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Balamory

Find out what the story is in Balamory with Miss Hoolie and the gang.

Balamory: Series 3

Balamory: Series 3: Episode 189: Suzie's Flying Lesson

Episode 189

Episode 189: Suzie's Flying Lesson

Balamory - CBeebies - BBC

Suzie Sweet needs help looking at Balamory from the sky during her flying lesson.

Children's show. Suzie Sweet takes another flying lesson. She needs someone to help her look at Balamory from the sky and tell the children how it looks.

Suzie's Flying Lesson

Series 3

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.

Find out what the story is in Balamory with Miss Hoolie and the gang

Teletubbies

Welcome to Teletubbyland! Join in the fun with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laalaa and Po.

Welcome to Teletubbyland! Join in the fun with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laalaa and Po as they learn lots of new, exciting things about the real world. Perfect for curious little minds!

Teletubbies: Collecting Stones

22/08/2000

Collecting Stones

Teletubbies - CBeebies - BBC

The Teletubbies sit down for Tubby Toast. After they've eaten, some more toast arrives.

Preschool fun, fantasy and education with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The Teletubbies sit down for Tubby Toast. After they have eaten, more toast arrives.

Preschool fun, fantasy and education with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po. The Teletubbies sit down for Tubby Toast. After they've eaten, some more toast lands on their plates. They eat that, and more toast lands again. Tinky Winky is full up, so he gives his to Dipsy. Dipsy is full up, so he gives his to Laa-Laa. Laa-Laa is full up so she gives hers to Po. Then Po is full up, so the Noo Noo eats her Tubby Toast.

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64 Zoo Lane

Cartoon series about Lucy, who lives next door to a zoo and is told stories by the animals

Cartoon series about Lucy, who lives next door to a zoo and every night is told a story by the animals

64 Zoo Lane: Series 1

64 Zoo Lane: Series 1: Episode 4: The Story of Snowbert the Polar Bear

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Story of Snowbert the Polar Bear

64 Zoo Lane - CBeebies - BBC

Lucy hears the tale of Snowbert, a lonely polar bear who makes a friend.

Cartoon series about a girl who lives next to a zoo and is told stories by the animals. Lucy hears the tale of Snowbert, a lonely polar bear.

Cartoon series about a girl who lives next door to a zoo and every night is told a story by the animals. Lucy hears the tale of Snowbert, a lonely polar bear who makes a friend.

The Story of Snowbert the Polar Bear

Series 1

Cartoon series about Lucy, who lives next door to a zoo is told stories by the animals.

Cartoon series about Lucy, who lives next door to a zoo and every night is told a story by the animals.

Boogie Beebies

Children's music programme. A chance for viewers to dance with Nat and Pete

Boogie Beebies: Penguin Bop - Tuesday

25/09/2007

Penguin Bop - Tuesday

CBeebies - Boogie Beebies, Penguin Bop - Tuesday

Would you like to fly-bop like a penguin? Then come and boop boop de do with Pete and Nat.

Children's music programme. A chance for viewers to dance. Would you like to fly-bop like a penguin? Then come and boop boop de do with Pete and Nat.

LazyTown

Fun with pink-haired eight-year-old Stephanie and superhero Sportacus.

Fun with pink-haired eight-year-old Stephanie and superhero Sportacus

LazyTown: Series 1

LazyTown: Series 1: Episode 2: Dr Rottenstein

Episode 2

Episode 2: Dr Rottenstein

Dr Rottenstein

CBeebies - LazyTown, Series 1, Dr Rottenstein

Villain Robbie Rotten declares the town under quarantine from Spotty Vegetitus.

Fun with pink-haired Stephanie, an optimistic eight-year-old, and superhero Sportacus. Robbie Rotten, the laziest villain, has a plan to stop everyone being healthy.

Fun with pink-haired Stephanie, an enthusiastic eight-year-old, and superhero Sportacus, as they learn how to make healthy choices and get active.

Robbie Rotten, the laziest villain in the world, has a plan to stop everyone being healthy. He disguises himself as Dr Rottenstein, sprinkling the vegetables and the kids with spots and declaring the town under quarantine from Spotty Vegetitus. Anything healthy is banned - especially Sportacus. Can Ziggy help save the day?

Charlie and Lola: Christmas Special

Charlie and Lola

Join siblings Lola and Charlie as they deal with topics that affect their everyday lives.

Charlie has a little sister called Lola. She’s small and very funny. She’s still learning life’s lessons and Charlie has lots of fun helping her along the way.

Charlie and Lola: How Many More Minutes to Christmas?

24/12/2006

How Many More Minutes to Christmas?

Charlie and Lola - CBeebies - BBC

Lola discovers there is no door for Christmas Day on her advent calendar.

