2024-10-02
In a special show, Bargain Hunt marks four decades of the iconic BBC TV programme, Crimewatch. On the red team are current Crimewatch Live presenters Rav Wilding and Michelle Ackerley, guided by expert Tim Weeks. Their opponents in blue are former Crimewatch hosts and police officers Jacqui Hames and David Hatcher, skippered by expert Nick Hall. With 60 minutes on the clock and two crime-related c
Hannah and Christie are a couple whose boxy 42-square-metre garden doesn't reflect their fun-loving lifestyle. Chris is a DJ, and Hannah plays the sax, and the feel of a music festival would be a great theme for the team to include. Charlie and Lee get their raving shoes on to win the couple over. The winning design may have Ibiza vibes, but the team have proper wet, north western weather to tackl
There are 50,000 deaf children in the UK, and three deaf children are born every day, all of whom are the future of the deaf community. But what does it mean to raise these children? Parenting is a hard job, but what extra challenges come with parenting deaf children? How can these challenges be overcome? See Hear has invited a panel of six guests from across the deaf community to find out just th
The story of a hum that has been keeping the people of Omagh awake for months. With the town exhausted and exasperated, local journalist Emmet McElhatton wants to get to the bottom of a mystery fast making headlines around the world. In the journalist's search for answers, he meets local repairman Jamie Ryan, who has started his own investigation into the elusive sound. Together, they make their w
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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 artists travel to the Wirral. The buyers have finished a labour-of-love house renovation and want to mark the occasion with a significant spend. Will a painter, a stained-glass artist or a metal sculptor secure the sale worth up to £2,000?
Just one life-changing cook-off remains before one of the chefs takes the crown. Over the last seven weeks, 48 of the most talented and tenacious chefs in the UK have battled each other for the coveted title. Now, just three chefs remain. This is the last time they cook in the competition and the evening will end with one of them receiving the ultimate prize. Tonight, the final three outstanding p
Harvest returns for a second series to celebrate British farming, and follow the fortunes of some of our top farmers as they battle to bring in the 2015 harvest. Gregg Wallace, Philippa Forrester and newcomer James Manning cross the country visiting farms that produce world class crops and meeting innovative and pioneering farmers. We'll witness the harvest as it happens up and down the country. E
Today we're bringing you a special edition of Flog it! from all over the UK. We're travelling up and down the country revisiting some of the historic venues from the series and bringing you brand new valuations and unexpected auctions. Paul Martin takes a journey down the River Tweed and uncovers the history of the unusual border town, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Moderation: Paul Martin.
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
Janette Manrara guides us through all the backstage ballroom action, with more couples stopping by for a chat, and there's an exclusive first look at how some of the celebrities are coping with their new movie week dances.
Hannah takes a look at the vacuum cleaner, going behind the scenes with Dyson and discovering how the motor in their latest vacuum spins nine times faster than that of a Formula One race car. She finds out why a wheezy janitor in the 1900s took inspiration from a sewing machine to create the first popular portable vacuum. And she comes face to face with a colony of creepy crawlies whose job is to
Gregg Wallace explores the secrets of the Guinness brewery in Dublin to reveal how it makes two million litres of Irish stout every single day. Cherry Healey visits a water treatment centre to learn how reservoir water is treated to provide clean drinking water to the people of Dublin, as well as to the stout brewery. And she visits a farm in Worcestershire to help with the hop harvest. Historian
The parole board need to decide if serial burglar and jewellery store thief Jason should be given a third chance. Jason is questioned about the motivation for his crimes, including using an axe to intimidate a woman in one robbery and falsely imprisoning a victim in another. Professional witnesses support Jason, stating that he's made progress in prison. But Jason had been given a chance before, w
Dara O Briain and Hugh Dennis look back on the last seven days in the company of guests Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes, Rhys James, Robin Morgan and Ahir Shah.
The day's important national and international news stories. With Faisal Islam.
Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories – reliable, honest and essential viewing. The BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, brings his experience and expertise to bear on the most important international stories. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, he uses their unique local knowledge to go beyond the headlin
BBC Films presents Idris Elba's Yardie. Set in 70s Kingston and 80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D, who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread. D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox. Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sw
There are 50,000 deaf children in the UK, and three deaf children are born every day, all of whom are the future of the deaf community. But what does it mean to raise these children? Parenting is a hard job, but what extra challenges come with parenting deaf children? How can these challenges be overcome? See Hear has invited a panel of six guests from across the deaf community to find out just th
Jackie Kay is one of Britain's most loved and lauded poets. She is also a playwright and writer, and from 2016 until 2021 was Scotland's makar, the national poet for Scotland. Her unique and emotive work spans race, gender and identity, woven with tenderness and humour, often drawing from her own unusual beginnings. Jackie recounts her extraordinary life story: born to a Scottish mother and Nigeri
The story of Elizabeth's rise to fame during Hollywood's Golden Age. As a young actor, Elizabeth's life is tightly controlled by the studio, but after a disastrous first marriage, she decides to live life on her own terms. With insights from fellow stars Dame Joan Collins, Sharon Stone, and Kim Kardashian, as well as from Elizabeth's god-daughter Paris Jackson, actor and former boyfriend George Ha
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