2024-09-28
2024-09-28
The day's important national and international news stories.
Up-to-date weather report. Bringing you details of the current weather conditions for the UK. With forecasts, temperatures and weather warnings.
Highlights from the fourth ODI between England and Australia of 2024.
1561. Young Catholic widow Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France determined to rule.
As the cost-of-living squeeze continues to affect many, supermarkets say they're doing what they can to help us save money, offering discounts and promotions. But just how good are these deals? Michelle Ackerley investigates whether some supermarkets are being good to their word, with claims of matching the prices of discounters like Aldi and packaging that seems to disguise the true size of goods
Countdown host and maths queen Rachel Riley competes with her husband and former Strictly partner, dancer Pasha Kovalev, to find the most profitable antiques. Paul Martin and David Harper are on hand to help scour the shops of Rachel's home county of Essex, although their advice doesn't always tally with the tastes of the celebrity twosome. Their transportation for this trip around Rachel's old ha
Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.
It's bridge building time! The Squirrels help a quarreling group of Gerbils.
When the Grimbots build their own Easter Island statue, it collapses.
The Lemmings decide to make a giant pinball in the middle of the jungle!
Mouse and Cheese are forced to visit Old Lady McGuire.
The kids look for a way to break the unbreakable werewolf curse.
Finally meeting up with her grandma, Liko learns the identity of the pendant Pokémon.
Slogo helps the teams, but who will score and reach the FC 24 final?
The brothers reveal some of the zoo's eco-heroes, including the amazing pygmy marmosets.
Young magician Cillian attempts to break a world record. To celebrate the new series of Strictly, we show you how to make your very own glitterball. Viral dance star Skylar Blu performs, and Harry Potter legend Bonnie Wright wants you to enter our latest competition!
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Frances Tophill is back at Powderham Castle in Devon. As well as planting up a new herb bed, identifying and collecting seedlings, dividing perennial plants and making a comfrey liquid feed, she explains how to help tackle the decline of butterflies and pollinators in gardens. Carol Klein visits a garden brimming with late summer colour, and Joe Swift meets a young couple who've transformed their
Berühmtes, grandios gespieltes Melodram nach Tennessee Williams. In einer Nacht zerbrechen die Lebenslügen einer Südstaatenfamilie. Bei der Familie Pollitt, die sich zum 65. Geburtstag des Plantagenbesitzers Big Daddy (Burl Ives) versammelt hat, kracht's im Gebälk. Big Daddys Lieblingssohn Brick (Paul Newman) ist seit dem Tod seines Freundes Skipper ein versoffener Zyniker, der seiner Frau Maggie
Laura Miller presents live coverage from Edinburgh, where the King and Queen attend a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament. The King meets the leaders of each party and addresses the Chamber, before he and the Queen join a reception for local people nominated by MSPs for their extraordinary contribution to their communities.
Rick begins his tour of the UK's best food in Belfast, tucking into Filipino-style Sunday lunch. After the perfect dry-aged Irish steak, it's over to Glasgow for a square sausage roll, the most delicious chocolate he's ever had and the story of Italian food in the city. On the lochs of Argyll, he fishes for langoustine before cooking scampi and chips, profiteroles and osso buco with his son Jack.
Michelin-starred chef and pub landlord Tom Kerridge challenges celebrated cook Ching He Huang to rustle up the perfect party food. Ching's chicken and mushroom pies and spicy salmon rice balls compete with Tom's chicken nuggets and carrot and pistachio baklava. Drinks expert Joe Wadsack has some unusual drinks suggestions that would be a hit at any party, Oliver Peyton dons a lab coat to taste the
Live coverage of the conclusion to the women's road race in Switzerland, as the world's best female cyclists take on a demanding 154km course. Last year it was Belgium's Lotte Kopecky who won the coveted rainbow jersey, while the USA's Kristen Faulkner, who claimed Olympic gold in Paris this summer, could also be amongst the leading contenders. Presented by JJ Chalmers, with commentary from Simon
The team witness a baby boom in the delta. Vianet Djenguet follows lioness Matho as she struggles to raise her cubs alone. Tristen Woodward and Brad Bestelink get a glimpse of Xudum the leopard's newborn cubs, but dangerous male leopards loom nearby. And with competition growing from the enormous lion pride, Anna Dimitriadis tracks a cheetah mother to the very edge of the territory, where she has
Coverage from the Super League play-offs.
