Mark Franklin and Tony Dortie present a Christmas Special of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1993 and featuring 2 Unlimited, Snow, The Bluebells, Ace of Base and Gabrielle.
Starting: 19-12-2024 19:00:00
An assortment of ageing Brits seek to stretch finite finances and find independence by retiring to a hotel in India. Contains some strong language.
Starting: 19-12-2024 20:00:00
Abdul is taken from his job at a prison to present a coin to Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
Starting: 19-12-2024 21:55:00
In conversation at the BFI Southbank, Judi Dench looks back at highlights of an extraordinary career on film, a journey that is still taking her to new heights.
Starting: 19-12-2024 23:40:00
Mark Kermode unwraps a glittering selection of Christmas cinematic treats. Contains some strong language.
Starting: 20-12-2024 00:40:00
Grace Dent explores how well the televisual fare of Christmas 1979 compares to what we enjoy today, 40 years on.
Starting: 20-12-2024 01:40:00
A visit to three Blackpool hairdressing salons, where an elderly community carries on its daily life oblivious to the hordes of tourists on its doorstep.
Starting: 20-12-2024 02:40:00
In 1923, Edward Williams receives an engraving, but the picture is not what it seems.
Starting: 20-12-2024 03:20:00
Jakki Brambles, Bruno Brookes and Gary Davies present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1989 and featuring Bros, The Beautiful South and Jason Donovan.
Starting: 20-12-2024 19:00:00
Simon Bates presents appearances from Duran Duran, Godley & Creme, the Snowmen, Cliff Richard, Rod Stewart, Status Quo, the Human League and Zoo.
Starting: 20-12-2024 20:00:00
David Jensen presents The Maisonettes, David Bowie & Bing Crosby, Incantation, Shakin' Stevens, Imagination, ABBA, Keith Harris & Orville, Renee & Renato and Modern Romance.
Starting: 20-12-2024 20:35:00
Country music's biggest stars get together for a night full of festive classics, celebrating the joy of the holidays in true Nashville style.
Starting: 20-12-2024 21:05:00
A look back at some of Dolly Parton's finest performances at the BBC, incorporating her greatest moments and hits such as Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream and Here You Come Again.
Starting: 20-12-2024 21:50:00
A landmark film charting the extraordinary life and music of the queen of country, Dolly Parton, with exclusive interviews and archive footage.
Starting: 20-12-2024 22:50:00
The complete set by the undisputed queen of country music from the Pyramid Stage. Contains some strong language.
Starting: 21-12-2024 00:20:00
Jakki Brambles, Bruno Brookes and Gary Davies present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1989 and featuring Bros, The Beautiful South and Jason Donovan.
Starting: 21-12-2024 01:30:00
Simon Bates presents appearances from Duran Duran, Godley & Creme, the Snowmen, Cliff Richard, Rod Stewart, Status Quo, the Human League and Zoo.
Starting: 21-12-2024 02:30:00
David Jensen presents The Maisonettes, David Bowie & Bing Crosby, Incantation, Shakin' Stevens, Imagination, ABBA, Keith Harris & Orville, Renee & Renato and Modern Romance.
Starting: 21-12-2024 03:05:00
Competitive Onion Growing. Journalist Adam Clarkson follows his dad, Richard, as he tries desperately to climb the leaderboard of his village's competitive onion growing club.
Starting: 21-12-2024 19:00:00
Your Christmas Bird. Fanny presents a collection of traditional Christmas recipes.
Starting: 21-12-2024 19:10:00
Christmas Pudding. Fanny shares her recipe for Christmas pudding and the method for making the old-fashioned 'round pudding.
Starting: 21-12-2024 19:25:00
Your Christmas Cake. Fanny Cradock gives you two recipes to choose from, the traditional black plum cake or an unusual 'white' Christmas cake.
Starting: 21-12-2024 19:40:00
Royal Mincemeat. Practical know-how to make Christmas cookery easier for the layman. Fanny has unusual recipes for pies, pancakes, omelettes and Swiss rolls using mincemeat.
Starting: 21-12-2024 19:55:00
Today's show contains Fanny's recipe for choux pastry with advice on making miniature eclairs, choux buns and glacé icing.
Starting: 21-12-2024 20:10:00
Demobbed from the army, James Herriot returns to Yorkshire and his day-to-day dramas of a country veterinary practice.
Starting: 21-12-2024 20:25:00
A once-in-a-lifetime chat with Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright. Contains some strong language.
