Thierry Henry is part of the BBC's World Cup commentary team. There is only one of him, however.
In this series of posts, we've drawn together a thorough (but not exhaustive) list of broadcasting highlights from across the BBC. We'll be doing this every week, around 3-5pm on Fridays.
It’s a big - if late - day for football tomorrow (Saturday) and we have all the action from England’s opening World Cup Game against Italy (10.20pm on BBC One, and 11.00pm on Radio 5 Live) at the Arena Amazonia in Manaus.
World Cup Music
Throughout the World Cup, 6 Music will be celebrating the music and culture of South America:
Gilles Peterson (3.00pm, Saturday) takes a musical journey from Brazilian samba to Venezuelan merengue via tango, bossa nova and bachata.
Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone (8.00pm, Sunday) looks at the Brazilian counter-culture movement, Tropicália.
Cerys on 6 (10.00am, Sunday) is joined by Brazilian music aficionado, Jody Gillett.
Just Like Hearing Brazil With Gilles Peterson (1.00pm, Sunday) looks at the country’s two passions of music and football.
On Radio 2, Gilles Peterson’s Musica Brasileira (10.00pm, Tuesday) takes us on a tour of Brazilian music history from the birth of the samba to punk rockers in Sao Paulo, including music from the favelas as well as big artists.
World War One
To mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, historian Heather Jones tackles the familiar image of a war centred on a static front line in Northern Europe in The Weekend Documentary: World War One (9.00am, Saturday, World Service).
World War One At Home is at the River Mersey Festival in Liverpool this weekend, and we have a range of BBC iPlayer exclusives with a series of short films WW1 Uncut (Thursday) including Combat In The Skies, Origins Rap Battle, and Myths And Confusion.
We have Blood, Smack And Tears: Afghanistan’s Heroin Hell (9.00pm, Wednesday, BBC Three) which explores the country’s heroin addiction and follows two young addicts - Jawad and Babrak - as they try to kick their habits and get their lives back together in a country ravaged by war, poverty and hard drugs.
Other highlights
Tune into Radio 4’s Dangerous Visions, a series of new dramas exploring contemporary takes on future dystopias including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (2.30pm, Saturday) starring Derek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell, and Tao Lin's curious tale about a prisoner in 2042 who depicts a society addicted to sleep in A Message Of Unknown Purpose (12.30am, Sunday).
You can also hear works by new writers in Radio 4’s Writing Lives which begins this week with Treats (7.45pm, Sunday), about a 21-year-old woman who leaves her childhood home in Manchester for a new job in Southampton in the early Eighties…
Don’t miss Friday Night Is Music Night (8.00pm, tonight, Radio 2) which is dedicated to Tony Blackburn who celebrates 50 years on the airwaves, and on Thursday the broadcaster speaks to Performer In The Portrait (10.00pm, Thursday, Radio 2) as his portrait is painted… Fostering And Me with Lorraine Pascale (9.00pm, Thursday, BBC Two) follows the TV chef as she traces her own personal story in foster care…
Art .. on the Radio
Radio 2 celebrates art and painting with a week of special programming:
- Colour On The Radio; - Vanessa Feltz (5.00am, Monday, Radio 2) takes a different word from the world of Art each day this week - Chris Evans (6.30am, Monday) explores the history of making colour from pig bladders to oil tubes, and - Jeremy Vine (12.00pm, Wednesday) visits the National Gallery and finds out how blind people can experience art.
... and also on TV
Meanwhile, BBC One has announced new series The Big Picture which will see Una Stubbs, Richard Bacon, Lachlan Goudie and Daphne Todd on a nationwide search for Britain’s best amateur artist.
If you’re after some culinary or gardening inspiration, then visit the BBC Good Food Show and BBC Gardeners’ World Live, in Birmingham this weekend…
Blue Peter (5.30pm) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its first ever guide dog puppy appeal by welcoming a brand-new two-month-old trainee guide dog into the Blue Peter family on Thursday.
Also coming up this week ... Documentaries
Horizon: Where Is Flight MH370 (9.00pm, Tuesday, BBC Two) has access to key players on the frontline in the southern Indian Ocean and the British satellite engineers who tracked the plane’s final hours.
