SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2024

SAT 19:00 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (m000str5)
Series 2

World's First City

Janina is in Turkey, tracking a young explorer who found the world’s oldest city and rewrote the beginning of civilisation – until his discovery became engulfed in scandal.


SAT 20:00 Wild Arabia (b01r12zm)
The Jewel of Arabia

In a remote corner of southern Arabia one mountain range holds a remarkable secret. Swept by the annual Indian Ocean monsoon, the Dhofar mountains become a magical lost world of waterfalls and cloud forests filled with chameleons and honey badgers. Offshore, rare whales that have not bred with any others for over 60,000 years and green sea turtles come ashore in their thousands, shadowed by egg-stealing foxes. Heat-seeking cameras reveal, for the first time, striped hyenas doing battle with Arabian wolves. Meanwhile, local researchers come face to face with the incredibly rare Arabian leopard.


SAT 21:00 India: Nature's Wonderland (b06b3klq)
Episode 2

The hidden wonders of India's spectacular natural world are revealed by wildlife expert Liz Bonnin, actress Freida Pinto and mountaineer Jon Gupta.

Experience a village of birds, masks that come alive, the world's greatest mountain range and baby turtles erupting out of the sand.

This is truly a land like no other.


SAT 22:00 Nostalgia (m0023jld)
A man returns to his hometown of Naples, 40 years after abruptly leaving as a teen, stirring up a past which he's kept buried. He is determined to see his boyhood friend, now a leading Naples crime boss, with whom he shares a dark secret.

Italian with English subtitles


SAT 23:50 Porridge (b00828g8)
Series 1

A Night In

Classic comedy series. Fletch and Godber reconcile themselves to a quiet evening in at Slade prison.


SAT 00:20 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074s32)
Series 2

The National Education Service

Jim Hacker decides to abolish the Department of Education and Science to reduce bureaucracy and save money, giving cash directly to schools. Sir Humphrey, of course, is appalled.


SAT 00:50 The High Life (b00gsj9b)
Feart

It's Steve's thirtieth birthday, and he feels stuck in a rut. Sebastian suggests they apply to be stewards on Air Scotia's glamours long-haul flights. But first they have to contend with Capitain Duff, who thinks he is Leonard Nimoy, and a plane full of Gaga Tours OAPs, including an incognito Air Scotia Inspector. Meanwhile, Shona meets someone from her past.


SAT 01:20 The High Life (b00gvhjj)
Birl

Comedy set among the cabin crew of a passenger jet on a budget airline. As standards fall, the company orders its employees to attend a weekend of intensive retraining. Steve finds love, Shona finds herself and Sebastian finds out a secret.


SAT 01:50 Wild Arabia (b01r12zm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


SAT 02:50 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (m000str5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]



SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2024

SUN 19:00 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m0023jmr)
Series 1

Episode 3

Victor Borge, the brilliant international entertainer, performs some of his most famous routines and plays some of his favourite music. Featuring Marilyn Mulvey.


SUN 19:30 BBC Young Musician (m0023jmt)
2024

Quarter-Final 1

The competition reaches the quarter-final stage and for the remaining musicians, it’s all to play for.

Presented by star saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam, herself a former BBC Young Musician finalist, it’s time for the first six musicians to perform again for the judges, this time in front of an audience. With such a high standard of talent to choose from, the judges have their work cut out as the competition hots up and tensions mount.

Making the big decisions are world renowned trumpet player Alison Balsom, pianist Alexis Ffrench, who has over half a billion streams to his name, and multi-instrumentalist and DJ Hannah Catherine Jones. The judges are looking for one winner on the night to go through automatically to the next stage. For the remaining contestants there’s still a chance to progress, but we’ll have to wait until next week to discover who the judges choose as their four wild cards.

Filmed at Swansea University’s Great Hall, this first quarter-final features some mesmerising performances from the next generation of classical stars. Who will win and be the first to claim their place in the semi-final?


