SATURDAY 07 JUNE 2025

SAT 19:00 The Flying Gardener (b007jg8n)
Series 1 Shorts

Lake District

Chris Beardshaw travels around by helicopter on a mission to find Britain's most inspirational gardens. Arriving in the Lake District, Chris dons his waders and goes in search of the ultimate water feature.


SAT 19:20 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d044)
Series 5

Against the Odds

James battles through snowy dales to save a litter of piglets, and Tristan hopes Siegfried will give him a job.


SAT 20:10 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d047)
Series 5

Place of Honour

With Helen still bedridden, James struggles manfully with both chores and children as Siegfried and Tristan look on idly.


SAT 21:00 The Black Forest Murders (m002cfs7)
Series 1

Blood Rain

A hair found in the Schora case leads the team to a suspect, but there is still no breakthrough in the Berghoff case. Navit's relentless data searches yield a surprising result – the suspect is implicated in the unsolved murder of a French student, across the border in Austria, four years previously.

In German with English subtitles.


SAT 21:45 The Black Forest Murders (m002cftd)
Series 1

The Longest Night

Progress is slow as the investigation reaches the 100-day mark. As Kramer prepares to downsize the team, they finally manage to glean evidence from the murder weapon in Steinach, narrowing the search to potential perpetrators.

In German with English subtitles.


SAT 22:35 Bob Servant (b04tmjcd)
Series 2

The Van

It's a new start for Bob and Frank, selling giant 'Meat Attack' burgers to the Broughty Ferry public. Things are going well until a woman and a council inspector get between them. Frank's head is turned, and Bob's business plans are in disarray. Will their friendship last the day?


SAT 23:00 Bob Servant (b04tqzh2)
Series 2

Court

When arch-nemesis Hendo becomes a love rival, Bob takes drastic action that lands him in court. Defending himself, with a support team of Frank and washed-up lawyer Objection McNally, Bob finds himself in serious danger. Can he convince the jury of his innocence?


SAT 23:30 Bob Servant (b04v2tjn)
Series 2

Wedding

Frank's getting married and Bob's feeling the pressure. He's confident that he's the best best man in history, but Frank isn't so sure. Frank reveals that he's planning to leave Broughty Ferry and Bob's reaction is extreme - placing the wedding and Frank's future in serious jeopardy.


SAT 00:00 The Good Life (b00781x8)
Series 2

Just My Bill

Tom finds marketing his garden produce more difficult than he thought, especially when the rates are due.


SAT 00:30 Yes Minister (b007833g)
Series 1

The Writing on the Wall

Jim Hacker's campaign against civil service overmanning is too successful. Now his own department faces closure.


SAT 01:00 Talking Pictures (m002d4n5)
Spartacus

Celia Imrie tells the story of the 1960 epic Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas, revealing how the film, which was then the most expensive of all time, made it onto the big screen.

Interviews from the BBC archives with key cast members, including Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons and Kirk Douglas himself, expose the battles behind the scenes that saw the first director getting fired in favour of new talent Stanley Kubrick and demonstrate how it was the gritty determination of leading man Douglas that led to the film defeating Hollywood’s notorious anti-communist blacklist.


SAT 01:45 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d044)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:20 today]


SAT 02:35 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d047)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:10 today]

SUNDAY 08 JUNE 2025

SUN 19:00 T20 Cricket (m002dfcm)
2025

England v West Indies: Second T20 Highlights

All the key moments from Bristol, where England take on the West Indies for the second T20 game of a three-match series.

The Cricket World Cup is just seven months away, so this is a chance for both sides to test out their line-ups, with Harry Brook skippering England in a T20 series for the first time. Former captain Jos Buttler is also in the squad, which includes Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson, who has earned a recall for the first time since 2022.


SUN 19:30 Vienna Philharmonic: Spring in Paris (m002dmb5)
The Vienna Philharmonic present a star-studded evening in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the world-famous opera house Palais Garnier in Paris.

Featuring some of the biggest names in opera - bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, tenors Juan Diego Flórez and Rolando Villazón, and soprano Sonya Yoncheva - this special concert is full of classical treats, with music from Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s La Traviata and more. Completing the line-up is the ever-charismatic pianist Yuja Wang, with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1.

The concert is conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.


SUN 21:00 The Many Faces of... (b00wylqq)
Series 1

Alison Steadman

A documentary in which Alison Steadman talks about her impressive career, featuring archive clips, both treasured and rarely seen, weaved together with sincere testimony from friends and colleagues.