Generation Right (8.00pm, Monday, Radio 4) investigates if today’s under-30s are a new right-wing political generation, becoming more conservative with age.
Three-part BBC Two series Tigers about the House (8.00pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) follows British tiger expert Giles Clark as he hand-rears new Sumatran tiger cubs and gives an intimate portrayal of the animal’s crucial early development.
The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins (9.00pm, Tuesday, BBC Four) tells the story of an extraordinary science experiment to teach a dolphin to speak English.
Between The Ears: Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom (9.30pm, Saturday, Radio 3) is a musical fantasy by Jakko M Jakszyk, woven around the real-life 1964 dinner party encounter between TS Eliot and Groucho Marx.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, there’s another chance to hear former Black Panther and music legend Nile Rodgers’ assessment of the struggle for African-American civil rights in the 1960s and beyond in Walking With The Wind: America’s Civil Rights Struggle (10.00pm, Wednesday, Radio 2).
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss shares her extraordinary life story with Michael Berkeley in Radio 3’s Private Passions (12.00pm, Sunday).
Entertainment
As part of Radio 2’s Guitar Season the flamenco guitarist Paco Pena – The Spirit of Flamenco (10.00pm, Monday) goes on a personal journey to explore how the religion and music of southern Spain have come together to create one of the most infectious sounds of world music.
Music
Mary Ann Kennedy presents World on 3 (11.00pm, tonight, Radio 3) with music from Uganda, and from the Caribbean islands of St Kitts and Nevis.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss, Tom Service presents a special edition of Music Matters: Strauss 150 (12.15pm, Saturday, Radio 3) as he travels to the composer’s former home.
On Tuesday Live In Concert: Aldeburgh Festival (7.30pm, Tuesday) includes performances by Christian Blackshaw.
Opera On 3 (7.30pm, Monday, Radio 3) has a rare opportunity to hear Arnold Schoenberg's masterpiece ‘Moses und Aron’ from the Welsh National Opera.
Chrissie Hynde (4.00pm, Sunday, 6 Music) stands in for Iggy Pop and spins two hours of her favourite tunes.
Sport
In the World Cup 2014 tonight Mexico play Cameroon (5.00pm, Radio 5 Live) and Gary Lineker introduces Group B’s opening match as current World Cup holders Spain play the Netherlands(7.30pm, BBC One).
Tomorrow we have all the action from England’s opening game England v Italy (10.20pm on BBC One, and 11.00pm on Radio 5 Live) in Manaus, and it’s Colombia against Greece ( Saturday, 5.00pm on Radio 5 Live, and 4.30pm on BBC One) in their first World Cup appearance for 16 years.
Our extensive World Cup group match commentary continues over the week. You can keep up to date with all the fixtures, coverage and results, and find details of match re-runs and highlights on our dedicated World Cup webpage.
Not forgetting, of course ... Test Match Special: England v Sri Lanka (10.25am, today, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra).
Tune in for live commentary of the Rugby Union: New Zealand v England (8.20am, Saturday).
Sue Barker presents live coverage of the Queen’s Club: Semi-Finals (1.15pm, Saturday) with the Queens Club: Men’s Finals (2.00pm, BBC Two) on Sunday.
Wimbledon Classics: Ladies Final 1978 and 1993 (11.15am, Saturday, BBC Two) looks back at two of the tournament’s most memorable ladies’ singles matches - Chris Evert v Martina Navratilova, and Steffi Graf against Jana Novotna.
Matthew Pinsent has highlights of the first round of the Canoe Slalom World Cup (1.00pm, Sunday, BBC Two) taking place at the Lee Valley White Water Centre. John Inverdale hosts live tennis coverage from Eastbourne (1.00pm, Tuesday - Friday, BBC Two) as the world’s players fine-tune their grass-court game ahead of the Championships at Wimbledon.
Children's Programming
John poses as a soprano at the Royal College of Music in Help: My School Trip Is Magic (5.25pm, Wednesday, CBBC).
In Strange Hill High (5.00pm, Tuesday) the trio discover a portal to the inside of Abercrombie’s head.
Kate and her friends make banana and blueberry ice-cream in I Can Cook (3.05pm, Thursday, CBeebies).