Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Higher. Faster. Stronger. Together. Nations unite as athletes strive for their best at the Paris 2024 Games. The world is watching - and cheering. Welcome to the city of love. The program has been available since 2023. A total of 172 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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Performances and interviews from the golden age of jazz, featuring Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Clare Balding previews the next 16 days of incredible sporting action in France and introduces live coverage of a unique opening ceremony held along Paris’s main artery - the Seine.
50:00Rick Stein explores the food of Shanghai - Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world and is rapidly expanding, but has it hung on to its culinary roots?
30:00Gaz goes on a quest to split Jonny and Kate, Jonny gets an ultimatum - dump his friends or be dumped, and Janet gets a new boss from hell.
In this compilation of clips from five of his eight appearances on Parkinson, Kenneth Williams gives vent to his dislike of theatre critics.
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Preview of Documentaries was added on Saturday 20 July 2024. Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Higher.
30:00Donna has a filthy brunch with her tutor. Gaz finds an unusual solution to his problem. And Janet tries to excite Jonny with adventurous sex.
Compilation celebrating the BBC's coverage of Cilla Black's 60s pop star years on programmes like The Ken Dodd Show and Top of the Pops, plus moments from her self-titled series.
30:00Donna's tutor invites her for coaching on his sofa. Gaz has a problem in his trousers. Janet persuades Jonny to come for a bite of her pasties.
Drama. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is destined for Oxford University. However, her eyes are opened to a world of glamorous possibility when she meets David (Peter Sarsgaard).
30:00Cult comedy for the youngsters. Gaz tries to get over his guilt by doing one special thing for Donna. Janet holds a party for Louise's graduation.
30:00Racy sitcom about the lives and loves of five twentysomethings. Jonny and Kate find out how biscuits can improve your love life as Louise applies for a job.
30:00Jonny ruins his first date with Kate by trying too hard. A big spider upsets Louise's plan to live with Janet. Gaz bids to become a pop idol.
The tale of a young film studio assistant's brief relationship with screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, set against a backdrop of the making of The Prince and the Showgirl.
Martin Shaw separates the fact from the myth as he takes to the skies to retrace the route of the 1943 raid by 617 Squadron which used bouncing bombs to destroy German dams.
30:00Outrageous laughs. Jonny finds himself a new girlfriend, Gaz challenges David to a contest and a book called Piggy Goes Oink changes Louise's life.
30:00More explicit comedy with the friends of Runcorn. Janet tries to dump Jonny but is upstaged. Louise gets revenge on David. Donna pursues a dream.
June 2024
Dougie and the team round up all the action from this year’s Royal Highland Show.
Drama set in 1990. Five Manchester friends and bandmates will stop at nothing to get to Spike Island, Cheshire, to see the Stone Roses in concert.
Anarchic and offbeat 1960s story of 36 hours in the lives of The Beatles, as they travel to a TV show in London.