Children's animation with brother and sister Charlie and Lola. Lola discovers there is no door for Christmas Day on her advent calendar.

Children's animation. A brother and sister deal with topics that affect their everyday lives. 

Lola is excited because Christmas is coming, and she and Charlie are taking turns to open the advent calendar. Everything is set for the perfect Christmas until Lola discovers that there is no door for Christmas Day. Desperate to find out why, Charlie and Lola scramble inside the calendar and confirm their worst fears - Christmas has ground to a halt!

The First Snow of Winter

25/12/1998

BBC Two - The First Snow of Winter

Animated tale of a duck who faces a winter alone after missing the annual migration south.

Animated tale of a duck who faces a winter alone after missing the annual migration south. With the voices of Miriam Margolyes and Dermot Morgan.

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.

The Life of Mammals

The Life of Mammals: Episode 2: Insect Hunters

Episode 2: Insect Hunters

Insect Hunters

BBC One - The Life of Mammals, Insect Hunters

David Attenborough looks at the mammals that hunt insects.

Nature documentary series. David Attenborough meets moles that can swim through sand, a shrew that hunts underwater and the world's strangest bat in New Zealand.

David Attenborough looks at the mammals that hunt insects. These creatures shared the planet with the dinosaurs, but when the giant reptiles disappeared they seized their chance to conquer new territory. David meets moles that swim through sand, a shrew that hunts underwater and another that sprints down polished running tracks so fast that most predators can't catch it.

Some ancient insect hunters are surprisingly familiar. In his garden in London, David watches the seemingly painful act of hedgehog courtship.

Giant anteaters and pangolins are less familiar, and perhaps the most bizarre-looking mammals on the planet. David meets a giant anteater first-hand. It may be dim-witted, but it also has the longest claws of any mammal - and the longest tongue too, which is just the job for a diet made up exclusively of ants and termites.

Many insects can fly and are out of reach for ground-dwelling mammals, but early in the mammals' history, probably when the dinosaurs still roamed, the insect hunters took to the air. Spectacular aerial photography at night shows how these bats catch their prey, including one British bat - the natterer - that catches spiders from their webs without getting tangled in the silk.

David takes his story full circle when he meets the world's strangest bat in New Zealand. When darkness falls, the bat drops to the ground, folds up its wings and hunts insects like a shrew.

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David Attenborough looks at why mammals are the most successful creatures on the planet.

David Attenborough presents a nature documentary series looking at why mammals are the most successful creatures on the planet.

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 2: Blencathra

Episode 2: Blencathra

Blencathra

BBC Four - Wainwright Walks, Series 1, Blencathra

Julia Bradbury sets off to climb her first mountain, Blencathra, and tackles Sharp Edge.

Series in which Julia Bradbury explores the work of Britain's greatest fell walker Alfred Wainwright. Julia climbs her first mountain, Blencathra, and tackles Sharp Edge.

Julia Bradbury sets off to climb her first mountain, Blencathra. Her route to the summit sees her tackle Sharp Edge, the Lake District's most technical and vertigo-inducing ridge climb. In the process, she discovers why the obsessive Wainwright chose to cover this fell in more detail than any other.

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.

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Timeshift: Series 8

Timeshift: Series 8: Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film

09/10/2008

Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film

Series 8

BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 8, Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film

Andrew Martin examines how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers.

Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Wordsworth and Dickens to The Railway Children.

Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. 

Lovers parting at the station, runaway carriages and secret assignations in confined compartments - railways have long been a staple of romance, mystery and period drama. But at the beginning of the railway age, locomotives were seen as frightening and unnatural. Wordsworth decried the destruction of the countryside, while Dickens wrote about locomotives as murderous brutes, bent on the destruction of mere humans. Hardly surprising, as he had been involved in a horrific railway accident himself. 

Martin traces how trains gradually began to be accepted - Holmes and Watson were frequent passengers - until by the time of The Railway Children they were something to be loved, a symbol of innocence and Englishness. He shows how trains made for unforgettable cinema in The 39 Steps and Brief Encounter, and how when the railways fell out of favour after the 1950s, their plight was highlighted in the films of John Betjeman.

Finally, Martin asks whether, in the 21st century, Britain's railways can still stir and inspire artists.

A series of documentaries exploring British cultural history

Steam Days

Steam Days: The Fishing Line

The Fishing Line

BBC Two - Steam Days, The Fishing Line

Miles Kington travels on one of the most picturesque railways in Britain.

First transmitted in 1986, Miles Kington travels across the western Highlands on one of the most picturesque railways in Britain, from Fort William to Mallaig.

