going for a Song 21:30 MON (m002336s)

Parkinson 23:10 SAT (m002334q)

Parkinson 00:00 MON (m002334q)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 19:00 SUN (m00239w9)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 02:55 SUN (m00239w9)

Factual

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth 21:00 TUE (b04g80p8)

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth 02:30 TUE (b04g80p8)

Factual: Antiques

Going for a Song 21:30 MON (m002336s)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

Alison O'Donnell Remembers... Shetland 22:00 WED (m002339f)

Andy Warhol's America 23:30 TUE (p0b5mswc)

Genius of the Ancient World 01:55 SUN (b064jf28)

Genius of the Ancient World 23:00 MON (b065gv2m)

Inside Culture 23:00 TUE (m001040x)

Peter Kosminsky Remembers... The Project 22:00 SUN (m00232yt)

Talking Pictures 01:05 MON (b01rnc0b)

Talking Pictures 22:50 THU (b045cct6)

The Joy of Mozart 22:00 MON (b04yrj6n)

Factual: Crime & Justice

Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty 21:00 WED (m000vlmw)

Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty 02:15 WED (m000vlmw)

Factual: History

Genius of the Ancient World 01:55 SUN (b064jf28)

Genius of the Ancient World 23:00 MON (b065gv2m)

Meet the Ancestors 20:00 MON (b0074j87)

Meet the Ancestors 20:30 MON (b0074j98)

Meet the Ancestors 02:40 MON (b0074j87)

Meet the Ancestors 03:10 MON (b0074j98)

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 19:00 SAT (m000scwr)

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 02:10 SAT (m000scwr)

The Joy of Mozart 22:00 MON (b04yrj6n)

Voyages of Discovery 20:00 SAT (b0074t6g)

Voyages of Discovery 01:10 SAT (b0074t6g)

Factual: Homes & Gardens

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 00:20 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 THU (b0091tl6)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 02:15 THU (b0091tl6)

Factual: Life Stories

Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal 20:00 THU (b0bk8xcp)

Talking Pictures 01:05 MON (b01rnc0b)

Talking Pictures 22:50 THU (b045cct6)

The Joy of Mozart 22:00 MON (b04yrj6n)

Factual: Politics

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 22:00 TUE (m0020xx9)

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 01:30 TUE (m0020xx9)

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond 20:00 WED (b04v5lng)

Wild Weather with Richard Hammond 01:20 WED (b04v5lng)

Factual: Travel

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 00:20 WED (b008yw0l)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 19:00 THU (b0091tl6)

Around the World in 80 Gardens 02:15 THU (b0091tl6)

Great American Railroad Journeys 19:00 MON (b08ndbb0)

Great American Railroad Journeys 01:40 MON (b08ndbb0)

Great American Railroad Journeys 19:00 TUE (b08ndfg9)

Great American Railroad Journeys 00:30 TUE (b08ndfg9)

Voyages of Discovery 20:00 SAT (b0074t6g)

Voyages of Discovery 01:10 SAT (b0074t6g)

Music

BBC Four Sessions 23:00 FRI (m00233z9)

BBC Young Musician 19:30 SUN (m00232yn)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 19:00 SUN (m00239w9)

The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week 02:55 SUN (m00239w9)

Tonight in Person 22:30 FRI (b00w8s1r)

Music: Classic Pop & Rock

Top of the Pops 19:00 FRI (m00233yy)

Top of the Pops 19:30 FRI (m00233z0)

Top of the Pops 20:00 FRI (b03b45h2)

Top of the Pops 20:30 FRI (b0844w9t)

Top of the Pops 01:30 FRI (m00233yy)

Top of the Pops 02:00 FRI (m00233z0)

Top of the Pops 02:30 FRI (b03b45h2)

Top of the Pops 03:05 FRI (b0844w9t)

Music: Classical

BBC Young Musician 19:30 SUN (m00232yn)

The Joy of Mozart 22:00 MON (b04yrj6n)

Music: Folk

Folk America at the Barbican 22:00 FRI (m00233z7)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 21:00 FRI (m00233z2)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 21:30 FRI (m00233z5)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 00:30 FRI (m00233z2)

Peter, Paul and Mary: Rhythm on Two 01:00 FRI (m00233z5)

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 00:00 FRI (p031y885)

Religion & Ethics

Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle 23:20 WED (m0011203)

Sport: Golf

Golf: Solheim Cup 21:00 SUN (m00232yr)