BBC Two

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

BBC Two Northern Ireland

Me Too!

Drama for four- to six-year-olds about parents at work and their child-minded children

Drama series for four- to six-year-olds about the parallel lives of parents at work and their children, who stay with warm-hearted minder Granny Murray

Me Too!: Series 2

Me Too!: Series 2: Episode 51: Panto

Episode 51

Episode 51: Panto

Series 2

Panto

CBeebies - Me Too!, Series 2, Panto

Raymond can't get to Drumtown to perform his panto because of train problems.

Children's drama about the parallel adventures of parents at work and their children. Raymond cannot get to Drumtown to perform his panto because of train problems.

Children's drama series about the parallel adventures of parents at work and their children with childminder Granny Murray. Raymond can't get to Drumtown to perform his panto because of train problems, so Tina decides to bring the audience to him.

CBeebies

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes.

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes, dedicated to delighting and surprising its pre-school audience.

Pre-school series about the parallel lives of parents at work and their children.

Big Cook Little Cook

Cookery series with Big Cook and foot-high Little Cook.

Cookery series with Big Cook and foot-high Little Cook. Together they run a special cafe where every day a different customer calls in for a tasty treat.

Big Cook Little Cook: Series 3

Big Cook Little Cook: Series 3: Episode 44: Xmas Special

Episode 44

Episode 44: Xmas Special

Series 3

Xmas Special

CBeebies - Big Cook Little Cook, Series 3, Xmas Special

Father Christmas visits, so Ben and Small make him a meringue snowman.

Cookery series with Big Cook Ben and foot-high Little Cook Small. Father Christmas is their customer today and they make him a meringue snowman.

Cookery series with Big Cook Ben and foot-high Little Cook Small. Ben and Small are putting up the Christmas decorations in the cafe. Father Christmas is their customer today and they make him a meringue snowman. Small flies off to get some marmalade to use in the recipe, and to thank Ben and Small for his meal, Father Christmas leaves a present. It's a star to go on the top of their tree.

Children's cookery series with Big Cook Ben and foot-high Little Cook Small

Brum

What secret adventures will Brum get up to today?

What secret adventures will Brum get up to today? Baddies of Big Town beware, Brum’s here to stop you in your tracks!

Brum: Series 3

Brum: Series 3: Episode 10: Brum and the Runaway Train

Episode 10

Episode 10: Brum and the Runaway Train

Brum and the Runaway Train

CBeebies - Brum, Series 3, Brum and the Runaway Train

The Big Town Mayor gets stuck on a funfair train ride that he has been asked to open.

Adventures with the little car that lives in a motor museum

Pingu

Preschool stop-frame animation about Pingu, a charming and cheeky young penguin

Preschool stop-frame animation about Pingu, a charming and cheeky young penguin who is always up to mischief, finding himself in comical situations in his snowy world

Pingu: Series 2

Pingu: Series 2: Episode 11: Little Accidents

Episode 11

Episode 11: Little Accidents

Little Accidents

CBeebies - Pingu, Series 2, Little Accidents

Pingu rushes to the loo because he has drunk too much, but his father is in the bathroom.

Animation. Pingu has to rush to the loo because he has drunk too much, but his father is in the bathroom. When he does get in the toilet, it is simply too high.

Animated adventures with Pingu, the intelligent but rather clumsy penguin who is occasionally misunderstood by those around him. 

Pingu has to rush to the loo because he has drunk too much. When he gets home, however, his father is in the bathroom and then when he does get in the toilet, it is simply too high.

Featuring the adventures of Pingu, the clumsy young penguin who feels he is misunderstood

Children's series featuring the adventures of Pingu, the clumsy young penguin who feels he is misunderstood

Arthur

Animation following the adventures of the world's most famous aardvark.

Follow the adventures of the world's most famous aardvark, eight-year-old Arthur Read, and his family and friends.