SUN 21:00 BBC Proms (m001b0dr)
2022

The Magic of Mozart

Mozart was a child prodigy who rejected norms and rewrote the rule book. Tonight’s concert opens with the overture from The Marriage of Figaro, an opera that changed music and challenged the social status quo.

Our performers for this Prom are also out of the ordinary. The international Mahler Chamber Orchestra's members are drawn from 20 countries. They are joined by their multi-Grammy-nominated artistic partner, Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes, who plays piano and directs the orchestra, as Mozart did, from the keyboard.

Together they explore the relationship between soloist and ensemble in the ever-popular, dark and stormy Piano Concerto No 20, and Piano Concerto No 22, in which Mozart pushes orchestral boundaries with the introduction of the then-exotic clarinet.

Join Katie Derham and guests for a lively concert of Wolfgang Amadeus.


SUN 22:45 BBC Proms (m001pnnk)
2023

Felix Klieser Plays Mozart at the Proms

Virtuoso horn player Felix Klieser, who was born without arms and plays the instrument with his toes, makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No 4.

Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as they plot a kaleidoscopic musical journey across Europe with tales of friendship, homeland and the emotive power of music.

Bursting with some of his most beautiful and heartfelt melodies, Rachmaninov’s sweeping Second Symphony continues the celebration of what would have been the composer’s 150th birthday.

Music by the conductor’s father opens the concert - Ivan Karabits’ first Concerto for Orchestra. Written to mark the 1,500th anniversary of the founding of Kyiv, it’s a colourful orchestral soundscape evoking chiming bells and a city in happier times.

Petroc Trelawny presents joined by special guest Hannah French.


SUN 00:45 Nigel Kennedy at the BBC (b04w0fyx)
Compilation of performances and appearances by Nigel Kennedy from the BBC archive, following his music development and career from a seven-year-old child on Town and Around to his virtuoso showstopper Czardas from the Last Night of the Proms 2013.

Featuring interviews with him through the years, and demonstrating a versatility of styles from classical to experimental to a jazz duet with Stephane Grappelli.


SUN 01:45 Face the Music (m00239nl)
Joseph Cooper hosts the game show that invites viewers to match their musical wits against a celebrity panel. With Joyce Grenfell, Richard Baker and Robin Ray. Featuring guest musician Tamás Vásáry.


SUN 02:20 The Complete Victor Borge - Show of the Week (m0023jmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SUN 02:50 Genius of the Ancient World (b066d0v5)
Confucius

In the final episode, Bettany travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundamentally shaped the country of his birth for around 2,500 years.



MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2024

MON 19:00 Great British Railway Journeys (m000dlbm)
Series 11

Attleborough to Skegness

Michael Portillo is in East Anglia on the last leg of his rail journey through 1930s Britain. He begins in Attleborough in Norfolk, at the headquarters of an international horse welfare organisation which was established in the late 1920s and learns about the charity’s pioneering founder.

Crossing the Fens, Michael’s next stop is the cathedral city of Peterborough, where he visits a tidal defence barrier built in the 1930s, which helped save the city from flooding.

Heading north into Lincolnshire, Michael crosses the point at which The Mallard broke the speed record for a steam powered locomotive in 1938. At the coastal resort of Skegness, he visits the first all-inclusive, self-contained holiday camp which became a household name in Britain. Here Michael swaps his green blazer for a red one!

Michael’s journey culminates at RAF Coningsby – an aerodrome which was conceived as storm clouds gathered across the Channel. Michael explores iconic aircraft from the Second World War, before being treated to a dazzling display featuring the RAF’s latest combat aircraft.


MON 19:30 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jd5)
Series 2

At the Sign of the Eagle

Archaeologist Julian Richards joins an excavation team as they uncover a rare find from a fourth-century Roman cemetery: a lead coffin, only the second ever to be found in Roman Winchester. Unexpected clues found inside the coffin bring to light the pagan beliefs of a wealthy Roman buried in a Christian cemetery.


