SATURDAY 21 JUNE 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 (p031d04n)
Series 5

When Dreams Come True

Helen is finally up and about - only to face the morning after the chaos of Tristan's party the night before.


SAT 20:10 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04s)
Series 5

A New Chapter

The Herriots prepare to move to Rowangarth, and there's another emergency with Granville Bennett.


SAT 21:00 Saint Omer (m002f2ry)
Pregnant young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old child by leaving her on a beach to be swept away.

In French and Wolof with English subtitles


SAT 22:55 Scrublands (p0gnmkvz)
Series 1

Episode 1

Disenchanted investigative journalist Martin Scarsden is told by his boss to write a follow-up piece a year after a mass shooting of five parishioners by a charismatic young priest in the small rural town of Riversend. The townsfolk do not look kindly on yet more intrusion into their still raw lives, but Scarsden begins to doubt the accepted version of events of that tragic day.


SAT 23:45 Scrublands (p0gnmlbt)
Series 1

Episode 2

Martin Scarsden decides to stay on in Riversend to dig deeper into the mystery of Byron Swift, a well-liked priest who suddenly murdered five of his parishioners. He discovers that Mandy Bond is the estranged daughter of Harley Reagan, but when he visits Reagan on his out-of-the-way estate, he comes across two sets of skeletal remains.


SAT 00:40 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.


SAT 01:10 Yes Minister (b007835p)
Series 1

Jobs for the Boys

Sir Humphrey is being very evasive about a departmental project that has run into trouble.


SAT 01:40 The Flying Gardener (m0024zj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SAT 02:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:20 today]


SAT 02:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d04s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:10 today]

SUNDAY 22 JUNE 2025

SUN 19:00 imagine... (m000kycj)
2020

This House Is Full of Music

In its first remote-access film, imagine... offers a unique and intimate portrait of an exceptionally gifted musical family in lockdown – the Kanneh-Masons. In 2016, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason won BBC Young Musician award. In 2018, he released his debut album, and earlier this year his second album, Elgar, became a top ten hit. He achieved global fame when he performed solo at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018 in front of a TV audience of two billion people worldwide.

But it doesn’t stop there. His six siblings are also phenomenally talented musicians: three are former BBC Young Musician category finalists, and the eldest sibling, pianist Isata, has also presented for the Proms. Ever since lockdown began, the seven young prodigies, all aged between 10 and 24, have been isolated in their family home in Nottingham along with their parents, Stuart and Kadiatu, and Sheku and Braimah’s flatmate, fellow Royal Academy of Music student Plinio Fernandes. Unable to perform publicly, the family decided to stage a vibrant and eclectic concert in the only place they can - their own home - and granted the BBC exclusive access using remotely operated fixed-rig cameras, with video messaging to capture interviews. Exploring both the family’s music making and their family life, the programme culminates in a moving concert that is a testament to the power of music to carry us through the most difficult of times.


SUN 20:00 The Classical Collection (m001gmwr)
Series 1

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

After winning BBC Young Musician in 2016, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became an overnight sensation. This collection showcases his extraordinary journey from teenage virtuoso to a leading light of the classical music world and features performances with orchestras and ensembles as well as with the wider Kanneh-Mason family.


SUN 21:00 This Cultural Life (m002f2sg)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was born in Nottingham in 1999 into a big musical family. He and his six siblings all grew up learning classical instruments and appeared on Britain’s Got Talent in 2015. Sheku first made his mark as a solo performer the following year, when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. In 2018, a global audience of over one billion watched him perform live at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Since then, he has received two classical Brit awards and an MBE for services to music, and performed at the Proms every year since 2017. His book The Power of Music charts his creative journey, while his new album - his fifth release - includes recordings of works by Shostakovich and Britten.

Sheku talks to John Wilson about the early influence of his paternal grandfather, a classical music lover who encouraged an appreciation of chamber music, including Schubert's Trout Quintet. He also discusses his cellist heroes, Jacqueline du Pré and Mstislav Rostropovich, and explains how the music of reggae superstar Bob Marley has been an inspiration throughout his life.


SUN 21:30 BBC Proms (m0021s91)
2024

A Kanneh-Mason Playlist at the Proms

Superstar siblings Sheku and Braimah, and captivating Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes, perform an eclectic and surprising playlist from Brahms to Bob Marley.

