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Oct 22, 2026

11 programmes

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Gareth Edwards's Great Welsh Adventure

3/5. It's a scorcher as Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen get to the seaside resort of Llandudno. [S] [HD]

Light and Dark

1/2. Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how mathematicians and scientists such as Euclid, Galileo and Ole Roemer have used light to reveal almost everything we know about the universe. [S] [HD]

The Planets

2/5. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system, revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets. [S,AD,SL] [HD]

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Where Eagles Dare

Seven paratroopers are sent on a seemingly impossible mission. [1968] [S] [HD]

Mercury Prize 2026: Album of the Year

Lauren Laverne presents the Mercury Prize Album of the Year from the Newcastle Arena. Contains some strong language and scenes of flashing images. [S] [HD]

North by Northwest

Classic, darkly comic Hitchcock thriller in which an adman is pursued both by spies, who mistake him for a double agent, and by the police, who think he is an assassin. [1959] [S]

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