2023: New Music At The Proms With Tom Service
Celebrating cutting-edge classical works, presenter of Radio 3’s New Music Show, Tom Service, chooses his standout moments of premieres and commissions from this year&rsqu ...
03-09-2023
BBC 2
2023: Chineke! At The Proms
A treat for the senses as Chineke! Orchestra makes its hotly anticipated annual Proms outing, this year conducted by Anthony Parnther. Europe’s first majority Black and et ...
01-09-2023
BBC 2
2014 Season - Friday Night At The Proms: Barenboim Conducts The West-eastern Divan Orchestra
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Mozart's overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Ravel pieces including Rapsodie espagnol, Pavane for a Dead Princess and Bolero.
19-12-2021
BBC 2
2020: Beethoveniana
Joining Beethoven Unleashed, a year-long, BBC-wide marathon marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, a BBC Grand Virtual Orchestra made up of over 300 BBC music ...
26-11-2023
BBC 2
Episode 17-09-2023
Tom Service presents 40 years of great BBC archive featuring the French composer, conductor and musical icon Pierre Boulez, who died on 5th January 2016 at the age of 90. Opinio ...
17-09-2023
BBC 4
2022: 6. Grand Final
BBC Young Musician 2022 reaches its climax as we bring you full coverage of the competition’s grand final from Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.\n\nFor over 40 years, B ...
09-10-2022
BBC 4
2022: 5. Keyboard Final Highlights
In the last of the category finals, we find out who will take the last place in this year’s BBC Young Musician grand final. In a hotly contested competition, five talented ...
06-10-2022
BBC 4
2020: Final
The long-awaited grand final of BBC Young Musician 2020, delayed for a full year, will see three exceptional musicians compete for one of music’s most coveted titles. The ...
02-05-2021
BBC 4
2018: 2. Percussion Category Final
Percussionist Joby Burgess joins Josie d'Arby as the competition continues with the multi-instrumentalists in the percussion category final of BBC Young Musician 2018.\n\nSince ...
13-04-2018
BBC 4
Episode 31-12-2023
The relationship between The Beatles and the BBC has always been a special and fascinating one. This programme looks back at some key moments that saw the BBC document the band& ...
31-12-2023
BBC 2
2023: Episode 2
The BBC New Comedy Awards is a nationwide talent search to find the best new stand-ups. Since they first began in 1995, the prestigious awards have helped launch the careers of ...
17-10-2023
BBC 1
2022: The Rickshaw Relay Rides Again
The Rickshaw Relay rides again for BBC Children in Need in this one-off special. As the challenge enters its twelfth year, Matt Baker and a team of five young people, all of who ...
18-11-2022
BBC 1
2021: University Challenge Special
For one night only, Jeremy Paxman hands over the reins to journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who hosts the proceedings as famous faces from the BBC and ITV compete against ...
19-11-2021
BBC 1
2021: The Great Rickshaw Relay Challenge
The Rickshaw Challenge for BBC Children in Need is back with an exciting new twist for 2021 in this one-off special.\n\nAs the challenge enters its eleventh year, Matt Baker and ...
15-11-2021
BBC 1
Episode 02-05-2020
Don your best platforms and sequinned hat and join Noddy, Jim, Dave and Don aka Slade for a trip down memory lane as we uncover some of Slade's finest appearances from the vault ...
02-05-2020
BBC 4
2018: First Night Of The Proms
BBC Proms 2018 launches with a feast for the eyes and ears in the world premiere of Five Telegrams, with music by Anna Meredith and stunning digital projections by 59 Production ...
13-07-2018
BBC 2
2018: 3. Woodwind Category Final
With two places in the semi-final already decided, it's the turn of the woodwind players to take centre stage. Josie d'Arby is joined by leading bassoonist Amy Harman at the Roy ...
20-04-2018
BBC 4
2018: 1. Strings Category Final
As BBC Young Musician begins its 40th anniversary series, Josie d'Arby is joined by Alison Balsom, herself a finalist in 1998, to present highlights from the first of this year' ...
06-04-2018
BBC 4
Forty Years Young
To mark the 40th birthday of BBC Young Musician, a look back at this hugely influential competition, focusing on the soaring careers of the three finalists from 2016, cellist Sh ...
03-04-2018
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. In War And Peace
Suzy Klein and John Simpson explore the power of classical music between the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II, through WWII and into peacetime, to console, unite and in ...
12-06-2022
BBC 4
Episode 06-04-2024
If you fancy an hour's worth of irresistible guilty pleasures from Anni-Frid, Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha, this is the programme for you. ABBA stormed the 1974 Eurovision song cont ...
06-04-2024
BBC 4
Episode 01-04-2024
Drawing on the BBC's rich archive, this documentary reveals the working practices, lives and opinions of some of the greatest photographers of the last 60 years. From Norman Par ...
01-04-2024
BBC 4
2023: 7. The Final
The BBC’s foremost comedy talent search, The New Comedy Awards, has reached its climax. Over 1,000 applied, more than 100 went head-to-head at showcases across the country ...
15-11-2023
BBC 1
Episode 28-10-2023
Much-mourned national treasure Cilla Black commenced her eminent career as a TV host in 1968 on the BBC. Her career as perhaps the nation's favourite female pop singer of the de ...
