SATURDAY 12 JULY 2025
SAT 19:00 Cricket: Today at the Test (m002fyzv)
England v India 2025
Third Test, Day Three
Day three highlights from the third Test match between England and India.
SAT 20:00 Wimbledon (m002fyzx)
2025: Today at Wimbledon
Day 13
Qasa Alom and guests look back at the day’s play at Wimbledon. Featuring highlights from the ladies’ singles, along with analysis and discussion of the main talking points at the All England Club.
SAT 21:00 Miss Marple (p03rdrhx)
The Moving Finger
Part 1
When everyone in a small town receives malicious letters detailing a future murder, it is Miss Marple who is called upon to help reveal the clues.
SAT 21:50 Miss Marple (p03rdrj7)
The Moving Finger
Part 2
Miss Marple's instinct - that one murder will always follow another - proves to be true when more bodies are found in the sleepy town.
SAT 22:35 The Gone (m001wrv4)
Series 1
Episode 3
Diana and Theo are forced to let their key suspect go when it’s clear they are innocent, but now they must find kidnapped journalist Aileen Ryan before it’s too late. And there’s a tragic development in the mountain rescue operation which suggests a sinister new lead.
SAT 23:30 The Gone (m001wryn)
Series 1
Episode 4
Has the Mountain Murderer returned, or is there a copycat killer on the loose?
SAT 00:20 The Good Life (p00bzcff)
Series 2
Home Sweet Home
Sitcom about a couple who try to live self-sufficiently in Surbiton. After a visit from a boar walker, Tom and Barbara consider selling up and moving to a small farm.
SAT 00:50 Yes Minister (b0074qg2)
Series 2
The Death List
Jim Hacker is shocked to discover that his department is responsible for supplying all of the government's electronic surveillance equipment.
SAT 01:20 Scene by Scene (m001rb0g)
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland, star of some of the outstanding films of the 1970s, including MASH, Klute and Don't Look Now, talks with Mark Cousins about his life and work.
SAT 02:05 Miss Marple (p03rdrhx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
SAT 02:55 Miss Marple (p03rdrj7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:50 today]
SUNDAY 13 JULY 2025
SUN 19:00 Cricket: Today at the Test (m002fyy4)
England v India 2025
Third Test, Day 4
Day four highlights from the third Test match between England and India.
SUN 20:00 Summer Night Concert from Vienna (m002fz2k)
2025
From the unique setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Gardens, the Vienna Philharmonic bring us their annual Summer Night Concert. Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev leads the orchestra, and the special guest performer is Polish tenor Piotr Beczala, who is in demand in opera houses and concert halls across the world. During the concert, Beczala performs iconic arias from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. There is also a performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys' Choir, who appear for the first time as part of the Summer Concert.
Well-known music from operas and operettas take us on a magical musical journey through countries across Europe.
SUN 22:10 The Last Musician of Auschwitz (m0027g70)
How can there be music in the worst place in the world? Told through the words of victims of the camp who played and created music during the terrors of the Holocaust, this film shows how, in the most brutal and dehumanising situations, music could be a lifeline, a way to give testimony and even a way to resist.
Woven throughout are new interpretations of musical works written by victims of the camp, mainly filmed at resonant locations in the environs of Auschwitz. Between them, they touch on themes of loss, longing and cultural memory, and address head on the barbaric and murderous regime at Auschwitz.
SUN 23:40 Plague Fiction (m000mmjf)
Professor Laura Ashe takes a look back at the Black Death of the 14th century, the deadliest pandemic in human history.
Going from one of the earliest accounts of plague in 1347 through to Samuel Pepys's record of the Great Plague of London in the 1660s, Professor Ashe explores how literature helped us cope with fear and tragedy, the importance of bravery and personal sacrifice, and whether the words of the past can offer us the comfort and healing that we need now.
SUN 00:40 Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (m00123q9)
The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from Aids, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/Aids.
