SATURDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2025

SAT 19:00 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fr)
Series 6

The New World

Lady Hulton’s sick cat propels Siegfried into updating the practice to cater for such refined clients.


SAT 19:50 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0g1)
Series 6

Mending Fences

A triple birthday is marred by tragedy, and James and Siegfried face the law when the Black Horse stretches its opening hours.


SAT 20:40 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0g6)
Series 6

Big Fish, Little Fish

Siegfried befriends Colin when one of his goldfish dies, and he takes him on his rounds. James is in the team for the local cricket match, but Siegfried hits a six.


SAT 21:30 Edge of Darkness (b0074p9r)
Series 1

Burden of Proof

Police close in on their prime suspect for Emma's murder, as Craven's doubts about the motive for the killing become certainties.


SAT 22:20 Edge of Darkness (p00v5gt7)
Series 1

Breakthrough

Craven comes face to face with Emma's killer, but he is stopped from revealing why they committed the murder. Craven becomes determined to enter Northmoor with the help of Jedburgh and hack into MI5's computer.


SAT 23:15 Parkinson: The Interviews (b01h22vh)
Series 1

Richard Burton

Michael Parkinson looks back at his unique interview with talented and troubled film star Richard Burton. Back in 1974, Burton was battling against alcoholism and had spent six weeks in hospital for treatment prior to the interview. Parkinson persuaded him to talk candidly about his career, love life and drink problems.


SAT 23:55 The Good Life (b00jzw4h)
Series 4

The Anniversary

Has the good life come to an end for Tom and Barbara?


SAT 00:25 Yes, Prime Minister (b0074rsm)
Series 1

The Key

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


SAT 00:55 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0fr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SAT 01:45 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0g1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:50 today]


SAT 02:35 All Creatures Great and Small (p031d0g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:40 today]

SUNDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2025

SUN 19:00 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078l4s)
Driving the Wheels of Industry

Fred looks at the key role that was played by steam power in the extraordinary expansion of industrial Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and at the continued use of huge stationary steam engines in mills, collieries and steelworks until well into the 20th century.


SUN 19:30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqj7)
Series 1

London

Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores London, the ultimate 'city of villages'. Despite many rural settlements like Hornsey and Dagenham being swallowed up by the expanding capital, Hampstead residents successfully fought to preserve their village heritage. And in recent years, Londoners have created a new breed of urban villages like Crouch End and Walthamstow.


SUN 20:00 Dance Passion (m002m4h2)
Dance Passion Bradford

In a dynamic fusion of movement, colour and energy, dancers of all kinds take over the streets, theatres and surrounding countryside to showcase the city and celebrate the joy of dance, during Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

The performances feature solos, duets and ensembles in a variety of dance styles, including ballet, disco, bhangra, kathak, contemporary dance, street dance and artistic swimming.

There is a special collaboration between Hanif Kureishi and Royal Ballet choreographer Kristen McNally. In 2022, Hanif collapsed and fell, sustaining injuries that left him with very limited use of his arms and legs. This dance is inspired by that life-changing accident and Hanif's work since towards recovery. The dancers are Tom Whitehead of the Royal Ballet and Max Maslen of Birmingham Royal Ballet - both born and bred in Bradford. Their performance was filmed at Salts Mill in Saltaire.

Renowned for her depth of emotion and dramatic intensity, the Royal Ballet’s Natalia Osipova is one of the most acclaimed ballerinas of her generation. Natalia performs the Dying Swan on the stage of Bradford’s Alhambra theatre, where Anna Pavlova, one of the greatest dancers of all time, appeared 100 years ago.

One of the most striking ensembles sees 500 dancers gather on the moors near the Brontë parsonage to celebrate Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush’s song and the joy of dance. Now an annual event, this mass wuther is the first to be held near Haworth, on the wild windswept moors of Brontë country.

Dance companies taking part in Dance Passion Bradford include the Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Punjabi Roots, Dance United Yorkshire, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Akram Khan Dance Company, Pagrav, Rhythmosaic, Ella Tighe Dance and the City of Bradford Artistic Swimmers.