The programme contains footage and stills from programmes such as Gavin and Stacey, Abigail's Party, Newshounds, Nuts in May and her early appearances in Frost's Weekly. It progresses from her earliest appearances on screen to what drove her choices, for good or ill, and their consequences.


SUN 22:00 Remembers... (m002dfcp)
Alison Steadman Remembers... Girl

National treasure Alison Steadman tells the story of one of the most groundbreaking and yet also most overlooked moments in British television.

Despite the popular perception that Channel 4’s Brookside broadcast TV’s first lesbian kiss in 1994, in reality it was Alison and Myra Frances who first broke the taboo 20 years earlier, in the 1974 drama Girl.

Once thought lost forever, due to the fact that not every programme was archived back in those times, the drama later resurfaced, thanks to a random video recording – giving Alison the opportunity to share her memories of how she approached the moment and the reaction it received.


SUN 22:15 Second City Firsts (m0019dxx)
Girl

1970s drama. Just as she is about to leave the army, Jackie has an encounter with an old lover. Stars Alison Steadman in an early TV role.


SUN 22:50 Gateways Grind: London’s Secret Lesbian Club (m0018k3h)
Sandi Toksvig goes behind the iconic green door of one of the most famous lesbian venues in the world, The Gateways Club in London. Starting off as a meeting place for bohemians, it became lesbian-only under the watchful management of the enigmatic Gina Ware and her sidekick Smithy until its closure in 1985.

The Gates’ former clientele recount the many stories of love, heartbreak, friendship, scandal and sanctuary that played out in the club, including the venue's appearance in a Hollywood film. They open up the secret history of this haven for women who could lose homes, jobs and children if their truth became known.


SUN 23:50 They All Came Out to Montreux (m001n2mz)
Series 1

Episode 1

The story of the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival and its inspirational founder, Claude Nobs.

In its early years, the festival hosted performances by Aretha Franklin, Eddie Harris & Les McCann, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.


SUN 00:45 They All Came Out to Montreux (m001n2n3)
Series 1

Episode 2

Claude’s vision grows, which sees the arrival of artists including David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Carol King, Muddy Waters, Monty Alexander, Etta James, Gilberto Gil, King Sunny, Talking Heads, Van Morrison and James Brown.


SUN 01:35 They All Came Out to Montreux (m001n2n5)
Series 1

Episode 3

A final exploration of the immense archive and legacy built by Claude at the festival. Artists and friends pay tribute to the man who changed a sleepy village into a world-famous music empire. Featured performances by Marvin Gaye, George Clinton, Buddy Guy, Herbie Hancock, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Sting, The Roots, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Alicia Keys, Prince and Wyclef Jean.


SUN 02:25 The Many Faces of... (b00wylqq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


SUN 03:25 Second City Firsts (m0019dxx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 today]

MONDAY 09 JUNE 2025

MON 19:00 Great British Railway Journeys (m000w24q)
Series 12

Aberystwyth to Newtown

Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael travels from Aberystwyth into the Cambrian Mountains at Devil’s Bridge and finishes in Newtown, Powys.

In the elegant coastal town of Aberystwyth, Michael visits the National Library of Wales, set high on a hill with views over Cardigan Bay. Michael hears how the idea of a repository for works in the Welsh language and an institution in which to preserve Welsh culture took shape and culminated, in 1937, in this prestigious institution. Michael is fascinated to see William Morgan’s Welsh translation of the Bible, published in 1588.

An unforgettable excursion on the Vale of Rheidol Railway takes Michael on a steep climb to Devil’s Bridge, past spectacular waterfalls and wooded hillsides.

Close by, in the Bwlch Nant yr Arian Forest, Michael heads for a lake, where magnificent birds of prey come to feed. At the time of his Bradshaw’s Guide, the red kite was close to extinction. But Wales’s favourite bird now thrives, and in order to keep it that way, astonishing numbers are fed here daily. Michael dares to lend a hand.

High above Aberystwyth, Michael heads for a hilltop, where during the 1930s, amazing discoveries were made. At Pen Dinas, a young professor from Aberystwyth University dug deep below Roman remains and found an Iron Age settlement. Michael learns how archaeological methods have changed today.

