From the 2016 BBC Proms, Martha Argerich performs Schubert's Rondo in A.
Starting: 17-11-2024 19:00:00
Ian Bostridge, Elizabeth Kenny and Fretwork perform galliards and laments by John Dowland, and James Gilchrist and Ruby Hughes perform songs by Benjamin Britten.
Starting: 17-11-2024 19:15:00
Spellbinding new film of Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful chamber opera.
Starting: 17-11-2024 19:45:00
A bleak dystopian future plays out before us as Royal Television Society award-winning actor Sacha Dhawan narrates George Orwell's profoundly impactful and thought-provoking classic.
Starting: 17-11-2024 21:00:00
Rudolph Cartier's 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's story about a man who tries to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives and works.
Starting: 17-11-2024 22:00:00
The biggest bands on the buzzing UK scene play in a new edition of the iconic jazz show.
Starting: 17-11-2024 23:55:00
Spellbinding new film of Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful chamber opera.
Starting: 18-11-2024 01:30:00
A bleak dystopian future plays out before us as Royal Television Society award-winning actor Sacha Dhawan narrates George Orwell's profoundly impactful and thought-provoking classic.
Starting: 18-11-2024 02:45:00
From tropical rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef, Michael Portillo navigates his way by rail through Queensland, Australia with the aid of his 1913 Bradshaw's Guide.
Starting: 18-11-2024 19:00:00
Kate Garraway walks through the Cotswold countryside and describes the joy and solace that nature brings as she takes in the inspiring views of Gloucestershire.
Starting: 18-11-2024 19:30:00
Simon Sebag Montefiore charts Rome's rise to become the capital of western Christendom and its impact on the lives of its citizens, elites and high priests.
Starting: 18-11-2024 20:00:00
Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire.
Starting: 18-11-2024 21:00:00
Don Cupitt, one of Britain's leading Christian philosophers, marks 40 years since the broadcasting of his seminal 1984 series, The Sea of Faith.
Starting: 18-11-2024 22:00:00
In Galileo's villa at Arcetri, refurnished from the original inventory, Don Cupitt reconstructs the experiments that threatened the entire cosmology of Christendom.
Starting: 18-11-2024 22:10:00
Don Cupitt explores how Darwin's theory of evolution seemed to make the idea of special creation by God impossible.
Starting: 18-11-2024 23:00:00
Can beast master Carpophorus survive the challenge of battling 20 wild creatures? Contains some violence and upsetting scenes.
Starting: 18-11-2024 23:50:00
At Trajan's great games, the crowd is treated to a rare spectacle, female gladiators. Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes.
Starting: 19-11-2024 00:40:00
Historical series looking at the Roman empire from the bottom up. Professor Mary Beard discovers the crime and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city.
Starting: 19-11-2024 01:25:00
Simon Sebag Montefiore charts Rome's rise to become the capital of western Christendom and its impact on the lives of its citizens, elites and high priests.
Starting: 19-11-2024 02:25:00
Michael Portillo continues his rail exploration of Queensland, Australia, from the tropical rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef.
Starting: 19-11-2024 19:00:00
Presenter and DJ Nick Grimshaw escapes for a revitalising walk on the Northumberland coast and reflects on his career, growing up and plans for starting a family.
Starting: 19-11-2024 19:30:00
Classic comedy series. Fletcher is incensed when a third cellmate arrives, and to add insult to injury, he turns out to be one of his old enemies.
Starting: 19-11-2024 20:00:00
Lionel and Jean spend the day walking around an old town they used to visit when they were young. They find that even though things have changed, their treasured memories remain.
Starting: 19-11-2024 20:30:00
Documentary drama series exploring the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Henry leaves Katherine to marry Anne Boleyn, but rumours start to spread that she has been unfaithful.
Starting: 19-11-2024 21:00:00
A Storyville documentary that follows Amber and Guna, happiness agents for the government of Bhutan, as they travel the mountainous Himalayas, meeting people and measuring how happy they are.
Starting: 19-11-2024 22:00:00
Stephen Smith explores Renaissance Florence under the reign of Grand Duke Cosimo Medici, where some of the greatest painters, sculptors and craftsmen in world history served.
Starting: 19-11-2024 23:35:00
This episode deals with class in all its shapes and sizes, from both sides of the class divide, in the UK, USA and India. Contains very strong language.
Starting: 20-11-2024 00:35:00
Documentary drama series exploring the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Henry leaves Katherine to marry Anne Boleyn, but rumours start to spread that she has been unfaithful.
Starting: 20-11-2024 01:35:00
Michael Portillo continues his rail exploration of Queensland, Australia, from the tropical rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef.
Starting: 20-11-2024 02:35:00
Presenter and DJ Nick Grimshaw escapes for a revitalising walk on the Northumberland coast and reflects on his career, growing up and plans for starting a family.
