SATURDAY 06 JUNE 2026

SAT 19:00 Expedition Rhino: The Search for the Last Northern White (m0016v2w)
With the death of the last captive male, Sudan, the northern white rhinoceros was officially declared extinct in 2018. But in recent years, possible sightings from a remote region in the heart of Africa have given conservationists hope. Could this charismatic animal get a miraculous second chance?

This film follows a dedicated international team of experts on an expedition to war-torn South Sudan in search of the northern white rhinoceros. An animal native to this unexplored and dangerous region in Africa, the team is taking a huge risk to realize the dream that a lost population of these incredible beasts still exist.

The team comprise of Paul Naden, expedition leader and CEO of rhino rescue charity Saving the Survivors (STS), Vianet Djenguet, a highly skilled Congolese wildlife camera operator, Dr Johan Marais, the world-leading rhinoceros veterinarian and founder of Saving the Survivors, and Aldo Kane, a high security expert and former royal marine.

South Sudan has suffered the longest civil war in Africa’s history. There is no developed road system, no power grid or phone networks, and no internet. There have been very limited wildlife surveys done in the last decades, and no film crew has been allowed to film in the country for years. But the crew will to do whatever it takes to find hope for the existence of this sub-species.

The dedicated team experience the highs and lows of expedition life in this vast country. A wonderful and wild place, they meet with indigenous Dinka tribes, deploy search technology and throw everything they can at the search against all its odds - until the expedition is turned upside down due to events that shock the world.


SAT 19:45 The Good Old Days (b0824dd5)
Leonard Sachs presents an edition of the music hall programme first broadcast on 4 March 1976. With Ken Dodd, Sheila Steafal, Valerie Masterson, Johnny Hart and members of The Players' Theatre, London.


SAT 20:30 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (p05b5z6c)
Series 3

How Time Flies

Hetty’s plans for a nostalgic railway trip are abruptly changed when a clockmaker needs her sensitive expertise.


SAT 21:20 Vermiglio (m002xkf7)
During the final months of WWII, a remote Alpine village hosts a Sicilian deserter, who has a profound effect on the quiet, everyday lives of the devout Graziadei family - especially the daughters.


SAT 23:10 Butterflies (p00hm21b)
Series 1

When Ria Met Leonard

Ria has enough to cope with: there is her husband Ben, who has his own hang-ups and her sons Adam and Russell, who are the cause of most of them. Then suddenly there's Leonard.


SAT 23:45 Artsnight (b07l0v3p)
Series 3

A Tribute to Carla Lane

Carla Lane redefined British comedy drama in the 1970s with her unique brand of 'situation tragedy'. At a time when television writing was the preserve of middle-class men, she brought a convincing cast of working-class female characters to British screens. The daring honesty with which she told the stories of ordinary women revolutionised the roles available to actresses on TV and blazed a trail for the screenwriters following in her footsteps.

This special edition of Artsnight delves into the BBC's archive and brings together rarely seen interviews in which writer Carla Lane discusses her life and work, while Carla's son Carl offers personal insights into his mother's career and legacy. With contributions from the Liver Birds - Polly James and Nerys Hughes - and Geoffrey Palmer, the long-suffering husband to Ria in Butterflies.


SAT 00:15 The Good Old Days (b0824dd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:45 today]


SAT 01:00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (p05b5z6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


SAT 01:50 Expedition Rhino: The Search for the Last Northern White (m0016v2w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]

SUNDAY 07 JUNE 2026

SUN 19:00 Reel History of Britain (b014r143)
Britain's Home Guard

Melvyn Bragg, accompanied by a vintage mobile cinema, travels across the country, to show incredible footage preserved by the British Film Institute and other national and regional film archives, to tell the history of modern Britain.

This episode comes from Osterley Park in Middlesex, the site of the first Home Guard training school, and looks back to the Second World War and a time when millions of ordinary men were prepared to die for their country.

Home Guard recruit Robert Brown comes face to face with his father as a Home Guard company commander, Dad's Army creator Jimmy Perry explains why he signed up to the Home Guard, and Ken Chambers shares his own extraordinary stories from his time in the Home Guard, some of which could have been taken straight from Dad's Army.


SUN 19:15 Timeshift (b00x7c3z)
Series 10

The Golden Age of Coach Travel

Documentary that takes a glorious journey back to the 1950s, when the coach was king. From its early origins in the charabanc, the coach had always been the people's form of transport. Cheaper and more flexible than the train, it allowed those who had travelled little further than their own villages and towns a first heady taste of exploration and freedom. It was a safe capsule on wheels from which to venture out into a wider world.

The distinctive livery of the different coach companies was part of a now-lost world, when whole communities crammed into coach after coach en route to pleasure spots like Blackpool, Margate and Torquay. With singsongs, toilet stops and the obligatory pub halt, it didn't matter how long it took to get there because the journey was all part of the adventure.


SUN 20:15 BBC Proms (m0021s7b)
2024

John Wilson’s American Greats at the Proms

A glittering programme including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which celebrates its centenary this year, plus Barber’s Adagio for Strings, recorded live from the Royal Albert Hall with the all-star Sinfonia of London.

This concert of scintillating American classics is conducted by audience favourite John Wilson and also includes Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid suite and John Adams’s Harmonielehre. Georgia Mann presents.


SUN 22:35 The Magic of Dance (p0gwdw3p)
Series 1

Out in the Limelight, Home in the Rain

Margot Fonteyn explores the dancer's life. The rigours of ballet class, the rehearsals and preparation, and finally the moment of judgment when it's out in the limelight and on with the performance.

Some of Margot Fonteyn's greatest moments on stage are relived in Salut d'Amour, which Frederick Ashton created for a Gala Birthday Tribute. The series ends with a complete performance of Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand, which was inspired by Dumas's tragic love story La Dame aux Camelias. It is performed by the partnership for which it was created - Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.


SUN 23:35 Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby (m001tvcp)
Rambert’s thrilling stage adaptation The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, with direction and choreography by Rambert’s artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer.

Opening in the trenches of Flanders, a personal story unfolds in postwar industrial Birmingham as the Shelby family navigate the decisions that determine their fate, and Tommy is intoxicated by mysterious newcomer Grace. While Tommy is building his empire, Grace is operating as an undercover agent for Special Branch on a mission to get close to the heart of Tommy’s gang. As the story unfolds, hearts are broken, and revenge is sought.

A live onstage band accompanies the drama with specially commissioned music by Roman GianArthur and iconic Peaky tracks from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Radiohead, Anna Calvi, The Last Shadow Puppets, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Key points of the story are illuminated by narrator Benjamin Zephaniah (Jeremiah in the TV series).


SUN 01:20 Reputations (b0077861)
John Wayne: The Unquiet American

The series of historical biographies presents a profile of actor John Wayne. His on-screen bravery and his battle with the cancer that eventually killed him contributed to a heroic public image. But Wayne shirked his country's call to arms in World War Two, endorsed the Hollywood blacklist, fervently supported the war in Vietnam and criticised the civil rights movement.


SUN 02:20 Timeshift (b00x7c3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:15 today]

MONDAY 08 JUNE 2026

MON 19:00 University Challenge (m001hsvn)
2022/23

Episode 21

With half the quarter-final places filled, two more teams of students return for a second-round match, both hoping to be the next team to join this year’s final eight. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


MON 19:30 Only Connect (b00m6n2p)
Series 2

Chessmen v Rugby Boys - Semi-Final

Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital.

In the second semi-final, three quietly strategic chess players pit their wits against the brawn of the Rugby Boys. Who will win the battle, as they compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random? How does Carmilla link to Neo via Lord Voldemort and Sir Leigh Teabing?


MON 20:00 Art on the BBC (m000frc5)
Series 1

Constable: The Rural Rebel

Often dismissed as a chocolate box painter in his day, Constable is now acknowledged to have been a revolutionary. Art historian Rose Balston explores six decades of BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of him.

Constable pushed the boundaries of landscape painting to such an extent that he was rejected by the establishment. Perhaps just as surprisingly, he poured his love for one woman onto the canvas as no painter of landscapes had done before. This programme goes beyond cliché to discover what the BBC archive has to say about a much misunderstood English master.


MON 21:00 Art of America (b017j25v)
Modern Dreams

In the second part of his fascinating journey exploring American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon gets under the skin of the modern American metropolis. Starting his journey at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, which he describes as a pioneering early skyscraper, Andrew discovers how the ambitions of visionary artists and architects helped America remove itself from the shadow of Europe and become the most advanced civilisation on earth.