Michael’s 250-mile tour of north Wales draws to a close in style at the birthplace of the nation’s first classical music festival, Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. Michael is intrigued to discover that its founders, sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, used the fortune they inherited from their grandfather, a noted Welsh railway builder, to establish the country estate as a centre for art and music from 1933. In the glorious music room, a Welsh harpist helps to evoke the spirit of festivals past and present.


MON 19:30 War Walks (b0074mlq)
Series 1

Agincourt

A journey through six centuries of warfare in the company of military historian Professor Richard Holmes. In 1415, Henry V won a remarkable victory against a French force that outnumbered him by five to one. Professor Holmes retraces Henry's route to Agincourt and finds a story of heroism and brutality.


MON 20:00 Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (b01ktflc)
The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it and the generals who led it. But that epic event in world history has never been told before through the perspective of the strange handful of spies who made it possible. D-Day was a great victory of arms, a tactical coup, and a moral crusade. But it was also a triumph for espionage, deceit, and thinking of the most twisted sort.

Following on from his hugely successful BBC Two documentaries, Operation Mincemeat and Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story (Agent Zigzag), writer and presenter Ben Macintyre returns to the small screen to bring to life his third best-selling book - Double Cross The True Story of the D-Day Spies. Macintyre reveals the gripping true story of five of the double agents who helped to make D-Day such a success.


MON 21:00 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kpz)
The Wild East

Nearly one in five Poles died during World War II after the Nazi invasion in 1939 ushered in one of the most brutal episodes of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen. This film destroys the myth that Poland's Nazi leaders were acting under detailed 'orders' and that the country's Nazi administration was a model of German efficiency. Arthur Greiser and Albert Forster, the two Nazi leaders charged with Germanising Poland, could not even agree on who should be Germanised.

Featuring interviews with former Nazis, moving testimony from witnesses to SS atrocities in Poland, ethnic Germans and Polish Jews, the programme provides insights into how the Nazis' reign of terror in Poland was characterised by huge population upheavals, chaos, petty squabbles and sheer bloodlust.


MON 21:50 The Sky at Night (m002dfcw)
Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and Time

To celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, the team recreate history.

In the times of the early Astronomers Royal, scientists would gather at spectacular dinner parties at Flamsteed House in Greenwich to share ideas and discuss the universe.

In 2025, 350 years on from the first ground stones being laid, we come together once again to discover how the work at the Royal Observatory defined the prime meridian, fundamentally changing our world, and blasting technology and communications forward into the global economy we know today.

Since then, world time zero has run through Greenwich, but our understanding of time has grown. It is not constant, but is in fact relative to each and every one of us. Our experience of time changes depending on where and what we are in the universe - with surprising effects that scientists are still uncovering today.

We find out if the second will need to be redefined in 2030, explore the implications of time being stretched and squeezed by gravity, and visit the most extreme regions of space that bend time back on itself - breaking physics as we know it.

Joining presenters Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence at the dinner table is a glittering line-up of science communicators.

Dr Rebekah Higgitt, a historian of science and a past curator at the Royal Observatory, gives us a deep insight into the wealth of characters whose work defined modern science and technology here.

We explore the discovery and nature of black holes with astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst from the University of Oxford.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili provides a quantum approach to time, probing why it is that we exist in a universe where time seems destined to flow in only one direction - forwards.

Meanwhile, Chris Lintott is in the field, meeting Dr Louise Devoy in the coveted conservation stores of the Royal Observatory, the high-tech Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre, to look at a very special object from 1919 that proved Einstein right about a fundamental new property of our universe.

Chris interviews Professor Claudia de Rham about the most extreme regions of the cosmos - those that rip holes in space-time, where Einstein’s theory is destined to fail - sparking new theories of quantum gravity dating back to the birth of the universe itself. Can we say when the cosmological 'clock' started ticking?

Join the team on a journey through space and time.


MON 22:20 Rise of the Nazis (p09jgldz)
Dictators at War

Episode 1

At the peak of his power, Hitler now faces fellow ruthless dictator Stalin. He tries to deceive Stalin with a plan to invade Britain, all while preparing an attack on the Soviet Union.


MON 23:20 How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears (b045nz9q)
Deserts

Ray Mears looks at how the landscapes of America's five great deserts challenged the westward push of the early pioneers.

As Ray travels through the cold high mountain Great Basin desert and the hot Sonoran desert of southern Arizona, he discovers how their hostile geography and rich geology shaped the stories of fortune hunting and lawlessness in the Wild West, and were the setting for the last wars between the US Army and the Apache warrior tribes.