MON 20:00 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jf1)
Series 2

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Archaeologist Julian Richards follows the scientific trail of the skeletons of a woman and three young children uncovered at a Stone Age temple in Dorset. He finds that the bones and teeth reveal the extraordinary and dark tale of a group of Neolithic wanderers, who may have made the ultimate sacrifice over 5,000 years ago.


MON 20:30 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jfy)
Series 2

The Tomb That Time Forgot

In the summer of 1998 a mysterious hole appeared in a barley field in distant Orkney. The cause - a burial chamber sunk into the ground - untouched for 5,000 years. Julian Richards joins a team of investigative police officers and archaeologists as they gradually remove the skeletons from the tomb to look for clues about our Stone Age ancestors. He reveals a bizarre tale of their lives and deaths.


MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m0023jtg)
Robert Robinson hosts a duel of words and wit, pitting Frank Muir, Lady Harlech and Robin Knox-Johnston against Patrick Campbell, Francesca Annis and Michael Jayston.


MON 21:25 Face the Music (m0023jtk)
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Robin Ray and Patrick Moore. With guest musician Roy Henderson.


MON 22:00 Mozart in Turkey (m0023jtp)
A performance of Mozart's opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail from the spectacular setting of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. With the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras.

The film also documents the creative process involved in staging this production, provides fresh insight into the history of the opera and Mozart's life, and includes a conversation with the director, Elijah Moshinsky.


MON 23:30 Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (m0011fb0)
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams – writers, celebrities and, many would say, geniuses – were catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry that spanned nearly 40 years. Inextricably entwined and icons of their age, they were both creative powerhouses and gay men, who dealt with success and its evanescence in vastly different ways.

Film-maker Lisa Immordino Vreeland brings these two forces together in a unique and fascinating head-to-head, comparing and contrasting their trajectories through duelling voices – the writers’ own, culled from archival footage, and those of actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, who portray Capote and Williams at various stages of their lives.

Both writers constructed rich, imaginary worlds and characters - Blanche DuBois and Holly Golightly to mention just two - which left indelible marks on the era. Both men also paid the price of colossal success and fame, suffering alcoholism and periods of artistic stagnation.


MON 00:50 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


MON 01:20 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jf1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


MON 01:50 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jfy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


MON 02:20 Mozart in Turkey (m0023jtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 today]



TUESDAY 01 OCTOBER 2024

TUE 19:00 Life (b00ncr13)
Challenges of Life

In nature, living long enough to breed is a monumental struggle. Many animals and plants go to extremes to give themselves a chance.

Uniquely, three brother cheetahs band together to bring down a huge ostrich. Aerial photography reveals how bottle-nosed dolphins trap fish in a ring of mud, and time-lapse cameras show how the Venus flytrap ensnares insect victims.

The strawberry frog carries a tadpole high into a tree and drops it in a water-filled bromeliad. The frog must climb back from the ground every day to feed it.

Fledgling chinstrap penguins undertake a heroic and tragic journey through the broken ice to get out to sea. Many can barely swim and the formidable leopard seal lies in wait.


TUE 20:00 Porridge (b0084b5v)
Series 1

A Day Out

Classic comedy series. When Fletcher and Godber are allowed out in a work gang, Mr Barrowclough gets more than he bargained for.


TUE 20:30 Yes, Prime Minister (b037tb14)
Series 2

The Tangled Web

Jim unwittingly lies to the Commons about bugging an MP's phone. Sir Humphrey decides not to lie to the Privileges Committee on Jim's behalf, but then discovers that he too has something to hide.


TUE 21:00 The High Life (b00h6syv)
Winch

Sitcom set among cabin crew of a passenger jet. Sebastian returns from his Florida holiday to discover something has definitely happened between Steve and Shona. Captain Duff, meanwhile, is as confused as ever.


TUE 21:30 The High Life (b00hd1tt)
Choob

Sitcom set among cabin crew of a passenger jet. To the boys' displeasure, Shona lands the job of presenting the Air Scotia inflight video. The plane is hijacked by a Scottish nationalist and Shona lays her out with a poached salmon, all captured on video.


