2024-10-01
There are plenty of goodies that the teams can buy in this episode from Derbyshire, but the one thing they can't buy is more time! Sixty minutes is all they get – but back at the turn of the 20th century you could buy time – from the Greenwich Time Lady! Natasha Raskin Sharp tells the fascinating story of Ruth Belville who walked the streets of London, "selling" the time to local businesses.
Ryan and Eve would love to host family gatherings in their garden, but sadly in its current state, they can't. The garden is nothing but a barren, brownfield wasteland, and they are at a loss as to what to do with it. Drawing inspiration from their honeymoon in California, where they fell in love with the plants, the design concepts and structures of Balboa Park and the Palace of Fine Arts, they w
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
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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've never met. Today's buyers live in Whitstable, and have £750 to spend on a seaside-themed masterpiece. Will a beach-combing scrap metal artist, a nautical resin worker or a fairy-tale sculptor sail off with the commission?
It is finals week and the excitement is palpable with the finish line in sight. After six weeks of intense culinary battles, four exceptionally talented chefs remain from the original 48. The chefs need to excel in order to convince the judges, Gregg Wallace, Monica Galetti and Marcus Wareing. Only one chef can be crowned MasterChef: The Professionals champion of 2019. In tonight's penultimate cha
In the heart of Africa, deep in the Congo, are some of the most spectacular volcanoes on Earth. They threaten the lives of more than a million people, in a region already left shattered by decades of violence. Now, a team of international and local scientists are here to investigate these rarely visited volcanoes to try and predict when they will next erupt, and to examine how the volcanic forces
Today Flog It comes from Rochester Cathedral in Kent. Antiques expert Elizabeth Talbot finds a rare Peter Rabbit book, and Adam Partridge discovers a Concorde necklace that's one of a kind. Presenter Paul Martin meet the men of Chatham Dockyard, who kept the Royal Navy afloat.
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 is back with more backstage gossip and behind-the-scenes action from the world of Strictly. There'll be chats with some of the remaining couples, and Choreography Corner dissects the weekend's performances.
Banjo's brought in to help two small businesses who survive by selling their produce via honesty boxes. Jamie and Mary live on the Isle of Mull. Jamie works full time catching lobsters, and Mary looks after their three children but also runs a small sandwich shop. Too busy to open the shop full time, they also sell their produce in an honesty box. They want Banjo's help to make their box stand out
In the third of this new six-part crafty cooking series, Nadiya shares comforting "cook once, eat twice" recipes that not only spread joy at the weekend, but also ease the strain during the coming week. Like all of us, Nadiya loves the weekend. It's a time to enjoy cooking tasty meals for friends and family, and also the perfect time to cook for now while making a bit extra to store for later. Not
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by the archaeologists themselves. We discover the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain, and find groundbreaking new evidence that the world-famous Avebury stone circle isn't just a sacred site but a place where our ancesto
With a party in a Cornish cathedral featuring Dawn French (dressed as a vicar), Fearne Cotton, a cardboard coffin, and hundreds of friends, Kris Hallenga's "FUN-eral" (living funeral) is the opening of a documentary that tells the story of Britain's most famous and vivacious cancer campaigner. Diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer at 23, Kris Hallenga makes a radical decision about what she wants
The magnificent Kae Kurd introduces comedians Laura Smyth and Liam Farrelly to the stage.
The day's important national and international news stories. With Victoria Derbyshire.
As the American election heats up, CNN's new series Have I Got News For You US takes a weekly look at the US news coverage. In this new American version of the long-running satirical entertainment show, the host is Roy Wood Jr, comedian, Emmy-nominated documentary producer and correspondent for The Daily Show from 2015 to 2023. Roy is joined by team captains, writer, comedian and performer Amber R
Martin murdered his friend 18 years ago. Will the parole board move him to an open prison, where he will come into contact with the public, or does a serious incident whilst in custody prove he's still a risk? Meanwhile, 50-year-old Kevin needs to persuade the panel he is no longer a threat to the authorities following an attack on two police officers. He points towards his past as the root cause
Businesswoman, social media phenomenon, reality TV star and self-declared diva Gemma Collins goes in search of her family history. She knows quite a lot about her dad's side of the family, but nothing about her mum's – beyond the fact her mum Joan was fostered as a baby. It's a subject they've always found difficult to talk about, but now for the first time, Joan has agreed to share with Gemma wha
A harrowing glimpse into the brutal assault on partygoers at the Nova Music Festival – one of the sites in Israel attacked by Hamas on 7 October 2023. The human cost of the violence in Israel that day and the war that has followed in Gaza have been catastrophic. This film focuses on events at Nova, with a minute-by-minute account showing how a rave celebrating life turned into a massacre. In the e
Puzzle setter John "Ludwig" Taylor's life of solitude is upended when his identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears. Drafted in by his sister-in-law Lucy, John reluctantly assumes his brother's identity as a detective in the Cambridge Police Authority in order to find clues to his brother's whereabouts. John is tasked with infiltrating the major investigations team, gathering information and so
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