SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2025

SAT 19:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n304)
2025

Day 1, Evening

Live coverage from day 1 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


SAT 22:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0jz)
Series 7

A Friend for Life

James and Siegfried become personally as well as professionally involved when a herd of shorthorn cattle contracts Johne's disease.


SAT 22:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0kb)
Series 7

Spring Fever

Tristan's old college friend comes to stay, but his visit has to be kept a secret from Siegfried. When a lady brings her tortoise into the surgery, Tristan and his friend compete.


SAT 23:40 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0kg)
Series 7

Out with the New

James Herriot treats a dog that wags its tail when it is angry, and a princess is crowned on Coronation Day.


SAT 00:30 Parkinson (m001vn1f)
Michael Palin, Kate Adie and Ricky Gervais

Michael Parkinson with guests Michael Palin, Kate Adie and Ricky Gervais.


SAT 01:30 The Secret Life of Waves (b00y5jhx)
Documentary maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original film, he finds that waves are not made of water, that some waves travel sideways, and that the sound of the ocean comes not from water but from bubbles. Waves are not only beautiful but also profoundly important, and there is a surprising connection between the life cycle of waves and the life of human beings.


SAT 02:30 Being the Brontës (p03kcd3l)
Martha Kearney, novelist Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan travel to Haworth Parsonage, the home of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, Emily and Anne, to discover the inspiration behind their classic novels Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.

Just two years before the books were published, prospects for the three unmarried sisters were bleak. Their brother was battling alcoholism, Charlotte was hopelessly in love with a married man, and their father was going blind. But by 1848, they were a literary sensation. To find out how this extraordinary turnaround happened, Martha, Lucy and Helen each immerse themselves in the life of a Brontë sister. From everyday routines at the Parsonage to walks on windswept moors, from harsh schooldays to misadventures as governesses, the trio learn how the Brontës combined literary genius with real-life experience to create some of the best-loved novels in the English language.

SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2025

SUN 19:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30q)
2025

Day 2, Evening

Live coverage from day 2 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


SUN 22:00 Life of a Mountain (b04y4gd7)
A Year on Scafell Pike

A beautifully cinematic documentary following a year in the life of England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, through the eyes of the farmers who work the valleys and fells, those who climb the mountain for pleasure and those who try to protect its slopes.

Filmed over a twelve-month period, it follows the seasons on the mountain from spring lambs through to winter snows. The contributions of the British Mountaineering Council and National Trust volunteers make clear the crucial importance of maintaining the landscape quality of England's highest peak for future generations.


SUN 23:00 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l708)
Series 1

13. Weekend in Vermont

Over a relaxed weekend, a distinguished international gathering at John Kenneth Galbraith's Vermont farm offer their views on the themes outlined in the series and on other major anxieties facing the modern world.


SUN 01:30 The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu (b00hkb0z)
Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long-hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as they are to Europeans.


SUN 02:30 Life of a Mountain (b04y4gd7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]

MONDAY 01 DECEMBER 2025

MON 19:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30c)
2025

Day 3, Evening

Live coverage from day 3 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


MON 22:00 Saving Venice (m001m7p1)
How Venetians are turning to revolutionary engineering, restoration of the natural environment and knowledge from their past in order to save Venice.


MON 23:30 Ian Rankin's Hidden Edinburgh (b007vbm9)
Edinburgh is often described as the 'Athens of the North' but its most famous detective Inspector Rebus views Scotland's capital in quite a different light - it is a crime scene waiting to happen.

As his creator Ian Rankin prepares to write the last ever Rebus case, the award-winning author re-visits the key locations from the books. From the city's 'pubic triangle' and the home of Scotland's most infamous madam to a police station where he was interviewed about a real murder, Rankin explores the hidden Edinburgh into which tourists never venture.


MON 00:30 Wainwright: The Man Who Loved the Lakes (b0074tfq)
Capturing the beauty of the English Lake District, a documentary which traces the life of writer and artist Alfred Wainwright, the eccentric Lancastrian who created a series of iconic fell-walking books which he hand-wrote, illustrated and published himself in the 1950s.