Starting: 21-12-2024 21:55:00
Adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic tale set in the 1840s. Jane Eyre falls in love with Mr Rochester, unaware of the terrible secret that he is harbouring.
Starting: 21-12-2024 23:15:00
Seasonal entertainment from 1982 with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, plus special guest David Essex.
Starting: 22-12-2024 01:05:00
Classic sitcom. Fletcher plans to add a bit of Christmas spirit to the festive season at Slade Prison in the form of his very own homemade liquor.
Starting: 22-12-2024 01:50:00
Timothy shows Mother, Father and Pippa round his new home. Mother gets a chance to put Pippa off Timothy for life.
Starting: 22-12-2024 02:35:00
Seasonal comedy special. Christmas Eve, 1850. Ebenezer Blackadder is a decent, kind, generous human being - until he gets a glimpse of his loathsome ancestors.
Starting: 22-12-2024 03:05:00
Specially filmed Wallace and Gromit animations of the dynamic duo's backstage exploits at the Proms, as they prepare for the first performance of Wallace's new concerto.
Starting: 22-12-2024 19:00:00
Anne-Marie Duff performs an intimate reading of Charles Dickens's timeless classic. Can the ghostly interventions salvage Scrooge's soul.
Starting: 22-12-2024 19:45:00
World-renowned conductor Marin Alsop leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in an uplifting reinterpretation of this seasonal favourite, as Handel's masterpiece is infused with gospel, jazz and R&B.
Starting: 22-12-2024 21:00:00
Concert featuring Indian musician Ravi Shankar, first shown in 1974. He performs just one song, entitled Rag Behag.
Starting: 22-12-2024 22:25:00
Christine Lampard hosts a gala concert to mark 100 years of the BBC in Northern Ireland, featuring performances from Clannad, Tony Hadley and D:Ream with the Ulster Orchestra.
Starting: 22-12-2024 23:00:00
On the sixtieth anniversary of this Christmas institution, Juliet Stevenson narrates the story of Carols from King's.
Starting: 23-12-2024 00:30:00
Looking back to 1988, Grace Dent explores both how TV changes over the festive season and how the nation's viewing habits have changed between then and 2018.
Starting: 23-12-2024 01:30:00
Demobbed from the army, James Herriot returns to Yorkshire and his day-to-day dramas of a country veterinary practice.
Starting: 23-12-2024 02:30:00
Jayne Middlemiss, Kate Thornton and Jamie Theakston present the Top of the Pops Christmas special from 1998, featuring Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, B*Witched, Fat Les, LeAnn Rimes and Boyzone.
Starting: 23-12-2024 19:00:00
Seasonal special of the suburban sitcom. The Goods and the Leadbetters plan their respective Christmases, but neither go according to plan. Classic comedy from 1977.
Starting: 23-12-2024 20:00:00
Classic sitcom. As Christmas approaches, Audrey is determined to carry out her responsibilities as though she still lived at the manor.
Starting: 23-12-2024 20:30:00
Landing in the horrors of World War I, the Doctor discovers a galaxy-spanning threat.
Starting: 23-12-2024 21:00:00
Adaptation of MR James's classic ghost story. A 17th-century squire is haunted by a curse his great uncle brought upon the household. Contains horror.
Starting: 23-12-2024 22:30:00
Leonardo conducts scientific experiments and paints the most famous portrait on earth. Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
Starting: 23-12-2024 23:00:00
Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.
Starting: 24-12-2024 00:40:00
Jayne Middlemiss, Kate Thornton and Jamie Theakston present the Top of the Pops Christmas special from 1998, featuring Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, B*Witched, Fat Les, LeAnn Rimes and Boyzone.
Starting: 24-12-2024 02:10:00
Seasonal special of the suburban sitcom. The Goods and the Leadbetters plan their respective Christmases, but neither go according to plan. Classic comedy from 1977.
Starting: 24-12-2024 03:10:00
Christmas special with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Howard Jones, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Jim Diamond, Wham!, Paul Young, George Michael and Band Aid.
Starting: 24-12-2024 19:00:00
Porridge. Fifty years on from when the prison doors first slammed shut on Norman Stanley Fletcher, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais look back at a landmark British comedy.
Starting: 24-12-2024 20:00:00
Christmas special of the classic sitcom from 1975. The festive season falls upon HMP Slade and finds the inmates planning a jailbreak.
Starting: 24-12-2024 20:30:00
The Two Ronnies bring you their favourite treats from their many classic Christmas shows.