Arthur: Series 2

Arthur: Series 2: Episode 7: DW's Snow Mystery/Team Trouble

Episode 7

Episode 7: DW's Snow Mystery/Team Trouble

Arthur - CBBC - BBC

DW wonders what happened to her snowball, and Arthur must do a report on ancient Rome.

Animation. DW wonders what happened to her snowball, and Arthur must do a report on ancient Rome.

DW saves everything. Her most prized possession is a snowball from last winter - but it has disappeared. It is time to find the culprit and detective Buster is on the case. Maybe it's Arthur? Maybe it's Grandma Thora? Maybe it's space aliens? Can anyone solve the case of the mysteriously vanishing snowball?

Arthur, Francine and Buster must do a report on ancient Rome, but can they work as a team to complete the assignment?

DW's Snow Mystery/Team Trouble

CBBC

The BBC's multiplatform offering bringing the very best programmes to 6-12 year olds.

CBBC is the BBC's multiplatform offering for 6-12 year olds bringing the very best drama, entertainment and factual programmes to its young viewers.

Animation following the adventures of a young aardvark and his friends

Inside Life

Inside Life: Episode 4: Garter Snakes

Episode 4

Episode 4: Garter Snakes

Garter Snakes

CBBC - Inside Life, Garter Snakes

Matt Brough joins the Life team to help film garter snakes in the heart of Canada.

Behind-the-scenes wildlife show. Matt Brough joins the Life team to help film garter snakes in the heart of Canada.

Ten CBBC agents have been given exclusive access to David Attenborough's latest blockbuster wildlife series -  Life. From polar bears in the freezing Arctic to tigers in the steaming jungles of India, each agent gets their own special mission to go behind the scenes to see just what it takes to film a stunning wildlife sequence. Working alongside the BBC's Natural History Unit, they get hands-on to climb high into a Thailand rainforest to film gibbons, dive wrecks covered in corals in the Bahamas and travel to the remote islands of Komodo to track down dragons.

Every year thousands upon thousands of snakes come wriggling out from their dens deep in the heart of Canada. But before Matt Brough can join the Life team on location, and help film this wildlife spectacular, he must hitch a ride with an RAF Search and Rescue helicopter to find out how a thermal imaging camera could be used to help reveal some unusual cold-blooded garter snake behaviour.

Behind the scenes of the BBC Natural History Unit's series, Life.

Kids go behind the scenes of the BBC Natural History Unit's series, Life, to find out what it takes to get footage of the world's most extraordinary wildlife

Gimme a Break

Gimme a Break: Series 2

Gimme a Break: Series 2: Episode 4: Sandhu - Scotland

Episode 4: Sandhu - Scotland

Sandhu - Scotland

CBBC - Gimme a Break, Series 2, Sandhu - Scotland

Simran, Parminder and Moneeka are fed up with their family holidays and want a change.

Series in which kids take control of the family break. Simran, Parminder and Moneeka are fed up with their family holidays and want a change.

The show where the kids take over the family holiday. 

Simran, Parminder and Moneeka are fed up with their family holidays and want a change. They have three action-packed trips to choose from; they pick their favourite one and decide the family rules. They are completely in control; will Mum and Dad be able to cope? 

At the end of the break, the girls have to answer two out of three questions correctly in order to win a fantastic treat. If they get them wrong, their parents win the treat instead!

Wainwright Walks

An exploration of the work of Britain's greatest fell walker and author, Alfred Wainwright

Wainwright Walks: Series 1

Wainwright Walks: Series 1: Episode 4: Scafell Pike

Episode 4: Scafell Pike

Series 1

Scafell Pike

BBC Four - Wainwright Walks, Series 1, Scafell Pike

Julia Bradbury faces Scafell Pike and must reach the 978m summit before darkness falls.

Julia Bradbury explores the work of fell walker Alfred Wainwright. She faces Scafell Pike, England's highest peak, and must reach the 978m summit before darkness falls.