Andrew travels to downtown Manhattan to explore the grimy world of early 20th-century painters John Sloan and George Bellows, and visits Stockbridge in Massachusetts to find out how the world of Norman Rockwell is not as sentimental as it first seems. In Chicago, he explores the visionary mind of architect Louis Sullivan and travels to the decaying outskirts of the city to see the underside of the American dream.

He uncovers the impact the Great Depression had on artists such as Edward Hopper and Arshile Gorky, and finds out how this struggle inspired America's first internationally acclaimed art movement - Abstract Expressionism. He pays a pilgrimage to Jackson Pollock's perfectly preserved studio in Long Island to discover the secrets of his unique drip technique, before flying across America to take in one of modern art's most moving experiences, Mark Rothko's chapel in Houston, Texas.


MON 22:00 The Sky at Night (m002xkn7)
Space Weather: The Perfect Storm

Life on Earth depends on the sun for its light and its warmth. But the activity of our nearest star also poses a serious threat to all of us. In the most extreme cases, solar storms can send billions of tons of supercharged plasma hurtling at millions of miles per hour towards us, crippling our navigation and communication systems and damaging our power grids. In this episode of The Sky at Night, we uncover a danger that humanity is only just waking up to – space weather.

We begin our journey with the first scientifically recorded instance of extreme space weather. Chris Lintott meets the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Professor Jim Wild. With privileged access to the society’s archives, Chris learns about the Carrington Event of 1859, when a massive solar storm caused aurorae as far south as the Caribbean and sparks to jump from telegraph wires, setting fires and electrocuting operators. Worryingly, if this were to hit us today, it could be a lot worse...

But to understand how space weather functions, we need to grasp how the matter spat out by the sun interacts with the Earth. Maggie Aderin drops into Warwick University to discover how Dr Ravindra Desai’s research is helping us do just that. From the magnetosphere, the vast protective bubble generated by our planet’s magnetic core, to the Van Allen Belts – dangerous layers of radiation trapped just above the Earth – Dr Desai is developing next-generation forecasting tools that will help to protect us from future risks.

At Imperial College London, Chris Lintott gets a peek inside a groundbreaking deep space mission that will revolutionise our ability to monitor the sun’s activity and forecast solar storms. Professor Jonathan Eastwood, the magnetometer instrument lead of Vigil, takes Chris through the satellite’s capabilities. Sat 150 million kms away from Earth, Vigil will monitor the sun’s surface as it rotates towards us, giving us an extra five days’ notice of hazardous activity and a chance to avert a crisis.

In Exeter, our guest presenter, Sophia Herod, is allowed inside a very special department at the Met Office’s HQ – one of only a handful of 24/7 space weather forecasting operations in the world. There, with the help of space weather expert Krista Hammond, Sophia discovers how the Met Office is keeping a beady eye on the sun, investing in the technologies of the future, and working with government and industry to protect vital infrastructure we all rely on. Ultimately, Sophia reveals that the UK is leading the way on space weather.

Although space weather can be scary stuff, we don’t need to live through a disaster movie. This episode tells the amazing story of scientific solutions to vast and intractable problems, and how teams of people dedicate their working lives to keeping us safe from the very worst that the sun can throw at us.


MON 22:30 American Visions (p00b9ypb)
The Wilderness and the West

Art critic Robert Hughes looks at America's majestic landscapes, exploring how artists have contributed to the religious and patriotic connotations of nature.


MON 23:30 Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream (p046dxfw)
Episode 1

Vienna was the capital of the Habsburg dynasty and home to the Holy Roman Emperors. From here, they dominated middle Europe for nearly 1,000 years. In this series, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore describes how the Habsburgs transformed Vienna into a multinational city of music, culture and ideas. Napoleon, Hitler, Mozart, Strauss, Freud, Stalin and Klimt all played their part.

In this first episode, we follow the Habsburgs' rise to power and discover how Vienna marked Europe's front line in the struggle to defend both Christendom from the Ottomans and the Catholic church from the Protestant revolutionaries that plotted to destroy it.


MON 00:30 Forest, Field and Sky: Art out of Nature (b079ckkf)
Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world.

From Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful stone sculptures to James Turrell's extraordinary sky spaces, this is a film about art made out of nature itself, featuring spectacular images of landscape and art.

