SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025

SAT 19:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0gd)
Series 6

In Whom We Trust

James and Siegfried are dismayed when Roddy Travers appears to be stealing instruments from the practice and his dog is accused of sheep killing.


SAT 19:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0hk)
Series 6

The Rough and the Smooth

James has to perform a delicate operation when Siegfried, proud of his new management system, mislays his diary.


SAT 20:40 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0hr)
Series 6

The Best Time

Siegfried is perplexed when the usually caring Mrs Clarke snubs her recent neighbour. Meanwhile, James diagnoses prostate trouble and gives Tricki Woo a female hormone.


SAT 21:30 Edge of Darkness (p00v5gw9)
Series 1

Northmoor

Craven and Jedburgh follow the fateful route of the Gaia raid on Northmoor, but someone knows they are coming, and drastic deterrents await them.


SAT 22:20 Edge of Darkness (p00v5gzw)
Series 1

Fusion

After being exposed to fatal doses of radiation, Jedburgh heads for Scotland armed with the plutonium. Craven, now in possession of the wisdom of Gaia, waits for the inevitable.


SAT 23:20 Wogan (m002mggy)
June Whitfield, Marvin Mitchelson and Anthony Burgess

Terry Wogan in conversation with June Whitfield, Marvin Mitchelson and Anthony Burgess.


SAT 00:00 The Many Faces Of... (b00pk7ny)
June Whitfield

June Whitfield worked alongside the greats Arthur Askey, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Ronnie Barker, Benny Hill, Bob Monkhouse, Terry Scott and Jennifer Saunders.

In this film June tells her own story, from her early days in the West End working with Noel Coward, her ill-fated Broadway debut, and with the help of rarely seen archive, impeccable comedy performances on radio and TV.

June reveals that a lack of confidence about her looks caused her to play it for laughs. She also offers insights into her onscreen relationship with Terry Scott and the secret behind her success.


SAT 01:00 Happy Ever After (m002m4gy)
Pilot programme of the classic sitcom Happy Ever After, made in 1974 as part of the Comedy Playhouse series and starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a couple adjusting to life alone after their children have flown the nest. Five series of Happy Ever After followed.


SAT 01:30 Beggar My Neighbour: Have Car - Won't Travel (m002m4h0)
The 1960s BBC sitcom about warring relatives and neighbours, starring Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Reg Varney and Pat Coombs.


SAT 02:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0gd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SAT 02:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0hk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:50 today]

SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025

SUN 19:00 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078l7l)
Steaming Down the Road

Fred traces the development of steam power. He looks at early experiments in its use for road transport and at the development of the traction engine.


SUN 19:30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqbz)
Series 1

South West

Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores the Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac. Behind the quaint facade lies something far more gritty - a place where people exploited a range of natural resources, on land and at sea, to make a living and find profits far beyond Britain's shores.


SUN 20:00 Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! (m001gnqj)
With family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from a darkly comic Christmas Eve at Dr Dross’s Orphanage through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland, influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.

Tchaikovsky’s glorious score and Anthony Ward’s newly refreshed delectable sets and costumes combine with Bourne’s dazzling choreography to create a fresh and charmingly irreverent interpretation of the classic.


SUN 21:30 Jools Holland’s New Orleans Jukebox (m002mggr)
Programme celebrating the 40th anniversary of the original transmission of the legendary Tube special Walking to New Orleans, highlights of which included Fats Domino, Lee Dorsey, Allen Toussaint, Dr John and The Neville Brothers.

In this two-hour special, the programme is repeated, and Jools reveals the stories behind its making and explores his love of the music of New Orleans.

At the piano, Jools reflects on the music that has inspired him throughout his life, and we feature some of his favourite performances he has selected from the BBC archives, including Mahalia Jackson, Chris Barber and Ottilie Patterson, Louis Armstrong, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty.


SUN 23:40 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l701)
Series 1

9. The Big Corporation

JK Galbraith explores the modern large corporation - 'the most relentless force for change in modern economic life'.


SUN 00:35 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l703)
Series 1

10. Land and the People

In Mexico and the Punjab, on the cotton fields of the old South and the farm where he was born, Prof Galbraith confronts the tragedy of the landless poor and searches for a solution in the world-wide migration to the cities.


