SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2024
SAT 19:00 Angela Rippon at the BBC (m00240vt)
As broadcasting legend Angela Rippon celebrates her 80th birthday, we join her for a special programme looking at her career as one of British television’s most familiar faces.
It’s a journey that begins with Angela’s early days as a local reporter and then follows her as she rises through the ranks to become one of the most prominent female figures in UK broadcasting.
From quiz show host to the person quizzing Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer immediately before their wedding, Angela has seen it all over 58 years on screen, and here we get it all – the early days, the reporting work she’s still doing today and, of course, the moment that cemented her place in TV history: the invitation to appear on Morecambe & Wise’s 1976 Christmas Show.
SAT 19:45 Angela Rippon Remembers... Top Gear (m00240vw)
Angela Rippon buckles up for a trip down memory lane and checks the rear-view mirror before sharing her memories of working on the very first series of Top Gear. This was years before it became, in her eyes, all about the 'boys and their toys', yet she still offers a glimpse of the fun she had working on the show as an avowed car lover, and also how the experience she gained from one particular filming trip ended up saving her life.
SAT 19:50 Top Gear (Original Series) (m00240vy)
Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne present the first ever episode of Top Gear, broadcast on 22 April 1977 and billed in The Radio Times as the 'first of a monthly series for road-users'.
Angela Rippon drives up the M1 in her Ford Capri, at a steady and safe 70 miles per hour, talking about the correct use of mirrors on the motorway, and Tom Coyne interviews William Rodgers, the minister of Transport, who reveals his hopes for the introduction of seat belts and curbs on drink-drivers.
SAT 20:20 Angela Rippon Remembers... Come Dancing (m00240w0)
Angela Rippon’s love of dancing dates back to the ballet lessons she took as a young girl, and here – as she celebrates her 80th birthday – she looks back on the days when her profession and her passion came together perfectly, through her hosting role on the BBC’s long-running dance series Come Dancing.
Angela shares memories of the joy she experienced working on the original Come Dancing series, how it would open the door to her collaborating with some of her great dance heroes and what it was like years later to re-ignite her love affair with dance, thanks to Strictly Come Dancing.
SAT 20:30 Come Dancing (m00240w2)
Come Dancing with Angela Rippon
From the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, Angela Rippon and Charles Nove present the grand final of Come Dancing 1990, with teams from Sheffield and London South.
SAT 21:10 Angela Rippon Meets: The Hoofers (m00240w4)
In a programme first broadcast in 1981, Angela Rippon explores the world of tap-dancing, tracing its roots from Harlem, New York, and from clog-dancing in Lancashire. She also looks at the revival of tap on Broadway in her search to discover what it takes to become a professional dancer today.
She talks to Ann Miller, the fastest tapper in the world, finds out what a dancer's life is like backstage and sees for herself the agony of auditions. Finally, she takes a few tap lessons from the Happy Hoofer choreographer, Lionel Blair.
SAT 22:00 Angela Rippon Reporting: The Soap Opera Business (m00240w6)
'Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, but above all, make 'em wait' - the classic formula for soap opera, and it still fascinates us, 50 years after American soap manufacturers used it to capture audiences for their commercials.
Angela Rippon visits the Crossroads Motel, meets JR and Sue Ellen (separately) and becomes Nelson's girlfriend in The Archers, in her search for the roots of the popularity and profitability of soap.
SAT 22:50 Masterteam with Angela Rippon (m00240w8)
Angela Rippon hosts the first edition of the daytime quiz programme, which aired on BBC One from 21 October 1985 until 21 December 1987 and featured the Team Challenge, Spotlight and In a Spin rounds.
SAT 23:20 Angela Rippon: Portrait (m00240wb)
Angela Rippon sits for artist Paul Wyeth, who feels he has put his head 'very much on the chopping block' by agreeing to paint a portrait of one of Britain's best-known female faces. From 1979.
SAT 23:45 Porridge (b00786yd)
Series 1
Men without Women
Classic comedy series set in HM Prison Slade. When Fletcher assumes the role of agony aunt to his fellow inmates, he ends up writing letters home for them.
SAT 00:15 Hancock's Half Hour (p032kj02)
The Cold
Hancock is suffering with a cold, and none of his remedies seem to work. In desperation, he listens to Sid, who recommends a keep fit course to keep him healthy.
SAT 00:45 The High Life (b00hk8qz)
Dug
Sitcom set among the cabin crew of a passenger jet. Sebastian hits on a wild scheme to find fame, fortune and females for Steve by entering a song for Scotland's representatation at Eurovision. Shona meets her idol and plans her escape from mundanity, while Captain Duff is a little confused.