SUN 21:00 Remembers... (m002m4h4)
Matthew Bourne Remembers... Swan Lake

Highly acclaimed choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne discusses his groundbreaking reinterpretation of Swan Lake, the 1995 production that shocked the ballet world and revolutionised modern ballet by replacing the traditional female swans with a male ensemble.

Thirty years and over thirty international accolades on, Bourne reflects on the challenges of reimagining a classic and the reaction at the time. He tells us about the creative journey behind the show’s enduring success, and its cultural impact over the past three decades.

Bourne also discusses his long-standing relationship with Sadler’s Wells – the theatre where, as a teenager, he first saw Swan Lake, and where his own production later premiered. Speaking from Sadler’s Wells, Bourne reflects on the enduring impact of the venue on his work, accompanied by performances from the filmed version of Swan Lake, first broadcast by the BBC in 1996 and shot at the same theatre.

This intimate programme offers a glimpse into the mind of one of Britain’s most celebrated theatre-makers.


SUN 21:20 Matthew Bourne: Swan Lake (m002m4h6)
Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne's radical reworking of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The score remains the same, but the famous corps de ballet is now danced by men.


SUN 23:20 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l6zw)
Series 1

7. The Mandarin Revolution

JK Galbraith looks at the influence of John Maynard Keynes, who drew the blueprint for the postwar economic boom, and recalls his own involvement in those momentous years.


SUN 00:15 The Age of Uncertainty (m002l6zz)
Series 1

8. The Fatal Competition

JK Galbraith visits the ruins of postwar Berlin, the corridors of power in the Pentagon and 'the world's largest used plane lot' in his assessment of the contemporary roots of war.


SUN 01:10 Dance Passion (m002m4h2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


SUN 02:15 Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam (b0078l4s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


SUN 02:45 Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village (b0bsrqj7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]

MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2025

MON 19:00 Earth's Seasonal Secrets (b07qs2h0)
Summer

Every year, spectacular seasons transform our planet. As they sweep across the world, they drive all life on Earth, bringing huge opportunities and great challenges to everything. This programme, narrated by Andrew Scott, celebrates the glorious nature of summer on Earth and the extraordinary ways animals and plants rise to the challenges it brings. With the sun shining and the flowers blooming, this is the season of splendid abundance, and the long hours of daylight make life burst out in a riot of activity. But you have to find clever ways to get your share of the good times while they last, and as temperatures soar, everything has to deal with sweltering heat. For a whole range of animals, from sneaky ring-tailed lemurs to battling ibex, and from overheated penguins to astonishing colour-changing lizards, summer is a time when the living is not always easy.


MON 20:00 Dan Cruickshank's Monuments of Remembrance (b0brk994)
Dan Cruickshank reveals the extraordinary story behind the design and building of iconic First World War memorials and explores the idea behind the creation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.


MON 21:00 Call My Bluff (m002m4fk)
Robert Robinson referees as Frank Muir, André Previn and Tina Brown compete against Patrick Campbell, Tom Conti and Barbara Kellerman in a duel of words and wit.


MON 21:30 Face the Music (m002m4fm)
Question master Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Valerie Pitts, Robin Ray and Patrick Moore. With guest musician Maurice Gendron.


MON 22:00 The Sky at Night (m002m4fp)
Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases

Do aliens exist, and can we talk to them? What does a black hole sound like? Does the universe look like a doughnut? In a spectacular season finale, The Sky at Night teams up with hit podcast Curious Cases to answer your burning space mysteries, from the strange sounds of the
cosmos to the furthest edges of the observable universe.

Filmed in front of a live studio audience, presenters Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain bring their signature wit and curiosity as they quiz our stellar panel of experts - Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chris Lintott and George Dransfield. Expect lively debate, surprising revelations, and moments of pure astronomical awe as they explore the weird and wonderful corners of space science.