First transmitted in 1986, Miles Kington experiences the power of a London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier 'Black Five' on a journey from Fort William across the western Highlands via Glenfinnan to Mallaig.

While observing breathtaking scenery and stunning engineering achievements, including Glenfinnan viaduct, Kington uncovers what the West Highland Line meant to the traditional crofting communities that had been devastated by the Highland clearances.

The Story of an African Farm

23/12/2008

BBC Two - The Story of an African Farm

Drama about three children who are brought up on a South African farm in the 1870s.

Based on a classic, controversial novel about three children brought up on an isolated South African farm in the 1870s by a strict religious aunt. Featuring Richard E Grant.

Drama about three children who are brought up on an isolated South African farm in the 1870s. Em, Lyndall, and Waldo slog their way through the biblical strictures laid down by Em's stepmother, the imperiously huffy Tant Sannie. Respite is found in the bosom of Waldo's father, a farm manager and holy fool. The repression intensifies with the mythic appearance of Bonaparte Blenkins, a con man with a gift for sweet talk and hellfire.

Murder, She Wrote

Detective drama series following the adventures of Jessica Fletcher

Detective drama series following the adventures of Jessica Fletcher, successful mystery novelist and a talented amateur sleuth

Murder, She Wrote: Series 8

Murder, She Wrote: Series 8: Episode 5: Lines of Excellence

Episode 5

Episode 5: Lines of Excellence

Lines of Excellence

BBC Two - Murder, She Wrote, Series 8, Lines of Excellence

A student with a past shows Jessica the future with personal computing.

More crime-busting with the writer-turned-sleuth. A student with a past shows Jessica the future with personal computing, but then a man gets 'deleted'.

Flog It!

Members of the public try to make money out of their antiques by taking a risk at auction.

Paul Martin and his team of experts invite members of the public to bring their antiques to be viewed and valued, with an option to sell at auction.

Flog It!: Series 4

Flog It!: Series 4: Episode 20: Worthing

Episode 20

Episode 20: Worthing

Series 4

Worthing

BBC One - Flog It!, Series 4, Worthing

Pauul Martin visits the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum.

Paul Martin presents from Worthing as members of the public try to make money out of their antiques at auction. Paul also visits the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum.

Paul Martin and his team of experts invite the public to bring their antiques to be valued

Escape to the Country

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A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country

Escape to the Country: Series 6

Escape to the Country: Series 6: Swindon to Sussex

26/11/2007

Swindon to Sussex

Series 6

BBC One - Escape to the Country, Series 6, Swindon to Sussex

A couple from near Swindon are hoping to find their dream house in Sussex.

Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. Alistair Appleton helps a couple from near Swindon who are hoping to find their dream house in Sussex.

Catherine Gee helps people to househunt their perfect country home

Ready Steady Cook

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes

Ready Steady Cook: Series 18

Ready Steady Cook: Series 18: Xmas Special - Rani Price and Matthew Skilton

Xmas Special - Rani Price and Matthew Skilton

Series 18

BBC Two - Ready Steady Cook, Series 18, Xmas Special - Rani Price and Matthew Skilton

TV presenters Rani Price and Matthew Skilton sharpen their culinary skills.

TV presenters Rani Price and Matthew Skilton take a break from wildlife watching and sharpen their culinary skills.

Chefs create a meal in just twenty minutes

Seabiscuit

26/02/2005

BBC One - Seabiscuit

Stirring real-life drama set in the 1930s about the world-famous racehorse.

Stirring real-life drama in which a jockey, a trainer and an entrepreneur buy an undersized thoroughbred with the hope of it becoming a world-class racehorse. With Tobey Maguire.

Stirring real-life drama based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand. A jockey, a trainer and a grieving entrepreneur buy and train an undersized thoroughbred with the hope of it becoming a world-class racehorse. Set in 1930s America, the story of the small horse that came from behind became a symbol of hope for a Depression-weary nation.

Welsh Way of Life

Documentary series looking at the change in Welsh lifestyles over the years

Welsh Way of Life: Age of Innocence

07/03/2006

Age of Innocence

BBC Two - Welsh Way of Life, Age of Innocence

The story of how childhood in Wales has changed over the last century.

Documentary looking at how life in the Welsh countryside has changed over the last 50 years. The story of how childhood in Wales has changed over the last century.

Documentary looking at how life in the Welsh countryside has changed over the last 50 years. The story of how childhood in Wales has changed over the last century, featuring rare clips from the archives. Discover why childhood is a twentieth century invention, why the war was good for children in Wales, and how many kids you could fit into a school bus in 1971.

A Child's Christmas in Wales

BBC Two - A Child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas's poetic prose evokes the humour and pathos of Christmas between the Wars.

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