The concert is made up of a range of music inspired by Sheku and Braimah’s inspirations and Plínio's Brazilian roots. With songs born from folk, reggae and soul, expect unique arrangements of much-loved hits such as I Say a Little Prayer, Redemption Song, The Girl from Ipanema, and Brahms’s Hungarian Dances.

The dynamic Fantasia Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its founder, Tom Fetherstonhaugh. Presented by Georgia Mann.


SUN 22:50 Windrush: Portraits of a Generation (m001n4cw)
Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to British shores in 1948, this documentary follows a remarkable project spearheaded by the King, who has commissioned ten leading artists from Britain and abroad to create portraits of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation.

The completed portraits will become part of the Royal Collection and stand as a lasting memorial to all the men, women and children who came to Britain from the Caribbean and gave so much of themselves to rebuild a nation devasted by war.

Featuring first-person testimony from the Windrush sitters, many of whom are in their 90s, as they speak frankly about their experiences of arriving in Britain, making lives for themselves and the overwhelming contribution they have made to their communities and the nation as a whole.


SUN 00:05 The Richard Dimbleby Lecture (m001n3j6)
David Harewood

Acclaimed actor David Harewood OBE delivers the 2023 Richard Dimbleby Lecture. On the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in this country, David explores the challenges that were overcome by his parents' generation and considers their legacy through his own personal journey of self-identity, as well as how they have shaped and inspired a new generation.

Broadcast from London’s Battersea Arts Centre and introduced by Richard’s son, Jonathan Dimbleby.


SUN 01:05 Being Beethoven (m000kxl2)
Series 1

Episode 2

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, the man who emerges is a complex and often contradictory individual - living a life marked by isolation, ill health and deafness. One who, despite the frequent wretchedness of his personal circumstances, manages to create musical masterpieces that have enthralled and uplifted the world for 250 years.

This episode sees Beethoven return to the town of Heiligenstadt, where the year before, devastated by the loss of his hearing, he had written the Heiligenstadt Testament, a document in which he contemplates suicide before finally resolving to embark on a new creative path. The works that he produces during this period - from the earth-shattering Eroica through to his Seventh Symphony - amount to one of the most extraordinary outpourings of creativity in the history of music.

However, as is so often the case, Beethoven’s life follows a very different trajectory to his art. The composer’s repeated attempts to find love with the same type of woman - young, beautiful and aristocratic - will result in his letter to the ‘Immortal Beloved’, a woman whose identity remains mysterious to this day.

Highlights include Martin Haselböck conducting a period performance of the Third Symphony in the hall in which it was premiered, and the Takács Quartet performing the electrifying finale to the Third Rasumovsky Quartet. 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 02:05 imagine... (m000kycj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]

MONDAY 23 JUNE 2025

MON 19:00 Secrets of Skin (m000cdzl)
Series 1

Adaptability

Skin is an incredible, multi-function organ that science is still learning so much about. It has adapted to allow animals to conquer virtually every habitat on the planet.

In this episode, Professor Ben Garrod reveals some ground-breaking new science and amazing, specialist, factual insight as he discovers how human skin is an ecosystem in its own right, playing host to demodex mites, that might redefine our understanding of human ancestry. He explores the new science that could pave the way for re-engineering human skin on amputations to make it more robust. And he reveals how keratin, a protein that is a key component of skin and that makes up our hair and nails, has been taken to the extreme by some animals including pangolins and horses.

Skin is the body’s largest organ and all vertebrates share the same basic blue print. Adaptations in the three main layers, the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutaneous fat layers have allowed vertebrates to thrive in virtually every habitat on earth.


MON 19:30 War Walks (b0074l5y)
Series 2

Bosworth

Professor Richard Holmes journeys to historic British sites. He visits a battlefield on which the course of British history was changed, as Henry Tudor's dynasty toppled that of King Richard III.

Holmes encounters members of the Wars of the Roses Federation, who gather to re-enact the battle, and meets present-day supporters of Richard, convinced that he was not the soulless villain portrayed by Shakespeare.


MON 20:00 Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army (b036x83s)
Apart from a few fragmentary stories, Griff Rhys Jones's father never talked about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division, he travelled 15,000 miles from Wales to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To understand their story, Griff travels first to Ghana and then, accompanied by 90-year-old veteran Joshua, he goes to the jungles of Burma. It is known as the forgotten war, but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from children of the British Empire into masters of their own destiny.


MON 21:00 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kr5)
Fighting to the End

After the Battle of Stalingrad in the autumn of 1942 and the winter of 1943, the German people experienced nothing but disaster. So why, when the war seemed lost, did the Nazis fight on?

