Mark Goodier presents a revealing new three-part documentary exploring the career of David Bowie. In this first programme Bowie reflects on his early career and recordings, with comments from, among others, producers Gus Dudgeon and Ken Scott, and pianists Mike Garson and Rick Wakeman.
Songs featured include Space Oddity, Life on Mars? and Changes, plus tracks from the album Ziggy Stardust.

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Today a new three-part series begins, carefully delineating the Golden Years - the David Bowie Story (7.00pm R2). Such treatment is like being immortalised on a limited edition of commemorative china, but Bowie is man enough to take, survive and surmount it - and besides, a little nostalgia doesn't hurt.
Earlier the biographer Richard Holmes tracks the Runaway Lives (2.30pm R4) of Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne. He was 29, penniless and "a mere complication of cough and bones" when he turned up in California determined to marry her. Though she was older and already married they overcame all obstacles and achieved lasting happiness. Holmes toasts them, very properly, with wine from a vineyard they visited in 1879.
Alan Bennett is John Bird's lunchtime guest, in That Mocking Bird (1.00pm R2). (SG)