Meanwhile, Pete Lawrence turns his eyes to the heavens to guide us through the incredible sights currently lighting up the night sky and offering a glimpse into the mysteries that unfold when we simply look up.

Adding another layer of intrigue, a special BBC Ideas animation explores our ongoing search for alien life and the tantalising possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.

And for those who want to keep the curiosity flowing, Radio 4 are airing a companion episode of Curious Cases, featuring extra content from the live recording.

Join us for this unforgettable night of cosmic exploration before the programme returns in the spring of 2026 with even more wonders from the final frontier.


MON 22:30 Arena (b01pqhfp)
Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel

The arresting sight of Sister Wendy Beckett, all teeth and glasses, burst on to our screens in the 1990s. An instant star, she travelled the world in her habit telling us the story of Christian art and painting but revealing little of her own extraordinary story. Arena goes in search of the 'real' Wendy, who, at 82, talks frankly, humorously, and profoundly about her life and spirituality for the first time.

Wendy's story, inseparable from that of the Gospel, is told alongside her selection of paintings by the greatest old masters, revealing the emotional insights they have given her. In this film, we hear for the first time of Wendy's personal journey to God, her insights on prayer and suffering, and her reflections on the contemporary world. Above all, she connects us to the art that has helped her to know herself and her faith.


MON 23:30 Arena (m002k97j)
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

A witty look at the history of the Ford Cortina. Alexei Sayle, John Betjeman, John McVicar and Magnus Magnusson join enthusiasts to reflect on what was, in the 1980s, Britain's most popular, most stolen and most misunderstood car.


MON 00:15 The Great Philosophers (m002l4zv)
Series 1

Schopenhauer

Bryan Magee looks at the work of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) with Prof Frederick Copleston.


MON 01:00 The Great Philosophers (m002l4zw)
Series 1

Nietzsche

Bryan Magee and his guest, Professor JP Stern, discuss the work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).


MON 01:45 Face the Music (m002m4fm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:30 today]


MON 02:15 Dan Cruickshank's Monuments of Remembrance (b0brk994)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2025

TUE 19:00 Inside Museums (m001646r)
Series 2

Manchester’s Whitworth

Manchester-born Diana Ali returns to the Whitworth, which had a profound impact on her life and inspired her career as an artist, to explore how art can speak a universal language, stir our emotions and challenge our beliefs.

The Whitworth art gallery is a thrilling clash of past and present, with a stunning collection from around the world. The city’s industrial history has shaped what’s within the gallery walls to provide an insight into our shared heritage. Today’s voices are shining a new light on society’s issues to shape our collective future.


TUE 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00dtp4b)
The Peak Express

Julia Bradbury has her backpack on to explore the great outdoors. Julia's walks follow the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire, visiting disused lines across England, Scotland and Wales. Through stunning landscapes and urban backstreets, each contrasting walk has a unique story to tell, offering Julia a window into industrial Britain and how the rise and fall of the railways has altered lives and localities across the country.

Julia begins her exploration of Britain's lost rail empire in Derbyshire, the heart of the Peak District, with a walk along the popular Monsal Trail. Limestone cliffs and gorges abound, not to mention the tunnels and soaring viaducts of the Midland Railway - one of the most dramatic and unlikely main lines ever built.


TUE 20:00 The Many Faces Of... (b00pk7ny)
June Whitfield

June Whitfield worked alongside the greats Arthur Askey, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Ronnie Barker, Benny Hill, Bob Monkhouse, Terry Scott and Jennifer Saunders.

In this film June tells her own story, from her early days in the West End working with Noel Coward, her ill-fated Broadway debut, and with the help of rarely seen archive, impeccable comedy performances on radio and TV.

June reveals that a lack of confidence about her looks caused her to play it for laughs. She also offers insights into her onscreen relationship with Terry Scott and the secret behind her success.