The film hears from those who performed at the epic gig, including Gary Cherone (Extreme), Roger Daltrey (The Who), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Lisa Stansfield and Paul Young, as well as the concert’s promoter, Harvey Goldsmith.
For the first time, Freddie's story is told alongside the experiences of those who tested positive for HIV and lost loved ones during the same period. Medical practitioners, survivors and human rights campaigners, including Peter Tatchell, recount the intensity of living through the Aids pandemic and the moral panic it brought about.
SUN 02:10 A Life in Ten Pictures (m000tzf0)
Series 1
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury’s image is known around the world. He was one of the most photographed men in history. But could just a handful of photos uncover new truths about someone we think we all know? This documentary throws a unique lens onto an extraordinary life, focusing on ten defining pictures – from iconic shots to private snaps – with their secrets revealed by those who were there and those who knew Freddie Mercury best.
MONDAY 14 JULY 2025
MON 19:00 A Summer Journey (m002fzb7)
The Severn
From Source to Tidal Reach
Angela Rippon travels from the River Severn's source at Plynlimon down to Gloucester. En route, she discovers the birthplace of the industrial revolution and goes afloat in a coracle.
MON 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9v8)
Series 2
Ellesmere Port to Audlem
Life on board a narrowboat with Robbie Cumming. Robbie battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal and discovers industrial secrets in Audlem, Cheshire.
MON 20:00 Rise of the Nazis (p0d3fkdr)
The Downfall
Episode 2
At the end of March 1945, with the German army utterly depleted and his circle of trust rapidly shrinking, Hitler invites a group of Hitler Youth to the Reich Chancellery gardens to be congratulated. These are the people upon whom he now relies – children.
Nazi Germany is on the brink of collapse, and with Berlin under daily bombardment, Hitler has permanently retreated to his bunker, a series of 30 cramped rooms under the Reich Chancellery where night and day merge into one. As his life becomes increasingly bizarre, Hitler and Joseph Goebbels look for signs from German folklore that fate will intervene.
MON 21:00 Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany (m000crf9)
Series 1
Episode 2
Christmas in Germany 1941 is an unsettling time. Food is scarce, the weather is freezing and news from the front line in Russia is causing Germans to realise the war is a very long way from over. The stage is set for the second half of the conflict.
Through the home movies and diaries of ordinary Germans, this film charts Hitler’s dreams crumbling and the moral reckoning the German people must now face. It reveals the stories of people battling to save their families from deportation to the death camps, while others endure the horrors of ever more deadly bombing raids, all set against a backdrop of propaganda and false hope pouring forth from Nazi high command.
In Russia, we meet a doctor who throws himself into the firing line at every opportunity, not to win glory but to save his wife and three young children from deportation to the death camps in the east, while in Dresden, a Jewish diary writer struggles to deal with ever-mounting restrictions and deportations.
We also meet some of those forced to live under German rule, including extraordinary footage of a group of Jews living in hiding just a mile from Anne Frank, and a family in Normandy enjoying a bucolic summer before they find themselves on the front line when the Allies take on the German troops on the Atlantic Wall.
The film then moves to the endgame of the war, the choices faced as the net tightened and the crazy efforts to fight to the bitter end even as all hope is gone.
MON 22:00 The Sky at Night (m002fzbc)
Exoplanets - Strange New Worlds
The team go on a cosmic adventure, exploring one of the newest areas of modern astronomy – the search for exoplanets, the distant bodies that orbit stars beyond our own solar system. These strange new worlds are transforming our understanding of how planets form, where we can look for potentially habitable ones and just how unique, or not, our own Earth may be.
This captivating new field intrigued presenter George Dransfield so much she left her secure teaching job to go back to university to study for a PhD, and so she was thrilled by the opportunity to travel to Germany, where ESA’s Plato spacecraft is being built. This cutting-edge mission will study exoplanets like never before. Dubbed 'the planet hunter', Plato will use its 26 cameras to scan over 2,000 sun-like stars to search for rocky Earth-like planets. With each camera capturing 81.4-megapixel images, the resulting two-billion-pixel overall view will be the largest ever for a space mission. George meets ESA’s Thomas Walloschek and OHB’s Pablo Jorba Coloma, to talk about the engineering challenges they have overcome, before going to see the space craft in the clean room where it is being built.
