SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2026

SAT 19:00 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jfy)
Series 2

The Tomb That Time Forgot

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


SAT 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxs7)
Series 14

Long Itchington to Moseley

Michael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, where work is underway on a section of the biggest project of new railway infrastructure in Britain for a hundred years: HS2.

In the Tudor town of Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, Michael visits the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, home since 1961 to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In Birmingham, Michael recalls the redevelopment of the whole city centre during the 1960s and the arrival of black and Asian communities in areas where he once tried to enter parliament. In the Prince of Wales pub in Handsworth, he investigates the fusion of Asian and British cultural influences which produced modern Bhangra music.

Michael finishes this leg of his railway journey in the leafy suburb of Moseley, where in order to combat the housing shortage after the Second World War, prefabricated houses were put up - and, in some cases, remain to this day.


SAT 20:00 The Good Old Days (b07xjl43)
Leonard Sachs presents an edition of the old-time music hall programme from the stage of the City Varieties Theatre, Leeds. Guests include Nick Moll, Bernard Cribbins, Valerie Masterson, Bill Pertwee, Terence Alexander, Des Lane and Ray C Davis.


SAT 20:45 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (b007bcnj)
Series 2

Poison Pen

Basking in the glow of publicity from their last successful job, the Wainthropp Detective Agency has more work than it can handle. While Hetty tries to help a stricken village, can Robert and Geoffrey conduct their own case?


SAT 21:35 The Taste of Things (m002rlpp)
French romance set in 1889, focusing on the enduring bond between gourmet chef Dodin and his cook of 20 years, Eugénie. Having shared a passion for food and a deep mutual respect, the two have been lovers as well as gastronomers for a long time, but Eugénie has refused to marry Dodin, who resolves to cook for her in order to woo her.


SAT 23:45 This Cultural Life (m001zyp4)
Juliette Binoche

Actor Juliette Binoche talks to John Wilson about the formative influences that shaped her career.


SAT 00:15 Parkinson: The Interviews (b007448x)
Series 1

Kenneth Williams

In this compilation of clips from five of his eight appearances on Parkinson, Kenneth Williams gives vent to his dislike of theatre critics as well as Michael Parkinson, and gives his rendition of My Crepes Suzette.

Contributors: John Betjeman, Patrick Campbell, Tom Lehrer, Annie Lewis, Tony Moss, Frank Muir, Robin Ray and Maggie Smith.


SAT 00:55 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (b007bcnj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:45 today]


SAT 01:45 The Good Old Days (b07xjl43)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


SAT 02:30 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxs7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


SAT 03:00 Meet the Ancestors (b0074jfy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]

SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2026

SUN 19:00 Antiques Roadshow (m0014jgf)
Series 44

Portchester 2

Fiona Bruce and the team travel to Portchester Castle in Hampshire on the south coast of England, where treasures include an extraordinary set of RAF medals awarded for extreme bravery to an airman who served in Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain. The team also admire some rare punk clothing by fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and a roll of ornate Arts and Crafts wallpaper destined for the bonfire.

Amin Jaffer appraises two valuable paintings by prominent 20th-century Indian artists, Jamini Roy and KH Ara, and explains how each man expressed ideas of Indian identity and nationhood in his work.

Fiona explores a little-known chapter in the history of Portchester Castle when she finds out about its role as a prisoner of war camp in the late 18th century, when it was home to freed slaves from the Caribbean who had fought for France and been captured by the British.

Andy McConnell is moved by a collection of glass that was brought out of Vienna by a Jewish couple who were forced to flee when the Nazis annexed Austria, while Ronnie Archer-Morgan is intrigued by a ceremonial paddle from the Austral Islands – until he realises it was snapped in half to fit inside a sailor’s sea chest.


SUN 20:00 Eurovision Classical Concerts (m002r9b4)
Series 1

Cologne: WDR Symphony Orchestra plays Stravinsky's Petrushka

Celebrating great music-making across Europe, this is a special concert from the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne. Presented by renowned British conductor Nicholas Collon.

