SATURDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2025

SAT 19:00 The Flying Gardener (m0024zj5)
Series 4

Cornwall/Devon - Short

Chris Beardshaw travels to both Devon and Cornwall to discover how plants survive in the most exposed areas of Britain, and he transforms a local resident's balcony using miniatures and bonsai.


SAT 19:20 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fh)
Series 6

Blood and Water

James encounters Oliver and Roland Strong - rabbit breeder and prize cabbage grower respectively - who haven't spoken to each other for half a century.


SAT 20:10 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fl)
Series 6

Where Sheep May Safely Graze

Alfred, the local confectioner’s beloved cat, falls ill, and James cannot find the cause. Meanwhile, sheep farmer Braithwaite sells his farm to an eager but inexperienced couple.


SAT 21:00 Remembers... (m002lvjm)
Ian McNeice Remembers... Edge of Darkness

Broadcast at a time when nuclear politics was firmly on the current affairs agenda, Edge of Darkness quickly established itself as a landmark moment in British TV history.

Writer Troy Kennedy Martin drew on his experience of scripting shows like Z Cars and The Sweeney in creating this BAFTA-winning series. The powerful cast includes Bob Peck, who played Ronald Craven, Joe Don Baker, as a shadowy American intelligence operative, and Ian McNeice, who tells us of his memories of the show: the melding of the personal and political in the storyline, his awareness of just how impactful it had been as soon as it transmitted, how the plot presented arguments still relevant today, and his pride in being associated with what rapidly became one of the standout works in television drama.


SAT 21:15 Edge of Darkness (b0074p8c)
Series 1

Compassionate Leave

Ronald Craven, a Yorkshire policeman, is investigating a union election scandal when his daughter, Emma, is shot and killed in front of him. Learning of his daughter's involvement in an ecological group and absolutely determined to trace her killer, Craven goes to London to investigate.


SAT 22:10 Edge of Darkness (b0074p95)
Series 1

Into the Shadows

Craven goes to London to find out more about his daughter's murder, and he begins to realise the full extent of her political involvement when he is shown files by the flamboyant CIA agent Darius Jedburgh.


SAT 23:00 Parkinson (m002lvjq)
Spike Milligan, James Coburn and Professor Eric Laithwaite

Michael Parkinson in conversation with Spike Milligan, James Coburn and Professor Eric Laithwaite


SAT 00:00 The Good Life (p02r70qx)
Series 4

Sweet and Sour Charity

Mrs Weaver has moved, and Tom wants to take the oil from her central heating tank. Jerry is trying to discredit a colleague, and Margo is asked to play the lead in a production.


SAT 00:30 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074qvc)
Series 1

The Smoke Screen

The health minister wants to abolish smoking using prohibitive taxation, losing the Treasury £4bn revenue. Jim sees how he can use this to stop Treasury opposition to his plans for tax cuts.


SAT 01:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:20 today]


SAT 01:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:10 today]


SAT 02:40 Turtle, Eagle, Cheetah: A Slow Odyssey (m0001kwx)
A Turtle's Journey

Ride on board with a green sea turtle as it swims around its spectacular coral reef home of Sipidan in Malaysia. Using only natural sounds and elegant embedded graphics delivering detailed information, this is an immersive journey into the turtles’ world like no other.

The turtle embarks on its daily routine, revealing how they utilise all the different areas of the reef, from the inner shallows to the deep drop-off – introducing us to all the fish and animals that they share one of the richest and most diverse places on our planet with in a mesmerising half-hour.

The turtles were filmed for Blue Planet II and part of an ongoing study into their behaviour for the Marine Research Foundation.

SUNDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2025

SUN 19:00 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b03lzh78)
The Age of the Steam Locomotive

Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power, from early colliery railways to the end of steam travel in Britain in the 1960s.


SUN 19:30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqfw)
Series 1

North East

Archaeologist Ben Robinson unlocks the ancient roots of the Northumberland village of Warkworth. With the help of locals, he discovers clues that point back almost 1,000 years to the Norman conquest when the invaders laid the foundations of a planned community, still visible to this day.