Back in the UK, Chris Lintott takes us on a quick tour through 30 years of exoplanet discovery and shares a possibly endless list of the strange new worlds that have been found. He also meets Dr Edward Bryant, from the University of Warwick, whose recent discovery of planet TOI-6894 b was published in June. This Saturn-sized gas giant, orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, defies current models of planet formation and raises new questions about how such massive planets can form around such small stars. Could our models be missing something fundamental?
Meanwhile, Maggie Aderin-Pocock explains the mystery of the exoplanet Radius Valley - with the help of some sweets, of course! She then speaks to Larissa Palethorpe, whose PhD research in this area led to the discovery of Gliese 12 b, the closest earth-sized planet in the habitable zone found to date.
As ever, Pete Lawrence is on hand with practical stargazing tips for the summer months, including how to spot and photograph the 'moon illusion' - an optical trick that makes the moon appear unusually large when it’s near the horizon. With the moon sitting low in the sky during this phase of its 18.6-year cycle, it’s the perfect time to try capturing this stunning effect.
Finally, we conclude this episode with a celebration of Chris Lintott’s 25 years since his first appearance on the programme.
The strange new worlds being uncovered through exoplanet research offer a rich and thought-provoking glimpse into the incredible diversity of planets across the universe and prompt us to consider just how rare, or common, our place in it might be, and this programme takes you on a journey to explore them from the comfort of your own sofa!
MON 22:30 Remembers... (m002fzbf)
Nicholas Shakespeare Remembers... Mario Vargas Llosa
Described as one of the finest writers of his generation, Mario Vargas Llosa was at the forefront of South American fiction that made its mark in the mid-20th century. Mining events in his own life, novels such as Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The Time of the Hero provided a window into Peru, the country he loved. In 1990, despairing at the violent turn his nation was taking, he was persuaded to stand for president.
Nicholas Shakespeare, a friend and fellow writer, filmed him throughout this journey for Omnibus. He questioned Vargas Llosa's motive - was it politics or was it adventure? And he explored Vargas Llosa’s past, asking what made him become the writer he was.
Nicholas looks back at the film and his own history in the region, where he feared assassination as he confronted some of the most dangerous elements in Peruvian politics. He shares his memories of the chaos, his warmth towards Vargas Llosa and, of course, the film itself, an intimate near confessional and a look at one of recent history’s most noted literary talents.
MON 22:45 Omnibus (m002fzbh)
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Story of the Novelist Who Would Be President
Documentary, first broadcast in 1990, that follows Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in his bid to become president of Peru. Filmed in London, Peru and Italy, this visual diary follows him through a turbulent year and compares the fictional creations of the writer with the realities of his life and his experiences.
MON 23:45 Berlin 1945 (m000p9tg)
Series 1
Episode 2
The Battle for Berlin has begun. Step by step, the soon-to-be victorious powers advance. On 30 April, the Red Flag flies over the Reichstag, and Adolf Hitler takes his own life. Another seven days pass before the Wehrmacht disassembles. National Socialism is finally beaten, along with Germany and Berlin. But for many, the fall of Nazism spells liberation rather than defeat.
MON 00:40 A Summer Journey (m002fzb7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
MON 01:10 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9v8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
MON 01:40 Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany (m000crf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
MON 02:40 Rise of the Nazis (p0d3fkdr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
TUESDAY 15 JULY 2025
TUE 19:00 A Summer Journey (m002fzc5)
The Severn
Tides and the West Bank
Angela Rippon continues her journey down the River Severn.
TUE 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9z0)
Series 2
Market Drayton to Stourport-on-Severn
Life on England’s waterways with Robbie Cumming. Robbie gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire.
