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Olympics: Beijing 2008

Olympics: 2008: Swimming, Athletics and Boxing: Day Eight

16/08/2008

Swimming, Athletics and Boxing: Day Eight

2008

BBC Sport - Olympics, 2008, Swimming, Athletics and Boxing: Day Eight

Action from day eight, including swimming, athletics and boxing.

Action from day eight, including coverage of the swimming finals, second day of athletics and second rounds of the flyweight and middleweight boxing.

Adrian Chiles and Hazel Irvine present action from day eight, including coverage of the swimming finals, second day of athletics and second rounds of the flyweight and middleweight boxing.

Olympics: 2008

BBC Sport

Coverage of events from the Beijing Olympics

Olympic Breakfast

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The Inside Story: page 56

Olympics: 2008: Rowing and Cycling: Day Eight

Rowing and Cycling: Day Eight

BBC Sport - Olympics, 2008, Rowing and Cycling: Day Eight

Rowing and cycling finals, and boxing, hockey and athletics.

Live coverage of the rowing finals, featuring the men's and women's single and double sculls, men's and women's pair, and men's four. Includes live coverage from the velodrome.

Live coverage of the Olympics, introduced by John Inverdale and Sir Steve Redgrave at Shunyi, with Clare Balding.

It is the first day of the rowing finals, featuring the men's and women's single and double sculls, men's and women's pair, and men's four. Britain has a chance of medals in five of the seven events.

Includes live coverage from the velodrome, as the medals for cycling are decided in the men's 4,000m individual pursuit, the men's points race and the men's keirin. Former rower Rebecca Romero is in action again in the women's individual pursuit, where she is also the current world champion.

In athletics, it is the women's shot final, the men's long jump qualification and the heptathlon 800, as well as the heptathlon javelin B.

Also, the medals are decided in the women's singles and men's doubles in both badminton and tennis. Including, further second round boxing action in the Beijing worker's gymnasium and Britain's women's hockey team play Japan in the penultimate match of the round robin phase of the competition.

Also featuring Sue Barker, Michael Johnson and Colin Jackson.

Olympics 2008

Live coverage of the day's rowing finals, plus track cycling.

Glastonbury

BBC Music

Soak up the unique atmosphere of the world's most famous music festival.

Soak up the unique atmosphere of the world’s most famous music festival – watch live from Worthy Farm. All the acts, all the stages, all the best bits – we'll bring it to you.

Glastonbury: 2008

Glastonbury: 2008: The Verve

09/08/2008

The Verve

BBC Music - Glastonbury, 2008, The Verve

Richard Ashcroft and the band play material from their momentous 90s album Urban Hymns.

The Verve close the 2008 festival in anthemic style, as the band remind the crowd of their 90s album Urban Hymns by playing its hits, Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work.

The Verve close the 2008 festival in true anthemic style, as Richard Ashcroft and band remind the crowd of their momentous 90s album Urban Hymns by playing its hits, Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work, along with a couple of new numbers including Love Is Noise.

BBC Two

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Coverage of the Glastonbury Festival from Worthy Farm in Somerset

Planet Earth

A Little Later

Vintage performances from the Later... with Jools Holland archives

A Little Later: KT Tunstall

06/01/2007

KT Tunstall

BBC Two - A Little Later, KT Tunstall

Two performances from KT Tunstall from the Later... with Jools Holland archives.

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

Planet Earth: Episode 5: Deserts - Short Version

Episode 5

Episode 5: Deserts - Short Version

Deserts - Short Version

BBC One - Planet Earth, Deserts - Short Version

A look at Earth's most spectacular deserts, revealing the secrets behind desert survival.

David Attenborough looks at deserts around the world from Namibia to Chile, unravelling the secrets behind desert survival and revealing their ephemeral nature.

David Attenborough takes a look at deserts, which cover a third of the Earth's land surface. From space they appear lifeless but a closer look reveals a different picture.

Deserts, in fact, are surprisingly varied; from Mongolia's Gobi desert where wild Bactrian camels have to eat snow in lieu of water, to the Atacama in Chile where guanacos survive by licking the dew off cactus spines.

Changes are rare in deserts but they play a crucial part in their story; from Saharan sandstorms nearly a mile high to desert rivers that run for a single day; from the brief blooming of Death Valley in the USA, to a plague of desert locusts 40 miles wide and 100 miles long - two events that might occur once in 30 years.

The highlight of the programme is a unique aerial voyage over the dunes and rocky escarpments of a Namibian desert. From this lofty viewpoint, we follow elephants on a desperate trek for food and - most amazingly of all - desert lions searching the wilderness for wandering bands of oryx.

The programme unravels the secrets behind desert survival - and reveals the ephemeral nature of this stunning environment.

BBC One

An exploration of the wild and beautiful parts of our planet.

David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary series, filmed over four years across 64 different countries.