SUN 20:00 Inside Classical (m002lvj3)
Series 4

Halloween Spooktacular with BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Join presenter and musician Owain Wyn Evans for a concert full of Halloween tricks and treats. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ellie Slorach, perform music that is guaranteed to give you a thrill.
The concert includes Bach’s gothic masterpiece Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre and the spine-tingling Rimsky Korsakov’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain. The orchestra take us to a world of magic and wonderment with film scores by John Williams, including Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Flying Theme from ET, and the night wouldn’t be complete without one of the most forbidding and recognisable musical scores in cinematic history – The Shark Theme from Jaws!


SUN 21:30 Man Alive (p013vgch)
Living in Sin

First transmitted in 1966, Man Alive speaks to couples who, for various reasons, have decided not to take the traditional route towards marriage. Some have been married before but are unable to obtain the divorces they need, while others just see marriage as an outdated concept. What are the effects of this on their children, and how does wider society view couples who are 'living in sin'?


SUN 22:00 Man Alive (m002lvj6)
The Office Party

In a documentary, first transmitted in 1970, reporter Gillian Strickland and a Man Alive team take a typical office and film the preparations for the annual party, the spree itself and the aftermath.


SUN 22:50 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l6zr)
Series 1

5. Lenin and the Great Unglueing

JK Galbraith examines WWI as an instrument in changing the old social order, and especially Lenin, who spent most of the war exiled in Switzerland urging soldiers to start a world revolution. A revolution did come, but Lenin nearly missed his chance to be part of it.


SUN 23:45 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l6zv)
Series 1

6. The Rise and Fall of Money

From the elegant banks of 17th-century Amsterdam to the dark days of the Great Depression, Prof Galbraith traces the history of money - its uses and abuses, the grand successes and the spectacular disasters.


SUN 00:40 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqfw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


SUN 01:10 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b03lzh78)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SUN 01:40 Inside Classical (m002lvj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

MONDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2025

MON 19:00 Earth's Seasonal Secrets (b07w117w)
Spring

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 spring on planet Earth, and the extraordinary tricks that animals and plants find to rise to the new challenges it brings. This magical season brings a burst of new life - but as soon as the air starts to warm, it's a race to wake up and get ahead of everyone else. For many, it's the perfect time to find a mate and raise babies - but for everything, from adventurous grizzly bear cubs and amorous dancing grebes, to flowers in the desert and swifts that fly marathons, spring is about rushing to make the most of the opportunities this busy season brings.


MON 20:00 Stolen: Catching the Art Thieves (p0cz8gbp)
Series 1

Oslo

In 1994, Munch’s The Scream is ripped from a gallery wall in Oslo.
The detectives leading the investigation describe a complex and dangerous investigation which exposes the lengths to which criminals will go to gain a get-out-of-jail card for murder.


MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m002lvjw)
Panel game of word definitions and deceptions hosted by Robert Robinson. Team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by guests Angela Rippon, Nerys Hughes, Peter Brough and Jonathan Miller.


MON 21:30 Face the Music (m002lvjy)
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Patricia Owen, John Julius Norwich and David Attenborough. With guest musician David Willcocks.


MON 22:00 Arena (b0074lzv)
Chelsea Hotel

First transmitted in 1981, this documentary programme looks at New York's Chelsea Hotel, a legendary haven for some of the 20th century's greatest talent, from Mark Twain to Dylan Thomas. With appearances from Andy Warhol and William Burroughs, who have dinner in the room where Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001, and Quentin Crisp, who lived in the hotel for more than 35 years.


MON 22:55 Arena (m002k96s)
Francis Bacon

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Francis Bacon talks with great candour to his friend of many years, the distinguished writer and critic David Sylvester.


MON 23:55 The Great Philosophers (m002l4zq)
Series 1

Kant

Bryan Magee and his guest, Sir Geoffrey Warnock, discuss the work of German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).


MON 00:40 The Great Philosophers (m002l4zs)
Series 1

Hegel and Marx

Bryan Magee and Peter Singer discuss the work of German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and Karl Marx (1818-1883). He is joined by Peter Singer.


MON 01:25 Face the Music (m002lvjy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today]


MON 01:55 Earth's Seasonal Secrets (b07w117w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


MON 02:55 Stolen: Catching the Art Thieves (p0cz8gbp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

TUESDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2025

TUE 19:00 Inside Museums (m000ngbs)
Series 1

St Fagans National Museum of History

Arts enthusiast Cerys Matthews is given an ‘access-all-areas’ pass to her favourite museum, St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff for the BBC's #MuseumPassion season.