James travels from the furthest reaches of the Scottish coast and the farmlands of Cumbria to the woods of north Wales. In each location, he marvels at how artists' interactions with the landscape have created a very different kind of modern art, and how they make us look again at the world around us.


MON 01:30 Only Connect (b00m6n2p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


MON 02:00 Art of America (b017j25v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 today]

TUESDAY 09 JUNE 2026

TUE 19:00 University Challenge (m001hzpk)
2022/23

Episode 22

Two more teams of students return for a second-round match, with three places in the quarter-finals still up for grabs. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


TUE 19:30 Only Connect (b00mbt58)
Series 2

Chessmen v Mathematicians - The Competition for Third Place

Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital.

Three avid chess players take on a trio unified by their love of mathematics as they compete for the glory of third place in the series, trying to draw together the connections between elements which, at first glance, seem utterly random.


TUE 20:00 Keeping Up Appearances (b007b81t)
Series 2

The Three Piece Suite

Hyacinth is anxious that her neighbours view the arrival of her new suite, proudly boasting that it's an exact replica of one at Sandringham House. But the rest of the family conduct themselves less than regally.


TUE 20:30 Keeping Up Appearances (b007b855)
Series 2

A Picnic for Daddy

Sitcom about an irrepressible snob. Hyacinth's plan to take Daddy on a picnic backfires when he takes the car, leaving the rest of the family stranded.


TUE 21:00 A History of Britain by Simon Schama (b0074n3l)
Series 3

The Empire of Good Intentions

Simon Schama looks at how the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire in the 19th century unravelled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India. By the early 20th century, nationalist movements around the globe had turned their back on the British 'workshop of the world'.


TUE 22:00 Muhammad Ali (p0bk0l6h)
Series 1

Round Three: The Rivalry, Part 1

Muhammad Ali faces his fiercest rival, Joe Frazier, in the 'Fight of the Century' as he attempts to come back from exile and regain his heavyweight title. Ali becomes a hero for an America growing increasingly disillusioned with the war in Vietnam.


TUE 22:50 Muhammad Ali (p0bk0mf9)
Series 1

Round Three: The Rivalry, Part 2

The Supreme Court overturns Muhammad Ali's conviction, validating his refusal to serve in the war in Vietnam. In 1974, Ali outduels Frazier, his greatest rival, in their highly anticipated rematch. But to complete his comeback, he must face the fearsome George Foreman.


TUE 23:40 Muhammad Ali (p0bk0ndk)
Series 1

Round Four: The Spell Remains, Part 1

Muhammad Ali shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire, winning back the heavyweight title and becoming the most famous man on earth. He then faces Joe Frazier, his great rival, for a third time in the brutal Thrilla in Manila.


TUE 00:30 Muhammad Ali (p0bk0pc9)
Series 1

Round Four: The Spell Remains, Part 2

Muhammad Ali boxes for five more years before retiring in 1981 at the age of 39. In 1984, he is diagnosed with Parkinson’s but continues to travel the world spreading his Islamic faith and becomes a symbol of peace and hope.


TUE 01:20 The Sky at Night (m002xkn7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:50 Only Connect (b00mbt58)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


TUE 02:20 Art on the BBC (m000frc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday]

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2026

WED 19:00 University Challenge (m001j6v5)
2022/23

Episode 23

In the penultimate match of the second round, two more teams of students face off for a place in the quarter-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


WED 19:30 Only Connect (b00mg97h)
Series 2

Episode 8

Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital.

In the final, the three leading lights of the Cambridge Quiz Society take on the combined knowledge of a team whose field of reference stretches far beyond the touchline of their beloved rugby pitch, as they try to draw together the connections between elements which, at first glance, seem utterly random.

What connects Spock, Lisa Simpson, Brachiosaurus and Adolf Hitler?


WED 20:00 Universe (p09ybpb8)
Series 1

The Sun: God Star

Professor Brian Cox begins his epic exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars.

It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation - a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its light.


WED 21:00 Remembers... (m002chnk)
Laurence Rees Remembers... The Nazis: A Warning from History

Laurence Rees's landmark 1997 series explored the reasons why Germany fell in thrall to the Nazis. Combining astonishing archive, storytelling and interviews with figures at the heart of Hitler’s rise to power, it tells us of the Nazi mentality and the reasons behind their beliefs. Chillingly, it looks at those who still think the Nazis were right.