Starting: 20-11-2024 03:05:00
Robbie begins his 300-mile adventure across the north of England and the Midlands. He is forced to make a running repair while on the Tinsley lock flight.
Starting: 20-11-2024 19:00:00
Comedian Shappi Khorsandi walks the Derbyshire Dales and marvels at the beauty she finds. With her unique wit and charm, she talks candidly about her outlook on life and love.
Starting: 20-11-2024 19:30:00
Biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake travels the globe, exploring the world of fungi and unravelling the many secrets of these essential organisms.
Starting: 20-11-2024 20:00:00
Exploring the Fens of East Anglia, a landscape of wild wetlands and fertile farmland.
Starting: 20-11-2024 20:40:00
Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry, an artefact which, despite its fame, has remained shrouded in mystery.
Starting: 20-11-2024 21:00:00
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
Starting: 20-11-2024 22:00:00
The arrival of the York Hussars on the Dorset Downs has a dramatic impact upon the life of Phyllis Grove.
Starting: 20-11-2024 22:55:00
Lord Uplandtowers vows that he will make Barbara his wife. But she has secret plans of her own.
Starting: 20-11-2024 23:45:00
Robbie begins his 300-mile adventure across the north of England and the Midlands. He is forced to make a running repair while on the Tinsley lock flight.
Starting: 21-11-2024 00:35:00
Comedian Shappi Khorsandi walks the Derbyshire Dales and marvels at the beauty she finds. With her unique wit and charm, she talks candidly about her outlook on life and love.
Starting: 21-11-2024 01:05:00
Exploring the Fens of East Anglia, a landscape of wild wetlands and fertile farmland.
Starting: 21-11-2024 01:35:00
Biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake travels the globe, exploring the world of fungi and unravelling the many secrets of these essential organisms.
Starting: 21-11-2024 01:55:00
Stephen Smith explores Renaissance Florence under the reign of Grand Duke Cosimo Medici.
Starting: 21-11-2024 02:35:00
Robbie Cumming navigates the tidal Trent and joins a night-time illuminated boat parade on the picturesque Chesterfield Canal.
Starting: 21-11-2024 19:00:00
Monica Galetti takes in the dramatic landscapes of the North York Moors as she crosses the heather from Rosedale to Farndale, meeting locals along the way.
Starting: 21-11-2024 19:30:00
Martin Scorsese introduces a season of films by the legendary duo Powell and Pressburger.
Starting: 21-11-2024 20:00:00
Romantic drama. An ambitious middle-class woman is marooned on the Isle of Mull en route to her wedding, and falls in love with the Laird of Kiloran.
Starting: 21-11-2024 20:10:00
Romantic drama. An ambitious middle-class woman is marooned on the Isle of Mull en route to her wedding, and falls in love with the Laird of Kiloran.
Starting: 21-11-2024 20:20:00
Programme made for the fiftieth anniversary of classic movie I Know Where I'm Going! by maverick film-making duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Starting: 21-11-2024 21:40:00
Programme made for the fiftieth anniversary of classic movie I Know Where I'm Going! by maverick film-making duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Starting: 21-11-2024 21:50:00
Classic British epic about the life and loves of a reactionary army officer, tracing his career from the Boer War to World War II.
Starting: 21-11-2024 22:15:00
Classic British epic about the life and loves of a reactionary army officer, tracing his career from the Boer War to World War II.
Starting: 21-11-2024 22:25:00
Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry, an artefact which, despite its fame, has remained shrouded in mystery.
Starting: 22-11-2024 00:55:00
Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry, an artefact which, despite its fame, has remained shrouded in mystery.
Starting: 22-11-2024 01:05:00
Robbie Cumming navigates the tidal Trent and joins a night-time illuminated boat parade on the picturesque Chesterfield Canal.
Starting: 22-11-2024 01:55:00
Robbie Cumming navigates the tidal Trent and joins a night-time illuminated boat parade on the picturesque Chesterfield Canal.
Starting: 22-11-2024 02:05:00
Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire.
Starting: 22-11-2024 02:25:00
Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire.
Starting: 22-11-2024 02:35:00
Frankie Dettori presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 8 November 1996 and featuring Gina G, Bjork, 911, Moby, Simply Red, Boyzone and Robson & Jerome.
Starting: 22-11-2024 19:00:00
Members of The Fast Show present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 15 November 1996 and featuring Backstreet Boys, The Woolpackers, East 17 ft Gabrielle, Mark Owen and Robson & Jerome.
Starting: 22-11-2024 19:35:00
Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the chart programme, from November 1983. With Paul Young, Tina Turner, The Smiths, Marilyn, Simple Minds, The Style Council and Billy Joel.