Home to more than 40 faithfully re-erected historical buildings, it’s one of the UK's most visited heritage attractions and, as a living history museum, it lives, breathes and embodies the culture and identity of Wales. Cerys steps back in time, yet also draws powerful parallels with the present and our current circumstances as we cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.

St Fagans is steeped in Welsh history, yet the buildings and objects that are housed there also have a powerful contemporary relevance. They speak of the vital importance and occasional perils of community life.

In its early 20th-century, miners’ cottages, Cerys discovers how a previous generation coped with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Did close-knit community life help, or were there drawbacks?

Community spirit has many strengths, then and now, and grassroots pubs where people gathered to socialise could provide a central support hub, like the Vulcan Pub, built in 1853 in Cardiff. It has been saved from destruction by the museum and is being rebuilt, brick by brick, on the St Fagans site.

Cerys unpacks the stories behind centuries-old buildings and crafts and reveals the secrets of a selection of objects - from a 1950s caravan to the skull of a 6,000-year-old man. But today, museums also capture history as it happens. Cerys meets Curator of Black History Nasir Adam to find out more about some items that were made and, only recently, donated by the public. They will soon form part of a new exhibition.

St Fagans’ ethos is that theirs is a museum made with and by the people of Wales. It is shot through with community strength and spirit. Craft, industry, passion and pride can all be seen here. Their labours continue to bear fruit and their rich history is held in trust for future generations.

Cerys discovers that we can take comforting lessons for the future from time spent in the past. Objects, architecture and human stories that reveal, however daunting the challenges we might face, they can be overcome. Our history shows us that. The people of the past serve as a reminder. And they beckon us onwards and offer us hope.


TUE 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m001ln0w)
Series 4

Lincoln to Nottingham

Autumnal fog and an overheating engine prove to be problems for narrowboater Robbie Cumming as he navigates a Roman waterway and the fast-flowing River Trent. It’s a journey of many challenges as he runs aground and breaks down in Nottingham.


TUE 20:00 The Good Life (b00jzw4h)
Series 4

The Anniversary

70s sitcom about a couple farming for self-sufficiency in the suburbs. Has the good life come to an end for Tom and Barbara?


TUE 20:30 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074rsm)
Series 1

The Key

Sir Humphrey has skilfully moved Dorothy Wainwright, the PM's political advisor, out of her office. She insists on moving back and tells Jim that he is letting Humphrey become too dominant.


TUE 21:00 How the Celts Saved Britain (b00ktrby)
Salvation

Provocative two-part documentary in which Dan Snow blows the lid on the traditional Anglo-centric view of history and reveals how the Irish saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages.

He follows in the footsteps of Ireland's earliest missionaries as they venture through treacherous barbarian territory to bring literacy and technology to the future nations of Scotland and England.


TUE 22:00 Timewatch (b0078yy8)
2005-2006

The Gunpowder Plot

Documentary that re-examines the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 - one of the most famous yet least understood events in British history. It shows how the plot was almost England's 9/11, and asks why a group of young Englishmen became so radicalised and so hell-bent on terrorism. Computer graphics recreate what the Houses of Parliament looked like in 1605, and show just how close the plotters came to success.


TUE 22:50 Timeshift (m000l9v7)
Series 3

Jet Set

Rich, distant and opulent, the jet set fascinated the public as they waved to us from airplane doorways before winging their way across the skies heading for yachts and exotic locations that the rest of us could only dream of. They were the aristocrats, the high fliers and high earners whose lives and loves fascinated us long before celebrity became a dirty word.

This film looks back at the glamorous heyday of the jet set from the 1950s to the 1970s. Contributors include former Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart, psychologist Dr Martyn Dyer Smith, society columnist Ross Benson, travel writer Simon Calder, Concorde pilot Christopher Orlebar and former women's magazine editor Marcelle d'Argy Smith.