TUE 20:00 The Good Life (p00bzcm5)
Series 2
Going to Pot
Sitcom about a couple trying to live self-sufficiently in Surbiton. Tom and Barbara's evening class becomes unusually productive.
TUE 20:30 Yes Minister (b007845r)
Series 2
The Greasy Pole
Jim Hacker finds himself in the middle of a row over the British Chemical Corporation.
TUE 21:00 The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain (b042twvq)
Episode 2
Lucy Worsley's inside story of Britain's imported German dynasty, made with extensive access to the Royal Collection, reaches the reign of George II. She shows how he had to adapt to a growing 'middling rank' in society no longer content with being downtrodden subjects. Affairs of state were being openly discussed in coffee houses, while the king and his ministers were mocked in satirical prints and theatres.
George II was an easy target - grumpy, and frequently absent in Hanover. To his British subjects he became The King Who Wasn't There. But his wife, the enlightened Caroline, popularized a medical breakthrough against smallpox. However, it was their son, Frederick Prince of Wales, who really understood this new world - he had the popular touch monarchy would need to survive into the modern era.
TUE 22:00 The Death of Yugoslavia (m002fp8r)
Series 1
Wars of Independence
Two days after Croatia and Slovenia's declarations of independence, war in Yugoslavia commenced. Witnesses testify that central to promoting the internecine conflict was Gojko Susak, Croatia's uncompromising Minister of Defence. The mastermind behind the Croat campaign in Krajina, he escalated hostilities by taking a personal part in the terror attacks on Serb villages that occurred before the war with Serbia had even started.
Presidents Milosevic of Serbia and Kucan of Slovenia are principal among the witnesses recalling the shifting allegiances and political manoeuvring.
TUE 22:50 The Death of Yugoslavia (m002fp8w)
Series 1
The Gates of Hell
New evidence shows that it was President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia himself who ordered the ethnic cleansers into Bosnia. For the first time, Serb paramilitary leader Vojislav Seselj implicates Milosevic as the man directly behind the murders, rapes and mass deportations. Two weeks after the ethnic cleansing began, while returning from talks with European Community peace negotiator Lord Carrington, President Izetbegovic of Bosnia was kidnapped by the Yugoslav army. He and his captors tell the story of how he survived.
TUE 23:40 The Death of Yugoslavia (m002fp90)
Series 1
A Safe Area
This is the story of three years of international failure in Bosnia. The main participants tell how promises to the Bosnian Muslims were made and broken and how the decision by the international community not to use military force strengthened the position of the all-powerful Bosnian Serbs. The Americans then describe how they decided the only way to break the deadlock was to give full backing to President Tudjman of Croatia and to talk him into forming an alliance with the Bosnian Muslims - even though Muslim blood was fresh on his hands.
TUE 00:30 A Summer Journey (m002fzc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
TUE 01:00 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9z0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
TUE 01:30 Omnibus (m002fzbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:45 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain (b042twvq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 2025
WED 19:00 A Summer Journey (m002fzcf)
The Severn
The Vale of Berkeley
Angela Rippon joins the Severn Area Rescue Association in one of their training exercises, pays a visit to the Wildlife Trust at Slimbridge, tells the story of the murder of a king at Berkeley Castle and recalls the achievements of a local country doctor.
WED 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9sv)
Series 2
Stourport Basins to Kingswood Junction
The real side of boat life with Robbie Cumming. Robbie navigates the mighty River Severn and takes an unexpected bath as he takes a tumble at the Tardebigge lock flight in Worcestershire.
WED 20:00 Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (b01hcgn1)
Behind Closed Doors
We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.
In this final episode, Mary delves even deeper into ordinary Roman life by going behind the closed doors of their homes. She meets an extraordinary cast of characters - drunken housewives, teenage brides, bullied children and runaway slaves - and paints a more dynamic, lusty picture of Roman family life.