SUN 01:30 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078l7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SUN 02:00 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqbz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


SUN 02:30 Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! (m001gnqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2025

MON 19:00 Earth's Seasonal Secrets (b07xjt9p)
Autumn

Every year, spectacular seasons transform our planet. As they sweep across the world, they drive all life on earth, bringing huge opportunities and great challenges to everything. This special, narrated by Andrew Scott, celebrates the drama of autumn and how animals and plants deal with the new challenges it brings.

This is the time of year that brings the world's most spectacular transformations. With winter fast approaching, life has to get ready and that means feeding up while you can, fighting for the last chance to breed and rushing to grow up before the cold returns. While chipmunks and beavers dash to stash their winter supplies, many animals from musk oxen to beetles have to battle for mates and young gannets must face life's first dangerous challenges.


MON 20:00 Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (m000s5xm)
In a world exclusive, Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famous bluestones of Stonehenge.

Using cutting-edge research, a dedicated team of archaeologists led by Prof Mike Parker Pearson have painstakingly compiled the evidence to fill in a 400-year gap in our knowledge of the bluestones – and to show that the original stones of Britain’s most iconic monument had a previous life.

From the grand fantasy of medieval Merlin legends, to the chemical signatures in microscopic rock fragments, no stone is left unturned in the search for new evidence. By combining innovative 3D scanning techniques, traditional field archaeology and novel laboratory analysis, the team have discovered when and where the stones for Stonehenge were quarried and where they first stood.

Alice shows how the team discovered that the stones must have been quarried 400 years before they were first erected at Stonehenge. The team then focuses on trying to find out if the same stones had an earlier life.

Alice joins Mike as they put together the final pieces of the puzzle – not just revealing where the stones came from and how they were moved from Wales to England, but also solving one of the toughest challenges that archaeologists face.

Their revelations will rewrite the history of Stonehenge forever – this is the story of Stonehenge’s lost circle.


MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m002mgd7)
Robert Robinson hosts as Frank Muir, Joanna Lumley and Russell Harty take on Patrick Campbell, Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes in the panel game of word definitions and deceptions.


MON 21:30 Face the Music (m002mgd9)
Joseph Cooper hosts the 100th edition of the musical quiz. He is joined by Judith Jackson, Robin Ray and Richard Baker. The guest musician is Ian Wallace.


MON 22:00 Arena (m002khlf)
The Last Soviet Citizen

Documentary that follows three decades of Soviet space culture, from the glory days of Yuri Gagarin to the saga of Sergei Krikalev, the Soviet citizen who was stranded in space for ten months as the Soviet Union was dismantled.


MON 23:20 Arena (b0074tkl)
The Underground

Documentary about the tube, the world's oldest underground system. Three million passengers use it every day, and over the past 150 years, it has developed its own history, alongside literature, music and film that have been inspired by it.

Includes contributions from the London underground's staff.


MON 00:15 The Great Philosophers (m002l4zy)
Series 1

Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

Bryan Magee and Hubert Dreyfus discuss the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and other modern existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.


MON 01:05 The Great Philosophers (m002l500)
Series 1

The American Pragmatists

Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.


MON 01:45 Face the Music (m002mgd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today]


MON 02:15 Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (m000s5xm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2025

TUE 19:00 Inside Museums (m001645q)
Series 2

The Story of Slate

Huw Stephens tells the story of the Welsh slate industry with a visit to the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. It’s an extraordinary story of ruthless landlords exploiting whole mountains to make vast profits from what is now Snowdonia National Park.

Quarrying slate was a brutal business, and working conditions for the poorly paid men were extremely dangerous. In 1900, the longest industrial dispute in British history started with the Great Penrhyn Strike at the quarry in Bethesda – the biggest quarry in the world at the time. But despite the hardships and environmental damage to the landscape that can still be seen to this day, the slate industry created a unique culture of poetry, music and song in the Welsh language.

The National Slate Museum is housed within the old Gilfach Ddu workshops at Llanberis, a site that once provided all the tools and maintenance for the huge Dinorwig quarry just above the village. The whole museum is a living artefact. It looks and feels as if the workers have just downed tools and left for the day.