Rees is an author and broadcaster, perfectly placed to look back at the series he wrote and produced. He tells us of the origins of the series - how the fall of the Berlin Wall opened possibilities for interviews with people who previously had been unreachable. He recalls the powerful moments when some of those closely associated with the horrors were challenged. And he explains how the regime rose out of chaos, both in Germany and within the Nazis themselves.

Join Laurence as he takes us behind the scenes of this award-winning series that has resonance to this day.


WED 21:15 The Nazis: A Warning from History (b0074kmy)
Helped into Power

How was it possible that the cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler to come to power?

With the help of film archive discoveries from Russia and interviews with eyewitnesses, many of whom are former members of the Nazi party and have never appeared on television before, this film reveals how the Nazi party was born and grew in support in the late 1920s, and shows just why in January 1933 Germany's President Hindenburg appointed a new popular chancellor who was openly committed to overthrowing German democracy - Adolf Hitler.

Hitler's personality was to dominate the Nazi party. But eyewitnesses have very different recollections of his effect upon them. To Nazi supporter Fridolin von Spaun 'the long gaze which he gave me convinced me completely that he was a man with honourable intentions.' But to German diplomat Herbert Richter, who saw Hitler in the 1920s, 'he wasn't quite normal. He was spooky.'

The Nazis wanted the world to believe that Hitler's rise to power was inevitable - this programme shatters that myth.


WED 22:05 Remembers... (m002xknz)
Ken Loach Remembers... The Old Oak

Ken Loach reflects on The Old Oak, his deeply moving portrait of solidarity, displacement and community in a former mining village in County Durham. Set against the arrival of Syrian refugees in a town scarred by austerity and deindustrialisation, the film explores whether compassion and collective action can survive in fractured times.


WED 22:20 The Old Oak (m002pjdg)
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community in County Durham struggles to hold on to his pub and keep it as the one remaining public space people can meet in the town. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed there.


WED 00:10 Remembers... (m002xkp1)
Ken Loach Remembers... Up the Junction

Ken Loach discusses Up the Junction, his landmark 1965 contribution to the BBC’s The Wednesday Play strand, adapted from Nell Dunn’s celebrated stories of working-class life in Battersea. Blending drama with documentary realism, the production shocked audiences with its frank depiction of sex, illegal abortion and everyday poverty, attracting record complaints while redefining television drama in Britain.


WED 00:25 The Wednesday Play (p0125j59)
Up the Junction

Classic play by Nell Dunn about three working-class young women who live, work and play in Battersea.


WED 01:35 This Cultural Life (m001h886)
Series 2

Ken Loach

Over six decades, Ken Loach has forged a reputation as Britain’s foremost politically engaged film-maker, exploring issues of social justice, freedom and power. He has twice won the prestigious Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2006 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and twenty years later, for I, Daniel Blake, a contemporary British story about unemployment and poverty.

Ken talks to John Wilson about the key moments in his life that helped shaped his creativity. From his Midlands childhood as the son of a factory worker and annual summer holidays in Blackpool to his love for Czech cinema, which would become a huge inspiration on his own career. He also discusses his films for television such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, which tackled abortion, unemployment and homelessness, and were each seen by more than 10 million people, while playing an influential part in the public debate about the issues.

Ken Loach also chooses, as a major influence on his work, the real lives of ordinary people, whose stories have inspired his films throughout his career.


WED 02:05 Only Connect (b00mg97h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:30 today]


WED 02:35 Universe (p09ybpb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2026

THU 19:00 University Challenge (m001jfs8)
2022/23

Episode 24

The second round of the 2022/23 competition ends tonight. Two more teams of students face off for a place in this year’s quarter-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.


THU 19:30 Only Connect (b00pq8hg)
Series 3

Archers Admirers v Music Lovers

Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital.

A team of three civil servants with a shared love of Radio 4's The Archers pit their wits against a trio of music lovers who between them perform or enjoy everything from pub rock to choral sung mass.

They compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random, from AC battery to compass wrench to glass hammer to long stand.


