Written by Make Me a Mixtape (Radio 1) | BBC Sounds 16 Sunsets (Antica and Telltale Studios) | Global Player Radio 3 Unwind | BBC SoundsHow to Play: Holst’s The Planets with the Royal College of Music and Sibelius Academy Orchestra (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds Ooh, a new season of one of the jolliest music […]
A capricious and cruel autocrat handing out privileges and punishments, women struggling to assert themselves, the populist mob at the gate – and through it all a decent man, we hope, steers a hazardous course. The first two books of Hilary Mantel’s epic Wolf Hall trilogy became a BBC series in 2015, and now the […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A glittery goodnight Well, who’s Blackpool-bound and who’s doomed for minibreak heartbreak? That concludes tonight’s liveblog action but meet you back here for the Remembrance Sunday results show, which airs at 7.20pm Sunday on BBC1. I’ll kickstart the blog at 6.50pm […]
Despite the fun-filled antics of The Parent Trap, Big Business and various Olsen twin films, running into your doppelganger is an existentially horrifying prospect. In Mirror Image, one of the finest episodes of The Twilight Zone, the bone-chilling terror of such an encounter is uncovered over 25 taut minutes, with a woman in 1960s New […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature DGPHOK says: “Couples Choice is not ballroom or Latin. It seems to be a bye to the next week. Liked both dance off contestants, such a shame.” Belette adds: “You absolutely have to buy in to it being a popularity contest, […]
Happy season of pumpkin-based food waste! Or, if you prefer, Halloween. Like all humans since the dawn of time, the extra hours of darkness that autumn brings will no doubt have many ask: “Where are the creepy podcasts at?” You’re in luck. We’ve got a run-down of the finest spooky listens, from horror podcasts to […]
The Franchise Monday, 10pm, Sky ComedyWhat happens on the set of a ridiculous, big-budget superhero movie? This new spoof comedy from Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep, I’m Alan Partridge), Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes and Succession’s Jon Brown shows us. The series follows first assistant director Daniel (Himesh Patel) and his team, Dag (Lolly […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Music, mooing and jump-scares on TV tonight Viewers can now flip to ITV1 for The Voice UK semi-final or to BBC2 for Florence + the Machine at the Proms. And possibly attempt a tango. If hands-up-the-back-end-of-cows is more your scene, it’s […]
Standing in the shadow of Rome’s most-famous monument, Gabriela Sirtoli, a tourist from Brazil, admitted that the Italian capital was not quite living up to her expectations. She had arrived one day earlier with her partner and their mothers, in part lured by the beguiling scenes of the city she had spotted in the series […]