SAT 01:15 The High Life (b00hq327)
Dunk
Sitcom set on a passenger jet. The crew become embroiled in a small business espionage plot. A scientist is kidnapped for her re-creation of a 1950s recipe for tablet.
SAT 01:45 Come Dancing (m00240w2)
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20:30 today]
SAT 02:25 Angela Rippon Meets: The Hoofers (m00240w4)
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21:10 today]
SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 2024
SUN 19:00 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m00232yj)
Series 1
Episode 1
Victor Borge, the brilliant Danish entertainer, performs some of his most famous routines, including Inflationary Language, and plays some of his favourite music. From 1974.
SUN 19:30 BBC Young Musician (m00240zq)
2024
Semi-Final
Just six musicians remain in the competition as BBC Young Musician 2024 reaches its penultimate stage. All of them have proved themselves to be stand-out performers, but only three can make it through to the grand final.
Presented by star saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam, who knows exactly what it’s like to face the pressure of this stage of the competition, having won through to the final in 2016. It’s a make or break moment for the musicians with the potential to change their lives. It’s time to impress the judges like never before.
Making the big decisions are internationally renowned trumpet player Alison Balsom, pianist Alexis Ffrench, one of the world’s most streamed classical artists, and multi-instrumentalist and DJ Hannah Catherine Jones. With such quality to choose from, their task is to select three musicians they believe have the potential to perform a full concerto in the final and become the next classical star.
SUN 21:00 Nana Mouskouri at the BBC (b00fvhg4)
A vintage collection of Nana Mouskouri's performances from the BBC archive, including her entry in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest and musical collaborations with Michel Legrand, Charles Aznavour and Cliff Richard.
SUN 22:00 Nana Mouskouri (m00240zs)
Demis Roussos, The King's Singers and James Galway
Nana Mouskouri is joined by Demis Roussos, The King's Singers and James Galway.
SUN 22:45 Presenting Nana Mouskouri (m00240zv)
International Greek singing star Nana Mouskouri performs a selection of songs, accompanied by her backing group, The Athenians.
SUN 23:15 Nana Mouskouri (m00240zx)
Olivia Newton-John, The Athenians, Calchakis and The King’s Singers
Nana Mouskouri and her backing group The Athenians are joined by special guests Olivia Newton-John, Calchakis and The King’s Singers in a programme first broadcast in 1974.
SUN 00:05 Nana Mouskouri (m00240zz)
Wayne Sleep, The Spinners and Morris Albert
Nana Mouskouri presents her own special kind of music and is joined by guests Morris Albert, The Spinners and Wayne Sleep.
SUN 00:50 Nana Mouskouri at the BBC (b00fvhg4)
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21:00 today]
SUN 01:50 Nana Mouskouri (m00240zs)
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22:00 today]
SUN 02:35 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m00232yj)
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19:00 today]
SUN 03:05 Face the Music (m0023syt)
Joseph Cooper as question master invites viewers to match their musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Bernard Levin and Michael Flanders. With guest musician John Manduell.
MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2024
MON 19:00 Life (b00p4rl4)
Creatures of the Deep
Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, and thrive in the toughest parts of the oceans.
Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs. When cuttlefish gather to mate, their bodies flash in stroboscopic colours. Time-lapse photography reveals thousands of starfish gathering under the Arctic ice to devour a seal carcass.
A giant octopus commits suicide for her young. A camera follows her into a cave which she walls up, then she protects her eggs until she starves.
The greatest living structures on earth, coral reefs, are created by tiny animals in some of the world's most inhospitable waters.
MON 20:00 Landscape and Memory (p00dw6m3)
Rivers
Simon Schama examines how rivers were a source of inspiration to 19th century poets, painters and composers.
MON 20:40 City Scapes (m00240wy)
Paris
Programme examining the French capital's key architectural innovations of recent years, including the Pompidou Centre and La Défense.
MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m00240x0)
Robert Robinson referees a duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir and their celebrity teammates Gayle Hunnicutt, Peter Jay, Susanne Hall and Anthony Valentine.
MON 21:25 Face the Music (m00240x2)
Joseph Cooper as question master invites you to match your musical wits against Polly Elwes, Robin Ray and Brian Redhead. With guest musician Ivor Newton.
MON 22:00 Horizon (b09574pc)
2017
Mars: A Traveller's Guide
The dream of sending humans to Mars is closer than ever before. In fact, many scientists think that the first person to set foot on the Red Planet is alive today. But where should the first explorers visit when they get there? Horizon has gathered the world's leading experts on Mars and asked them where they would go if they got the chance - and what would they need to survive?
