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For the animals in the polar regions, autumn means dramatic battles and epic journeys. Time is running out – the Arctic Ocean is freezing over, and the sea ice is advancing at 2.5 miles per day around Antarctica. Polar bears gather in large numbers on the Arctic coast as they wait for the return of the ice. Soon, tempers fray and violent sparring contests break out. Meanwhile, 2,000 beluga whales

Joan Bakewell looks back fondly on her evening spent with the legendary screen actor Bette Davis in 1972. Joan was in awe of such an icon of the golden age of cinema but was careful not to let that put her off the job at hand. She talks about how they bonded backstage, and how Bette made a wonderful interviewee – kind, warm, interesting and totally delighted to speak to an audience of her fans.

American actress Bette Davis talks to Joan Bakewell and to the audience at the National Film Theatre. She recalls her career as a star, her resistance to the studio's attempts to change her name, the problems she has had to face and the Hollywood image. Featuring extracts from some of Davis's most famous films, including Jezebel (1938), Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Al

Keen fan Eve ingratiates herself into the life of sharp-tongued Broadway star Margo Channing, whose friends come to suspect the younger woman's intentions. Classic multi-Oscar-winning comic drama.

A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend Bette Davis, capturing the milestones and highlights of her life and career.

James Herriot talks to Melvyn Bragg about his work as both vet and writer. Moderation.

Southern Thailand is the Thailand we think we all know. It is a place of both spectacular natural beauty and of wild parties, but behind this well-known image is also a place where spirituality pervades every bit of life. For the animals that live here, this is a natural wonderland.

For the animals in the polar regions, autumn means dramatic battles and epic journeys. Time is running out – the Arctic Ocean is freezing over, and the sea ice is advancing at 2.5 miles per day around Antarctica. Polar bears gather in large numbers on the Arctic coast as they wait for the return of the ice. Soon, tempers fray and violent sparring contests break out. Meanwhile, 2,000 beluga whales

Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. The city is the big constant of his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The jute trade, making hessian from India's "golden" fibre, dominated Dundee for over a century, linking it with Kolkata. It is now fast becoming a memory. Documentary journey into Brian Cox's past, and on to Kolkat

Dennis Pennis presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 13 September 1996 and featuring Rocket from the Crypt, Stretch 'n' Vern Present Maddog, Jamiroquai, Fugees, Skunk Anansie, ABBA, Way Out West featuring Miss Joanna Law, Donna Lewis, Deep Blue Something, Peter Andre and Oasis.

Tony Mortimer presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 September 1996 and featuring Belinda Carlisle, Deep Blue Something, Lighthouse Family, Sheryl Crow, Clock, Adam & The Ants, The Bluetones, Phil Collins, Fugees and Slade.

Peter Powell presents another edition of the weekly pop chart with performances by the Specials, Viola Wills, Queen, Dr Hook, Iris Williams, the Dooleys, Janet Brown, Lena Martell and Errol Dunkley and dance sequences by Legs & Co.

Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 October 1986 and featuring The Pretenders, Midnight Star, Housemartins, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Nick Berry and The Bangles.

Trevor Nelson presents Beyonce and her band, who perform a special concert at the front of Television Centre. Songs played: Deja Vu, Baby Boy, Naughty Girl, Destiny's Child, Medley, Ring the Alarm, Irreplaceable and Crazy in Love.

An evening with one of America's greatest stars during her 1973 European tour.

Filmed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1979, this film captures Britain's greatest pop diva at the height of her career. The show is packed with hits from across Dusty's career, including I Only Want to Be with You, Wishin' and Hopin', The Look of Love, Son of a Preacher Man and many more, delivered with all the glitz and panache that were her trademark.

60 million albums sold, three Grammys, two Brits Awards... there can be only one P!NK, and she joins us for a very special Radio 2 Piano Room. Recorded live at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale Studios, she performs classics, tracks from her new album Trustfall, and four exclusive piano arrangements with the BBC Concert Orchestra. What About Us, Try and Just Like A Pill are all there as well as a cov

Brit Award nominee and Ivor Novello-winning artist RAYE takes to the stage of this legendary London venue to perform new arrangements of songs from her Mercury Prize-nominated album My 21st Century Blues, accompanied by the Heritage Orchestra, conducted by Tom Richards, the Flames Collective choir and organist Anna Lapwood. Highlights include Oscar Winning Tears, the searingly honest Ice Cream Man

Dennis Pennis presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 13 September 1996 and featuring Rocket from the Crypt, Stretch 'n' Vern Present Maddog, Jamiroquai, Fugees, Skunk Anansie, ABBA, Way Out West featuring Miss Joanna Law, Donna Lewis, Deep Blue Something, Peter Andre and Oasis.

