This Time with Alan Partridge - Q&A
Alan Partridge is returning to the BBC to fill in for regular presenter John Baskell as Jennie Gresham’s co-host on the popular magazine show This Time. Alan took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to tell us what we can expect...
Nadiya Hussain returns with new BBC Two series Time To Eat With Nadiya
We’re a nation that loves to cook and eat delicious food. But… we don’t always have the time. Nadiya cooks up delicious time-saving recipes for the end of a busy day, effortlessly impressive meals, and simple sweet treats that take no time at all in new show Time To Eat With Nadia.
Radio
BBC Radio 2, the UK’s most listened to radio station with a weekly audience of 14.9m, presents highlights for Spring 2019.
The BBC’s most revealing podcast returns with a second series. The Naked Podcast is back! Bigger, badder and... with added blokes!
BBC Radio 4 has confirmed further details for the 2019 Reith Lectures, to be given by Jonathan Sumption. The five lectures entitled Law and the Decline of Politics will broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service from 9am on Tuesday 21 May.
Comedy
With filming underway for the fifth series of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Inside No. 9, a host of talented actors are set join masterminds Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton as they create six brand new stand-alone stories which promise to bring more exceptionally twisted tales to BBC Two.
Created and written by Jimmy Donny Cosgrove and Paul McKenna, Warren, an original six part comedy series centres around the life of Warren Thompson (Martin Clunes), a pedantic driving instructor who thinks the world is against him.
A brand new six-part comedy series for BBC One. The Goes Wrong Show is based on the The Play That Goes Wrong and will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members who will be bringing their unique brand of physical theatre to the screen.
BBC Comedy and BBC Two has commissioned a new series from The Inbetweeners co-creators, Iain Morris and Damon Beesley. The series follows the mostly off-the-pitch misadventures of three young football players from a fictional Premier League team.
Drama
Golden Globe-winner Colin Farrell has boarded the BBC Two four-part thriller The North Water, being adapted and directed by multi award-winning Andrew Haigh.
Factual
In Rick Stein’s Secret France, a new six-part series on BBC Two, Rick Stein sets off on a new culinary adventure to search for France’s best kept gastronomic secrets.
BBC One and Dragonfly Film and Television, part of Endemol Shine UK, have today announced that a fifth series of the Bafta award-winning observational documentary Ambulance has been commissioned.
The Hairy Bikers are about to embark on their most iconic road trip to date: America’s Route 66, spanning over two thousand miles of tarmac from Chicago to California.
Wales
Presented and written by historian Professor Martin Johnes, Wales: England’s Colony? will challenge some of the most fundamental ideas about Wales' historical relationship with England and its place in the world.
World Service
BBC World Service English has launched a brand new app to help people access news and radio programmes in areas where mobile data is expensive or internet coverage is limited.
Corporate
As a Global Ambassador at Women Who Code, Sheree Atcheson is flying the flag for a new generation of women entering the IT industry. She will be leading the BBC Make It: Super Assembly on Thursday 21 February at 2pm.
BBC Sport has released the invitation to tender for BBC Sports Personality of the Year - the first of its programmes to be put out for competitive tender as part of the Charter requirement to open up more of the BBC’s TV programmes to competition.
The BBC will pioneer live radio broadcasts over 5G mobile networks in the first public trial of its kind. The ground-breaking trial in Stronsay, Orkney, could help the BBC reach more people in rural areas in future.
Broadcast highlights
- Baptiste, Sunday 17 February, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
- Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, Sunday 17 - Wednesday 20 February, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
- Abused By My Girlfriend, Monday 18 February, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer
- Mark Kermode’s Oscar Winners: A Secrets Of Cinema Special, Thursday 21 February, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
- Hilarious Histories - What’s So Funny About The Past?, Saturday 16 February. BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds
- The Digital Human, Monday 18 February, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
- Fall Of The Shah, Wednesday 20 February, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds
- The Forum: Robinson Crusoe, Thursday 21 February, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds