SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2025
SAT 19:00 The Flying Gardener (m0024rq1)
Series 1 Shorts
Scotland
Chris Beardshaw heads for west Scotland to help an oyster fisherman deal with an overgrown garden and finds out why Scots design the best shady gardens.
SAT 19:20 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04b)
Series 5
Choose a Bright Morning
James receives a cry for help from the isolated Bramley family, who last came to town in 1929.
SAT 20:10 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04d)
Series 5
The Playing Field
With Siegfried in London, Tristan is left with the worst patients.
SAT 21:00 Kidnapped (m002dt07)
Powerful drama based on the true story of the Catholic Church's kidnap of a young Jewish boy.
Italy, 1858. Following Pope Pius IX’s orders, soldiers burst into the Mortara family’s Bologna home to forcibly remove their six-year-old son, Edgardo. They have heard from the Jewish family’s maid that she had secretly baptised him as a sickly infant for fear that he would die a Jew and his soul would remain in limbo. Under the Church’s doctrine, the boy is no longer permitted to live with his non-Catholic family and is taken to be raised by the Church itself.
The distraught Mortara family try desperately to get Edgardo back, and the scandal soon makes its way across the country and Europe at large. As they embark on an international campaign to have their son returned, they find themselves at the epicentre of a wider historical battle between the forces of Catholic authoritarianism and the political awakening taking place across Italy and throughout Europe.
In Italian with English subtitles
SAT 23:05 Love & Mercy (m000hqt9)
Biographical drama. At the height of success with his band The Beach Boys, musical genius Brian Wilson begins to suffer from mental illness, which is not helped by his experiments with LSD.
A decade later, Wilson is in the grip of shady psychotherapist Eugene Landy, whose extreme treatment is causing further deterioration, until the day he decides he wants a new car.
SAT 01:00 The Good Life (m000yw8m)
Series 2
The Guru of Surbiton
Tom's philosophy of life attracts two young disciples - but not permanently, he hopes.
SAT 01:30 Yes Minister (b0078356)
Series 1
The Right to Know
Sir Humphrey prevents Jim from getting to know too much about how the Department of Administrative Affairs operates, and he uses badgers in Hayward's Spinney to show him there are things it is better not to know.
SAT 02:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:20 today]
SAT 02:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:10 today]
SUNDAY 15 JUNE 2025
SUN 19:00 Organ Stops: Saving the King of Instruments (m001gmv3)
Documentary following a handful of eccentric devotees rescuing and restoring abandoned pipe organs from closing churches. As Martin Renshaw trawls churches for hidden gems in the form of precious instruments, he meets people like 95-year-old organist Blanche Beer, whose long life has been shaped by music and community.
In a Durham church, a wonderful organ is discovered that becomes the redemptive story at the heart of the film. The organ is saved and lovingly restored, becoming the musical heart of a vibrant church in London.
A poignant documentary about loss and rebirth, and the role music plays in our lives.
SUN 20:00 This Is Your Life (m002dszs)
Charlie Drake
Michael Aspel lies in wait with friends and colleagues to surprise an unsuspecting Charlie Drake with the big red book.
SUN 20:30 The Charlie Drake Show (m002dszv)
In a tale from 'ye olde' medieval England, 1016, error-prone jester Charlie unwittingly causes a war between Baron Stephen and the Danish invader King Cnut. From 1961.
SUN 21:00 Arena (m002dszx)
Charlie Drake: Drake's Progress
Documentary profile of actor and comedian Charlie Drake. Drake had much to overcome - marital, financial and career troubles dogged him -but after reinventing himself as a straight actor, he won acclaim for his roles. At his home in south London, he recalls his highs and lows.
SUN 22:00 Remembers... (m002dszz)
Brian Cox Remembers… The Lost Language of Cranes
Esteemed actor Brian Cox looks back on the filming of the 1991 movie The Lost Language of Cranes, about a man struggling to come to terms with his own sexuality and family secrets after his son announces he is gay.