This programme examines why Germany had to suffer so much, and in her suffering inflict destruction on countless others. Between July 1944 and May 1945, more Germans would perish than in the previous four years of the war put together.

The film shows how fear and hatred of Bolshevism drove many Germans to fight to the bitter end. The extent to which Germany had also become a dramatically racist country also played a part. A former member of the Hitler Youth reveals why he approved of the brutal treatment of Polish forced workers in Germany, and a former slave worker at the IG Farben concentration camp at Auschwitz tells his dramatic story.

Germans who lived in the former eastern bloc also talk openly about the whirlwind of death and destruction unleashed by the collapse of the Nazi regime. Their stories include a dramatic eyewitness account of when more than 900 inhabitants of a German village committed suicide by drowning rather than risk facing the occupying Soviet army.


MON 21:50 Rise of the Nazis (p09jglfd)
Dictators at War

Episode 3

Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler.


MON 22:50 Storyville (m001vn46)
Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer

Hundreds of Nazi war criminals fled to Australia after World War Two hoping to start over and avoid prosecution. Not all of them found the refuge they had sought; quite a few died prematurely in freak accidents or by taking their own lives, or at least that was how their deaths were reported.

In this real-life murder mystery, three Australian Jewish brothers investigate whether their father and uncle, the sole survivors of a large Eastern European family, may have been involved in these mysterious deaths.


MON 00:20 Colosseum (p0fwgsmw)
Series 1

The Gladiators

In AD80, the Colosseum is open for business. Roman emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate, including an epic battle to the death between gladiators Priscus and Verus.


MON 01:10 Colosseum (p0fwgyhx)
Series 1

The Builder

Although master builder Haterius constructs the Colosseum where Nero’s Golden House once stood, his work is far from over. Rome's new emperor, Domitian, tasks him with adding in a complex network of underground tunnels – the hypogeum. Failure could cost Haterius his life.


MON 01:55 Secrets of Skin (m000cdzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


MON 02:25 War Walks (b0074l5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


MON 02:55 Rise of the Nazis (p09jglfd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:50 today]

TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2025

TUE 19:00 Secrets of Skin (m000cdzr)
Series 1

Moving

What makes sharks built for speed? How do snakes move without limbs? How do sugar gliders fly without feathers? The answer all lies in their skin.

Professor Ben Garrod uncovers the secrets of how skin has evolved to enable animals to solve some of the most remarkable challenges on earth. To do this, Ben heads to the specialist flight centre at the Royal Veterinary College to analyse the way a sugar glider uses its skin flaps to stay aloft. He goes diving with sharks at the Blue Planet Aquarium and discovers that, far from being smooth, sharkskin is incredibly rough. It is covered with thousands of tiny teeth that make a shark hydrodynamic.

Ben also finds out how the keratinised scales on snakes' bellies are the perfect configuration to allow them to move over virtually any surface they encounter.


TUE 19:30 War Walks (b0074l6q)
Series 2

Battle of Naseby

In 1645, Charles I lost his struggle against parliament during the decisive clash of the English Civil War. Professor Richard Holmes follows the campaign that led to the Battle of Naseby, starting at the king's headquarters in Oxford. On the battlefield itself, he is able to touch the past, as metal detectors unearth musket balls buried for more than 350 years. Members of the Sealed Knot Civil War Reconstruction Society demonstrate the lethal power of the musket and the pike.


TUE 20:00 The Good Life (p00bzc2m)
Series 2

The Day Peace Broke Out

Sitcom about a couple who try to live self-sufficiently in Surbiton. Tom takes the law into his own hands when some of his leeks go missing.


TUE 20:30 Yes Minister (b0078366)
Series 2

The Compassionate Society

Political sitcom. Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.


TUE 21:00 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b007cjf6)
Picasso

Simon Schama tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response.

The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity.


TUE 22:00 Storyville (m002f2rd)
The Wolves Always Come at Night

A beautiful film, shot in Mongolia, telling the moving story of a young couple left devastated by a sandstorm which kills their entire flock of sheep. They are forced to move to the city and leave behind the land and rural lives they treasure.

Born to generations of herders in Mongolia’s immense Gobi desert, young couple Davaa and Zaya are raising their four children as they were brought up: with an intimate connection to the land and the animals they share their lives with.