Huw meets Andrew ‘JonJo’, a sixth-generation quarryman who himself worked for 32 years at the Penrhyn quarry in Bethesda. Now he is a demonstrator, showing visitors the fine craft of slate splitting. He explains why, despite life as a quarryman being tough, he is proud of his heritage and how there was real camaraderie among the men. At its height in the late 19th century, the Welsh slate industry employed 14,000 men and produced nearly half a million tons of slate per year. Welsh slate was exported across the British Empire and beyond, and is still considered some of the best in the world.

Elen Roberts, head of the museum, shows Huw some of the industrial artefacts. The huge waterwheel, the biggest in mainland Britain, used water from Afon Hwch that flows off Eryri (Snowdon) just up the valley to power the workshops. They were almost self-sufficient, manufacturing everything you would need for the profitable extraction of slate, from wagons and railway sleepers to hammers and chisels.

Elen shows Huw the impressive foundry where complex metal components were cast from molten iron. And in the loft, Huw sees the thousands of wooden patterns that were carved by hand to create the moulds into which the iron was poured. Elen explains that all of this priceless heritage would have been lost were it not for the actions of the quarry’s former chief engineer Huw Richards Jones, who stopped the ‘vultures’ circling and started a campaign to preserve the workshops and the artefacts.

One of the museum’s most poignant exhibits is Fron Haul, a row of traditional terraced cottages that were moved stone by stone from nearby Tan Y Grisiau and rebuilt at Gilfach Ddu. The houses have been furnished to represent life at three different quarries at three different times: 1861, the height of the industry, at Tan Y Grisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog; 1969, Llanberis, the year the Dinorwig quarry closed; and 1901, Bethesda, the middle of the Great Penrhyn Quarry Strike.

The museum’s chief curator, Cadi Iolen, shows Huw around the 1901 house explaining the significance of the sign in the window that reads ‘Nid oes bradwr yn y ty hwn’, which translates as ‘There is no traitor in this house’. During the strike, quarrymen would put these signs in the window to show that they were still out. The strike lasted three long years and tore the community apart. Inside, Cadi shows Huw a conch shell that strikers’ wives would blow like a trumpet to shame the strikebreakers as they returned from work. And upstairs in a tiny bedroom, Huw finds a suitcase with a luggage label for Tumble, a sign that the man of the house was leaving to look for work in the south Wales coalfields.

Life was hard for the quarrymen of north Wales, but the communities that grew up around the industry were resilient too and created a unique culture. At the heart of this was Y Caban, or The Cabin, a kind of hut out on the quarry face where the men would gather to eat their lunch, drink tea and discuss the important matters of the day. These meeting places have come to take on an almost mythical status in the culture of the quarry, turning into centres of learning and political debate where working men could find respite from the hardship of their working life.

Lowri Ifor, the museum’s education officer, shows Huw the Caban at the Gilfach Ddu Workshops, complete with an eisteddfod chair awarded to the best poet at a quarry eisteddfod in 1938. Although the slate industry left a legacy of environmental destruction and economic hardship, it also created a unique Welsh-speaking culture in the industrial villages in the mountains that nurtured writers, poets and politicians as well as brass bands and male voice choirs that still thrive to this day.

The slate landscapes of Gwynedd, and the culture they created, have been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site, putting them on a par with the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramids.


TUE 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00f3pg9)
The Whisky Train

Julia Bradbury's first walking foray into Scotland has a very distinct flavour to it - whisky! The Speyside Way is one of Scotland's great walking routes, and between the villages of Craigellachie and Ballindaloch it follows the route of the railway that once served a remote area and a world-famous drinks industry.


TUE 20:00 The Good Life (b0078yhf)
When I'm 65

A special performance of the classic comedy series, recorded in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

When Jerry takes out yet another endowment policy, the Goods begin to have misgivings about their plans for old age.


TUE 20:30 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074rtb)
Series 1

A Real Partnership

Classic political sitcom. The government runs into a financial crisis just as MPs are due for a pay rise.


TUE 21:00 The Black Swan (m002mgh4)
Series 1

The Decoy

Corporate lawyer Amira Smajic sets up her new office and lets her former clientele know she is back in business. Cases soon start coming through the door, including the illegal disposal of toxic waste and a complicated money laundering scam.


TUE 22:00 The Black Swan (m002mgh8)
Series 1

The Witness Who Won't Die

The ties between the Danish underworld and the Danish establishment tighten as legal advice is sought for businesses looking to manage bankruptcies in a way that will avoid attracting scrutiny. Meanwhile, another of Smajic’s clients calls from Pakistan, where he claims he is going to eliminate a witness due to testify against him in court.