Celebrating the centenary of his birth, the film captures his passionate love affair with the Lakeland landscape and explores how his books have become guide-book classics for millions of fell-walkers.


MON 01:30 Saving Venice (m001m7p1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]


MON 03:00 Ian Rankin's Hidden Edinburgh (b007vbm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 today]

TUESDAY 02 DECEMBER 2025

TUE 19:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n309)
2025

Day 4, Evening

Live coverage from day 4 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


TUE 22:00 The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold Farm (p0g1dm04)
Series 1

Episode 1

After escaping the family farm, 24-year-old Israel is reunited with his older brothers, Shin and Edino, and sister Mar Jan. Together, they recount their experiences growing up.


TUE 22:45 The Hidden Children of Ruinerwold Farm (p0g1dm2v)
Series 1

Episode 2

Allegations of physical and sexual abuse are discussed, and three of the older children decide to visit their father, who is being held in a secure hospital, following a stroke.


TUE 23:35 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06rfl46)
Rogues Gallery

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 anti-hero 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.

In the final episode, Sam looks at urban crime, fraud and corruption in the 18th century, uncovering a fascinating rogues’ gallery of charmers, fraudsters and villains. Charmers like thief and serial escaper Jack Sheppard, so notorious that almost a quarter of a million people turned up to witness his hanging. Almost as controversial in her lifetime was Mary Toft, a fraudster who managed to convince no less than King George I and his surgeon that she had given birth to rabbits, making her, perhaps, the original 'con' artist.


TUE 00:35 Artsnight (b084flz2)
Series 4

The Brits Who Designed the Modern World

If there were an Olympic league table for design, Britain would be right at the top. Since the Second World War, British designers have revolutionised our homes, our workplaces, our roads and our public institutions.

In November 2016, the Design Museum opened its new £83m home in Kensington. To mark this great moment for British design, BBC Arts profiles ten great living British designers.

Arts reporter Brenda Emmanus meets and profiles our 'Top 10', to find out what inspires them to make such phenomenal objects. She reveals how designers have responded to society's evolving tastes, from the brash 60s modernism of Margaret Calvert's road signs through to the colourful technology of Rick Dickinson's ZX Spectrum. She also meets Britain's most prolific designer, Sir Kenneth Grange (Intercity 125, bus shelters, the Kenwood Chef...), as well as Andrew Ritchie, who gave the world the Brompton Bike.

And we also hear from an illustrious panel of celebrities whose lives have been transformed by British design, including Will.i.am, Jeremy Paxman, Pete Waterman, Ade Adepitan and Jenny Eclair.


TUE 01:35 Wainwright: The Man Who Loved the Lakes (b0074tfq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:35 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06rfl46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:35 today]

WEDNESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2025

WED 19:00 Winter Walks (m000qd6r)
Series 1

Simon Armitage

A coastal walk is the setting for poet laureate Simon Armitage's ramble along Yorkshire’s enchanting and historic frontier with the North Sea.

Starting in Ravenscar, Simon takes the old Cinder Track - a disused railway line. Carrying a 360-degree camera, he passes former quarries and brickworks before taking a beach walk from Boggle Hole to the picture-perfect Robin Hood’s Bay.

Simon witnesses at first hand the impact of coastal erosion and meets farmers and locals living and working by the sea. He ends his journey with a seaside pint of local ale.


WED 19:30 University Challenge (m001gdx8)
Christmas 2022

Durham University v University of York

Alumni of Durham University face graduates of the University of York in the third match. Documentary maker Chris Terrill takes the captain’s chair for Durham, while YouTuber Tom Scott heads the York team. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


WED 20:00 The Magical World of Moss (m001hqth)
Mosses have colonised almost every corner of the earth’s surface. Evolving from oceanic algae that emerged onto the land 450 million years ago, these very first terrestrial plants became one of the main sources of oxygen for our evolving planet, helping to transform it from an arid rock into a lush world.

This documentary travels to some of the most beautiful moss-covered landscapes in the world, including Japan, Iceland, France and Denmark, to meet the experts investigating its astonishing properties and potential.

Science is only beginning to understand the secrets and possibilities of these remarkable plants.