After an unexpectedly severe sandstorm, possibly caused by climate change, leaves a devastating impact in its wake, with their entire herd wiped out, Davaa and Zaya must make a once-unthinkable decision that will irrevocably change their family’s lives and wrench them from the land they love so much.

With universal themes of love and loss, death and survival, the film gives us access to a hidden world and images of the Mongolian people and landscape.

In the city, the family attempts to stay connected, all the while haunted by dreams of their herding past. The film blends documentary and fiction, with Davaa and Zaya themselves co-authoring their own story.


TUE 23:30 Storyville (m000nr87)
The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea

Part 2

Seven years undercover, three to go… The Mole and Mr James have made it out of Pyongyang with a signed contract to build a secret underground factory where they can manufacture weapons and drugs. They are tasked with finding a location in a ‘friendly’ country where they can carry out their covert plans, and so fly to Uganda to inspect a private island for sale. The North Koreans join them and return to Pyongyang to draw up a blueprint.

President of the Korean Friendship Association, Alejandro Cao de Benos, comes up with a cunning plan to evade the tightening UN sanctions, involving the North Koreans, Mr James and a new player - a Jordanian businessman. As the mission progresses, numerous deals are offered to Mr James, taking him deeper into the dark side of the regime’s arms trade. With deals done and orders pending, can they keep up the deception?


TUE 00:35 Secrets of Skin (m000cdzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 01:05 War Walks (b0074l6q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 01:35 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:25 Simon Schama's Power of Art (b007cjf6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 2025

WED 19:00 Secrets of Skin (m000cdz8)
Series 1

Protection

How does a giraffe stay cool? What are different porcupine quills teaching us about medicine? What makes some people more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes than others? All the answers and more lie in the secrets of how skin protects us from a hostile world. When it comes to protecting our delicate insides, skin is like an external suit of armour. Animals have adapted ways of protecting themselves from everything a hostile planet has to throw at them.

Hippos produce their own sunscreen to protect themselves against the dangers of UV rays from the sun. Only recently discovered by science, is the truth behind a giraffe’s spots, a network of blood vessels that they use to cool themselves down in the blazing heat of the African savannah.

Professor Ben Garrod discovers how. He tests the limitations of human skin by plunging himself into a deep freezer to demonstrate how human skin just isn’t well insulated enough to cope with extreme cold. He discovers how human skin is an entire ecosystem for bugs and bacteria as he comes face to face with what is growing on his skin. And he gets bitten by mosquitoes and stable flies as he learns that disease-carrying insects have evolved to pierce everything from human skin to horse hide.


WED 19:30 War Walks (b0074l7h)
Series 2

Boyne

Few battles resound down the centuries as loudly as the Boyne. The defeat of James II by William III in 1690 is commemorated every July, when the Protestant marching season begins in Northern Ireland.

Richard Holmes walks beside the beautiful river where the two kings clashed and shows how the battle was almost over before it was fought - if a Jacobite gunner had been a little luckier, William would have been killed while inspecting enemy positions along the banks.


WED 20:00 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06jp0zq)
Episode 3

Lucy Worsley concludes her series with the most dramatic transformation of romance yet. Out of the carnage of World War One came a racier species of romantic love. It could be found in the novel The Sheik, the Fifty Shades of Grey of its time, while in real life Marie Stopes urged husbands and wives to explore their sexual desire.

New entertainments like dining out for two allowed couples to get to know one another without a chaperone, while going to the cinema provided a dark environment where hands could roam free. But as the hedonistic era of World War Two encouraged these more permissive attitudes, divorce rates soared. Romance, though, would prevail, with a fightback led by the queen of romance herself, Barbara Cartland.


WED 21:00 The Real Jane Austen (b0074p77)
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. Location shots of Austen's homes in Steventon and Chawton and extracts from adaptations of her work are also featured.


WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002f2sr)
Katharine Schlesinger Remembers... Northanger Abbey

Katharine Schlesinger looks back on the filming of the 1987 adaptation of Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's ode to the gothic and her love letter to literature.

Katharine talks about how this was her first on-screen role and considers the similarities between her personal experience and that of her character Catherine Morland, who is coming out into society for the first time. She also discusses how the director, Giles Foster, used melodrama to bring out the gothic elements of Austen's tale and how filming the more exaggerated scenes was great fun for a young actress at the beginning of her career.


WED 22:15 Northanger Abbey (b00934l0)
Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.