28-10-2023
BBC 4
2023: Episode 1
It’s been a bumper year for the BBC’s biggest comedy talent search, with over 1200 applying for the coveted title of BBC New Comedian 2023. In this episode, five hop ...
10-10-2023
BBC 1
Episode 22-09-2023
Grab your partner by the hand - the BBC have raided their archive and brought to light glittering performances by country artists over the last four decades. \n\nStar appearance ...
22-09-2023
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. The Great Salvador Dali
Art historian David Dibosa examines six decades of BBC archive material to create a television history of Salvador Dali. Often called art's greatest showman and the world's firs ...
18-09-2023
BBC 4
2023: Last Night Of The Proms, Part 1
It’s the climactic conclusion of the 2023 Proms season. On stage, superstar cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and world-renowned Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen join the BBC Symp ...
09-09-2023
BBC 2
2023: First Night Of The Proms
Clive Myrie is joined by special guests Sandi Toksvig and Anna Lapwood for the First Night of the Proms, live from the Royal Albert Hall. 2023’s eight-week musical extrava ...
14-07-2023
BBC 2
2023: Grand Final
Following a week of remarkable performances, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World reaches its climax with the final from St David’s Hall. Sixteen of the world’s most outs ...
18-06-2023
BBC 4
Episode 27-01-2023
Grab your partner by the hand - the BBC have raided their archive and brought to light glittering performances by country artists over the last four decades. \n\nStar appearance ...
27-01-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 1
The eyewitnesses and participants in the BBC’s early history recount some of the triumphs and disasters as new frontiers of broadcasting were mapped out – often by a ...
22-10-2022
BBC 2
2022: 4. Percussion Final Highlights
Percussion takes centre stage as Jess Gillam and Alexis Ffrench bring us highlights from this most energetic and exciting BBC Young Musician category final.\n\nCompeting are fiv ...
05-10-2022
BBC 4
2022: 3. Brass Final Highlights
Coverage of BBC Young Musician continues with highlights from the brass final, filmed at Saffron Hall. Hoping to make it through to the grand final are trumpeters Phoebe Mallins ...
04-10-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Showstoppers
This compilation is a companion piece to the Showstoppers episode of Gregory Porter's Popular Voices, celebrating bravura singers who bring the house down with their showstoppin ...
27-05-2022
BBC 4
2022: Episode 3
In the penultimate programme of the series, the ten dancers selected at the auditions continue to be put through their paces at the BBC Young Dancer academy at Dartington in Dev ...
01-05-2022
BBC 4
Episode 23-01-2022
Strictly Come Dancing - today one of the most popular shows on television - is the latest manifestation of the BBC's enduring love affair with dance. Whether it was profiling st ...
23-01-2022
BBC 4
Series 2: 3. Monet - The French Revolutionary
Art historian Katy Hessel examines six decades of BBC archive to create a television history of Claude Monet.\n\nMonet is known as the father of impressionism, the movement that ...
17-01-2022
BBC 4
2021: Last Night Of The Proms, Part 1
Katie Derham welcomes a live audience back to the Royal Albert Hall for the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival, the Last Night of the Proms.\n\nLatvia ...
11-09-2021
BBC 2
2021: Main Prize Final
After a week of exceptional performances, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 reaches its climax with the main prize final. In a competition showcasing 16 rising stars from acr ...
19-06-2021
BBC 4
2020: Semi-final
The 2020 edition of BBC Young Musician remained incomplete when we left it last spring. Tonight the story resumes with extensive highlights of the semi-final, which was filmed a ...
30-04-2021
BBC 4
Episode 13-03-2020
The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurate ...
13-03-2020
BBC 4
2018: Mastermind Special
Actor and comedian Stephen Mangan hosts a special episode of Mastermind in support of BBC Children in Need. For the first time ever on the show the questions are tackled by pair ...
16-11-2018
BBC 1
2018: Final
After a series of thrilling category finals and semi-final, BBC Young Musician 2018 reaches its conclusion. Now only three musicians remain.\n\nThis year Symphony Hall in Birmin ...
13-05-2018
BBC 4
2018: Semi-final
The search for the next BBC Young Musician reaches its penultimate stage as the category winners from strings, percussion, woodwind, brass and keyboards compete for three places ...
11-05-2018
BBC 4
2018: 5. Keyboard Category Final
Five exceptional young pianists are hoping to impress as they attempt to win the keyboard category and take the last remaining place in this year's BBC Young Musician semi-final ...
04-05-2018
BBC 4
2018: 4. Brass Category Final
With three places already decided in this year's semi-final, BBC Young Musician 2018 continues with coverage of the brass category final. Josie d'Arby is on hand at the Royal Bi ...
27-04-2018
BBC 4
Series 4: Episode 3
The MUAs enter the world of special effects for BBC’s iconic sci-fi show Doctor Who. Assisting the show’s prosthetic designer, Danny Marie Elias, the MUAs must creat ...
21-03-2023
BBC 1
Episode 27-04-2024
A look back over the decades at some of the brightest and best BBC moments from legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. This compilation features performances from the early 1 ...
27-04-2024
BBC 4
Episode 21-04-2024
A celebration of the astonishing breadth of talent from 60 years of BBC Two’s finest classical performances. From its first days on air in 1964, BBC Two has placed classic ...
21-04-2024
BBC 2