Starting: 24-12-2024 21:10:00
Sitcom about a British government minister and his advisers. Rumours of a cabinet reshuffle could spell great things for Jim Hacker.
Starting: 24-12-2024 21:40:00
Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols.
Starting: 24-12-2024 22:40:00
Exploring the unique wildlife of Madagascar, the oldest island on Earth.
Starting: 24-12-2024 23:40:00
Christmas special with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Howard Jones, Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Jim Diamond, Wham!, Paul Young, George Michael and Band Aid.
Starting: 25-12-2024 00:40:00
Christmas special of the classic sitcom from 1975. The festive season falls upon HMP Slade and finds the inmates planning a jailbreak.
Starting: 25-12-2024 01:40:00
The Two Ronnies bring you their favourite treats from their many classic Christmas shows.
Starting: 25-12-2024 02:25:00
Exploring the unique wildlife of Madagascar, the oldest island on Earth.
Starting: 25-12-2024 02:55:00
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa presents a special programme of seasonal music, both classical and contemporary, from the Barbican Hall in London. First broadcast in 1985.
Starting: 25-12-2024 19:00:00
A glamorous widow searches for true love in Glyndebourne's lavish new production of Lehár's laugh-out-loud operetta, The Merry Widow.
Starting: 25-12-2024 20:00:00
A compilation of performances from Christmas shows, including The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Madness, Chas & Dave, Slade, Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Starting: 25-12-2024 22:30:00
Featuring 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.
Starting: 25-12-2024 23:30:00
A journey from Borneo's rich coral reefs, through lush jungles to its mountainous heart, revealing why this island is home to a greater variety of life than almost any other.
Starting: 26-12-2024 00:20:00
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa presents a special programme of seasonal music, both classical and contemporary, from the Barbican Hall in London. First broadcast in 1985.
Starting: 26-12-2024 01:20:00
Classic sitcom. As Christmas approaches, Audrey is determined to carry out her responsibilities as though she still lived at the manor.
Starting: 26-12-2024 02:20:00
A journey from Borneo's rich coral reefs, through lush jungles to its mountainous heart, revealing why this island is home to a greater variety of life than almost any other.
Starting: 26-12-2024 02:50:00
Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1986, featuring performances by Billy Ocean, The Communards, a-ha, Diana Ross and George Michael.
Starting: 26-12-2024 19:00:00
A laughter-packed holiday special starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Starting: 26-12-2024 20:00:00
The Meldrews have a tarot reading that prophesies disaster for Victor. Patrick and Pippa sell their home, but a house clearance crew are mistaken for their removal men.
Starting: 26-12-2024 21:00:00
Dave Allen looks at the English, the Irish and many other illogical aspects of life - with his own unique wit and satirical observations. Contains adult humour.
Starting: 26-12-2024 22:00:00
Lenny Henry hosts a Christmas special of sketches and music, featuring favourite characters such as Deakus and Josh Yarlog. With special guests Robbie Coltrane and Terence Trent D'Arby. From 1987.
Starting: 26-12-2024 22:55:00
Four identical bags get mixed up - one of which is full of top-secret documents.
Starting: 26-12-2024 23:35:00
Exploring Hawaii, a tropical sanctuary for any wildlife that can reach its remote shores.
Starting: 27-12-2024 01:05:00
Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1986, featuring performances by Billy Ocean, The Communards, a-ha, Diana Ross and George Michael.
Starting: 27-12-2024 02:05:00
Exploring Hawaii, a tropical sanctuary for any wildlife that can reach its remote shores.
Starting: 27-12-2024 03:05:00
A selection of hit Christmas songs from yesteryear.
Starting: 27-12-2024 19:00:00
With JoBoxers, Mike Oldfield, Thompson Twins, Tracey Ullman, Phil Collins, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones, Rod Stewart, The Style Council and Culture Club.
Starting: 27-12-2024 19:10:00
Mark Goodier and Anthea Turner present a Christmas Day special, including a review of the hits that topped the charts in 1990 and featuring performances by Elton John and Kylie.
Starting: 27-12-2024 20:05:00
Shirley Bassey's 1974 TV special with special guest Neil Diamond, who sings Sweet Caroline and Longfellow Serenade and is joined by Shirley for a duet performance of his song Play Me.
Starting: 27-12-2024 21:00:00
1983 reunion concert by the Everly Brothers following their ten-year split. They chose the Royal Albert Hall as they had treasured memories of playing there with their father Ike.
Starting: 27-12-2024 22:00:00