Mary uncovers their preserved beds, furniture and cradles, tries on Roman wedding rings and meets some eccentric wives like Glyconis, praised by her husband for liking a drink or two, and Allia Potestas, who lived in a Roman ménage a trois.
Mary explores Roman parenting, childbirth and children, including Sulpicius Maximus, an 11-year-old schoolboy who was worked to death by his pushy parents, and Geminia Mater, a five-year-old tomboy.
Finally, Mary paints a more nuanced picture of Roman slavery and asks why if it was such a brutal institution did many Romans choose to be buried with their servants - living cheek by jowl in death, as in life.
WED 21:00 Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters (b014lsgb)
From dinosaurs to mammoths, when our ancient ancestors encountered the fossil bones of extinct prehistoric creatures, what did they think they were? Just like us, ancient peoples were fascinated by the giant bones they found in the ground.
In an epic story that takes us from Ancient Greece to the American Wild West, historian Tom Holland goes on a journey of discovery to explore the fascinating ways in which our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils have shaped and affected human culture.
In Classical Greece, petrified bones were exhibited in temples as the remains of a long-lost race of colossal heroes. Chinese tales of dragons may well have had their origins in the great fossil beds of the Gobi desert. In the Middle Ages, Christians believed that mysterious bones found in rock were the remains of giants drowned in Noah's Flood.
But far from always being wrong, Tom learns that ancient explanations and myths about large fossilsed bones often contained remarkable paleontological insights long before modern science explained the truth about dinosaurs. Tom encounters a medieval sculpture that is the first known reconstruction of a monster from a fossil, and learns about the Native Americans stories, told for generations, which contained clues that led bone hunters to some of the greatest dinosaur finds of the nineteenth century.
This documentary is an alternative history of dinosaurs - the neglected story of how mythic imagination and scientific inquiry have met over millennia to give meaning to the dry bones of prehistory. Today, as our interest in dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures continues unabated, it turns out we are not so far away from the awe and curiosity of our ancient ancestors.
WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002fzch)
Debbie Horsfield Remembers... Cutting It
Twenty years ago, BBC viewers found themselves gripped by a tale of personal and professional rivalries, rooted in the perhaps unlikely setting of two competing Manchester hair salons. With powerful performances from Sarah Parish and Amanda Holden - often giving it the full hairdryer treatment – this was a tale of fringes and friendships, trims and treachery.
The show’s creator, Debbie Horsfield, recalls how Cutting It came to life and explains what it was about the world of competitive hairdressing that gelled perfectly with her dramatic aspirations.
WED 22:15 Cutting It (b007byn5)
Series 1
Episode 1
Drama series set around two rival hair salons in Manchester.
Husband-and-wife team Gavin and Allie Ferraday are the proud owners of a successful family hairdressing business. But when another salon - run by the beautiful yet conniving Mia and her charismatic husband, Finn - sets up shop across the road, Allie is horrified to discover that both her business and her heart are under threat.
WED 23:15 Cutting It (b007byqd)
Series 1
Episode 2
Allie is concerned to discover that clients are leaving Henshall Ferraday for Mia's new salon at an alarming rate, and suspects foul play. Finn is still trying to win over Allie. Mia and Allie go head-to-head in a bid to style a celebrity photo shoot.
WED 00:15 The Sky at Night (m002fzbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 on Monday]
WED 00:45 A Summer Journey (m002fzcf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
WED 01:15 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9sv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
WED 01:45 Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (b01hcgn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
WED 02:45 Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters (b014lsgb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 today]
THURSDAY 17 JULY 2025
THU 19:00 A Summer Journey (m002fzcc)
The Severn
Crossing and Docking
Angela Rippon explores the stretch of the Severn between Shepperdine and the mouth of the Avon, where people have crossed not only in ferries and over a bridge, but even on their own two feet.
She discusses industrial pollution of the estuary and sees how its bed is regularly charted so that ships can navigate in and out of port.