The WDR Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Marie Jacquot, perform Stravinsky’s ballet score Petrushka. They also play The Enchanted Lake, a magical miniature by Stravinsky's teacher, Lyadov.


SUN 21:00 British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (b08bqdzl)
Series 1

The Wars of the Roses

Lucy debunks the foundation myth of one of our favourite royal dynasties, the Tudors.

According to the history books, after 30 years of bloody battles between the white-rosed Yorkists and the red-rosed Lancastrians, Henry Tudor rid us of civil war and the evil king Richard III. But Lucy reveals how the Tudors invented the story of the 'Wars of the Roses' after they came to power to justify their rule.

She shows how Henry and his historians fabricated the scale of the conflict, forged Richard's monstrous persona and even conjured up the image of competing roses. When our greatest storyteller William Shakespeare got in on the act and added his own spin, Tudor fiction was cemented as historical fact.

Taking the story right up to date, with the discovery of Richard III's bones in a Leicester car park, Lucy discovers how 15th-century fibs remain as compelling as they were over 500 years ago. As one colleague tells Lucy: 'Never believe an historian!


SUN 22:00 Ibsen (m002q7tl)
The Master Builder (1988)

Oppressed by past tragedies and an unhappy marriage, a master builder is haunted by fears that the next generation will knock him off his pedestal. A 1988 adaption of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.


SUN 00:15 The Australian Wars (p0gjfgjh)
Series 1

Episode 1

Intertribal conflict was a familiar fixture for Australia’s First Nations people, but nothing could prepare them for the conflict with the British and European arrivals over land and livelihood.

In the first part of this authored series, film-maker Rachel Perkins, who has both European and First Nations ancestry, examines these first encounters following the British arrival in 1788.

The British Empire’s presence in Sydney began as a small, contained, fortified venture in Sydney Harbour. New South Wales’s first governor, Arthur Phillip, was tasked with forming friendly alliances with locals. But with the lack of a treaty between occupying forces, a scarcity of resources to feed the growing population and neighbouring tribes not willing to surrender their land, conflict ensued. Successive governors ruled by force. The tactics of terror and intimidation, including some instances of the abuse of children and women, became one of the triggers of war.


SUN 01:15 Eurovision Classical Concerts (m002r9b4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


SUN 02:10 British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (b08bqdzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2026

MON 19:00 Wild China (b00c5n6g)
Land of the Panda

China's heartland is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization and is home to the giant panda, the golden snub-nosed monkey and the golden takin. China faces environmental problems, but the relationship the Chinese have with their environment is deep and extraordinary. We will understand what this means for the future of China.


MON 20:00 Call My Bluff (m002rlpk)
Panel game of word definitions and deceptions, hosted by Robert Robinson. Team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by Patrick Mower, Russell Harty, Nanette Newman and Gabrielle Drake.


MON 20:30 Face the Music (m002rlpm)
Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Polly Elwes, Richard Baker and John Julius Norwich. With guest musician Yvonne Minton.


MON 21:00 Horizon (b077nl9f)
2016

The End of the Solar System

This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun, before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments.

Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town that has a giant scale model of the solar system spread out all over the city. As it ages, the sun will bloat into a red giant star, swallowing planets... as well as half the town. The fate of the Earth itself hangs in the balance. How will the solar system end?


MON 22:00 Storyville (b09gvnty)
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey

Twelve billion miles away, a tiny spaceship is leaving our solar system and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a golden record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth.

The story of Voyager is an epic of human achievement, personal drama and almost miraculous success. Launched 16 days apart in 1977, the twin Voyager space probes have defied all the odds, survived countless near misses and almost 40 years later continue to beam revolutionary information across unimaginable distances. With less computing power than a modern hearing aid, they have unlocked the stunning secrets of our solar system.

This film tells the story of these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped.


MON 23:30 Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture (b00ydp2y)
Masons of God

Alastair Sooke reveals the astonishing range of our medieval sculpture, from the imposing masterpieces of our Gothic cathedrals to the playful misericords underneath church stalls.