Best friends Gethin Jones and Dr Xand Van Tulleken battle to hunt out the finest antique treasures. They cruise across the Welsh border in a couple of rather large classic American motors, guided by experts Irita Marriott and Serhat Ahmet. Xand and Serhat discover their shared love of ceramics and set out to find the perfect piece to take to auction, while Irita hopes Gethin's command of the Welsh
Jools takes a look back at some of the most iconic voices of soul music who performed their classic hits throughout the decades on the show. Featuring performances from Al Green, Luther Vandross, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Womack, Sam Moore, Solomon Burke, Mavis Staples, Gladys Knight Bettye Lavette, Anita Baker, Sade and The Temptations. This show celebrates a genre that has given us so many incredib
A look at the attempts of black musicians to fight back by starting their own record labels. Considered by many to be the "OG" of black-owned labels, Sam Cooke decided he'd had enough of other people profiting from his phenomenal success and started Swan Records in the 1950s. He started investing in other black artists on reasonable terms, and had he not met an untimely death, he may have been the
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A look at the rise of artists who, in more recent years, own their own rights and decide for themselves what to do with them. Building huge management teams, and moving into merchandising and entrepreneurship, artists like Ice-T, Jay-Z, Drake and Stormzy realised the power of their global brands and became richer than their predecessors had ever imagined. But not all independent artists had it so
Bill Fredericks and Johnny Moore from The Drifters talk about the group and their songs.
First transmitted in 1972, BB King is filmed at a recording session at Command Studios in Piccadilly, London, during the sessions that led to the BB King in London album. The blues legend talks about himself and the guitarists who have inspired him, including Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker.
Ein Swimmingpool unter südlicher Sonne wird zum Schauplatz eines Psychokriegs um dunkle Begierden und den Rausch der sexuellen Anziehung. Vier Menschen liegen am Pool, die Sonne steht hoch am Himmel, doch die Urlaubsstimmung trügt. Unter der Oberfläche brodeln Konflikte um Liebe, Eifersucht und bösartige Machtspiele. Im Zentrum des Remakes von „Der Swimmingpool“ steht die Rocksängerin Marianne (Ti
When they realise that one of the passengers may be armed and operating in league with the hackers, Joe desperately tries to work out who he can trust. Abby decides to turn the tables on the driver by making a last-minute decision to take the train off the mainline. As Joe closes in on the enemy within and Abby manages to catch the sleeper in her trap, will the police be able to get there in time?
Vienna, 1781. Mozart, aged 25, faces an uncertain future in a city where he has few friends. He finds solace and security with the Weber family, particularly with Constanze, with whom he falls in love. Their courtship faces challenges, with his father, Leopold, refusing to give his permission to Mozart to marry. Scandalously, they go ahead anyway, and a newborn baby follows quickly after. Fame and
Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.
Joe Crowley and Anita Rani continue Countryfile's Wild Britain initiative, galvanising the nation into helping our beloved wildlife. This week, they're exploring how communities are supporting nature on the wild island of Anglesey, off north west Wales. Joe takes to the seas looking for rare Risso's dolphins and finds out how a citizen science project is monitoring marine life around the UK's coas
It's time to measure and enjoy the fruits of Beechgrove's efforts as George Anderson and Carole Baxter weigh up the season's successes. Carole has the scales and calculator out as she assesses which of the tomato varieties has been the most productive. She has also been counting the cucumbers, which have been this season's bumper crop from the 8x6 greenhouse, and George checks on the trees suitabl
The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.
Dougie's at the Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve near Moffat in the Southern Uplands. He visits the spectacular waterfall and finds out how the busy path is maintained for visitors using hard graft and helicopters. Meanwhile, Cammy's in Angus to see how farming is being transformed by the latest technological innovations. Further north, Shahbaz is in Caithness, meeting a new entrant farmer who set
In a celebration of seasonality, Anna Haugh kicks things off with her delicious roasted chicken crown with a rich sweetcorn sauce, finished with an array of wild mushrooms and a whiskey glaze. Yotam Ottlenghi takes to the hobs with his twist on an Indian street food classic, chaat masala potatoes with tamarind and yoghurt, before Jane Baxter makes two Italian dishes from Bari that translate to "ki
Cooking in the kitchen today are partners Adele and Mark. Mark has lost over seven stone in weight, so has a new diet and a new interest in healthy cooking. Having previously lived on ready meals, Adele only began cooking from scratch recently so she could help Mark with his weight loss. With just a limited range of dishes Adele is keen to expand her knowledge. Today she is learning some healthy t
Tom Kerridge is joined by fellow two-Michelin-starred chef Daniel Clifford in a head-to-head challenge to come up with a luxury dish. Tom's toffee-coffee choux bun is a classic luxury dessert, and Daniel makes a simple but sophisticated smoked haddock with Iberico ham and beurre blanc. Drinks expert Joe Wadsack brings a white Rioja and an Australian dessert wine to the table, and Arabella Weir is
Live coverage as Manchester City host Brighton in the WSL.