TUE 22:00 Storyville (m0023jxf)
War Game

A Storyville documentary that sweeps viewers into an elaborate simulation which dramatically escalates the threat that was posed in the USA by the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.

The film follows a bipartisan group of US defence, intelligence and elected policymakers as they participate in an unscripted role-play exercise.

A fictional president of the United States and his advisors confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, but with profound real-world stakes, the players have only six hours to save American democracy.


TUE 23:35 Secrets of Silicon Valley (b091zhtk)
Series 1

The Persuasion Machine

Jamie Bartlett reveals how Silicon Valley's mission to connect the world is disrupting democracy, helping plunge us into an age of political turbulence. Many of the Tech Gods were dismayed when Donald Trump - who holds a very different worldview - won the American presidency, but did they actually help him to win? With the help of a key insider from the Trump campaign's digital operation, Jamie unravels for the first time the role played by social media and Facebook's vital role in getting Trump into the White House. But how did Facebook become such a powerful player?

Jamie learns how Facebook's vast power to persuade was first built for advertisers, combining data about our internet use and psychological insights into how we think. A leading psychologist then shows Jamie how Facebook's hoard of data about us can be used to predict our personalities and other psychological traits. He interrogates the head of the big data analytics firm that targeted millions of voters on Facebook for Trump - he tells Jamie this revolution is unstoppable. But is this great persuasion machine now out of control? Exploring the emotional mechanisms that supercharge the spread of fake news on social media, Jamie reveals how Silicon Valley's persuasion machine is now being exploited by political forces of all kinds, in ways no one - including the Tech Gods who created it - may be able to stop.


TUE 00:35 Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (m0011fb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday]


TUE 01:55 Life (b00ncr13)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 02:55 Secrets of Silicon Valley (b091zhtk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:35 today]



WEDNESDAY 02 OCTOBER 2024

WED 19:00 Life (b00nj6dr)
Reptiles and Amphibians

Reptiles and amphibians look like hang-overs from the past. But they overcome their shortcomings through amazing innovation.

The pebble toad turns into a rubber ball to roll and bounce from its enemies. Extreme slow-motion shows how a Jesus Christ lizard runs on water, and how a chameleon fires an extendible tongue at its prey with unfailing accuracy. The camera dives with a Niuean sea snake, which must breed on land but avoids predators by swimming to an air bubble at the end of an underwater tunnel. In a TV first, komodo dragons hunt a huge water-buffalo, biting it to inject venom, then waiting for weeks until it dies. Ten dragons strip the carcass to the bone in four hours.


WED 20:00 PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster (b03n3297)
Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean.

Accompanied by moving first hand testimony from the men who served on these convoys, Clarkson reveals the incredible hazards faced by members of the Merchant and Royal Navy who delivered vital war supplies via the Arctic to the Soviet Union: temperatures of minus 50 degrees, huge icebergs, colossal waves, not to mention German U-boats and the Luftwaffe. It is no wonder that Churchill described the Arctic Convoys as 'the worst journey in the world.'

Between 1941 and 1945, more than 70 convoys delivered 4 million tonnes of material to the USSR, yet one convoy in particular would come to symbolise the dangers faced by the men who served on them. Codenamed PQ17, this convoy of 35 merchant ships would be described by Churchill as one of the most melancholy naval episodes of the war.

Retracing the route of PQ17 from the Arctic to the Russian winter port of Archangel, Clarkson reveals how, on the night of July 4th 1942, this joint Anglo-American convoy became one of the biggest naval disasters of the 20th century. To make matters worse, the cause of the disaster lay not in the brutal conditions of the Arctic, or the military might of the Germans, but a misjudgement made in the corridors of the Admiralty in London.