He shows how the sculpture of the era casts a new light on medieval Britain, a far more sophisticated, fun-loving and maverick place than we in the modern world commonly believe. But despite the technical and emotional power of these works, the notion of a 'sculptor' did not even exist; most carving of the time was done by teams of itinerant masons and artisans working for the Church. The names of some, like William Berkeley, are known but most are lost to history.

This first golden age came to an end with Henry VIII's Reformation of the Church, unleashing a wave of destruction from which it would take centuries to recover.


MON 00:30 Face the Music (m002rlpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


MON 01:00 The Australian Wars (p0gjfgjh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:15 on Sunday]


MON 02:00 Wild China (b00c5n6g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]

TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2026

TUE 19:00 City Scapes (m0024rwp)
New York

Post-war architectural innovations in the Big Apple.


TUE 19:20 Wogan (m002rls0)
Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin

Kenneth Williams stands in for Terry Wogan, chatting with guests Barbara Windsor and husband Steve Hollings, Stephen Fry and Michael Palin. Music by Hank Marvin & The Shadows.


TUE 20:00 The Kenneth Williams Story: A Reputations Special (b0078crz)
Documentary providing the definitive exploration of Britain's funniest and most complex comic performer. From a childhood dominated by his adoring mother and bullying father to a lonely suicidal end tortured with regrets, it spans an extraordinary life and career using clips from his unforgettable performances on radio, stage, film and TV; interviews with those who knew him best, including John Schlessinger, Hugh Paddick, Sheila Hancock, Alan Simpson, Peter Shaffer, Miriam Margolyes, Derek Nimmo, Leslie Phillips and Michael Parkinson; and readings from his searingly candid diaries.

The film enjoys the best of his appearances in everything from Round the Horne and Just a Minute on radio to his dominance of the Carry Ons and TV chat shows as it reveals the painful, personal truths behind the brilliant facade.


TUE 21:30 Comic Roots (p02rtqvm)
Kenneth Williams

A look at how architecture, poetry, art and music were the formative influences on Kenneth Williams: the slum architecture of St Pancras, where he grew up, the liquid poetry of his gran's fruity anecdotes, the art of the Marcel wave practised by his hairdresser father and the musical knees-up at The Boot pub.


TUE 22:00 Storyville (m002rls3)
The Darkest Web

For US agent Greg Squire and a dedicated network of specialist undercover investigators around the world, the mission is clear: track and catch serial paedophiles who operate across the dark web with the same sophistication and secrecy as international organised crime syndicates. Increasingly, these offenders are far younger than the stereotypical image of a paedophile - tech-savvy young adults who exploit digital anonymity with alarming ease.

Working across different time zones - often with minimal resources and little time - these officers confront cases that are as technically complex as they are emotionally devastating. They uncover encrypted forums where prolific abusers trade tactics, erase their digital footprints and produce and distribute millions of images and videos of child sexual abuse material. Behind every username lies a potential victim in immediate danger - and, all too often, an imminent threat that forces the investigators into a race against the clock.

The officers’ tenacity is their most powerful tool. They spend months, sometimes years, burrowing into hidden networks designed to be untraceable, piecing together clues across multiple jurisdictions and using advanced digital forensics to unmask offenders who believe they are untouchable. And yet, time and again, breakthroughs come not from technology alone, but from the kind of patient, old-fashioned detective work - intuition, pattern-spotting and persistence - that no algorithm can replace. Each breakthrough demands both exceptional technical skill and a psychological resilience few could sustain. They turn the nearly impossible into the achievable - uncovering hidden networks to rescue victims who seem beyond reach.

Despite their successes - tracking down some of the world’s most dangerous child predators and rescuing children who might otherwise never be found - the investigators know they are up against a problem far larger than any one team or country can solve. The global scale of online child abuse far outstrips the resources available to combat it, and international cooperation, though essential, is often slow and fraught with legal and political barriers.