The film of love and loss, adapted from the novel by David Leavitt, came about during the Aids epidemic, and was groundbreaking for its time as gay cinema was still in its infancy.
Brian talks about how he prepared for his first ever gay love scene and how the film had a profound impact on him, not least of all because the director Nigel Finch tragically died of Aids just a few years after its release.
SUN 22:15 Screen Two (p032kkxg)
Series 8
The Lost Language of Cranes
When his son confesses he is gay, Owen realises that he too can no longer live a lie. Starring Brian Cox.
SUN 23:45 Being Beethoven (m000kqq2)
Series 1
Episode 1
‘…this strange deafness…’
Unfolding chronologically, Being Beethoven grapples with the living, breathing human being often lost behind the myth of the Romantic genius. Beethoven emerges as a man of contrasts and extremes, driven by love, anguish, fury and joy - qualities woven through both his life and his music.
By returning the composer to the context of his own time and place, telling his life story in the present tense, the series reveals how the composer’s life frequently appeared to follow an entirely different trajectory to his art. What emerges is a complex and often contradictory individual living a life marked by isolation, ill-health and deafness. A man who, despite the frequent wretchedness of his personal circumstances, managed to create musical masterpieces that have enthralled and uplifted the world for 250 years.
The first episode explores Beethoven's childhood, the crucible in which the man and his music were formed, and his subsequent rise to fame as a piano virtuoso, then composer, in late 18th-century Vienna. While he was groomed as a prodigy by a demanding and often violent father, Beethoven’s psyche was also marked by the death of his mother when he was 16 years old. Beethoven emerged as a great but troubled talent, an unstoppable force of nature until the onset of deafness tore his world apart.
The realisation that Beethoven was losing his hearing - the sense upon which not only his career was built, but his very sense of self - led to a devastating psychological collapse and a letter, written to his brothers Carl and Johann, known as the Heiligenstadt Testament. In it, Beethoven not only contemplated suicide but also looked at his future and accepted that he would have to create his art under extraordinary circumstances.
As well as interviews with Beethoven biographers and scholars such as Jan Swafford and Barry Cooper, the series features contributions and performances from musicians, including Iván Fischer, Marin Alsop, the Takács Quartet, Evelyn Glennie, Paul Lewis, Mark Padmore and Chi-chi Nwanoku.
SUN 00:45 Organ Stops: Saving the King of Instruments (m001gmv3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
SUN 01:45 This Is Your Life (m002dszs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
SUN 02:15 The Charlie Drake Show (m002dszv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:30 today]
SUN 02:45 Arena (m002dszx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
MONDAY 16 JUNE 2025
MON 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03xsgwh)
Sensing the World
Ben Garrod delves into the surprising ways in which bone has evolved to help vertebrates sense the world around them. He reveals why predators like the wolf have eyes at the front of their skull, whereas prey animals such as sheep usually have eye sockets on the sides of their heads. He finds out how the skull of the great grey owl has helped it develop such extraordinary hearing and uncovers the secret behind one bizarre creature's uniquely flexible nose.
MON 19:30 War Walks (b0074m8k)
Series 1
Arras
Twelve journeys through six centuries of warfare in the company of Professor Richard Holmes.
In May 1940, the Germans staged a lightning invasion of Belgium and France in a new kind of armoured warfare called blitzkrieg. Richard Holmes traces their route to the French city of Arras, where a small British force launched a counterattack that gave the allies vital breathing space.
MON 20:00 Timewatch (b016ltm0)
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Documentary that reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-Day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. But it was also to be used during the Cold War - which meant both men's achievements were hushed up and never officially recognised.
MON 21:00 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kqm)
The Road to Treblinka
'We used to shoot them, give them up as lost, and that was it.' - Petras Zelionka, former member of the Nazi killing squad.
How could it happen? How was it possible that the Nazis created killing factories in order to exterminate the Jews and others they thought 'undesirable'?