Tony Mortimer presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 September 1996 and featuring Belinda Carlisle, Deep Blue Something, Lighthouse Family, Sheryl Crow, Clock, Adam & The Ants, The Bluetones, Phil Collins, Fugees and Slade.

Peter Powell presents another edition of the weekly pop chart with performances by the Specials, Viola Wills, Queen, Dr Hook, Iris Williams, the Dooleys, Janet Brown, Lena Martell and Errol Dunkley and dance sequences by Legs & Co.

Chris Beardshaw travels around by helicopter on a mission to find Britain's most inspirational gardens. Arriving in the Lake District, Chris dons his waders and goes in search of the ultimate water feature.

James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.

Siegfried wins a major victory and Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers that he has a rival.

When a young gang member, Patrick, is released after serving a short stint in prison, he is brutally shot down. Louise Bergstein, who has just started a new job as a teacher in criminal profiling, takes the case alongside her professional, and now romantic, partner Frederik Havgaard. Meanwhile, former gang member Kim Jensen, who is now a family man in Sweden, gets dragged back into his criminal pa

Forensic evidence concludes that Patrick and Pernille were killed by the same person. As Louise and Frederik investigate the link between the two victims, an old gang-related double murder comes to the surface. With a potential quadruple murderer on the loose, Louise entrusts her teaching job to her Swedish colleague and mentor, Gunnar, and commits herself to the case. In Danish with English subti

Terry Wogan chats to Christopher Timothy, Steven Berkoff, Duncan Norvelle and Tom T Hall.

Classic comedy series about the inmates of HM Slade Prison. The problems of an anxious father and a pining first offender are solved in the prison waiting room.

Hancock decides to invest in a new camera – which Sid sees as the perfect opportunity to make some money.

James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.

Siegfried wins a major victory and Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers that he has a rival.

James Fox uses art to explore how humans began to try to understand nature for the very first time. From the Song dynasty in China and the Islamic world, through to the Scientific Revolution and the advent of the industrial era, James shows the very different ways in which humans came to both appreciate and understand nature, whilst at the very same time beginning to dominate and control it. With

Chris Beardshaw travels around by helicopter on a mission to find Britain's most inspirational gardens. Arriving in the Lake District, Chris dons his waders and goes in search of the ultimate water feature.

Petroc Trelawny and Alexandra Dariescu present highlights from the final of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. Five outstanding pianists from across the globe compete for one of the most coveted and life-changing prizes in the classical music world, The Leeds gold medal. Playing concertos by Bartók, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Brahms accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philha

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to E

A family move to a remote country house and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse.

A man books into a countryside retreat, but does not find the solace he was looking for.

Alex Kingston breathes life into Mary Shelley's timeless gothic horror story. Young, gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein unwittingly creates a monster. Written more than 200 years ago, the classic masterpiece still resonates today as a tragic romance that examines the battle between ambition and morality.

Some 200 years since it was written, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is now shorthand for the horrors of science run amok. But when author and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the 18-year-old Mary's manuscripts, she finds someone concerned with the very act of creation itself. She also discovers clues of another writer's influence, someone very close to Mary. Alice's travels take her to th

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to E

A family move to a remote country house and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse.

A man books into a countryside retreat, but does not find the solace he was looking for.

Some 200 years since it was written, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is now shorthand for the horrors of science run amok. But when author and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the 18-year-old Mary's manuscripts, she finds someone concerned with the very act of creation itself. She also discovers clues of another writer's influence, someone very close to Mary. Alice's travels take her to th

There is no greater test for life than winter as temperatures plummet to 70 below and winds reach 200kph. Darkness and ice extend across the polar regions and only a few remarkable survivors gamble on remaining. We join a female polar bear trekking into the Arctic mountains to give birth as the first blizzards arrive. Out on the frozen ocean, the entire world's population of spectacled eider ducks

A look at the way the sea has fired the imagination of writers, painters and explorers.

Celebrating the architectural history of Las Vegas and its diverse influences.

Robert Robinson referees a duel of words and wit between Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell.

Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against a celebrity panel.

The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity – where some form of alien life might exist. Featuring first-hand accounts of the incredible discoveries made by New Horizons from many of the scientists involved in the mission.

We think of the Earth as a blue planet, but satellite cameras reveal it to be a kaleidoscope. The astonishing colours of the aurora are towering vertical streaks, hundreds of kilometres high, phytoplankton blooms turn the ocean into works of art, triggering a feeding frenzy, and for a few weeks a year China's Yunnan province is carpeted in yellow as millions of rapeseed flowers bloom. This is our