THU 19:30 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9sg)
Series 2
Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham
The reality of life afloat with Robbie Cumming. On the last leg of his journey across England, Robbie crosses an epic aqueduct near Stratford-upon-Avon and gets stuck in a lock in central Birmingham.
THU 20:00 Shark (b05wdbyk)
Episode 3
A look at how an international team of scientists is trying to change people's perceptions of sharks. Their research is revealing that sharks can be sociable and intelligent, and they could even help solve some of the toughest medical challenges of the 21st century. However, the breakthroughs come at a time when many sharks face extinction. Science may now be the only way to save them.
THU 21:00 The Shining (m000l4ml)
When writer Jack Torrance takes a job as winter caretaker at a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, the accumulated power of evil deeds committed at the hotel begins to drive him mad. Now there may be no escape for his wife and son in this story of madness, memory and family violence.
THU 22:55 Manhunter (m001grj1)
FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the Tooth Fairy. Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer and cannibal Dr Hannibal Lecktor, who is the reason Graham took an early retirement.
Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecktor and an interfering journalist.
THU 00:50 A Summer Journey (m002fzcc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]
THU 01:20 Canal Boat Diaries (m000q9sg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:30 today]
THU 01:50 Plague Fiction (m000mmjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:40 on Sunday]
THU 02:50 Shark (b05wdbyk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
20:00 today]
FRIDAY 18 JULY 2025
FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002fzc7)
Zoë Ball presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 6 February 1998 and featuring Usher, Carleen Anderson, Saint Etienne, Will Smith, The Freestylers, The Rolling Stones, OTT and Aqua.
FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002fzcb)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 13 February 1998 and featuring Errol Brown, Cleopatra, Headswim, Jay-Z feat. Gwen Dickey, Wes, Spiritualized, Backstreet Boys and Aqua.
FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (m000hbdz)
Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 July 1989 and featuring Sonia, London Boys and Monie Love.
FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (b012tpyt)
Noel Edmonds presents the pop programme, first broadcast on 15 July 1976 and featuring Sunfighter, Liverpool Express, Bobby Goldsboro, Dr Hook, Glamour Puss, Status Quo, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Demis Roussos and The Chanter Sisters.
FRI 21:05 Shania Twain at the BBC (m001q217)
A collection of Shania Twain’s biggest moments from the BBC archives, including live performances, her earliest UK TV appearances from the days of her debut hit Still the One and the karaoke classics That Don’t Impress Me Much and Man! I Feel Like a Woman! So grab a hairbrush and - to quote the title of her biggest-selling album - Come on Over.
FRI 21:50 Reel Stories (m0020lks)
Shania Twain
Shania Twain sits down with Dermot O'Leary ahead of her Glastonbury debut, looking back at the joyful highs and emotional lows of a life and career full of loss and challenges but defined by recovery and triumph.
For more than 30 years, Shania has enchanted music fans in ever increasing circles - first country fans, then pop fans, then taking her music to the world. Shania has always remained an optimistic trailblazer, opening doors and leaving them open for artists to follow after.
FRI 22:35 Radio 2 in the Park (m001pn7g)
Hyde Park Headliners
Shania Twain (2017)
A triumphant performance from the queen of country-pop, Shania Twain, live from Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2017.
FRI 23:00 Country Queens at the BBC (p028vwnv)
Classic female country stars in action on a variety of BBC studio shows and featuring Bobbie Gentry, Anne Murray, Emmylou Harris, Tammy Wynette, Billie Jo Spears, Crystal Gayle, Taylor Swift, Lucinda Williams with Mary Chapin Carpenter and more. A chronological celebration of country queens at the BBC whether on Top of the Pops, OGWT, Later with Jools Holland, Parkinson or their own entertainment specials.
FRI 00:05 Elton John at the BBC (b00vs5c0)
Elton John's career tracked in archive from performances, interviews and news clips.
FRI 01:05 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 02:05 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 03:05 Top of the Pops (m002fzc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 today]