Filmed in Poland, Germany and Lithuania, this documentary demonstrates how the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in the fulfilment of Hitler's ideological vision, was a crucial catalyst to the radicalisation of the Nazi policy against the Jews.
With the help of archive discoveries and frank interviews with victims, bystanders and a former member of a Nazi killing squad, The Road to Treblinka traces the decision-making process that led to one of the greatest crimes the world has ever seen - the Holocaust.
MON 21:50 Rise of the Nazis (p09jglf5)
Dictators at War
Episode 2
The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match - it's now a fight to the death.
MON 22:50 Omnibus (m002dt0z)
Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
A documentary from 1993 that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the lives of manual workers throughout the world.
MON 23:45 Arena (m002dt11)
Salgado: The Spectre of Hope
Documentary featuring photographer Sebastião Salgado in conversation with writer and artist John Berger, intercut with photographs from Salgado's collection Migrations, an epic project to document mass migration throughout the world.
MON 00:35 Secrets of Bones (b03xsgwh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
MON 01:05 War Walks (b0074m8k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
MON 01:35 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kqm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
MON 02:25 Rise of the Nazis (p09jglf5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:50 today]
TUESDAY 17 JUNE 2025
TUE 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03yfqj6)
Food for Thought
Ben Garrod uncovers the secrets of how vertebrates capture and devour their food using extreme jaws, bizarre teeth and specialised bony tools. He takes a cherry picker up a sperm whale's jaw and finds out which animal has teeth weighing five kilos each and which uses its skull as a suction pump. Ben gets his own skull scanned and 3D-printed to discover how diet in humans isn't just affecting our waistlines but is also changing the shape of our bones.
TUE 19:30 War Walks (b0074m8w)
Series 1
Goodwood
Military historian Richard Holmes follows in the tracks of the tanks of the British armoured breakout from the Normandy bridgehead in 1944.
TUE 20:00 The Good Life (p00bzbx0)
Series 2
Mr Fix-It
Tom and Barbara are visited by the press, and Margo senses an opportunity to promote her upcoming dramatic production.
TUE 20:30 Yes Minister (b007835p)
Series 1
Jobs for the Boys
Sir Humphrey is being very evasive about a departmental project that has run into trouble.
TUE 21:00 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b007941f)
Van Gogh
In 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted his great masterpiece Wheatfield with Crows, but a few weeks later, he killed himself. Was the painting a cry of anguish that he would never realise his dream of creating an art revolution, or was it a shout of triumph that this kind of painting would be the new art for the people?
TUE 22:00 Storyville (m002dt13)
The Contestant
The incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone... completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV to over 17 million viewers a week.
The Contestant traces the experience of aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, who, in 1998, thought he was going to an audition, when a Japanese TV producer enlisted him to take part in a challenge. He led Nasubi into a room, ordered him to strip naked and left him with a stack of magazines. Nasubi was told his task was to fill out contest coupons to win what he needed to survive - food, clothing, appliances, and so on - until he reached the prize goal of one million yen.
Although Nasubi could have left at any time, he stayed for months, with a fierce determination to complete his mission.
What Nasubi didn’t realise was that his experiences were being broadcast to over 15 million people in a TV show called Denpa Shōnen: A Life in Prizes. Without his knowledge or consent, Nasubi became the most famous television personality in Japan.
Combining clips from the show with previously unseen footage, alongside interviews with Nasubi, his family and Denpa Shōnen’s producer, this is the incredible story of a how one man became a national phenomenon that presaged the global rise of reality TV.
TUE 23:30 Storyville (m000nr85)
The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea
Part 1
In 2010, Danish director Mads Brügger received an email from a stranger who had seen a documentary he had made about North Korea. He asked if Mads would be interested in making a new film about his quest to become a member of his local North Korean ‘friendship’ association in Denmark to enable him to travel to Pyongyang undercover. There are Korean Friendship Associations (KFA) in countries around the world, and their members, bizarrely, are devoted to the glorification of the world’s last totalitarian communist dictatorship.