Live coverage from Switzerland of the conclusion to the men's road race as the best male cyclists on the planet battle it out over 274km to claim the prestigious rainbow jersey. Last year, it was Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel who crossed the line first, with Belgium's Wout van Aert second and Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar ending third.
Paul Martin and the Flog It! team are in Greater Manchester, where over 800 people come along to have their items valued at Stockport Town Hall. Paul is joined by experts Mark Stacey and Philip Serrell as they pick out their favourite antiques to take to auction. Mark is wowed by a William De Morgan ceramic tile, Paul finds some etchings by artist John Buckland Wright and Philip discovers a gold n
Rob Rinder and Monica Galetti work at Six Senses Ibiza on the island's north coast. They help guests in the hotel's on-site clinic experience biohacking therapies, from cryotherapy to heated infrared masks, promising to delay ageing and increase vitality. Rob helps the hotel's "energy balancing" expert create a cacao ceremony to increase spiritual wellness. In the basement, Monica uncovers a recor
In this third programme, Simon focuses on some of the incredible wildlife stories he's encountered – from the eccentric Yorkshireman who founded a giant tortoise sanctuary on his island in the Seychelles to the armed conservationists defending a forest in Belize. These journeys reveal threats to the natural world from human encroachment, as well as meeting the dedicated and sometimes maverick cons
Highlights from the fifth ODI between England and Australia of 2024.
The team is coming to the end of its time in the Okavango Delta. Brad Bestelink witnesses Xudum the leopard fight to save her newborn cubs. Anna Dimitriadis finds a brave cheetah thriving in the heart of lion territory. And Vianet Djenguet tracks lioness mum Tsebe as she risks her life to feed her five cubs As the lion pride continues to grow, becoming the largest in Africa, competition for food l
Paul and Bob arrive in the Republic of Ireland, and they're kicking off their all-out Irish fishing trip on the River Finn. It's their first time fishing the rivers of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. They're here to catch Irish salmon, and luckily, they're in one of the best places to do so. The Emerald Isle has some of the most prolific river runs for salmon in western Europe,
Stephen K Amos, Ivo Graham, Holly Walsh and Alan Davies join Sandi for silly season at QI. Moderation: Sandi Toksvig.
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Spielbergs Holocaustdrama über Zivilcourage ist ein Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte. Im Kriegsjahr 1939 kommt der Fabrikbesitzer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) ins besetzte Krakau. Zunächst hat er nur ein Ziel: Geschäfte machen. Dank guter Kontakte zur Nazi-Elite erhält er Juden als billige Arbeitskräfte. Sein Buchhalter Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) wählt über hundert Personen für die Fabrik aus. Sch
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians and members of the public in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. On the panel: from the government, the minister for the Cabinet Office, Nick Thomas-Symonds; former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi; Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party; and Reform UK's party chairman Zia Yusuf. Live on BBC iPlayer at 8pm, and on BBC1 at 10.40pm.
With the passengers turning on each other in the aftermath of tragedy, Abby desperately attempts to rally the traumatised Joe and persuade him to take back control. But when Hud's shock attempt to stop the train his way puts everyone on board in more peril than ever, Joe is suddenly left fighting fires on multiple fronts.
It's the 15th anniversary of Sam's death, and Freya wants to help Abe with the annual party for Sam's friends. Abe deviates from tradition and drags Levi and Jane to therapy before their usual 'Sam's Day' activities. Meanwhile, Levi confesses his feelings for Jo, which does not go down well with anyone.
Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.
Two brothers buy a pair of cottages in north Norfolk and plan to create one stunning family home. Martel meets a developer in North Yorkshire, who puts his DIY skills to the test refurbishing a three-bedroom semi-detached house. In Somerset, Martin tours a tired terrace that has just five weeks to be transformed for new tenants.
