Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. As a crime writer's body deteriorates, his imagination takes him on a surreal journey blurring reality and fiction. Dennis Potter's groundbreaking drama starring Michael Gambon. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 188 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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In the final part of Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, as fiction and fact fight for the same space, the plots and narratives head to their conclusions.
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39:51Marlow is getting better, and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
Dougie visits Ardtornish Estate in Morvern to see rare Irish cattle return to Scotland after centuries. Rosie visits the Peterhead dairy farm that is finding new markets for their milk.
Series 1
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40:00Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot.
1:00:00Dennis 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.
Rumpelstiltskin fools Shrek, who is suffering from a midlife crisis, into being erased from existence and placed in a sinister alternative reality.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
Dougie is in the Borders to round up all the action from the Sheep Dog World Trial at Lauder. Rosie is on Bute for a trialling masterclass from one of the country’s best handlers.
Series 1 1:00:00
1:00:00Dennis 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.
1:00:00Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
A compilation of ABBA's greatest performances at the BBC, including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Thank You for the Music, SOS, Fernando, Chiquitita and more.
Dougie is in Easter Ross uncloaking the hidden story of a local landmark. Meanwhile, Arlene is on Jura meeting three women who are making a living and living their dream.
Selection of some of funk's best artists from the BBC archives and beyond, beginning in the 1970s. With Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Average White Band and Herbie Hancock.
Dougie is in Speyside visiting the world’s oldest Aberdeen Angus herd. Leanna joins a team ringing red kite chicks and finds out about their conservation success.
Animated sequel following the grumpy ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) and his bride as they head off to meet her parents. The occasion is marred by the wicked Fairy Godmother.
Wartime drama. A small group of Royal Marines carry out a covert canoe raid on the docks of Bordeaux during World War II in a mission to destroy the blockade-busting Nazi ships.
In a special episode, the team explore the delights of the Buchan Coast, including rock pools, a lighthouse and a secret buried under dunes.
Drama. The mysterious 'Inspector Goole' interrupts a wealthy family's party to tell them a young woman died of suicide that night. But what does that have to do with them?