In this first of two extraordinary episodes, the stranger becomes a mole and rises through the ranks of the KFA, tunnelling his way ‘undercover’ to North Korea. On this mission, he befriends and wins the trust of the president of the KFA, Alejandro Cao de Benos, a Spaniard with a North Korean passport, who eventually asks him to help source wealthy investors interested in business deals with North Korea. The Mole reports back to Mads Brügger and they begin secretly recording meetings, bringing in an actor and ex-criminal called ‘Mr James’ to play the role of a Scandinavian billionaire to see what business deals North Korea will bring them.
TUE 00:35 Secrets of Bones (b03yfqj6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
TUE 01:05 War Walks (b0074m8w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
TUE 01:35 Timewatch (b016ltm0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:35 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b007941f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2025
WED 19:00 Secrets of Bones (b03z05zx)
Sex
Ben Garrod seeks out the big part that bones can play in reproduction. Through sexual selection, the skeleton has adapted to aid courtship, competition and even copulation. On his travels, Ben meets baseball players, drops a 10kg weight on a sheep's skull and finds out that by not having a penis bone humans are very much in the minority.
WED 19:30 War Walks (b0074m98)
Series 2
Hastings
Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and equipment of the period and becoming a Norman knight to reveal just how close William the Conqueror came to defeat.
WED 20:00 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06hht8v)
Episode 2
Lucy Worsley journeys into the Victorian way of love in the second part of her series on the changing face of British romance. She discovers how medieval chivalry shaped Victorian courtship, and explores the influence of valentine's cards and flowers on romantic lives.
Lucy uncovers the way that literary passions - in novels by writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Mrs Henry Wood and HG Wells - translated into real-life desires, changing the way the British felt. This is a new view of the Victorians in love, which takes us from romance on the factory floor to the curious erotic possibilities of the seance.
WED 21:00 Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? (b018nz2x)
Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated writers of all time, but apart from a rough sketch by her sister Cassandra, we have very little idea what she looked like. Biographer Dr Paula Byrne thinks that is about to change. She believes she has come across a possible portrait of the author, lost to the world for nearly two centuries. Can the picture stand up to forensic analysis and scrutiny by art historians and world-leading Austen experts? How might it change our image of the author? And what might the portrait reveal about Jane Austen and her world? Martha Kearney seeks answers as she follows Dr Byrne on her quest.
WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002dt1n)
Romola Garai Remembers... Emma
Hot off the heels of her Olivier Award win, actress Romola Garai shares her experiences of filming the popular 2009 series Emma.
The four-part Austen adaptation was a stunning take on a much-loved classic, and Romola looks back on her role as the titular character. Keen to make Emma more relatable and loveable, Romola remembers how she drew on the text to bring Austen’s complicated heroine to life.
Romola looks back on the joy she had filming this sumptuous production, which featured an incredible cast, including Michael Gambon, Tamsin Greig and Jonny Lee Miller, and she explains why Austen remains so firmly in our hearts.
WED 22:15 Emma (b00n7pk1)
Episode 1
Adaptation of the Jane Austen classic by BAFTA award-winning writer Sandy Welch.
Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protegee Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster.
A sumptuous, playful and witty adaptation of Jane Austen's comic masterpiece from the pen of BAFTA award-winning writer Sandy Welch.
Rich, independent and kind-spirited, Emma Woodhouse has no need to marry, but nothing delights her more than matchmaking those around her. Once she has married off her close companions, she alights upon the pretty Harriet Smith to fashion into her new playmate and ally.
She persuades Harriet that she is too good for her suitor, the farmer Robert Martin, and encourages her to set her sights higher. But close family friend Mr Knightley warns Emma that her meddling will cause great pain - to both Robert and Harriet. Emma refuses to listen, and Mr Knightley is furious at Emma's stubbornness.
WED 23:15 Emma (b00n9ltn)
Episode 2
Adaptation of the Jane Austen classic by Bafta award-winning writer Sandy Welch.