TUE 22:55 Turner: The Man Who Painted Britain (m000xnyh)
While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and contradictions. This docudrama explores the extraordinary story of a brilliant self-made man.


TUE 23:55 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06qgh3w)
Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story

Few figures in British history have captured the popular imagination as much as the outlaw. From gentleman highwaymen, via swashbuckling pirates to elusive urban thieves and rogues, the brazen escapades and the flamboyance of the outlaw made them the antihero of their time - feared by the rich, admired by the poor and celebrated by writers and artists.

In this three-part series, historian Dr Sam Willis travels the open roads, the high seas and urban alleyways to explore Britain's 17th- and 18th-century underworld of highwaymen, pirates and rogues, bringing the great age of the British outlaw vividly to life.

Sam shows that, far from being 'outsiders', outlaws were very much a product of their time, shaped by powerful national events. In each episode, he focuses not just on a particular type of outlaw, but a particular era - the series as a whole offers a chronological portrait of the changing face of crime in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sam begins with the arrival of a new breed of gentleman criminal out of the ashes of the English Civil War - the highwayman. Heavily romanticised in literature, these glamorous gangsters became a social menace on the roads and a political thorn in the side of the creaking British state - threatening to steal our wallets and our hearts. But underneath the dashing image of stylish robbers on horseback lay a far darker reality.


TUE 00:55 Arena (b0074tkl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:20 on Monday]


TUE 01:55 Inside Museums (m001645q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 02:25 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00f3pg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 02:55 Turner: The Man Who Painted Britain (m000xnyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:55 today]

WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025

WED 19:00 Inside Museums (m001648f)
Series 2

Ulster’s Folk Wonders

Marie-Louise Muir discovers the beauty of everyday objects, found at homes in Northern Ireland at the turn of the 20th century.

These include harnen stands, used to toast oatcakes in front of an open fire, and one of the finest examples of crazy patchwork quilts seen in any British museum. The enthusiasm of specialist curators and the people who demonstrate crafts at the museum, including metalwork, basket making and linen weaving, bring an extraordinary collection to life.

Marie-Louise discovers that this rich archive of buildings, photographs, languages, crafts and customs would not exist without the vision of EE Evans, a Welsh geographer, writer and acclaimed folklorist who spent his life in Northern Ireland. Professor Evans’s work became one of the cornerstones of the museum, which opened in 1964, and he inspired an army of volunteers to go out and record the lives of a fast-disappearing rural community.

The museum’s illustrated notebooks are one of the many behind-the-scenes treasures that Marie-Louise discovers on this very special tour.

This much-loved local museum aims to look not at the history of the battlefield but at the history of the ploughed field, asking visitors today to reflect on the shared heritage and history of Northern Ireland.


WED 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00f80z6)
Harbouring History

The backstreets of Weymouth seem an unlikely spot to explore railway history, but Julia discovers there was once a short railway that ran south from Weymouth and across the unique coastal features of Chesil Beach and Portland. The walk is the ideal platform for learning about the history of Portland Harbour and the tied isle's most famous export, Portland stone.


WED 20:00 The Magic of Mushrooms (b041m6fh)
Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on earth depends on it.

In a specially built mushroom lab, with the help of mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey and some state-of-the-art technology, Richard brings to life the secret world of mushrooms as never seen before and reveals the spectacular abilities of fungi to break down waste and sustain new plant life, keeping our planet alive.

Beyond the lab, Richard travels across Britain and beyond to show us the biggest, fastest and most deadly organisms on the planet - all of them fungi. He reveals their almost magical powers that have world-changing potential - opening up new frontiers in science, medicine and technology.


WED 21:00 The Brontes at the BBC (b075dwrd)
An exploration of the BBC's long love affair with the lives and works of the Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. For over half a century, the ill-fated literary dynasty has proved irresistible to drama and documentary makers alike, keen to reinvent their novels for new audiences. So we get Bronte heroines reimagined for each emerging generation, first as classic 1950s housewife material, then wild child '60s 'chicks', Gothic waifs and, finally, empowered modern women. The Bronte males, meanwhile, are restyled as assorted prigs, wife-beaters, even brooding prog rockers and, of course, wouldn't you know it, new men. Wonderful stuff.


WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002mgh0)
Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens Remember... Jane Eyre

The BBC’s 2006 adaption of Jane Austen’s classic novel Jane Eyre was a hit with critics and viewers alike, and brought together actors Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens in the leading roles of Jane and the brooding Mr Rochester.

Here, the reunited pair look back on the production, sharing their memories of being part of the cast, recalling what it was like working opposite each other and outlining the challenges involved in bringing such iconic characters from English literature from the page to the screen.


WED 22:20 Jane Eyre (b0074t80)
Episode 1

After surviving the cruel regime of a harsh charity school, orphan Jane Eyre takes a job as a governess at Thornfield Hall. Here, she finds herself increasingly attracted to her enigmatic master, Mr Rochester. But Jane's peaceful existence is shattered when strange events in the night threaten danger.


WED 23:15 Jane Eyre (b0074t81)
Episode 2

Jane finds she has a rival for Rochester's attentions in the beautiful Blanche Ingram, and the gossip is that Rochester will soon propose marriage. A mysterious visitor from overseas brings great trouble to Thornfield, and Jane is called to Rochester's aid once again.


WED 00:15 Jane Eyre (b0074t82)
Episode 3

On her deathbed, Aunt Reed reveals important information about Jane's family which she has hidden for years. Returning to Thornfield, Jane expects Rochester to wed Blanche Ingram and is shocked by an altogether different marriage proposal. Just as Jane's dreams are about to come true, she discovers a terrible secret from the past that could destroy everything.


WED 01:15 Jane Eyre (b0074t83)
Episode 4

Having left Thornfield, a heartbroken Jane finds herself alone, penniless and starving on the moors. She is rescued by clergyman St John Rivers who, together with his sisters, Diana and Mary, nurses her back to health.


WED 02:15 The Bronte Business (m002mgh2)
Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes, to see the setting in which the novelist worked and which has now become a tourist spot.


WED 02:45 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06qgh3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:55 on Tuesday]

THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2025

THU 19:00 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078lbl)
Steam on the Water

A look at how steam power revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers with screw propellers to more modern vessels like the Royal Yacht Britannia.


THU 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00fd1dd)
Gateway to the Highlands

Julia Bradbury faces an epic walk in more ways than one. Not only is this the longest and arguably most dramatic walk yet, but it passes through the unruly territory of Scottish clans and Rob Roy. The Highlands were a place to be wary of, until the railway arrived.


THU 20:00 Pillow Talk (m001ph18)
Interior decorator Jan Morrow shares her phone line with philandering songwriter Brad Allen, a man she despises. Meeting a handsome Texan, she is favourably struck by the difference between the two men - never suspecting they are one and the same.


THU 21:40 Lover Come Back (m001mg01)
Jerry Webster is a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but by wining and dining his big-shot clients. When ad executive Carol Templeton discovers that Jerry is after a lucrative new account, she tries everything to steal it away from him - not knowing that the product in question does not exist.


THU 23:20 Wogan (m0027p9m)
David Jason, Jennifer d'Abo and Rock Hudson

Terry Wogan in conversation with David Jason, Jennifer d'Abo and Rock Hudson.


THU 00:10 Arena (m002khlf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Monday]


THU 01:30 The Magic of Mushrooms (b041m6fh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Wednesday]


THU 02:30 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078lbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


THU 03:00 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00fd1dd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]

FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2025

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002mggj)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 October 1998 and featuring B*Witched, 911, Garbage, The Cardigans, Monica, Natalie Imbruglia, Fatboy Slim and Billie Piper.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002mggl)
Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 October 1998 and featuring 911, Cliff Richard, Meja, REM, Billie Piper, Dru Hill, George Michael and Spacedust.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b04pvhmr)
David Jensen presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 15 November 1979 and featuring The Jam, Cliff Richard, The Moody Blues, Kool & the Gang, Secret Affair, Ramblers, Showaddywaddy and Dr Hook and dance sequences by Legs & Co.


FRI 20:40 Top of the Pops (m000bpk6)
Gary Davies and Susie Mathis present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 17 November 1988 and featuring Yazz, All About Eve, INXS, Mica Paris, Tanita Tikaram, Robin Beck and Salt-N-Pepa.