Using incredible real images and data, Horizon brings these Martian landmarks to life - from vast plains to towering volcanoes, from deep valleys to hidden underground caverns. This film also shows where to land, where to live and even where to hunt for traces of extraterrestrial life.
This is the ultimate traveller's guide to Mars.
MON 23:00 Earth from Space (p072n7qd)
Series 1
A New Perspective
Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective. Satellites follow an elephant family struggling through drought, reveal previously unknown emperor penguin colonies from the colour of their poo, and discover mysterious ice rings that could put seal pups in danger. Using cameras on the ground, in the air and in space, Earth from Space follows nature’s greatest spectacles, weather events and dramatic seasonal changes. This is our home, as we’ve never seen it before.
MON 00:00 Nature and Us: A History through Art (m0010jn6)
Series 1
Episode 1
In this first episode, art historian James Fox explores the art of the ancient world to reveal the story of our earliest relationships with nature. From the art of prehistoric hunters and the advent of agriculture and our first cities to the arrival the great faiths, including Hinduism and Christianity, James shows how we began to wrestle with our place in nature and tried to control the great forces that shape our world. Along the way, we journey from Arctic Norway to the jungles of Guatemala and the holy city of Varanasi in India.
Beginning with cave paintings of animals and a fascinating 12,000-year-old carving of a reindeer, James shows how we were once much closer to nature. We meet Nils Peder, a contemporary Sami Reindeer Herder in northern Norway. His way of life is still influenced by a belief in nature’s spiritual energy and power. But then as James studies an ancient Egyptian model of cattle, we reach a dramatic turning point in our relationship with nature - the advent of agriculture. At this point, humans collaborated with nature but ultimately took ‘control’. James takes this a step further with the extraordinary lion hunt carvings from the Assyrian palace of Nineveh. He demonstrates how it was at this time that humans began to set out to conquer nature. James then turns his attention to ways in which religion helped us make sense of the great shifts in our relationship with nature. We see the first human personifications of natural forces: the river Ganga in India and the ancient Greek god of the sky, Zeus. And we see how, in Christian art, nature becomes the backdrop for the very human-focused story of the crucifixion.
In this first great phase in human history, James reveals how we moved from caves to farms, to the emergence of the first civilisations and to global faiths. And through it all, he shows how we struggled to control nature and began to move away from it, no longer living as just one part of the natural world.
MON 01:00 Life (b00p4rl4)
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19:00 today]
MON 02:00 Earth from Space (p072n7qd)
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23:00 today]
MON 03:00 Horizon (b09574pc)
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22:00 today]
TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2024
TUE 19:00 Life (b00p90d6)
Plants
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's.
Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. Every peculiar shape proves to have a clever purpose. The dragon's blood tree is like an upturned umbrella to capture mist and shade its roots. The seed of a Bornean tree has wings so aerodynamic they inspired the design of early gliders. The barrel-shaped desert rose is full of water. The heliconia plant even enslaves a humming bird and turns it into an addict for its nectar.
TUE 20:00 Porridge (b007871w)
Series 2
Just Desserts
Classic comedy series.
Stealing on the outside - that's work, making a living, skulduggery. On the inside, against one's fellow inmates, that's a despicable crime. The inmates of Slade Prison are horrified to discover there is a thief in their midst.
TUE 20:30 Hancock's Half Hour (p032khyk)
The Alpine Holiday
Hancock decides to take a holiday and after an eventful flight has to share his hotel room with a yodeller and Alpine Horn player.
TUE 21:00 imagine... (b00rzj61)
Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role as Van Gogh.
Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.
The film won a Rockie for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Media Festival in 2011, receiving critical acclaim for its fascinating insight into the life of the artist and its unique approach to storytelling.
TUE 22:20 One Hundred Great Paintings (p013twkb)
Cities: Van Gogh - Cafe Terrace at Night
Filmed on location at the Kroller-Muller Museum, just outside Amsterdam, this edition of One Hundred Great Paintings sees David Hockney appraise Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh. Hockney examines Van Gogh's use of light and colour, with specific reference to the different hues of yellow he employed. First broadcast in 1980.
TUE 22:30 Storyville (m0016txs)
Navalny
This Oscar-winning documentary follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he and his team unravel a plot to poison him with deadly nerve agent novichok.
In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. Alexei Navalny was deathly ill. He was taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin. Doctors there confirmed that he had been poisoned with novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement.
While Navalny is recovering, he and his team uncover the plot against him, finding evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement, and prepare to go public with their findings.