TUE 23:30 imagine... (b07lswsg)
Summer 2016

DANGER! Cornelia Parker

Imagine reveals the darker side of one of Britain's most original and inventive artists. A sculptor working with found materials, Cornelia Parker creates beauty from acts of brutality - an exploded shed, piles of squashed silver, the charred remnants of a burnt church suspended in time. Born in 1956 to a German mother and an English father in rural Cheshire, Parker always struggled to fit in. Art was her escape. In 2016 she embarked on the most high-profile commission of her career - the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Alan Yentob follows Parker's creative process in a film that sees her delve deep into America's history, cinema and art, as well as her own personal past.


TUE 00:40 Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist (b09j0lp9)
British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City, and takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world.


TUE 01:35 Timewatch (b0078yy8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]


TUE 02:25 Canal Boat Diaries (m001ln0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 02:55 How the Celts Saved Britain (b00ktrby)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

WEDNESDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2025

WED 19:00 Inside Museums (m000ng7k)
Series 1

Ulster Museum

Emma Dabiri admits that travel is in her blood. Now, as leaving the country becomes increasingly fraught in the global pandemic, she finds a new way of seeing the world through selected artworks at Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland's capital, Belfast.

From the portraiture of Pompeo Batoni to the etchings of Giovanni Piranesi, her tour takes in the splendour of Rome as well as Sri Lanka, Morocco, Mexico and even Antarctica. She examines how artists brought to the UK their vision of the world and metaphorically transported art lovers across continents before the invention of the jet engine.

The Dublin born social historian takes us around the gallery highlighting how depictions of far flung landscapes and cultures were sometimes overly romanticised or blatantly sexualised. And how, for many, travel in previous centuries was less about tourism and more about emigration, saying goodbye to loved ones probably forever. While our passports remain largely unused, let artists show you their world beyond our shores.


WED 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m001ln54)
Series 4

Loughborough to Braunston

On the last leg of his 300-mile journey across the north of England and the Midlands, Robbie Cumming faces issues with ice on the Grand Union Canal, takes on Foxton’s famous lock flight in Leicestershire, and completes his journey in the picturesque village Braunston, Northamptonshire, regarded as the spiritual home for narrowboaters.


WED 20:00 The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (p030s6b3)
Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data security - they even help us travel the world, find love and save lives.

Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. By showing us some of the algorithms most essential to our lives, he reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem-solvers came from, how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even programme themselves.


WED 21:00 Winterwatch (b01q9d86)
1963: The Big Freeze

Chris Packham introduces a classic documentary from the BBC's archive, which takes a look at the worst winter of the 20th century in 1963. He also explores what we now know about how this big freeze affected Britain's wildlife, and how it would cope if we experienced another equally bad winter.


WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002lvk0)
Emma Thompson and Paul Murton Remember... The Blue Boy

Emma Thompson and Paul Murton reflect on their shared childhood summers in Scotland and the deep-rooted love of ghost stories that shaped their friendship and creative lives. They discuss The Blue Boy, a film Paul was inspired to write after a spooky experience the pair shared during a late night lock-in at a haunted inn as teenagers.

The conversation turns to how important the telling of ghost stories has been in their friendship and how magical it was for them to come together to film a ghostly tale of love, loss and grief in a place that meant so much to them both.


WED 22:20 Screen Two (p00gfgxz)
The Blue Boy

A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationship - only for the past to creep up on the present with devastating results.


WED 23:25 Screen Two (m002jm1m)
The Picnic

'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon adjust to having a stepfather her own age, and now a birthday picnic by the river. Why shouldn't Margie be happy?


WED 00:45 Winterwatch (b01q9d86)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


WED 01:45 Canal Boat Diaries (m001ln54)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


WED 02:15 The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms (p030s6b3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2025

THU 19:00 Inside Museums (m000ng9h)
Series 1

Scottish National Gallery

Artist Lachlan Goudie visits the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh to revisit a collection he describes as being part of his family. He grew up with the artworks in the gallery and now considers how paintings, which were created more than a hundred years ago, have such relevance to the challenges we are all living through today because of Covid-19, in terms of family, friendship, community, wildlife, nature and hope.

His exploration includes works by Scottish and international artists, culminating in what he describes as one of the greatest set of paintings ever produced in the history of western art.


THU 19:30 Meet the Ancestors (b0074n0m)
Series 5

The Forgotten Battlefield

The story of life on the World War I front line near Ypres is pieced together as archaeologists unearth a complex system of trenches, an exceptional array of military hardware and an astonishing collection of personal artefacts. With contributions from historians and military experts.