Ray's journey begins in Monument Valley, whose dramatic desert landscape has become synonymous with the Wild West years. He explores how plants and animals survive in this waterless climate and how the Navajo Indian people adapted to the conditions. In Tucson, he meets up with desert coroners Bruce Anderson and Robin Reineke, who show him how the desert still kills people today.

He explores how the Apache adapted their warfare methods to the desert and how the US cavalry struggled in the hot arid landscape. In Tombstone, he gets to grips with the myths around lawmakers and lawlessness and how it flourished in the remote desert regions of the Old West. He discovers how this forbidding landscape was the perfect refuge for bandits and pursues the outlaw trail to Butch Cassidy's hideout at Robber's Roost. His journey ends with the story of Geronimo's surrender which marked the end of the Indian Wars, and of the Old West.


MON 00:20 Great British Railway Journeys (m000w24q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


MON 00:50 War Walks (b0074mlq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


MON 01:20 Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (b01ktflc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


MON 02:20 Rise of the Nazis (p09jgldz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:20 today]

TUESDAY 10 JUNE 2025

TUE 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03vrtzp)
Size Matters

Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod begins a six-part journey to discover how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every habitat on earth.

Ben shows us what bone is constructed from and how it can support animals that are both minuscule - a frog just a few millimetres long - and massive - the blue whale, two hundred million times bigger.


TUE 19:30 War Walks (b0074m7q)
Series 1

Waterloo

Wellington's victory against Napoleon in 1815 ended the most powerful European empire since the Romans. Professor Holmes visits the farms and fields where history hung in the balance.


TUE 20:00 The Good Life (m000yw8m)
Series 2

The Guru of Surbiton

Tom's philosophy of life attracts two young disciples - but not permanently, he hopes.


TUE 20:30 Yes Minister (b0078356)
Series 1

The Right to Know

Sir Humphrey prevents Jim from getting to know too much about how the Department of Administrative Affairs operates and uses badgers in Hayward's Spinney to show him there are things it is better not to know.


TUE 21:00 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b00793xk)
Turner

In this revealing blend of history and art, Simon Schama tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's greatest painter, JMW Turner, created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship.


TUE 22:00 Storyville (m002dfcy)
Wedding Night

A Storyville documentary in which ultra-orthodox Jewish couples speak bravely about their feelings during matchmaking, the engagement period, the wedding ceremony, their first night alone together and the morning after.

In the ultra-orthodox Jewish community, boys and girls are raised almost entirely separately. While young men are educated not to look at or think about women, young women are taught to dress, think and behave with modesty. Marriages are arranged, and when the time comes to marry, young couples will have had little, if any, interaction with one another. On their wedding night, despite this being their first time alone together, the expectation is that they will consummate their marriage. The forbidden becomes permitted, the impure pure, and modesty turns into full exposure.


TUE 23:10 King Otto and Football’s Greek Gods (m002053h)
In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek national football team, who had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European champions.

The architect behind this unprecedented triumph was legendary German football coach ‘King’ Otto Rehhagel. After accomplishing every major success in Germany, he made the bold decision to leave all he knew behind and work in a foreign country with the underachieving Greek national team. This is the story of how these two contrasting cultures came together to speak the same language and write a new chapter of Greek mythology.


TUE 00:30 Secrets of Bones (b03vrtzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 01:00 War Walks (b0074m7q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 01:30 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kpz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:20 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b00793xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2025

WED 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03wct07)
Down to Earth

Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod discovers how the skeleton has adapted for vertebrates to move on land in a remarkable number of ways. They can swing through the trees, slide on the forest floor, dig through dark subterranean worlds and run at speed across the savannahs. Ben explores the role of the spine in both cheetahs and snakes, shows how adaptations to the pentadactyl limb have helped gibbons and horses thrive and how one unique bone in the animal kingdom has been puzzling scientists for years.


WED 19:30 War Walks (b0074m7y)
Series 1

Mons

The British troops who marched against the Germans in August 1914 believed the war would be over by Christmas. But at Mons they learned that the old world of swords and bugles would be swept away by the machine gun and the shell. Richard Holmes follows in their footsteps as they retreated south from Mons.


WED 20:00 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06gxzkj)
Episode 1

Lucy Worsley presents a series about the 'invention' of British romance - our very own, surprisingly passionate, tradition of love.