TUE 21:00 Happy Ever After (m002m4gy)
Pilot programme of the classic sitcom Happy Ever After, made in 1974 as part of the Comedy Playhouse series and starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a couple adjusting to life alone after their children have flown the nest. Five series of Happy Ever After followed.


TUE 21:30 Beggar My Neighbour: Have Car - Won't Travel (m002m4h0)
The 1960s BBC sitcom about warring relatives and neighbours, starring Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Reg Varney and Pat Coombs.


TUE 22:00 1917 (m001gntn)
During the First World War, two soldiers are ordered across no-man's-land and deep into enemy territory to deliver a message. If they fail, an entire battalion, under the mistaken belief the Germans are retreating, will be ordered over the top and into a deadly trap.


TUE 23:50 imagine... (b07lswsg)
Summer 2016

DANGER! Cornelia Parker

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

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


TUE 00:55 Inside Museums (m001646r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


TUE 01:25 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00dtp4b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 01:55 Turtle, Eagle, Cheetah: A Slow Odyssey (m0001kx4)
An Eagle's Flight

Take a flight on a summer morning with a white-tailed eagle around Scotland's west coast. A falconry-trained sea eagle wearing a specially designed on-board camera is the only way to glimpse the lives of these rare and protected species. From the high tops of Crois Bheinn on the remote Morvern Peninsula, the eagle traverses across beautiful rolling moors and glens, along craggy cliff faces and finally ventures towards the Sound of Mull. With a two-metre wingspan, it is the biggest bird around - but that doesn't stop it being challenged by noisy crows and ravens. After its long flight, the hungry eagle is finally drawn down to the coast by the promise of a fish. Flying through torrential rain, it dives at over 100mph to grab the fish from a coastal pool before being reunited with its handler.


TUE 02:25 Earth's Seasonal Secrets (b07qs2h0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]

WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2025

WED 19:00 Inside Museums (m0016487)
Series 2

Glasgow’s Treasure Palace

Artist Lachlan Goudie visits Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to explore a collection that he has loved since he was a boy.

Kelvingrove is Glasgow’s most important and popular cultural institution, a treasure palace that is home to a vast array of art and artefacts from across the world and across time. It has been a hugely influential part of Lachlan’s life, the single most important collection in shaping his ambition to become a painter.

Since the age of 12, Lachlan has taken his pencils and brushes to Kelvingrove to enter the Glasgow Museums Annual Art Competition. Among his prizewinning entries was a drawing of one of the stars of Kelvingrove’s collection, Sir Roger the Elephant, a taxidermy giant who has stood in the museum since its opening in 1902. Lachlan begins his tour of the museum with a visit to his old friend before moving on to other objects in the collection that fired his childhood imagination.

Rembrandt’s Man in Armour was the first painting Lachlan felt inexorably drawn towards as a boy, and one he has spent a lifetime trying to emulate. From his unique perspective as a practising artist, Lachlan’s exploration of the collection includes other masterpieces, including Salvador Dali’s controversial Christ of St John of the Cross, Van Gogh’s celebrated portrait of Alexander Reid and John Duncan Fergusson’s groundbreaking experiments in fauvist colour.

Lachlan examines the artistic processes underpinning these extraordinary paintings as well as exploring the astonishing and heartbreaking works by the lesser-known artist Marianne Grant, created at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Grant’s drawings force us to confront one of the most shocking moments in world history and sit alongside other objects in the museum that have renewed resonance in the context of today’s global events.

Revisiting an institution he has treasured all his life, in this film Lachlan will re-see objects with fresh eyes, revealing the power of Kelvingrove’s extraordinary collection to enlighten our history and to change the way we look at the world.


WED 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00dwflf)
Discovering Snowdonia

Julia walks along the stunning Mawddach estuary in north Wales. The area between Dolgellau and the coastal resort of Barmouth is one of the least visited parts of Snowdonia, but in the 1860s it received a great rush of holidaymakers, taking advantage of the new railway that connected the valley to the cities of England.


