1/8.
There are a million stars for every grain of sand on Earth. Do any of their orbiting planets hold life?

Mark Tully travels 1,000 miles across
Pakistan on the Khyber Mail.

With Zeinab Badawi.
Followed by Weather

1/4. Tracing the radical redesign of British furniture in the first of tonight's Lost Decade programmes.

Remembering the golden age of the TV panel game as What's My Line?, The Name's the Same and Ask Your Dad make their debuts during the years 1945-55. Narrated by Hugh Dennis , who chairs a special What's My Line? next. New.

For one night only, a re-creation of the panel game favourite as Dave Gorman, Amy Lame, Amanda Platell and Brian Sewell try to guess the public's unlikely jobs.
Hugh Dennis chairs. New.

A classic edition of the panel game in which natural history experts were asked to identify interesting objects from British museums.

A dramatisation of Simon Garfield 's bestselling novel, starring
Richard Briers , Sarah Parish , Ian McDiarmid and Lesley Sharp. On 8 May 1945, the day peace is declared in Europe, four people confront the uncertainties ahead. See yesterday's choice. People's Century is tomorrow at 7.05pm