WED 23:45 Omnibus (m002f2st)
Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen

Programme exploring the reasons behind the enduring popularity of one of Britain's greatest novelists, Jane Austen.


WED 00:35 Secrets of Skin (m000cdz8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 01:05 War Walks (b0074l7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


WED 01:35 The Real Jane Austen (b0074p77)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


WED 02:30 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley (b06jp0zq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 26 JUNE 2025

THU 19:00 Secrets of Skin (m000cf0y)
Series 1

Communication

Why are male mandrill faces (big bold primates from West Africa) red and blue? How are birds' feathers so colourful? What do ringtail lemurs do to talk to one another? Their skin holds the key. As Professor Ben Garrod explores how animals communicate with one another, he uncovers a myriad more wonderful ways.

Skin has evolved in some remarkable ways to enable animals to communicate with each other, from vibrant displays of colour to skin pouches to amplify sound. Ben shows how animals have evolved to use skin to make themselves heard loud and clear. Birds are notable for their use of coloured feathers to attract mates, show status and as displays of aggression. But, as Ben discovers, long before birds evolved their unrivalled use of colour, it is now believed that their ancestors, the dinosaurs, could well have been using colour to communicate. Ben also uncovers how one species of fish communicates using electricity, and a common British bird has been secretly communicating for years, without us ever knowing.


THU 19:30 War Walks (b0074mbh)
Series 2

Dunkirk

Professor Richard Holmes walks the French beaches and breakwaters from which thousands of British troops escaped capture in May 1940. German tanks had overwhelmed British and French troops and were poised to seize the British Expeditionary Force.


THU 20:00 Prost (m002d2hf)
Series 1

Episode 3

In a year marked by tragedy and personal loss, Alain Prost triumphs with his second World Championship title.


THU 20:25 Prost (m002d2hj)
Series 1

Episode 4

Alain Prost channels his grief into racing amid fierce competition with his new teammate, Ayrton Senna, sparking one of the most iconic rivalries in sporting history.


THU 20:50 Wildlife on One (m002f2sj)
The Dragon Lizards

David Attenborough investigates some real dragons, lizards with characteristics as extraordinary as their mythical ancestors. Drawn to fire and sporting amazing colours, the lizards can even fly.


THU 21:00 The Day the Dinosaurs Died (b08r3xhf)
Ben Garrod and Alice Roberts investigate the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Experts suspect that the dinosaurs were wiped out after a city-sized asteroid smashed into the Gulf of Mexico causing a huge crater. But until now, they haven't had any proof. In a world first, evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod joins a multimillion-pound drilling expedition into the exact spot the asteroid hit to get hard evidence of the link. The team overcomes huge obstacles as it attempts to drill 1,500 metres beneath sea level to pull up rock from the Chicxulub crater.

Meanwhile, paleopathologist Professor Alice Roberts travels the globe meeting top scientists and gaining exclusive access to a mass fossil graveyard in New Jersey - believed to date from the same time the asteroid hit. Alice also treks by horseback across the remote plains of Patagonia, to see if the effects of the asteroid impact could have wiped out dinosaurs across the world - almost immediately.

Alice and Ben's investigations reveal startling new evidence of a link between the asteroid and the death of the dinosaurs, presenting a vivid picture of the most dramatic 24 hours in our planet's history. They illustrate what happened in the seconds and hours after the impact, revealing that had the huge asteroid struck the Earth a moment earlier, or later, the destruction might not have been total for the dinosaurs. And if they still roamed the world, we humans may never have come to rule the planet.


THU 22:00 Remembers... (m002f2sl)
Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson Remember... Persuasion

Actors Amanda Root and Sophie Thompson look back on their roles in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, a story of missed opportunities and lost love.

The pair discuss how this bold adaptation was filmed in a naturalistic style, with minimal lighting and hardly any make-up, a fitting approach to a novel that was itself ahead of its time. Amanda and Sophie also explore how the issues around class and a woman's place in society were highlighted in the script by writer Nick Dear, and how this television version of the story brought the more feminist elements of Austen's beloved novel to the fore.


THU 22:15 Persuasion (b008y47m)
Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. England, 1814. Several years earlier, Anne Elliot was persuaded by her friend to reject the proposal of a naval officer who is now a prosperous captain. He returns to find Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own family tenants in her home. Amid the stiffening etiquette of social arrangements, their reunion gradually gives voice to some long-buried emotions.


THU 00:00 Nine to Five (m001tv94)
Three savvy office workers, Violet, Doralee and Judy, have one thing in common - they hate their boss, Hart Jnr. He's a petty, tyrannical, womanising, idiot, and the girls have had enough. They inadvertently find a way to take revenge.


THU 01:45 Secrets of Skin (m000cf0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


THU 02:15 War Walks (b0074mbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


THU 02:45 The Day the Dinosaurs Died (b08r3xhf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2025

FRI 19:00 Glastonbury (m002f2t8)
2025

English Teacher and Wet Leg

BBC Four starts its Glastonbury 2025 coverage with a north-south mix.

From Leeds, it’s the Mercury Award-winning indie band English Teacher, who take to the Park Stage before an expectant audience. They showcase the guitar riffs and melodies laced with northern grit from the album that brought them world attention and affection, This Could Be Texas.

Then we head to the Other Stage for rock darlings Wet Leg, from the Isle of Wight, who performed a stellar gig at Glastonbury back in 2022. Enjoy more rock and more roll with extra polish from the band who brought Chaise Longue to the world stage as they perform new tracks from their highly anticipated second album, moisturizer.


FRI 20:00 Glastonbury (m002f2tb)
2025

Supergrass and Blossoms

Charming Oxford rockers Supergrass head to the Pyramid Stage, 30 years after their first appearance on the farm and 30 years after the release of their debut album, I Should Coco, which the band has been playing in full on tour.

Stockport band Blossoms take to the Woodsies Stage. Watch out for glam rock style and ten years’ worth of music in abundance from a band who continue to enjoy themselves on stage while winning more fans along the way. Will fibreglass unofficial member Gary the gorilla make an appearance?


FRI 21:00 Glastonbury (m002f2td)
2025

Franz Ferdinand and Wunderhorse

Get ready for an evening of oldies and goodies from two class acts performing at Glastonbury 2025.

First up is Glasgow’s finest, Franz Ferdinand, the band with chiselled looks and guitar hooks that brought to the masses the sublime Take Me Out and Do You Want To back in the early noughties. Two decades, six albums and 16 years after their last appearance on the same stage (not including a Sparks collaboration), they hit the Other Stage to remind us what we’ve missed.

Then it's the turn of newer kids on the block, indie-rockers Wunderhorse, performing on the Park Stage. Their album Cub was released in 2022, and in 2024, their follow-up, Midas, took them from small venues to touring with the likes of Sam Fender, Foals and Fontaines DC. Consequently, they have stepped up to performing large-scale sold-out gigs, and they bring their unique energy and verve to this hallowed festival.


FRI 22:30 Glastonbury (m002f2tg)
2025

Loyle Carner

Acclaimed UK hip-hop artist Loyle Carner delivers the headline performance on the Other Stage on day one of Glastonbury 2025.

Loyle's newly released album, hopefully !, follows in the same vein as his previous offerings in bringing the audience into aspects of his personal life. Get ready to watch hip-hop poetry in motion as Loyle Carner bares his soul once again in an intimate setting on a big stage.


FRI 23:45 Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour (b0952xgk)
Shot around the world and featuring a collection of live and behind-the-scenes footage, Madonna Rebel Heart Tour is packed with visual theatrics, stunning costumes and intricate choreography, featuring new hits and beloved classic songs spanning all decades of Madonna's illustrious career, including Living for Love, Bitch I'm Madonna, Material Girl, Holiday and an acoustic version of Like a Prayer.


FRI 01:45 In Concert (m001q885)
Labelle

Labelle make their first appearance on British TV in 1975 as they perform a selection of their songs in concert.


FRI 02:15 The Pretenders: 6 Music Live (b07z3vgx)
Catch highlights from The Pretenders, who perform at this year's 6 Music Live at Maida Vale.

With a career spanning over 30 years, Chrissie Hynde and her band return with a new album Alone, the first in eight years, with Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys on producing duties.

This show is part of the 6 Music Live series that has been coming to Maida Vale since 2012, with the likes of Primal Scream, Underworld, De La Soul and Paul McCartney.


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Status Quo

TOTP2 pays homage to eternal rockers Status Quo, gathering some of their finest Top of the Pops performances - from their first appearance in 1968 with the psychedelic Pictures of Matchstick Men, to their last in 2005 with The Party Ain't Over Yet.

This compilation charts their success with many of their greatest hits, including Rockin' All Over the World, Whatever You Want, Mystery Song and Living on an Island. Don your double denim and prepare to get Down Down!