WED 20:00 The Secret Life of the Sun (b03694kd)
Ninety-million miles away from us is the power that shapes our world - the sun. We see it shine in the sky above us, but beyond our sight, something dramatic is happening - the sun is going into overdrive.

It's more active now than it's been for a decade, sending eruptions of super-heated plasma and vast waves of radiation towards our planet. With the potential to disrupt our lives in dramatic ways.

Using the latest satellite images, and the expertise of Britain's leading solar scientists, Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of our very own star, and the influence its mysterious cycles of activity have on our planet.

They discover why the light reaching us from the sun can be up to a million years old; they meet the teams who protect us by keeping a round-the-clock vigil on the sun; and investigate why some scientists think longer term changes in the sun's behaviour may have powerful effects on our climate.


WED 21:00 Hunt for the Oldest DNA (m0025xx9)
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. But life’s genetic blueprint is incredibly fragile, and researchers have struggled to find genetic material in fossils that has survived for millions of years. Then, one maverick scientist had the controversial idea of looking for DNA not in fossils or frozen ancient tissue – but in the soil.

This film follows the scientists deciphering the oldest DNA ever found and revealing for the first time the genes of long-extinct creatures that once thrived in warm, lush Arctic landscapes.


WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002m4gm)
Graham Reid Remembers... The Precious Blood

Writer Graham Reid looks back on his 1996 BBC drama The Precious Blood.

Set in a Belfast trying to secure a lasting peace, The Precious Blood conveys conflicts both practically and emotionally. Billy was a UVF killer but has turned his former political fervour into a new-found religious faith. Rosie is the widow of a man shot at the height of the Troubles. Graham Reid explains how he brought the two stories together - Billy, tormented by his past, trying to find a path to his own atonement; Rosie searching for answers to the unsolved murder of her husband.

Graham tells us how personal issues were key; both main characters struggle with parenting adolescent boys. He also discusses the power of the cast, how his wife had a hand in the casting of Amanda Burton and the chemistry shared on screen between Burton and Kevin McNally.

The Precious Blood adds to the list of unforgettable dramas Graham has written on this subject, detailing the struggles both within and between contrasting families at the heart of the still-troubled city.


WED 22:15 Screen Two (m002jm20)
The Precious Blood

Drama set in Belfast that asks if it is possible to have peace with justice.

Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years earlier. Her teenage son John, fuelled by revenge, is heading on a path towards delinquency, until he meets boxing gym owner Billy McVea, affecting all their lives.


WED 23:30 Remembers... (m002m4gp)
Graham Reid Remembers... Life After Life

Writer Graham Reid, known for the Billy Plays – a trilogy that starred a young Kenneth Branagh – looks back on his 1995 TV drama Life After Life, a powerful addition to his work on the Troubles.

The film looks at how the ceasefires of the mid-1990s brought their own problems. It focuses on Leo, a murderer released from prison expecting a hero’s return. Instead, he is greeted by a city that thinks he’s irrelevant.

Graham talks about the ‘working out’ scheme that tried to integrate convicted killers back into the community. He looks at the impact their release had on their families and the adjustment the former prisoners had to make coming back into a world so different to the one they knew before.

With a powerful cast, including Lorcan Cranitch and Michelle Fairley, the film is a rich part of the canon of dramas that covered this critical time.


WED 23:40 Screen Two (m002jm1w)
Life After Life

Leo Doyle, in his mid-30s and single, is released into ceasefire Belfast after serving a life sentence for an IRA murder. Desperate for a new cause, he tries to rekindle an affair with his ex-fiancee.


WED 01:00 Inside Museums (m0016487)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 01:30 Hunt for the Oldest DNA (m0025xx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


WED 02:30 The Secret Life of the Sun (b03694kd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2025

THU 19:00 The Sky at Night (m002m4fp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Monday]


THU 19:30 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00dzz60)
The Birth of Steam

Tin and copper once made the area around Redruth the richest patch of land in the country. They inspired great engineering feats and pioneering tramways, the forebears of the rail empire. Julia Bradbury has her work cut out as she crosses an entire county, winding past Cornwall's crumbling engine houses and following a railway that has not operated for 140 years.