FRI 21:10 Top of the Pops (b07d7sdm)
Steve Wright presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 19 November 1981 and featuring Modern Romance, The Pretenders, Fun Boy Three, ABC, Trevor Walters, Julio Iglesias, Diana Ross, Soft Cell and Zoo.


FRI 21:45 Top of the Pops (m0011f4t)
Tony Dortie and Claudia Simon present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 14 November 1991 and featuring Rozalla, Seal, Tina Turner, Altern 8, Sonia, REM, Bassheads, Michael Jackson and Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff.


FRI 22:15 The Songs of Nick Drake: Way to Blue (b00s06v5)
Filmed at the Barbican in January 2010 and curated by Joe Boyd, producer and general champion of Nick Drake, 90 minutes of performance highlights from a diverse but renowned cast of modern-day troubadours.

Presenting their own interpretations of Drake's songs are Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren, Robyn Hitchcock, Kirsty Almeida and Harper Simon.

A celebration of the songs of Nick Drake, the concert features the original orchestrations of Nick's friend, the late Robert Kirby. It includes a house band anchored by Danny Thompson, the legendary bassist who played on Drake's first two albums.

Highlights include Teddy Thompson's version of the timeless River Man, Lisa Hannigan's haunting and compelling version of Black Eyed Dog, Krystle Warren's bluesy take on Time Has Told Me, Robyn Hitchcock's psychedelic spin on Parasite and Neil MacColl's accomplished rendition of the classic Northern Sky.

During his lifetime, Nick Drake found little mainstream success, but since his death at the untimely age of 26 in 1974 he has been revered as one of the most influential and important English songwriters of his era.


FRI 23:45 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00pjk73)
Part IV

Series featuring legendary guitarists treading the boards and trading licks at the BBC studios.

This edition kicks off with big hits from The Rolling Stones and David Bowie before taking things down a notch with the acoustic picking of Michael Chapman and the Irish mysticism of Horslips.

However, it's not long before the likes of Motorhead, Nazareth and straight-up blues rocker George Thorogood turn the volume right back up to 11. A spot of flamenco from Paco De Lucia and a classic track from Strat master Eric Clapton round off the show.

Filmed in the 1970s for shows including Top of the Pops, Parkinson, Rock Goes to College and the Old Grey Whistle Test, these rocking tracks leave viewers wondering why pianos were ever invented.


FRI 00:45 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00pjl55)
Part V

Series featuring legendary guitarists treading the boards and trading licks at the BBC studios. Expect riffs, solos and histrionics from the likes of Johnny Thunders of The New York Dolls, Brian May from Queen, Duane Eddy, BB King and Joan Jett, filmed in the 1970s for shows including Top of the Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Complete line-up:
Alice Cooper - School's Out
New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Peter Green - Heavy Heart
Queen - Killer Queen
Robin Trower - Alethea
Duane Eddy and the Rebelettes - Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar
John Martyn - Discover the Lover
Budgie - Who Do You Want For Your Love
Peter Frampton - Show Me the Way
BB King - When It All Comes Down
Whitesnake - Trouble
Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
The Skids - Into the Valley
Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.


FRI 01:45 Guitar Heroes at the BBC (b00plj0l)
Part VI

In this sixth and final show to round out the Guitar Heroes series, axe fans get classic riffs from Pete Townshend as The Who play Won't Get Fooled Again, Rod and Ronnie with The Faces doing Miss Judy's Farm at the old BBC TV Theatre, some weird yodel-rock from Dutch prog rockers Focus, folky acoustic numbers from Davey Graham and Ralph McTell, and some flamboyant fretwork from Americans Nils Lofgren and Ted Nugent.

Filmed in the 1970s for shows including Top of the Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test, these tracks pay tribute to a golden era in rock and to the last of the 70s Guitar Heroes.

Complete line-up:

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The Faces - Miss Judy's Farm
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Man - Day and Night
Chris Spedding - Motor Bikin'
Nils Lofgren - Back It Up
The Cate Brothers - In One Eye and Out the Other
Ralph McTell - Dry Bone Rag
The Runaways - Wasted
The Motors - Dancing the Night Away
Ted Nugent - Free For All
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Gary Moore - Back on the Streets
Judas Priest - Take on the World
Davey Graham - City and Suburban Blues
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses.


FRI 02:45 Top of the Pops (m002mggj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 03:15 Top of the Pops (m002mggl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]