WED 21:00 The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (m0023k9p)
A great maritime mystery lies deep beneath the waters of the Channel Islands. On the morning of 19 February 1917, German submarine UC-18 opened fire on Royal Navy Q-ship the Lady Olive. As the U-boat drew near to assess the damage it had inflicted, the Lady Olive counter-attacked. Both vessels were said to have sunk. For decades, divers and historians have searched to discover their fate and understand the fascinating story that led to this encounter, but no-one has come close to finding the wrecks.

The documentary follows film-maker Karl Taylor and his specialist team over four years as they search to discover what happened on that fateful February day in 1917.

Directed by Karl Taylor
Narrator David Harewood
Principal Underwater Photography, Karl Taylor and Peter Frankland


WED 22:00 Philip Glenister and Matthew Graham Remember... Life on Mars (m0023k9r)
Philip Glenister fires up the Cortina GXL one more time and takes a trip back in time to reflect on the hugely popular 1970s-set drama series Life on Mars, with writer and creator Matthew Graham joining him for the ride.

Together, they discuss the challenges of recreating the 70s, analyse why Life on Mars seemed to grab the public’s imagination from the very beginning, and share their memories of creating and playing one of television’s greatest unreconstructed tough men: hard-drinking, chain-smoking, skull-cracking DCI Gene Hunt.


WED 22:30 Life on Mars (b0074scz)
Series 1

Episode 1

Drama series about Sam Tyler, a Manchester detective who suffers a near-fatal car crash and wakes up in what seems to be 1973. Unsure whether he's in a coma, has really time-travelled or has just gone mad, Tyler's 21st-century attitudes make him a fish out of water in this world of clunky technology and old-fashioned policing. Then he discovers a connection between a murder in 1973 and the 2006 kidnapping case he was working on, and solving this case could be the key to getting home.


WED 23:30 David Bowie: Finding Fame (m0002jlw)
This is the David Bowie story you don’t know: the story of how David Robert Jones became David Bowie, how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and how Ziggy became immortal, changing the musical landscape as he did so. The story that finally makes sense of one of the greatest icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. Part three of Francis Whately’s Bowie trilogy.


WED 01:00 Life (b00nj6dr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 02:00 PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster (b03n3297)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


WED 03:00 India: Nature's Wonderland (b06b3klq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Saturday]



THURSDAY 03 OCTOBER 2024

THU 19:00 Life (b00nkpcc)
Mammals

Mammals dominate the planet. They do it through having warm blood and by the care they lavish on their young. Weeks of filming in the bitter Antarctic winter reveal how a mother Weddell seal wears her teeth down keeping open a hole in the ice so she can catch fish for her pup.

A powered hot air balloon produces stunning images of millions of migrating bats as they converge on fruiting trees in Zambia, and slow-motion cameras reveal how a mother rufous sengi exhausts a chasing lizard. A gyroscopically stabilised camera moves alongside migrating caribou, and a diving team swim among the planet's biggest fight as male humpback whales battle for a female.


THU 20:00 Omnibus (b0074kgk)
Elizabeth Taylor - England's Other Elizabeth

Profile drawn from Elizabeth Taylor's visit to Britain in 2000, during which she received her damehood from the Queen. Hollywood's last great star talks for the first time in years about her career, her life and the challenges of the future.

From her early days as a child star in Lassie Come Home and National Velvet to becoming the century's biggest star of all - in Cleopatra - her life, her loves and her work have all been lived to an intensity no other star can match.

Joined by Shirley MacLaine, Rod Steiger and Angela Lansbury, Taylor remembers the glory days of working with Richard Burton, Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, James Dean and Paul Newman. Plus how filming never stopped regardless of what life threw at her, the pain and pleasure of two Oscars - one for a film she can hardly bear to remember - and, not least, the feelings she has for Britain, where she was born and how it was her English accent that launched her on the way to stardom at the very beginning.


THU 21:00 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (b045cn35)
Powerful melodrama adapted from the Tennessee Williams play. Strained emotions mark the birthday celebration of southern plantation owner and patriarch Big Daddy.