THU 20:00 The Making of King Arthur (b00tg2q2)
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the great national hero he is usually considered to be. He's a fickle and transitory character who was appropriated by the Normans to justify their conquest, he was cuckolded when French writers began adapting the story, and it took Thomas Malory's masterpiece of English literature, Le Mort d'Arthur, to restore his dignity and reclaim him as the national hero we know today.


THU 21:00 Unforgiven (m002p2fs)
Widower William Munny, his dark past as a drunken gunslinger long behind him, receives a visit from a young bounty hunter proposing one last job in a town with a corrupt sheriff. Times are hard, and money is tight, so William reluctantly agrees, but the shadows of the past are hard to shake off.


THU 23:05 Arena (m002ctpv)
Clint Eastwood

Part One: Out of the West

Clint Eastwood recalls his tough childhood and looks back at his early career, from Rawhide to Dirty Harry and the spaghetti westerns. With contributions from Don Siegel, Sergio Leone, Eli Wallach and Martin Scorsese, plus an exclusive interview with his mother, Ruth.


THU 00:05 Arena (m002ctpy)
Clint Eastwood

Part Two: American Film-maker

Arena's profile of Clint Eastwood continues with his directorial debut, Play Misty for Me, which he completed in five weeks before going on to huge success in Dirty Harry. Featuring actors Gene Hackman and Meryl Streep, director Martin Scorsese, plus Eastwood's mother Ruth and wife Dina.


THU 01:20 American Visions (p00b9ypb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday]


THU 02:20 The Making of King Arthur (b00tg2q2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 today]

FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2026

FRI 19:00 Top of the Pops (m002xks0)
Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 17 December 1999 and featuring Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews, B*Witched & Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Progress Presents The Boy Wunda, Vengaboys, Artful Dodger feat Craig David and Cliff Richard.


FRI 19:25 Top of the Pops (b01k8395)
09/06/77

Tony Blackburn presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 9 June 1977 and featuring Osibisa, Berni Flint, The Wurzels, Neil Innes, Demis Roussos, Bob Marley and the Wailers, ELO, Frankie Miller, The Stranglers, Honky and Rod Stewart, with a dance sequence from Legs & Co.


FRI 20:05 Top of the Pops (b09twd7m)
Simon Bates and Richard Skinner present the pop chart programme, first shown on 6 June 1985. Featuring Gary Moore & Phil Lynott, Kool and the Gang, Propaganda, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Paul Hardcastle.


FRI 20:30 Top of the Pops (m0008kb3)
Peter Powell and Simon Mayo present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 9 June 1988 and featuring the Timelords, Five Star, Voice of the Beehive, Mica Paris, Fields of the Nephilim, Sabrina, James Brown, Maxi Priest, Morrissey, Wet Wet Wet and Erasure.


FRI 21:05 Omnibus (m002wxcw)
Ray Charles

Film profile of singer and pianist Ray Charles. Featuring Charles in conversation with Charlie Gillett and clips from his 1986 Royal Festival Hall concert and earlier performances.


FRI 22:15 Tina Turner at the BBC (m000wvxb)
A collection of performances from one of the greatest singers and live performers in modern music - the legendary Tina Turner. This selection of tracks comes from appearances Tina made on various BBC programmes over the years, featuring some of her biggest hits from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.


FRI 23:15 When Tina Turner Came to Britain (m001gnqq)
Using previously unheard interviews and told in her own words, When Tina Turner Came to Britain is the story of Tina Turner’s 50-year relationship with the UK, also featuring interviews with British musicians and fans who shared her journey.

From her first visit alongside Ike Turner, supporting the Rolling Stones in 1966, to her legendary 1983 comeback performance on C4’s The Tube and working with Heaven 17, Tina has always had a soft spot for the UK. With powerful and revealing testimony from the likes of Martyn Ware, Glenn Gregory, PP Arnold, Arlene Phillips and Skin, this one-hour documentary charts Tina’s incredible journey, overcoming challenge after challenge to become the undisputed queen of rock with a little help from her many British friends.


FRI 00:15 Top of the Pops (m002xks0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 today]


FRI 00:40 Top of the Pops (b01k8395)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:25 today]


FRI 01:20 Top of the Pops (b09twd7m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:05 today]


FRI 01:45 Top of the Pops (m0008kb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 today]


FRI 02:20 Omnibus (m002wxcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 21:05 today]