1/6. How did Britons try to improve their health and fitness between the wars? The documentary series charting 20th-century social history reveals what people saw and ate, and how they exercised during the period. The series continues Friday at 8.30pm

Writer and would-be ballerina Laura Thompson describes how her dreams of dancing led to a role in The Nutcracker.

A celebration of the work of the acclaimed Scottish composer. MacMillan is composer/conductor'for the BBC Philharmonic, who he leads in a performance at London's Barbican Hall, featuring the colourful Violin Concerto of his teacher, John Casken. The concert also features three of MacMillan's own compositions: Britannia, Magnificat and Nunc
Dimittis and The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Featuring violinist Daniel Hope and the BBC Singers. Presented by Verity Sharp. The concert is aiso broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from 8pm, part of a Composer Weekend focusing on MacMillan

1/6. A satire of news presentation, featuring topical and archive footage re-edited and manipulated. The series continues Thursday 10.30pm

A botched robbery leads to a passionate affair. Gerard Lanvin stars in Pierre Jolivet 's 1998 drama. In French with English subtitles.

the struggle for survival between people and tigers in the Russian Far East is graphically portrayed