Starting: 22-11-2024 20:10:00
Simon Mayo and Andy Crane present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 24 November 1988 and featuring Tiffany, Bomb the Bass ft Maureen, Deacon Blue, Bananarama and Chris de Burgh.
Starting: 22-11-2024 20:45:00
An electric Tina Turner performance from Arnhem, Netherlands, in 2009, as part of her blockbuster 50th Anniversary Tour.
Starting: 22-11-2024 21:15:00
The Rolling Stones captured live in 2003 from New York City's Madison Square Garden. Contains some strong language.
Starting: 22-11-2024 23:25:00
The Syracuse Carrier Dome show from Prince's 1985 Purple Rain tour. This Grammy-nominated concert film has been entirely remixed, remastered and visually enhanced.
Starting: 23-11-2024 00:25:00
Frankie Dettori presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 8 November 1996 and featuring Gina G, Bjork, 911, Moby, Simply Red, Boyzone and Robson & Jerome.
Starting: 23-11-2024 01:45:00
Members of The Fast Show present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 15 November 1996 and featuring Backstreet Boys, The Woolpackers, East 17 ft Gabrielle, Mark Owen and Robson & Jerome.
Starting: 23-11-2024 02:20:00
Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the chart programme, from November 1983. With Paul Young, Tina Turner, The Smiths, Marilyn, Simple Minds, The Style Council and Billy Joel.
Starting: 23-11-2024 02:55:00
Simon Mayo and Andy Crane present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 24 November 1988 and featuring Tiffany, Bomb the Bass ft Maureen, Deacon Blue, Bananarama and Chris de Burgh.
Starting: 23-11-2024 03:30:00
Live coverage from day one of the 2024 UK Snooker Championship.
Starting: 23-11-2024 19:00:00
It's the 1980s in Stavanger, and Norway's oil industry is booming. Humans are being replaced by machines, some people are making a fortune, while others are facing great losses.
Starting: 23-11-2024 21:00:00
Komponent try to land an important deal with Statoil, serious complications arise with the test dive, and Christian attends his first board meeting at the shipping company.
Starting: 23-11-2024 21:45:00
Dudley Moore and John Conteh. Michael Parkinson in conversation with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and John Conteh.
Starting: 23-11-2024 22:35:00
A look back through the archives at appearances by masters of satire Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on some of the BBC's best-loved talk shows.
Starting: 23-11-2024 23:40:00
Classic comedy series. Fletcher is incensed when a third cellmate arrives, and to add insult to injury, he turns out to be one of his old enemies.
Starting: 24-11-2024 00:10:00
Lionel and Jean spend the day walking around an old town they used to visit when they were young. They find that even though things have changed, their treasured memories remain.
Starting: 24-11-2024 00:40:00
Kate Garraway walks through the Cotswold countryside and describes the joy and solace that nature brings as she takes in the inspiring views of Gloucestershire.
Starting: 24-11-2024 01:10:00
The biggest bands on the buzzing UK scene play in a new edition of the iconic jazz show.
Starting: 24-11-2024 01:40:00
Live coverage from day two of the 2024 UK Snooker Championship.
Starting: 24-11-2024 19:00:00
Celebrating the competition's tenth anniversary, four talented young performers compete for the title BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024.
Starting: 24-11-2024 21:00:00
Poverty and passion collide in Puccini's operatic masterpiece, La bohème, performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Starting: 24-11-2024 23:00:00
Play Puccini at the Proms. The Hallé Orchestra perform Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Starting: 25-11-2024 01:00:00
Historical series looking at the Roman empire from the bottom up. Professor Mary Beard discovers the crime and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city.
Starting: 25-11-2024 02:55:00
Live coverage from day three of the 2024 UK Snooker Championship.
Starting: 25-11-2024 19:00:00
Mary Beard takes an in-depth look at identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire.
Starting: 25-11-2024 22:00:00
Professor Mary Beard explores the life and times of the notorious Roman emperor Caligula. Deals with adult themes.
Starting: 25-11-2024 23:00:00
A growing underground religion begins to threaten Roman traditions - Christianity. Contains some violence and upsetting scenes.
Starting: 26-11-2024 00:00:00
One of the most famous scientists of the ancient world makes a name for himself. Contains prolonged violence and upsetting scenes.
Starting: 26-11-2024 00:45:00
Historical series looking at the Roman empire from the bottom up. Mary Beard goes behind the closed doors of Roman homes to explore their family life.
Starting: 26-11-2024 01:35:00
Mary Beard takes an in-depth look at identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire.
Starting: 26-11-2024 02:35:00
Live coverage from day four of the 2024 UK Snooker Championship.
Starting: 26-11-2024 19:00:00
A Storyville documentary following the exploits of a five-year-old boy growing up in an Indian Himalayan village where he is taunted for being mixed race.
Starting: 26-11-2024 22:00:00