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 195 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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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.
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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?
The story of Timbuktu and its legacy of ancient manuscripts, proof that reading and writing books have been as important to Africans as to Europeans.
Dougie is in the Cairngorms to see how wildlife and precious habitats have been impacted by the recent devastating wildfire.
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.
A celebration of rock 'n' roll in the shape of a compilation of classic artists and songs, featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion, Dick Dale, Tom Petty, Joan Jett and Oasis.
Drama about a young ballerina torn between two creative but possessive men - one a struggling composer, the other an autocratic impresario.
Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms, revealing where these 2,000-year-old problem-solvers came from, how they work and what they have achieved.
A unique production of Dylan Thomas's famous 'play for voices' enacted by a community of Welsh performers in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff and Laugharne.