Operating across borders, cultures and political divides, we watch as law enforcement agencies from even adversarial nations such as Russia and the United States work side by side to protect children. In these collaborations, we witness not only the depths of the crimes being fought but also the extraordinary courage, ingenuity and resolve of the people who refuse to look away - and who keep fighting, every day, to bring light to the darkest places on the internet.


TUE 23:25 Storyville (m002kx2d)
Mr Nobody Against Putin

When Russia invades Ukraine, a quiet schoolteacher in a small industrial town picks up his camera and becomes an unlikely dissident. Pavel Talankin isn't a journalist or activist. He organises school events, makes quirky videos and is loved by his students. But when patriotic lessons and military drills begin replacing regular classes, Pavel starts filming. What emerges is a chilling portrait of how propaganda seeps into everyday life and how even children are drawn into the machinery of war.

As new laws silence dissent and fellow activists are jailed, Pavel's quiet resistance becomes increasingly dangerous. Filmed covertly over two years, the documentary is a gripping, courageous expose of a regime tightening its grip and one man's brave attempt to push back from the inside.

A powerful story of quiet defiance, captured at enormous personal risk.


TUE 00:55 The Kenneth Williams Story: A Reputations Special (b0078crz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


TUE 02:25 Horizon (b077nl9f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday]

WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2026

WED 19:00 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxw3)
Series 14

Wolverhampton to Cheltenham

At the African and Caribbean Heritage Centre in Wolverhampton, Michael finds out about the impact of Enoch Powell's 1968 speech on immigration in Wolverhampton and across the nation. In Kidderminster, he discovers the site of a secret wartime enterprise: a subterranean world of shafts, workshops and offices known as the Drakelow Tunnels.

In the cathedral city of Worcester, Michael joins pupils of King’s Hawford School to hear about their chosen sport, pigeon racing. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway transports Michael back to the 1950s and on to Cheltenham, on the edge of the Cotswolds, where the town’s splendid jazz festival is gearing up for its 25th anniversary.


WED 19:30 Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure (m00111zt)
Series 2

Episode 1

Rugby legend Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen are more than ready for a new adventure. Their first saw the childhood sweethearts causing chaos on the canals of Wales. Despite endless barge bashing and bickering, they loved it.

The pandemic hit and, like the rest of us, they were locked down for months. Thankful to see restrictions lift, Gareth and Maureen are determined to make the most of their new freedom and visit some of Wales’ most beautiful places. Their new adventures will include just that – trying things they’ve never experienced in 70-plus years.

Sir Gareth was once voted the greatest rugby player of all time. But, on their first adventure in Machynlleth, he fulfils a boyhood dream of driving a steam train. Maureen’s keen too and takes charge as they wind through the stunning Dyfi Valley. She’s less eager as they visit a centre for endangered birds of prey. She has to tackle her phobia when they meet some magnificent new feathered friends.

Maureen’s packed the schedule so as well as glamping and massaging some of Wales’s most pampered cows, they squeeze in rally car driving in a local forest, a first for them both. After tips from one of Wales’s top rally drivers, Jade Paveley, the duo compete in a race. Both ‘steady Eddie’ Gareth and ‘need for speed’ Maureen are convinced they’re the better driver. The proof will be in the lap times.

As for so many, lockdown was a difficult time in which Gareth and Maureen lost friends and desperately missed family, especially the grandchildren. Back exploring their beloved Wales, they reflect on how precious life is, including the opportunity to once again enjoy such wonderful places.


WED 20:00 Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time (m000x9v4)
Series 1

What Is Time?

Brian explores a simple question that is causing a big stir today: what is time? Modern science shows it to be far stranger than we think. He recalls some highlights from his TV series that touch upon different aspects of this physics conundrum: from a mindboggling encounter with Doctor Who to breaking the sound barrier in a Eurofighter in order to see two sunsets in one day, to witnessing one of the oldest animal life cycles on earth on a remote beach in Costa Rica. He also explores Chankillo, the oldest and best-preserved astronomical observatory in the Americas.


