Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, about a pulp thriller writer whose memories, 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and debilitating skin disease weave him an altered reality. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 289 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2025.
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Documentaries
Dennis Potter's drama serial with music. Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean.
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1. Skin
Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music about pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow, in hospital with psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future.
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2. Heat
Dennis Potter's drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing private eye. Marlow faces a talking cure with a psychologist.
Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight masterpieces. How Caravaggio changed the way artists portrayed religious icons.
1:00:00Rick Stein shows us the unique flavours and sounds of a Cornish Christmas, joining in the tradition of wassailing, cooking his own goose and trying local tipples.
Dougie is in the fertile fields of Galloway to see one of Scotland's largest dairy herds. Meanwhile, Shahbaz touches down in Wester Ross to catch up with space scientists on a mission.
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10/05/2025
Jason Mohammad presents all the latest scores, results and reaction from the day’s football fixtures across the UK.
Jimmy McGovern's drama based on the UK's joint enterprise law. When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
Sir David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery in Argentina of the largest animal to ever walk the earth, a new species of the plant-eating titanosaur.
Dougie is in Wester Ross to climb An Teallach, one of Britain's most impressive mountains. Rosie is in Argyll to find out about the devastating attacks on sheep by sea eagles.
1:00:00Sam Warburton and Tommy Bowe share their memories of the most nail-biting final day in the tournament's history, Super Saturday.
1:00:00Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1974 interview with Richard Burton. Parkinson persuaded him to talk candidly about his career, love life and drink problems.
Jason Mohammad presents all the latest scores, results and reaction from the day’s football fixtures.
Jimmy Doherty travels to Nepal to meet an ancient group of people who risk their lives to farm their local honey.
April 2025
Dougie visits the cliffs and beaches of Caithness, and Rosie is at St Andrews West Sands to see the impact of recent storms.
In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London-Brighton train. In 1983, they did it again. This film shows both concurrently, with every bridge, tunnel and station.
Dougie is in Sutherland meeting a woman who is teaching the next generation of crofters and farmers. Meanwhile, Cammy is on his new farm preparing for the arrival of shorthorn cattle.
Kelly Somers presents the fast-paced football results show, with reports and reaction from the day’s games, including Everton v Manchester City.
Drama directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Britain on the brink of war, the idyllic life of a young girl (Romola Garai) is destabilised when she uncovers a secret.
Drama. The world's population loses its sense of smell, mystifying experts. Then taste goes too. Society seeks to adapt to these changes, but further challenges are to come.