9/10. Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took to be a 19th-century lady's maid.

With Zeinab Badawi.
Followed by Weather

Homage to Michael Powell, plus two wine-themed films: Sideways and Mondovino. With Stuart Maconie. A series follows this pilot in the autumn.

(Stuart Maconie's DVD review: page 42)

3/11. It's 1934 and more than one local Nazi has his eye on Eduard and Lucie's wonderful new house. In German with English subtitles. Continues next Sunday.

New series 1/3. Charles Hazlewood analyses and conducts major works by Beethoven, beginning with Symphony No 2, performed by the period orchestra Harmonieband. John Suchet on his love of Beethoven: p32

Time Shift looks at how a reluctant Britain succumbed to the lure of life on the Continent.

Home movie footage and an interview with the singer and actress.

: the late
Serge Gainsbourg 's songs performed by his former collaborator