TUE 00:05 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 01:05 Rex Harrison at the NFT (m0023sx1)
Actor Rex Harrison talks entertainingly about his long stage and screen career with David Lewin and members of the audience of the National Film Theatre. Featuring extracts from some of his most famous films.
TUE 01:50 Life (b00p90d6)
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19:00 today]
TUE 02:50 Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues (b06qgh3w)
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00:05 today]
WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2024
WED 19:00 Life (b00pcm3h)
Primates
Primates are just like humans - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centred.
Huge armies of Hamadryas baboons, 400 strong, battle on the plains of Ethiopia to steal females and settle old scores. Japanese macaques in Japan beat the cold by lounging in thermal springs, but only if they come from the right family. An orangutan baby fails in its struggle to make an umbrella out of leaves to keep off the rain. Young capuchins cannot quite get the hang of smashing nuts with a large rock, a technique their parents have perfected. Chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives, have created an entire tool kit to get their food.
WED 20:00 From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature (b09rzqp3)
Series 1
Frozen Solid
Everything around us - from the tiniest insect on Earth to the most distant stars of the cosmos - exists somewhere on a vast scale from cold to hot. In this series, physicist Dr Helen Czerski explores the extraordinary science of temperature. She unlocks the extremes of the temperature scale, from absolute zero to searing heat of stars - and reveals how temperature works, how deep its influence on our lives is, and why it's the hidden force that has shaped our planet and the entire universe.
In episode one, Helen ventures to the bottom of the temperature scale, revealing how cold has shaped the world around us and why frozen doesn't mean what you might think. She meets the scientists pushing temperature to the very limits of cold, where the normal laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibility begins. The extraordinary behaviour of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero is driving the advance of technology, from superconductors to quantum computing.
WED 21:00 Nothing Like a Dame (b0b5y3xn)
Together, they are 342 years old. They are in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sharp, competitive, tearful, hilarious, savage, clever, caustic, cool, gorgeous, poignant, irreverent, iconic, old... and unbelievably young.
Special friends, special women and special dames - and this special film is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hang out with them all, at the same table, at the same time, and enjoy sparkling and unguarded conversation spliced with a raft of astonishing archive.
Atkins, Dench, Smith, Plowright. The dream dame team. Don't miss it.
WED 22:20 The Lady in the Van (b06wcqyr)
1970s Camden Town. Writer Alan Bennett's neighbours include the outspoken and unconventional Miss Shepherd, proudly residing in a van parked on the street. Offering space on his front drive for her vehicle begins a bizarre arrangement that he feels guilty about later exploiting in print. Acclaimed comedy drama from BBC Films based on actual events.
WED 00:00 Talking Heads (b00p8lht)
Series 1
Bed Among the Lentils
Alan Bennett-penned monologue in which Maggie Smith plays the vicar's wife who finds a vision of God at the local off-licence.
WED 00:50 Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield (b065x080)
Lying on the remote north west coast of England is one of the most secret places in the country - Sellafield, the most controversial nuclear facility in Britain. Now, Sellafield are letting nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili and the television cameras in to discover the real story. Inside, Jim encounters some of the most dangerous substances on earth, reveals the nature of radiation and even attempts to split the atom. He sees inside a nuclear reactor, glimpses one of the rarest elements in the world - radioactive plutonium - and even subjects living tissue to deadly radiation. Ultimately, the film reveals Britain's attempts - past, present and future - to harness the almost limitless power of the atom.
WED 01:50 Life (b00pcm3h)
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WED 02:50 Talking Heads (b00p8lht)
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00:00 today]
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2024
THU 19:00 Attenborough and the Sea Dragon (b09m2kgl)
A remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil - the bones of an ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon - has been discovered on the Jurassic coast of Britain. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology and CGI, the team reconstruct the skeleton and create the most detailed animation of an ichthyosaur ever made. Along the way, the team stumble into a 200-million-year-old murder mystery - and only painstaking forensic investigation can unravel the story of this extraordinary creature's fate.
THU 20:00 Elizabeth Taylor: A Tribute (b010n2d2)
Friends, family and co-stars share their memories of Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood icon.
Famous for her many husbands, love of diamonds and her AIDS fundraising, the actress who won two film Oscars and was awarded an honourary Oscar for her Humanitarian work, is celebrated by Liza Minnelli, Joan Collins, Pierce Brosnan, Angela Lansbury, Sir David Frost, Larry King, Robert Hardy, Barry Norman and Richard Burton's nephew Guy Masterson.