THU 22:45 Talking Pictures (b044zd7p)
Paul Newman

An examination of the life of actor Paul Newman, using rarely seen interviews from the BBC archives to tell the story of a career that made him one of Hollywood's greatest superstars. Narrated by Sylvia Syms.


THU 23:15 Talking Pictures (b06vp212)
Sex Symbols

Sylvia Syms looks at the handsome heroes and gorgeous heroines, pin-ups and bombshells who came to be known as cinema's greatest sex symbols. They were the actors who made audiences' hearts beat fastest - the men and women whom the camera just seemed to love that little bit more than most.

The programme hears from the stars themselves talking about what their sex symbol status meant to them, and the good-looking line-up includes Gary Cooper, Jane Russell, Brigitte Bardot, Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe.


THU 23:55 David Bowie: Finding Fame (m0002jlw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday]


THU 01:25 Life (b00nkpcc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


THU 02:25 Omnibus (b0074kgk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


THU 03:20 Talking Pictures (b044zd7p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:45 today]



FRIDAY 04 OCTOBER 2024

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m0023k99)
Jas Mann presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 2 August 1996 and featuring Sean Maguire, OMC, Alanis Morissette, Alisha's Attic, Neneh Cherry, Manic Street Preachers, Eternal, Los Del Rio, Spice Girls and Robbie Williams.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (p00fsvcz)
Peter Andre presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 9 August 1996 and featuring New Edition, East 17, Dodgy, Me Me Me, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Suede, 3T featuring Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Spice Girls and 911.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b099tcd1)
Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 4 October 1984 and featuring Bronski Beat, The Cars, John Waite, Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey, Culture Club, Paul McCartney, The Stranglers, Adam Ant, Stevie Wonder and Freddie Mercury.


FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (m0010k2p)
Tony Dortie and Mark Franklin present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 3 October 1991 and featuring Bryan Adams, Erasure, Voice of the Beehive, Kenny Thomas, Belinda Carlisle, Stevie Wonder, Julian Lennon and Status Quo.


FRI 21:00 Queen: The Legendary 1975 Concert (b00p4hgm)
On Christmas Eve 1975, Queen crowned a glorious year with a special concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon. The show on the final night of their triumphant UK tour was broadcast live on BBC TV and radio, and has become a legendary event in Queen's history.

Featuring stunning renditions of early hits Keep Yourself Alive, Liar and Now I'm Here alongside Brian May's epic guitar showcase Brighton Rock, a rip-roaring version of the then new Bohemian Rhapsody and the crowd-pleasing Rock 'n' Roll Medley, this hour-long concert shows Queen at an early peak and poised to conquer the world.

Radio 2 is celebrating 50 years of Queen. Vote for your favourite Queen track at bbc.co.uk/queenvote.


FRI 22:05 Radio 2 In Concert (b09djvnf)
Deep Purple

Jo Whiley presents the last BBC Radio 2 In Concert of 2017 with one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, Deep Purple.

After forming in Hertford in 1968, they went on to sell over 100 million albums worldwide and have inspired a generation of musicians for over four decades. Their back catalogue of seminal hits include Smoke on the Water, Child in Time and Highway Star.

They take to the stage to play classic tracks along with some new material from their latest album at the time, Infinite, to an intimate crowd at the BBC's Radio Theatre in London.


FRI 23:05 Sight and Sound in Concert (m0023k9d)
The Undertones

The Undertones in a concert from 1983 at the Regal Theatre, Hitchin. Introduced by Mark Ellen.


FRI 23:50 Deacon Blue: Live at Stirling Castle (b04vrcbn)
Another chance to see Deacon Blue's performance at the iconic Stirling Castle, recorded in the final minutes of 2013 and the start of 2014 during the Hogmanay celebrations. With hits including Chocolate Girl, Fergus Sings the Blues and Dignity.


FRI 00:50 Top of the Pops (b099tcd1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


FRI 01:30 Top of the Pops (m0010k2p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


FRI 02:00 Top of the Pops (m0023k99)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 02:30 Top of the Pops (p00fsvcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]