WED 20:55 Natural World (m0012lc5)
Short Versions

Africa's Lion Kings

A pride of lions has rewritten the rules - they have learnt to take down elephants.


WED 21:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30t)
2025

Day 5, Evening, Part 2

Live coverage from day 5 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


WED 22:00 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (p00xbk8t)
Episode 1

A beautiful widow takes up residence in the near-derelict Wildfell Hall. Befriended by a young farmer, she will not tell him about her past, until malicious gossip spreads.


WED 22:55 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (p00xbk9y)
Episode 2

Helen decides to reveal more to Gilbert and gives him her diary. He learns about her doomed marriage to the rich Arthur Huntingdon and how she fled his debauched cruelty.


WED 23:50 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (p00xbkfl)
Episode 3

Huntingdon has abducted young Arthur, forcing Helen to return to him. In spite of his dissolute behaviour, she nurses him until his death.


WED 00:40 Birth of the British Novel (b00ydj1p)
Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney and William Godwin, amongst others. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy are novels that still sparkle with audacity and innovation.

On his journey through 18th-century fiction, Hitchings reveals how the novel was more than mere entertainment, it was also a subversive hand grenade that would change British society for the better. He travels from the homes of Britain's great and good to its lowliest prisons, meeting contemporary writers like Martin Amis, Will Self, Tom McCarthy and Jenny Uglow on the way.

Although 18th-century novels are woefully neglected today compared to those of the following two centuries, Hitchings shows how the best of them can offer as much pleasure to the reader as any modern classic.


WED 01:40 The Magical World of Moss (m001hqth)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


WED 02:35 The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu (b00hkb0z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Sunday]

THURSDAY 04 DECEMBER 2025

THU 19:00 Winter Walks (m000qzmy)
Series 1

Sayeeda Warsi

Accompanied by the gentle soundscape of the great outdoors, Yorkshire peer Sayeeda Warsi takes time out from her political life to seek peace and calm in the Dales.

On her ramble through Wharfedale, the former government minister meets villagers in Kettlewell, a farmer preparing for lambing and a long-distance fell runner.

Sayeeda discovers an other-worldly hidden landscape. Filming herself and everything around her on a 360-degree camera, she wanders through beautiful countryside and finds inspiration along the way.


THU 19:30 University Challenge (m001gdv5)
Christmas 2022

Exeter College, Oxford v Queen Mary University of London

Exeter College, Oxford, and Queen Mary University of London are represented by distinguished alumni in the fourth heat. Newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti and environmental writer Lucy Siegle are hoping to lead their respective teams to a place in the semi-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


THU 20:00 Dame Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees (b09jxnv4)
Judi Dench is one of Britain's best-loved actresses, but few people know that Judi holds another great passion, a deep love for trees. Filmed over the course of a year, this is a study of the changing seasons and their effect on Surrey, the most wooded county in Britain. Judi shared her passion with her late husband, and together they nurtured a collection of trees. For the past seven years, she has continued to care for this woodland with wildlife enthusiast David Mills. Throughout this time, Judi has continually planted trees for friends and family who have passed away.

This film follows Judi's experience through the seasons and her mission to understand the role of trees in history and the future. Judi joins tree scientists and historians to unlock the remarkable secret lives of trees and the stories that they cannot tell. With scientific techniques and equipment at her disposal, she is able to truly understand how trees work and gain an insight into their secrets. She meets a designer with a microphone to hear the trees around her, and a scientist with 3D scanning technology reveals her favourite oak in a new light.

Through the cycle of the four seasons, Judi discovers how trees feel and learns how they communicate and fight off invading armies and extreme weather. From Nasa satellite imagery, Judi is shown just how effective trees are as carbon capture machines that are fighting to protect our planet.

A fungi expert also shows Judi the action going on beneath her feet, revealing an underground fungal network that looks up to the tips of tree roots, connecting many trees in a forest together. It is confirmation for Judi that trees aren't just trees, they are a real community that help each other, humans and the planet.