Lucy's romp through three centuries of love's rituals begins with the Georgian age, when the rules of courtship were being rewritten. Traditionally, marriage had been as much about business as love. Now, a glamorisation of romantic love inspired women and men to make their own romantic choices - they could flirt in newly built assembly rooms or elope to Gretna Green as an act of romantic rebellion.

But the main force of change was the arrival of the novel - Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen didn't just map out women's changing desires, they made people seek out the feelings and emotions described in their own lives, permanently changing how the British feel.


WED 21:00 Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (b08sqxk1)
Lucy Worsley explores the different houses in which Jane Austen lived and stayed, to discover just how much they shaped Jane's life and novels.

On a journey that takes her across England, Lucy visits properties that still exist, from grand stately homes to seaside holiday apartments, and brings to life those that have disappeared. The result is a revealing insight into one of the world's best-loved authors.


WED 22:00 Mansfield Park (p04vfvpn)
Episode 1

Fanny Price is removed from her impoverished Portsmouth home by her Aunt Norris to live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park.


WED 22:50 Mansfield Park (p04vfvz5)
Episode 2

Fanny has grown up to be an indispensable member of the household at Mansfield Park. During Sir Thomas's absence abroad, the glam Crawfords arrive to stay in the neighbourhood.


WED 23:45 Mansfield Park (p04vfwjg)
Episode 3

Fanny has sadly observed Edmund's growing fascination for Mary Crawford. To Aunt Norrie's delight, Maria has become engaged to wealthy Mr Rushworth.


WED 00:40 Secrets of Bones (b03wct07)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 01:10 War Walks (b0074m7y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


WED 01:40 Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (b08sqxk1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


WED 02:40 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06gxzkj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 12 JUNE 2025

THU 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03x3zfs)
Into the Air

Ben Garrod finds out how the skeleton has allowed vertebrates to do the most remarkable thing of all - take to the air. He discovers why the humble pigeon is such an exceptional flier, uncovers bony secrets as to how the albatross makes mammoth migrations and finds out why some birds have dense bones. Finally, he reveals which surprising flier is his 'ultimate'.


THU 19:30 War Walks (b0074qkx)
Series 1

The Somme

1 July 1916 was the blackest day in the British army's history. Richard Holmes walks the fields where 57,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in just a few hours, and continues the story until the end of the Somme campaign in 1916.


THU 20:00 Digging for Britain (b09hgdx0)
Series 6

North

Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the north of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the site, filmed by the archaeologists themselves. Alice discovers the well-preserved writing tablets, swords and domestic items left by Romans at Vindolanda during a time of British rebellion. On the Scottish island of Iona, there are traces of a long-lost monastery and pilgrimage site that was originally built by the legendary Saint Columba, and has been compared to Jerusalem. In the east of Scotland, a weapons hoard belonging to a wealthy Bronze Age warrior is unearthed.


THU 21:00 Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (b04hc5v7)
Episode 1

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is its significance? And which forces inspired its creators? Now a group of international archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna believe that a new state-of-the-art approach is the key to unlocking Stonehenge's secrets. For four years the team have surveyed and mapped every monument, both visible and invisible, across ten square kilometres of the sacred landscape to create the most complete digital picture of Stonehenge and the surrounding area over millennia. Known monuments have yielded more data than ever before, revealing hidden structures within, and new finds are revolutionising the very timeline of Stonehenge.

Operation Stonehenge takes the viewer on a prehistoric journey from 8000BC to 2500BC as the scientists uncover the very origins of Stonehenge, learning why this landscape is sacred, preserved and has been revered by following generations. Evidence of war and conflict, as well as the cultivation of ideas and industry, is explored to reveal complex communities with international trade links as far-reaching as Spain and central Europe.

Using CGI to reveal the monuments hidden beneath Stonehenge and featuring factually sourced dramatic reconstructions, the stories of the buildings and the people that occupied this sacred landscape over four millennia ago are revealed in comprehensive detail.


THU 22:00 Mansfield Park (p04vfx1c)
Episode 4

The Mansfield theatricals collapse when Sir Thomas returns unexpectedly from Antigua. His disapproval is deep, except towards Fanny, who refused to take part.


THU 22:50 Mansfield Park (p04vfx9z)
Episode 5

Henry goes to Mansfield to tell Fanny of William's promotion. To Fanny's dismay Henry confesses his love for her.