Five years ago, the team turned Ian and Ruth's rural plot in Powys into a country garden in what was one of our most emotional reveals! Charlie goes back to discover the garden looking better than ever and that Ian and his sons have been busy with new projects. We also find out what happened to the Shoreham garden that went from mediocre to a Mediterranean marvel, and the garden that turned a Stoc
MasterChef judge and meat connoisseur John Torode fulfils a lifelong ambition to go to Argentina, where eating beef is a national obsession. After savouring the street food from the barbecues, or 'asados', in Buenos Aires, John embarks on an epic road trip that takes him across the vast pastures of the pampas to Mendoza in the foothills of the Andes. His mission – to find the best piece of steak i
Twenty-four hours a day, the latest national and international stories as they break.
The big political issues of the day.
Can players avoid giving Impossible answers and stay in the running for a £10,000 jackpot?
Jason Manford hosts the quiz show where players try to find the unbeatable answer.
Nick Knowles challenges more talented artists to make something amazing for the homes of people they have never met. Today's artists travel to Shropshire. The buyer wants to mark her recent return to her roots, to be near her daughter and grandchildren again following a health scare. With a budget of £350, will it be the work of a wood sculptor, painter or ceramicist that causes her tears of joy?
It is finals week and the competition is at fever pitch. After six weeks of intense culinary battles, only the four most talented chefs out of the original 48 remain. With the title in sight, tension rises and the chefs need to pull out all the stops to convince veteran judge Gregg Wallace, revered chef Monica Galetti and Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing that they have the requisite star quality. O
In the heart of Africa, deep in the Congo, is one of the most spectacular volcanoes on Earth – Nyiragongo. This spectacular volcano contains a massive boiling cauldron of molten rock – the world's largest continually active lava lake. But it is also one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet. It has erupted twice in the last 50 years, most recently in 2002, wreaking havoc and destruction on
Flog It! comes from Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire. Mark Stacey finds a horse ledger that is a runaway success, and Caroline Hawley uncovers a set of letters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Presenter Paul Martin explores the harsh world of working in a Victorian cotton mill.
Every day this week, celebrity contestants Michael Ball, Jodie Prenger, Laurence Rickard and Snoochie Shy take on a series of quiz rounds selected by the host, quiz legend Richard Osman. A daily winner is declared following a quickfire round at the end of each show, and the scores are tallied across the week, resulting in an overall champion being crowned on Friday. Will the winning stars opt for
Fleur East kicks off the week with all the backstage gossip from the weekend's Strictly Come Dancing. There's an exclusive chat with the first eliminated couple, and Choreography Corner returns to take a look back at Saturday's performances.
The story of Nicholas Rossi, the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death. He claimed he was called Arthur Knight and was a victim of mistaken identity, but a sheriff in Scotland has sent him back to Utah to face rape charges. Featuring interviews with the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and charting his story from there to his di
The search for the nation's Mastermind continues as Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. The specialist subjects are the ghost stories of MR James, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Thunderbirds and renowned painter and portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers this week, all seeking the link between apparently random clues. For example: Black (from Australia), Bewick's and Whooper – what do they have in common?
Darwin College, Cambridge take on Birkbeck for a place in the second round.
Following his father's death, Mozart's music takes on a new level of intensity and emotional depth as he grapples with the numerous losses he has experienced in his short life. His opera Don Giovanni, which follows the success of The Marriage of Figaro, is marked by its unparalleled drama and sophistication – but the Viennese audience, including the emperor, find the music too intense. The outbrea
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The first ever episode of the sketch show.
The day's important national and international news stories. With Victoria Derbyshire.
Despite his success as a commercial novelist, Harper is determined to focus on creating literature and tries to persuade Robyn to move to a more affluent area of Manhattan. Meanwhile, Jordan invites Shelby to contribute to a new daytime show, and Lance searches for a purpose.
Lance returns to glory as he encourages Lance Jr. to stay on the same path. Candace pursues a new thesis advisor. Murch tangles with a 'Karen'. Robyn vibes with a kindred spirit. Quentin struggles to take over the family business from his father.
Joe Crowley and Anita Rani continue Countryfile's Wild Britain initiative, galvanising the nation into helping our beloved wildlife. This week, they're exploring how communities are supporting nature on the wild island of Anglesey, off north west Wales. Joe takes to the seas looking for rare Risso's dolphins and finds out how a citizen science project is monitoring marine life around the UK's coas