THU 21:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30w)
2025

Day 6, Evening, Part 2

Live coverage from day 6 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


THU 22:00 Quartet (b03ftm2k)
An opera star arrives at a performers' retirement home amidst fraught preparations for a fundraising concert. Her presence adds to the tension, but it also offers an opportunity to reunite a successful quartet. The diva's one-time husband is upset to see her, while the two other former members relish the challenge.


THU 23:30 Wogan (m002n30y)
Pauline Collins, Simon Callow, Esther Rantzen, Desmond Wilcox

Terry Wogan chats to Pauline Collins, Simon Callow, Esther Rantzen and Desmond Wilcox.


THU 00:15 Capability Brown's Unfinished Garden (b07xt6t9)
Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. In the 1700s, he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land for some of the most influential people of the 18th century.

But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board. The only land Capability ever owned was in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, but he died before he could carry out any plans for his own garden. Today, it is a piece of flat land bisected by the A14 dual carriageway.

Landscape designer and Gardeners' Question Time regular Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability's finest landscapes - Blenheim, Burghley, Milton Abbey and Castle Ashby - to understand what he might have created. Rediscovering plans and letters, and using the latest technology, Capability Brown's unfinished garden is brought to life.


THU 01:15 Britain's Most Fragile Treasure (b0161dgq)
Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous Great East Window at York Minster is the largest medieval stained-glass window in the country and the creative vision of a single artist, a mysterious master craftsman called John Thornton, one of the earliest named English artists.

The Great East Window has been called England's Sistine Chapel. Within its 311 stained-glass panels is the entire history of the world, from the first day to the Last Judgment, and yet it was made 100 years before Michelangelo's own masterpiece. The scale of Thornton's achievement is revealed as Dr Ramirez follows the work of a highly skilled conservation team at York Glaziers Trust. They dismantled the entire window as part of a five-year project to repair centuries of damage and restore it to its original glory.

It is a unique opportunity for Dr Ramirez to examine Thornton's greatest work at close quarters, to discover details that would normally be impossible to see and to reveal exactly how medieval artists made images of such delicacy and complexity using the simplest of tools.

The Great East Window of York Minster is far more than a work of artistic genius, it is a window into the medieval world and mind, telling us who we once were and who we still are, all preserved in the most fragile medium of all.


THU 02:15 Winter Walks (m000qzmy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


THU 02:45 Dame Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees (b09jxnv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

FRIDAY 05 DECEMBER 2025

FRI 19:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30g)
2025

Day 7, Evening, Part 1

Live coverage from day 7 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002n30j)
Katy Hill presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 13 November 1998 and featuring Touch & Go, The Tamperer feat Maya, Tatyana Ali, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Faith Evans, East 17, Queen/Wyclef Jean & Pras Michel and Cher.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b06t3ql3)
Christmas 1975

Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmonds present the Christmas pop charts, originally broadcast in 1975. Featuring performances from Pilot, Ralph McTell, Mud, 10cc, David Essex, Johnny Nash, Guys & Dolls, The Tymes, Tammy Wynette, Bay City Rollers, Telly Savalas, Art Garfunkel, The Stylistics and CCS, plus a dance performance from Pan's People.


FRI 20:50 Sounds of the Seventies (b08skpz3)
Shorts

The Temptations, Michael Jackson and The Real Thing

A soulful soupcon of seventies songs. The Temptations with Can't Get Next to You, The Real Thing perform Can You Feel the Force? and a young Michael Jackson gives an energetic performance of Rockin' Robin with his brothers.


FRI 21:00 Snooker: UK Championship (m002n30m)
2025

Day 7, Evening, Part 3

Live coverage from day 7 of the 2025 UK Snooker Championship.


FRI 22:00 Top of the Pops (b09jc3k1)
Christmas 1984

The 1984 Christmas special of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1984. Featuring Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Howard Jones, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Jim Diamond, Wham!, Paul Young, George Michael and Band Aid.


FRI 23:00 The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? (m0025gmy)
Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen film footage from the day of recording.


FRI 00:15 Top of the Pops (b06t3ql3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


FRI 01:05 Top of the Pops (m002n30j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


FRI 01:35 Top of the Pops (b09jc3k1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]


FRI 02:35 The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? (m0025gmy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 today]