WED 21:00 Tribe (2005) (b007yyky)
Series 3

Akie

Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. He is forced to face his biggest fear and put his hand into a bees' nest to gather wild honey.


WED 22:00 Remembers... (m002rlr4)
Derek Jacobi Remembers... Breaking the Code

Sir Derek Jacobi looks back on Breaking the Code, the acclaimed 1997 drama that saw him tackling the role of Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code and helped bring World War II to an end.

Jacobi discusses the pressures involved in playing and doing justice to such a significant and complex individual as Turing. He also recalls how the project started life as a play that, to his surprise, became a hit in London's West End and on Broadway. And he reflects on how it was important to him as a gay actor that the story of Turing's homosexuality as well his genius was shared with as wide an audience as possible.


WED 22:15 Breaking the Code (b0074rxv)
Factual drama about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who cracked the Enigma code and turned the tide of World War II, while at the same time suffering homophobic persecution.


WED 23:45 Castles: Britain's Fortified History (b04tt2f9)
Kingdom of Conquest

Sam Willis tells the story of the English ruler who left the most indelible mark on the castle - the great Plantagenet king, Edward I, who turned it into an instrument of colonisation. Edward spent vast sums to subdue Wales with a ring of iron comprised of some of the most fearsome fortresses ever built. Castles like Caernarfon and Beaumaris were used to impose England's will on the Welsh. But when Edward turned his attention to Scotland, laying siege to castles with great catapults, things didn't go so well for him.


WED 00:45 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


WED 01:15 Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure (m00111zt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


WED 01:45 Tribe (2005) (b007yyky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]


WED 02:45 Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time (m000x9v4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2026

THU 19:00 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxty)
Series 14

Tewkesbury to Filton

Michael Portillo is on the last leg of his railway journey from the train-building city of Derby to the aircraft manufacturing base of Filton. From Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, he heads to the fairy-tale castle of Eastnor at the foot of the Malvern Hills.

At a factory in Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Michael recalls his childhood screen debut in an advertisement for a fruity cordial and discovers it remains popular today. At Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, Michael heads for the wetlands of the Severn Estuary, where the postwar conservation movement in Britain began with the opening of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

Michael’s last stop is Filton, where he investigates the centre of Britain’s postwar aviation industry and the manufacturing base for the fastest passenger plane on earth, Concorde.


THU 19:30 Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure (p09z3hwn)
Series 2

Episode 2

Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen are in the stunning coastal town of Tenby for the second of their new adventures across Wales. After so long in lockdown, the pair are determined to get out and enjoy all life has to offer. On this particular weekend, they’ve got something special to celebrate. The former Wales and Lions captain and his childhood sweetheart are marking of 49 years of marriage. Maureen has found the perfect place for her and Sir Gareth to stay nearby – Manorbier Castle. The pair get the whole place to themselves once the last visitors leave, and being 'king of the castle' definitely scores highly with history buff Gareth as a place to spend a special anniversary.

By day, they get competitive over a game of golf and take a boat trip to photograph seals and sea birds off the Pembrokeshire coast. Gareth is concerned when Maureen takes over the controls to see how fast the boat can go. The animal theme continues as Gareth and Maureen try a zoo-keeping experience at a local wildlife park. After being put in charge of the rhinos, they brave serving breakfast to a tiger. The duo end the day by walking and feeding the New Zealand pigs before they get to enjoy a feast themselves, cooked fresh on the beach.


THU 20:00 Dangerous Earth (b083bm5m)
Volcano

Dr Helen Czerski looks at volcanoes. With shocking eyewitness footage of eruptions, and new thermal imagery and ultra high-speed photography, we can now capture on camera the complex processes crucial to understanding how and why these forces of nature erupt.


THU 20:30 Talking Pictures (m002rlrk)
Bonnie and Clyde

Celia Imrie tells the story behind one of the most groundbreaking and influential films of the sixties, 1967's Bonnie and Clyde. Directed by Arthur Penn and produced by lead actor Warren Beatty, it told the tale of two bank robbers who - as the movie posters declared - were 'young, in love... and killed people'.