THU 21:00 The Mirror Crack'd (m001tw66)
The quiet English village of St Mary Mead is disrupted when a Hollywood film crew introduce inflated egos and cold blooded murder. Miss Marple, of course, investigates.
THU 22:40 Parkinson (m002414s)
Kim Novak, Julian Pettifer and AJP Taylor
Michael Parkinson in conversation with Kim Novak, Julian Pettifer and AJP Taylor.
THU 23:40 One Day in Gaza (m00052gc)
Film marking one of the deadliest days of violence in the Gaza Strip for a generation. Made by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in Gaza examines, moment by moment, what happened on that fateful day.
14 May 2018 started as a day of mass protest at Gaza’s border with Israel, and would end as one of the most deadly days in Gaza for a generation. For weeks, Palestinians had been protesting along the border fence, but tensions were running particularly high due to the opening of the new United States embassy to Israel in Jerusalem - the controversial step ordered by Donald Trump. As Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other senior US officials gathered in Jerusalem to inaugurate the new embassy, tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered at sites along the Gaza border, barely 40 miles away. As the sun set that day, over 60 Palestinians were dead or dying, and over two thousand lay injured, many by live ammunition.
Drawing on more than 120 hours of archive footage filmed on both sides of the border that day - including exclusive videos released by both Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that dominates Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces, this film reveals the complex reality and human toll of the day, and asks who is to blame for the bloodshed. It also features exclusive interviews with senior commanders and intelligence officers from the Israel Defense Forces, as well as political leaders of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another militant group, and civilians who were present on both sides of the border. What really happened that day? Israel said its troops only opened fire in self-defence or on people using the protests as cover for an armed infiltration, while Palestinians and human rights groups have accused Israeli troops of using excessive force against unarmed civilians who posed no threat. This 60-minute film reveals extraordinary new details of what happened.
THU 00:40 Elizabeth Taylor: A Tribute (b010n2d2)
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20:00 today]
THU 01:40 Attenborough and the Sea Dragon (b09m2kgl)
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19:00 today]
THU 02:40 From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature (b09rzqp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 on Wednesday]
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2024
FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m00241br)
Simon Mayo presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 30 August 1996 and featuring Shed Seven, Mn8, REM, De'lacy, Louise, George Michael, Fluffy, Jamiroquai, Spice Girls and Big Soul.
FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m00241bt)
Julia Carling presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 6 September 1996 and featuring Space, Clock, Kula Shaker, The Smurfs, Dina Carroll, Soft Cell, The Charlatans, Los Del Rio, Rocket from the Crypt, Spice Girls and OMC.
FRI 20:05 Top of the Pops (b08p2k7n)
Andy Peebles and Janice Long present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 October 1983. Featuring David Grant, Rocksteady Crew, Howard Jones, Freeez, Elton John, Depeche Mode, Men Without Hats and Culture Club.
FRI 20:35 Top of the Pops (m001648v)
Mark Franklin presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 15 October 1992 and featuring Sunscreem, Bizarre Inc featuring Angie Brown, Madonna, Doctor Spin, Boyz II Men, Bon Jovi and Tasmin Archer.
FRI 21:05 The Old Grey Whistle Test (m00241bw)
The Smiths: Whistle Test on the Road
Mark Ellen introduces The Smiths in concert at The Assembly Rooms in Derby.
FRI 21:45 6 Music Festival (b08ljxpb)
2017
Depeche Mode
With the release of their album Spirit, Depeche Mode return to the stage for BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, before they embark on a world tour.
Depeche Mode, who formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, had not played at the 2,000-capacity Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow for more than 30 years, when they performed as part of their Some Great Reward tour. Now, back at the historic Barrowland, their amazing return as part of 6 Music Festival is captured.
FRI 22:45 Radio 2 In Concert (m000b89p)
Stereophonics
The hugely popular and successful Welsh rockers, Stereophonics, return to Radio 2 In Concert for the first time since 2013.
Introduced by Fearne Cotton, the band perform an intimate concert of tracks from their 2019 UK number one album Kind alongside songs from their much-loved back catalogue including Dakota, Have a Nice Day and Mr Writer.
FRI 23:50 Rock Goes to College (m001ln6r)
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Pete Drummond introduces Siouxsie and the Banshees in concert at Warwick University.
FRI 00:20 Top of the Pops (m00241br)
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19:00 today]
FRI 00:50 Top of the Pops (m00241bt)
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19:30 today]
FRI 01:25 Top of the Pops (b08p2k7n)
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20:05 today]
FRI 01:55 Top of the Pops (m001648v)
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20:35 today]
FRI 02:25 6 Music Festival (b08ljxpb)
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21:45 today]