THU 23:45 Mansfield Park (p04vfxhv)
Episode 6

To her distress, Fanny is attacked by Sir Thomas for rejecting Henry's marriage proposal. She is sent back to Portsmouth to reflect on her position.


THU 00:40 The Sky at Night (m002dfcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:50 on Monday]


THU 01:10 War Walks (b0074qkx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


THU 01:40 Digging for Britain (b09hgdx0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


THU 02:40 Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (b04hc5v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2025

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002dfcb)
Jo Whiley presents the pop chart programme broadcast on 9 January 1998 and featuring Lighthouse Family, Steps, Janet Jackson, Space, All Saints, Warren G feat. Sissel and Vanilla.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002dfcd)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 January 1998 and featuring Robbie Williams, Clock, Lighthouse Family, Oasis, All Saints and Bamboo.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b09vpjh3)
Mike Read and Dixie Peach present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 13 June 1985. Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge and Marillion.


FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (b093lyjn)
Peter Powell and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 14 June 1984. Includes appearances from The Art Company, The Smiths, Scritti Politti, Ozzy Osbourne, Nick Heyward, Nik Kershaw and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.


FRI 21:00 Tom Jones at the BBC (b00vz5ml)
An archive celebration of Tom Jones's performances at the BBC from the start of his pop career in the mid-60s to Later... with Jools Holland in 2010 and all points in between, including Top of the Pops and The Dusty Springfield Show. A chronological celebration of Sir Tom through the years that is also a history of music TV at the BBC over most of the past 50 years.


FRI 21:55 Tom Jones: In Concert 1971 (m002058w)
Tom Jones in concert with the Treorchy Male Choir and The Blossoms. First broadcast 1971.


FRI 22:50 Glastonbury (b00lh12g)
2009

Tom Jones

Sir Tom Jones wows them at Worthy Farm in the legendary teatime slot, Sunday June 28th 2009 on the Pyramid Stage. Sporting his recent silver fox look and with a full band, Tom delivers rousing versions of all his biggest hits - Delilah, It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat? Kiss, Sex Bomb and a cover of EMF's Unbelievable - while the crowd sing along and party in the sunshine.


FRI 23:50 Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me (b0788qph)
In this personal journey through his formative years in south Wales in the 1950s, Tom Jones takes us on a trip through the decade of his childhood and adolescence, the years that shaped his ambition, his talent and his tastes and that witnessed an explosion of popular culture and the sweeping aside of the old order.

Television, the movies, the radio and - most importantly - the music of the first rock 'n' roll years give us a unique insight into both the country and the decade that would shape Tom's talent and, in the 60s, make him a star. Tom Jones's 1950s in Pontypridd are told first hand by the man himself as he travels back to his birthplace.

Tom's take on the decade is amplified and explored by a Greek chorus of contributors who share their account of their 50s. Joan Bakewell, Katherine Whitehorn and Michele Hanson share their experiences both as women and from differing class backgrounds, historians Alwyn Turner, Martin Johnes, Francis Beckett and Tony Russell draw the social and political landscape of a rapidly changing decade, while musicians Bruce Welch, Clem Cattini, Marty Wilde and Tom McGuinness talk of how that decade began their musical journeys and changed their lives forever, all illustrated by a rich seam of archive that captures a decade we mostly saw in black and white.

The result is a rich mix of humour, confession and reflection - all brought to life by Tom Jones himself, our guide through the lives and times of a young generation struggling to find its own voice.


FRI 00:50 The Rolling Stones: Licked Live in NYC (p0cgmylt)
The Rolling Stones embarked on a worldwide tour in 2002 and 2003 that would cover 117 shows in a variety of theatres, arenas and stadiums.

This show captures their January 2003 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City and features a guest appearance from Sheryl Crow on Honky Tonk Women. There are also previously unreleased performances of Start Me Up, Tumbling Dice, Gimme Shelter and Sympathy for The Devil.


FRI 01:50 George Michael: Live in London (m001n435)
The former Wham! frontman, George Michael, is filmed at his final two concerts at London's Earls Court arena on 24 and 25 August 2008 in front of 40,000 screaming fans.

Part of his 25 Live tour, the shows marked a triumphant return to live performance for the singer, with the songs featured including Careless Whisper, Faith, Fast Love, Jesus to a Child and I'm Your Man, drawn from every stage of his career.