THU 20:00 Talking Pictures (b03hcv4w)
Richard Burton

A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar nominated Hollywood icon Richard Burton, capturing the milestones and highlights of his life and career.


THU 20:40 The Desert Rats (m002m3f7)
Second World War drama featuring Richard Burton as the commander of Australian troops during the 1941 siege of Tobruk.


THU 22:10 The Richard Burton Diaries (b01nw4wn)
Richard Burton's talent, presence and unforgettable voice made him a superstar of stage and screen. The Welsh actor was equally famous for his hellraising, womanising private life and his two marriages to Elizabeth Taylor. Private diaries he wrote at the height of his fame have been published in their entirety for the first time and present a unique opportunity to reassess the man behind the myth.

Narrated by Mali Harries, with extract readings by Josh Richards.


THU 22:40 The Robe (b0077p1t)
A Roman centurion in charge of the crucifixion of Christ is profoundly affected by the experience and converts to Christianity.


THU 00:50 Talking Pictures (b03hcv4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


THU 01:30 The Richard Burton Diaries (b01nw4wn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:10 today]


THU 02:00 Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury (b00dzz60)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


THU 02:30 imagine... (b07lswsg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:50 on Tuesday]

FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2025

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002m4hl)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 2 October 1998 and featuring Steps, The Beautiful South, Fastball, Republica, Sarah McLachlan, Ash, Savage Garden and B*Witched.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002m4hn)
Kate Thornton presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 9 October 1998 and featuring Ace of Base, Billie Piper, Bryan Adams, Brandy feat Ma$e, The Cause, UB40 and B*Witched.


FRI 19:55 Top of the Pops (b01n7ptd)
Noel Edmonds presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 10 November 1977 and featuring Tom Robinson Band, Tina Charles, Darts, Kenny Everett and Mike Vickers, Roxy Music, Boney M., Elvis Costello, Ruby Winters, Santana, Abba and Legs & Co.


FRI 20:25 Top of the Pops (m000kbp4)
Nicky Campbell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 9 November 1989 and featuring Janet Jackson, Electribe 101 and Lisa Stansfield.


FRI 20:55 Top of the Pops (b00zwrn5)
1964 to 1975 - Big Hits

1964 saw the birth of a very British institution. Spanning over four decades, Top of the Pops has produced many classic moments in pop culture.

Digging deep within the darkest depths of the BBC's archive, this compilation offers some memorable performances from 1964 through to 1975 from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Status Quo, Procol Harum, Stevie Wonder, Queen and The Kinks, and opens the vintage vaults to rare performances from Stealers Wheel, Julie Driscoll, Peter Sarstedt and The Seekers.

So sit back and witness once again where music met television.


FRI 22:20 Jeff Buckley Live in Chicago (m002m4hq)
One of the few records of Jeff Buckley in performance, filmed at the Metro (then known as the Cabaret Metro) in Chicago in 1995. He performs a selection of songs from Grace, the only album of his music released in his lifetime, as well as his own take on songs by MC5, James H Shelton, Big Star and Leonard Cohen.


FRI 23:20 40 Originals at the BBC (m0029tyc)
If you didn’t know that Rockin' All Over the World is by John Fogerty and not Status Quo, or that Roberta Flack wasn’t the first to perform Killing Me Softly, then prepare for a night of massive musical surprises.

This is a top 40 compilation of songs that became bigger hits for the artists who covered them - but here, we’re going back to the source material, serving up the incredible original versions, with artists including Gladys Knight, The Zutons, Neil Diamond, Nine Inch Nails, Dolly Parton and The Village People.


FRI 01:45 Top of the Pops (m002m4hl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 02:15 Top of the Pops (m002m4hn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


FRI 02:40 Top of the Pops (b01n7ptd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:55 today]


FRI 03:10 Top of the Pops (m000kbp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:25 today]