THU 20:20 Talking Pictures (b0699b7m)
Anthony Hopkins

A look back at the life of the Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins. In interviews conducted with the BBC over the course of his career we see him discuss his approach to acting, his hell-raising years and the famous films and roles that helped make him a star including Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Nixon and, of course, The Silence of the Lambs, in which he first portrayed his most celebrated character, Dr Hannibal Lecter.


THU 21:00 The Remains of the Day (m0012y96)
Mr Stevens is butler to Lord Darlington, who in the years leading up to the Second World War had great sympathy with Germany and hoped to retain the peace between Britain and the Nazis. Overseeing the running of the great house, Stevens is joined by housekeeper Miss Kenton.

In postwar Britain, Stevens gets a letter from Miss Kenton and decides to seek her out. From the Booker Prize-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.


THU 23:10 Letter to Brezhnev (m0029l6s)
Two Liverpool lasses hook up with a pair of Soviet sailors, only for their night of fun to turn serious when love beckons for one of the girls. She begins to wonder if life might be better behind the Iron Curtain.


THU 00:40 Talking Pictures (b0699b7m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:20 today]


THU 01:25 Meet the Ancestors (b0074n0m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


THU 02:10 imagine... (b07lswsg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday]

FRIDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2025

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002lvjr)
Kate Thornton presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 18 September 1998 and featuring All Saints, Aerosmith, Pulp, Alisha's Attic, Honeyz, Boyzone, Steps and Robbie Williams.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002lvjt)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 September 1998 and featuring Jennifer Paige, Lutricia McNeal, The Divine Comedy, Aerosmith, Deetah, Eels, PJ Harvey and Melanie B feat Missy Elliott.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b04nqrq3)
Mike Read presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 1 November 1979 and featuring Sparks, The Ramblers, Darts, The Jam, Lene Lovich, Thin Lizzy, Suzi Quatro, BA Robertson, Lena Martell and dance sequences by Legs & Co.


FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (m000bhfp)
Mark Goodier and Nicky Campbell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 3 November 1988 and featuring Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, Robert Palmer, Tanita Tikaram, Bryan Ferry, Robin Beck, Kylie Minogue, Yazz, Enya and Guns N' Roses.


FRI 21:00 Eurythmics at the BBC (m0026cwl)
Eurythmics were one of Britain’s biggest and best bands of the 1980s, comprising two of the music scene’s most creative double acts of the decade – Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox.

Bold, innovative, stylish and always highly unpredictable, the pair first tasted chart success with The Tourists before breaking away and achieving international stardom with songs like Love Is a Stranger and Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves.

Over the following years, Dave and Annie always stayed ahead of changing tastes and fashions, and their evolving looks and sounds are captured here in a collection of their best moments from the BBC’s music archives.


FRI 22:30 Annie Lennox at the BBC (m0026cwn)
Annie Lennox has been described as the most successful female artist in British music history, and this collection is a celebration of the stunning solo side of her accomplishments – which started in earnest with the release of her hugely acclaimed debut solo album, Diva, in 1992.

Since then, Annie has shown time and time again exactly why she remains one of Britain's most popular and critically praised artists, and the evidence is shared here once again with a selection of her finest performances plucked from the BBC archives.


FRI 23:30 BBC One Sessions (b00j4d90)
Annie Lennox

Pop's enduring diva is on scintillating form in an intimate concert from LSO St Luke's in London. Accompanied by her band and 21 strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Annie Lennox storms through a set packed with hits from her solo career and back to the Eurythmics days, including classic hits Here Comes the Rain, Little Bird, Cold, Sweet Dreams and No More 'I Love You's'.

Lennox shows her voice has lost none of its ability to thrill and her showmanship is undimmed.


FRI 00:30 Annie Lennox: Diva (m00111xr)
Documentary that first aired in 1992, at the time that Annie Lennox released her debut solo album, Diva. Featuring an in-depth interview with the ex-Eurythmics singer as well as an extensive selection of archive footage.


FRI 01:00 Top of the Pops (m002lvjr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 01:30 Top of the Pops (m002lvjt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


FRI 02:00 Top of the Pops (b04nqrq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


FRI 02:30 Top of the Pops (m000bhfp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]