Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Film exploring Kate Bush's career and music, from 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of collaborators and those she has inspired. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 201 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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Kate Bush performs songs such as Wuthering Heights, Babooshka and Running up That Hill on BBC TV shows, alongside other intriguing and lesser-known material in the BBC studios.
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Film exploring Kate Bush's career and music, from 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of collaborators and those she has inspired.
Documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
Michael Parkinson pays tribute to one of the world's finest actors. Alec Guinness talks about actors James Dean and Grace Kelly, playwright Alan Bennett and poet TS Eliot.
First transmitted in 1987, what is the future of manned space flight one year after the US Challenger disaster?
January 2026
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
1:00:00Rick 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?
40:00Michael Parkinson looks back on his meeting with Ingrid Bergman - an actress he confesses to falling in love with the first time he saw her on screen at his local cinema.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the goals, latest news, analysis, reaction and interviews from the afternoon’s biggest football matches.
Drama about a young ballerina torn between two creative but possessive men - one a struggling composer, the other an autocratic impresario.
Jason Mohammad and guests bring you all the stories, drama, reaction and live goals from Saturday afternoon’s FA Cup third-round ties.
Compilation of Rod Stewart's performances at the BBC. Includes The Faces performing Stay with Me, plus solo hits such as Sailing, You're in My Heart and Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Classic melodrama in which a young woman falls in love with a concert pianist, beginning a lifelong infatuation.
December 2025
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.
Kelly Somers and guests bring 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.
Animated comedy. Shaun the Sheep tricks the Farmer into buying three prank-pulling llamas, but when the mischief goes too far, Shaun is forced to take action to get rid of them.