The Games Today

The Games Today: Beijing 2008

The Games Today: Beijing 2008: Day Eight

Day Eight

Beijing 2008

BBC One - The Games Today, Beijing 2008, Day Eight

Highlights from the eighth day of action at the Beijing Olympics.

Highlights and analysis from the eighth day of action at the Beijing Olympics, the busiest day of the Games so far.

Highlights and analysis from the eighth day of action at the Beijing Olympics, the busiest day of the Games so far - 30 gold medals were decided on what could have been a 'super Saturday' for Team GB.

Daily round-up of action from the Beijing Olympics

Olympics 2008: Games Today

Last Choir Standing

Last Choir Standing: Episode 11

Episode 11

BBC One - Last Choir Standing, Episode 11

The final five choirs perform in front of the judges in the second live knockout show.

The final five choirs perform in front of the judges in the second live knockout show. Please note phone lines may now be closed.

Myleene Klass and Nick Knowles host the search for Britain's best choir. 

The final five choirs perform in the second live knockout show. Judges Russell Watson, Sharon D Clarke and Suzi Digby give their verdict on the choirs' performances, but their fate ultimately rests in the hands of the voting public.

Myleene Klass and Nick Knowles host the search for Britain's best choir.

BBC Proms

BBC Radio 3

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2008

BBC Proms: 2008: Great Conductors

Great Conductors

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2008, Great Conductors

Pierre Boulez conducts Janacek's Sinfonietta; Daniel Barenboim with Brahms's 4th Symphony.

Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Janacek's popular Sinfonietta and Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Brahms's Fourth Symphony.

Investigating the art of conducting and showcasing the work of two of the greatest living conductors, both appearing at this year's Proms - Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim. 

Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Janacek's popular Sinfonietta and Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - formed of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians - perform Brahms's Fourth Symphony. 

Especially recorded for this programme is an exclusive, in-depth conversation between Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez who talk about their views on conducting. 

Presenter Suzy Klein is joined by Clive Anderson, fresh from his first appearance hosting BBC TWO's new all-star conducting series 'Maestro' earlier in the week, as well as the young English conductor Alexander Shelley and the first famous amateur to be voted out of the 'Maestro' series.

Digital viewers can press red for programme notes during the performance.

BBC Four

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

Selected coverage from the classical concerts of the Proms 114th season.

BBC Proms 2008

featuring Janacek's Sinfonietta and Brahms's Fourth Symphony

A Little Later: Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Solomon Burke

10/01/2001

Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Solomon Burke

BBC Two - A Little Later, Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Solomon Burke

Soul legend Solomon Burke joins Jools and his orchestra for Everybody Needs Somebody.

Performances from the Later... with Jools Holland archive. Soul legend Solomon Burke joins Jools and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra to perform the classic Everybody Needs Somebody.

Armageddon

18/01/2003

BBC Three - Armageddon

Sci-fi thriller in which there are 18 days to save the world from an approaching asteroid.

Sci-fi thriller starring Bruce Willis. The American government discovers that it has just days to stop an approaching asteroid, and assembles a motley crew of oil drillers.

A giant global-killing asteroid, like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, is 18 days away from hitting the Earth. NASA's been caught with their pants down and needs a new plan to stop the rock. They enlist the help of Harry Stamper, an expert deep-core driller, to train their astronauts and help them drill into the asteroid and plant a nuclear bomb.

BBC Three

A multi-platform service for 16-34s, featuring comedy, entertainment and factual content.

The BBC’s multi-platform service for 16 to 34s, innovating with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intellectual factual content.

Glastonbury: 2008: The Fratellis/Estelle

The Fratellis/Estelle

BBC Music - Glastonbury, 2008, The Fratellis/Estelle

Featuring Estelle on the Jazz World Stage.

UK R'n'B star Estelle performs at Glastonbury, with tracks from her album Shine including American Boy and Wait A Minute (Just A Touch) plus earlier hits including Free and 1980.

UK R'n'B star Estelle performs on the Jazz World Stage at Glastonbury, including tracks from her Mercury Prize-nominated album Shine such as American Boy and Wait A Minute (Just A Touch) plus earlier hits including Free and 1980.

Verve at Glastonbury

Olympics: 2008: Day Nine

17/08/2008

Day Nine

BBC Sport - Olympics, 2008, Day Nine

Women's marathon, swimming finals, men's hockey, cycling and beach volleyball.

Live coverage of the women's marathon, with swimming finals, Great Britain's men's hockey match against Canada, cycling qualifiers, beach volleyball and women's basketball.

Hazel Irvine presents live coverage from the streets of Beijing as Great Britain's Mara Yamauchi and Liz Yelling race for gold in the women's marathon.

With all the action of the last day from the pool, including finals of the women's 50m freestyle, men's 1500m freestyle and men's and women's 4x100m medley. Great Britain's David Davies is a chance in the 1500m, while American Michael Phelps will be looking to add to his string of medals in the 4x100 medley.

Plus, coverage of Great Britain's men's hockey group match against Canada, cycling qualifiers, beach volleyball and women's basketball.

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