With scenes of violence more intense than anything to have come out of Hollywood at that point, Bonnie and Clyde chimed with a generation that was already familiar with the horror of political assassinations and the war in Vietnam. It turned Beatty and Faye Dunaway into instant international superstars, while also launching the careers of fellow cast members and future film icons Gene Wilder and Gene Hackman.


THU 21:00 Bonnie and Clyde (m001tx9d)
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.


THU 22:45 Timewatch (b00785y5)
2008-2009

The Real Bonnie and Clyde

Hollywood portrayed them as the most glamorous outlaws in American history, but the reality of life on the run for Bonnie and Clyde was one of violence, hardship and danger.

With unprecedented access to gang members' memoirs, family archives and police records, Timewatch takes an epic road trip through the heart of Depression-era America, in search of the true story of Bonnie and Clyde.


THU 23:45 The Secret World of Haute Couture (b0074t0r)
Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture.


THU 00:45 Great British Railway Journeys (m001nxty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


THU 01:15 Gareth Edwards’s Great Welsh Adventure (p09z3hwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


THU 01:45 City Scapes (m0024rwp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday]


THU 02:05 Talking Pictures (m002rlrk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


THU 02:35 Castles: Britain's Fortified History (b04tt2f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Wednesday]

FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2026

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002rlpd)
Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 April 1999 and featuring Phats & Small, Meat Loaf and Patti Russo, TLC, The Cranberries, Glamma Kid feat Shola Ama, New Radicals, Geri Halliwell and Martine McCutcheon.


FRI 19:30 Top of the Pops (m002rlpg)
Gail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1999 and featuring Whitney Houston, Phats & Small, Electronic, Ruff Driverz Presents Arrola, Honeyz, Suede, TLC and Martine McCutcheon.


FRI 20:00 Top of the Pops (b0555xgt)
Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 22 February 1980 and featuring Shakin' Stevens, Blondie, The Beat, The Buggles, The Tourists, Fern Kinney, Cliff Richard, The Ramones, Iron Maiden and Kenny Rogers. Also includes a dance sequence by Legs & Co.


FRI 20:35 Top of the Pops (b0bf989z)
Janice Long and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 February 1986. Featuring Paul Hardcastle, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode, Survivor, Public Image Limited, Billy Ocean and The Damned.


FRI 21:05 Gladys Knight at the BBC (m001zr9w)
A look through the BBC archives for moment after moment from the 'empress of soul’, Gladys Knight. Combining classic tracks alongside The Pips with her own inimitable solo songs, this collection shows why Gladys Knight has powered through seven decades as singer and performer.

This hour in the presence of a music legend features such songs as Baby Don’t Change Your Mind, The Way We Were and Help Me Make It Through the Night, drawn from Gladys’s appearances on Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test and The Harry Secombe Show.


FRI 22:05 In Concert (m001nq1r)
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Concert One

The first of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of the group's early hits, The Way We Were, Come Back and Finish What You Started and Midnight Train to Georgia.


FRI 22:40 In Concert (m001nq1t)
Gladys Knight & The Pips: Concert Two

The second of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of their more recent hits, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Help Me Make It through the Night and Taste of Bitter Love.


FRI 23:15 Queens of Soul (b05nhjsx)
The sisters are truly doing it for themselves in this celebration of the legendary female singers whose raw emotional vocal styles touched the hearts of followers worldwide. Featuring the effortless sounds of Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Angie Stone, Mary J Blige and Beyonce, to name a few.

The Queens of Soul presents the critically acclaimed and influential female singers who, decade by decade, changed the world one note at a time.


FRI 00:15 Top of the Pops (m002rlpd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 00:45 Top of the Pops (m002rlpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


FRI 01:15 Top of the Pops (b0555xgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]


FRI 01:50 Top of the Pops (b0bf989z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:35 today]


FRI 02:20 Gladys Knight at the BBC (m001zr9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:05 today]


FRI 03:25 In Concert (m001nq1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:05 today]