Emma continues her attempts to marry off Harriet and Mr Elton, vicar of Highbury. Although uninterested in marriage herself, she is intrigued by the mysterious and elusive Frank Churchill, who she hopes to meet for the first time at a village Christmas party. Frank does not arrive, and instead Emma becomes the subject of unwanted and embarrassing attention from Mr Elton.
A few weeks later, village gossip and speculation focuses on the arrival of young Jane Fairfax and a large piano she has been sent by a mystery admirer. Emma refuses to believe that Mr Knightley could be the secret admirer. He couldn't be, could he?
WED 00:15 Jane Austen Lived Here - Writers' Houses (m002dt1q)
Lord David Cecil visits the Jane Austen House Museum, the cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton where Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.
WED 00:30 Secrets of Bones (b03z05zx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
WED 01:00 War Walks (b0074m98)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
WED 01:30 Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? (b018nz2x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
WED 02:30 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06hht8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
THURSDAY 19 JUNE 2025
THU 19:00 Digging for Britain (b09j0qcq)
Series 6
The Horsemen of Hadrian's Wall
In this special, Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weapon in Britain - their cavalry. These fearsome horsemen were the key to defending Britain's most famous Roman monument fortification, Hadrian's Wall.
Alice sets off across Hadrian's Wall to investigate any evidence the Roman cavalry left behind, while a team of archaeologists and historical re-enactors attempt to restage a Roman cavalry tournament - a spectacle that no-one has seen for over 1,600 years.
We follow the team's training as they prepare for the performance, and Alice joins them at a public display in Carlisle where 30 riders perform in front of a crowd of spectators.
To put the cavalry's story in context, the film also explores the latest archaeological digs happening across the UK, each of which is searching for new evidence of the Roman cavalry.
On her journey across Hadrian's Wall, Alice visits some of the most iconic sites associated with the Roman cavalry, including Chester's Roman fort, Vindolanda fort and museum and Hexham Abbey. Along the way she builds a picture of the horsemen's lives here on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
THU 20:00 Prost (m002d2h9)
Series 1
Episode 1
After discovering karting as a child, Alain Prost climbs the ranks to Formula 3, laying the foundations for a legendary career in motorsport.
THU 20:25 Prost (m002d2hc)
Series 1
Episode 2
With Niki Lauda in his corner, Alain Prost overcomes challenges on and off the track to claim his first world title.
THU 20:55 London to Brighton: Side by Side (b00f2zxt)
In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London to Brighton train. In 1983, they did the same again. This is a film made of both runs at once, with every bridge, siding, tunnel and station running side by side in unlikely synchronisation.
THU 21:00 Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (b04j29ht)
Episode 2
Operation Stonehenge follows a group of international archaeologists, led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna and supported by new research from English Heritage. Part two of this mini-series turns its focus to the construction, design and enduring significance of the iconic stone circle itself and the ancient civilisation that flourished around it.
Solving many of the mysteries of Stonehenge, revelations include the discovery of new monuments in the landscape, the most definitive understanding to date of how the monument looked in its heyday, the precise geometric mastery that dictated its design and solar alignment, and tantalising new evidence of how the megaliths were transported to the site and elaborately finished by skilled engineers and stonemasons.
Precise CGI reconstructions reveal not just an enigmatic circle of stones, but the crowning achievement and epicentre of a highly sophisticated civilisation that had mastered deep mining, international trade, precision engineering, intricate gold working and state-of-the art metallurgy, alongside complex astronomy and mathematics.
THU 22:00 The Piano (m001pp13)
Ada McGrath is a non-speaking Scottish woman and eloquent piano player who has been sold into marriage to a farmer in New Zealand. Shipped off across the waters, along with her young daughter Flora and her precious piano, Ada sternly refuses to warm up to her husband, Alisdair, or the settler way of life - especially after Alisdair informs her that he has sold her piano to local farm hand George Baines and that she is to teach Baines to play it.