Julia Bradbury faces the ultimate Wainwright challenge of Scafell Pike. England's highest peak marks the climax of Julia's journey to explore the work, passion and the legacy of Alfred Wainwright, a man who has inspired millions with his illustrated guides to the Lake District. Before tackling the 3,000ft ascent, Julia seeks advice from celebrated fell runner and local sheep farmer, Jos Naylor. Then it's just a case of getting herself and her film crew to the roof of England before darkness falls.

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.

Julia Bradbury presents a series of walks in the footsteps of author Alfred Wainwright

Julia Bradbury presents a series of walks in the footsteps of the great British fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright.

Great Railway Journeys

Great Railway Journeys: Series 4: Episode 4: Los Mochis to Vera Cruz

Episode 4: Los Mochis to Vera Cruz

Series 4

Los Mochis to Vera Cruz

BBC Two - Great Railway Journeys, Series 4, Los Mochis to Vera Cruz

Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

Documentary series looking at the rail routes used by ordinary people. Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Cornish fish cook Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. 

As a young backpacker, Rick wandered all over Mexico and fell in love with the country and its hot, spicy cooking. He also worked on the railways as a tracklayer before reading English at Oxford and opening a seafood restaurant in Padstow. With such a background, Rick is very much at home travelling on the spectacular rail route through Copper Canyon and the Sierra Madre Mountains. 

With Mexico's railway in decline following privatisation, he has to be given his own private coach to complete a journey that takes him to Chihuahua, home of Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution, Durango, where they used to make the cowboy movies he loved as a small boy, and to Mexico City where he's driven around in an Art Deco Volkswagen Beetle made out of spare parts. 

But what makes Mexico tick? Rick thinks it is very like his cooking - an endless improvisation. What really defines the country is its randomness, the way things seem to work without any rules or regulations.

Great Railway Journeys: Series 4

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Public figures travel the world by train.

Pinocchio

24/12/2009

BBC Two - Pinocchio

A woodcarver makes a puppet boy who comes to life and embarks on many an adventure.

Live-action version of the classic children's story. A woodcarver who longs for a son makes a puppet boy who comes to life. Starring Roberto Benigni as Pinocchio.

Live-action version of the classic children's story directed by and starring Oscar winner Roberto Benigni. A woodcarver who longs for a son carves a puppet boy and calls him Pinocchio. 

When the puppet comes to life and starts to cause trouble, the woodcarver, Geppetto, is arrested, leaving Pinocchio to his own devices. Setting out on his own, Pinocchio resolves to find his father and become a real boy.

Coast

A journey around the coast of the United Kingdom uncovering different stories.

The Coast team take a fascinating journey around the shores of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.

Coast: Shorts

Coast: Shorts: Episode 89: Snowdonia to the Menai Straits

Episode 89

Episode 89: Snowdonia to the Menai Straits

Shorts

Snowdonia to the Menai Straits

BBC Two - Coast, Shorts, Snowdonia to the Menai Straits

Nicholas Crane canoes the treacherous Menai Straits.

Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane canoes the treacherous Menai Straits to examine the bridges across to Anglesey.

Series exploring Britain's coastline and the relationship between citizens and the sea. 

The team travel the Welsh coast from Snowdonia to the Menai Straits. Nicholas Crane canoes the treacherous Menai Straits to examine the bridges across to Anglesey, and visits Portmeiron, the setting for classic TV series The Prisoner.

Brief visits to Britain's beautiful coastline

South Pacific (1958)

South Pacific

12/04/1998

BBC Two - South Pacific

An American nurse working in the tropics during WWII falls in love with a French widower.

Adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's smash-hit musical set in the wartime tropics, telling the story of two love affairs in parallel. An American nurse falls in love with a local widowed planter.

Adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's smash-hit musical set in the wartime tropics, telling the story of two love affairs in parallel. An American nurse falls in love with a local widowed planter who is many years her senior, has children of his own and is very set in his ways. Meanwhile, a young Marine falls for a local native girl. Including hit songs Happy Talk, This Nearly Was Mine and Some Enchanted Evening.

The Tsarina's Slippers

BBC Two - The Tsarina's Slippers

A performance of Tchaikovsky's opera based on a Christmas story by Gogol.

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is the venue for this performance of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki), staged by The Royal Opera for the first time.

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is the venue for this performance of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki), staged by The Royal Opera for the first time.

Based on a Christmas story by Gogol that mixes folktale with fairytale fantasy, the plot tells how, in order to win the hand of his beloved Oxana, Vakula the blacksmith flies on the Devil's back to St Petersburg to request a pair of leather slippers worn by the Tsarina herself. 

On stage is an almost entirely Russian cast of singers directed in this new production by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Alexander Polianichko. The opera is introduced from Covent Garden by Katie Derham.

James May's Toy Stories

James May is out to prove why traditional, old fashioned toys are still relevant today

James May is out to prove why traditional, old fashioned toys are still relevant today when he pushes them to the limit in spectacular, supersize challenges

James May's Toy Stories: Series 1

James May's Toy Stories: Series 1: Episode 4: Scalextric

Episode 4: Scalextric

Scalextric

BBC Two - James May's Toy Stories, Series 1, Scalextric

James attempts to build a three-mile-long Scalextric track at Brooklands in Surrey.

James May subjects traditional toys to supersize challenges. Here, he attempts to build a three-mile-long Scalextric track at Brooklands in Surrey.

James May continues his quest to show what is possible with old-fashioned toys by using them on a scale never seen before. 

James attempts to build the biggest Scalextric track in the world, nearly three miles long, on the site of Britain's oldest grand prix track at Brooklands in Surrey. The track will have to go through people's gardens, over ponds and rivers and even negotiate a business park. Who will win the race of the century, the plucky locals or the team of Scalextric experts?

James May sets out to prove why traditional toys are still relevant today

Dad's Army: The Love of Three Oranges

Dad's Army

Sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War

20/10/1997

The Love of Three Oranges

BBC One - Dad's Army, The Love of Three Oranges

1976 Christmas special. Captain Mainwaring is determined to get an orange for his wife.

A special Christmas episode from 1976. Three oranges are to be auctioned, and Captain Mainwaring is determined to get one for his wife.

A special Christmas episode of the classic sitcom from 1976. The platoon decide to help the vicar with his bazaar to raise money for comforts for the troops. Three oranges are to be auctioned, and Captain Mainwaring is determined to get one for his wife.

BBC One

Carols from King's

A celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

It wouldn’t be Christmas without it. The world-famous choir's traditional candlelit celebration from the magnificent King's College chapel.

Carols from King's: 2009

2009

BBC Two - Carols from King's, 2009

A Celebration of Christmas from The Chapel of King's College Cambridge.

A Celebration of Christmas from King's College Cambridge. The story of the Nativity is told in the words of the King James Bible and the chapel choir sing carols old and new.

A Celebration of Christmas from The Chapel of King's College Cambridge.

The story of the Nativity is told in the familiar words of the King James Bible, along with Christmas poems by Cecil Day Lewis and Ted Hughes.

The famous chapel choir sing carols old and new, including favourites such as O Holy Night, The Sussex Carol, We Three Kings, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen and O Come, All Ye Faithful.

Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.

The Good Life: Christmas Special

The Good Life

Classic sitcom about a pair of diverse couples living next door to each other

Classic sitcom about a middle-class couple who decide to turn their home into a self-sufficient farm, starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington

The Good Life: Silly, But It's Fun

02/01/1998

Christmas Special

BBC One - The Good Life, Christmas Special

The Goods' and the Leadbetters' respective Christmases both fail to go according to plan.

Seasonal special of the suburban sitcom. The Goods and the Leadbetters plan their respective Christmases, but neither go according to plan. Classic from 1977.

The Goods and the Leadbetters plan their respective Christmases, but neither go according to plan. Classic comedy from 1977.

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