In English, Maori and sign language with English subtitles.
THU 23:55 Emma (b00nfpsf)
Episode 3
Emma teases Mr Knightley about Jane, but he remains tight-lipped. Meanwhile, Frank and Emma plan a ball, and Emma wonders whether she might be in love with him. Despite having a wonderful time at a village ball, she decides not.
With her matchmaking officially abandoned, Emma feels cooped up and bored, so Mr Knightley suggests a day trip to Box Hill for a change of scene and some temporary escape. He also tells Emma that he suspects Frank and Jane to be secretly in love. Emma rebuffs the suggestion - she can personally vouch for Frank's indifference to Jane - which leaves Knightley feeling hurt at Emma's indifference towards him.
THU 00:55 Emma (b00nks3z)
Episode 4
What was intended as a day of fun turns into a day of agony for everyone on the Box Hill excursion.
Things come to a head when, egged on by Frank, Emma behaves badly, insulting Miss Bates. She is berated by Knightley and realises that her behaviour was shameful. She tries to repair things with Jane and Miss Bates, but Jane will not see her - although Miss Bates tells her that Jane has accepted a job as a governess - and cried all night.
Meanwhile, Knightley goes to stay with his brother in London and will be away for a while. When Frank's controlling aunt dies, the Westons expect him to propose to Emma - but his actions set in motion a chain of events that both shock Emma and make her realise something that has been in plain sight all along.
THU 01:55 Digging for Britain (b09j0qcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
THU 02:55 Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath (b04j29ht)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
FRIDAY 20 JUNE 2025
FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002dt1y)
Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 January 1998 and featuring Peter Andre, Lighthouse Family, Radiohead, OTT, Ian Brown, Backstreet Boys and Oasis.
FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002dt20)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 30 January 1998 and featuring All Saints, Chumbawamba, Robbie Williams, Catatonia, Juliet Roberts, Green Day, Byron Stingily and Usher.
FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b0bng0n8)
Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 19 June 1986. Featuring Bucks Fizz, Nu Shooz, Amazulu, A-ha, The Housemartins, Doctor & The Medics, Miami Sound Machine, Queen and Owen Paul.
FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (b012hsws)
David Hamilton presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 24 June 1976 and featuring Pilot, Bryan Ferry, Demis Roussos, The New Seekers, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Johnny Nash, Lee Garrett, Osibisa, Art Garfunkel, The Real Thing and The Beach Boys.
FRI 21:15 Elton John at the BBC (b00vs5c0)
Elton John's career tracked in archive from performances, interviews and news clips.
FRI 22:15 Madonna at the BBC (m0012x7c)
A look back at a selection of magical Madonna moments on various BBC shows, from her first Top of the Pops appearance with Holiday in 1984 right up to the present day. This collection covers Madonna's journey from Material Girl to Queen of Pop and captures how over the years her ability to combine charisma, controversy and classic pop tunes has made her the female icon of her times and a true global superstar.
FRI 23:15 Tina Turner at the BBC (m000wvxb)
A collection of performances from one of the greatest singers and live performers in modern music - the legendary Tina Turner. This selection of tracks comes from appearances Tina made on various BBC programmes over the years, featuring some of her biggest hits from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
FRI 00:15 David Bowie at the BBC (b01k0y0t)
David Bowie in concert at the BBC Radio Theatre. Songs include Wild Is the Wind, Ashes to Ashes, Absolute Beginners, The Man Who Sold the World and Fame.
FRI 01:15 George Michael: Live in London (m001n435)
The former Wham! frontman, George Michael, is filmed at his final two concerts at London's Earls Court arena on 24 and 25 August 2008 in front of 40,000 screaming fans.
Part of his 25 Live tour, the shows marked a triumphant return to live performance for the singer, with the songs featured including Careless Whisper, Faith, Fast Love, Jesus to a Child and I'm Your Man, drawn from every stage of his career.
FRI 03:25 Top of the Pops (m002dt1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]