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Musicals
One hundred years of classical music in concert is celebrated across the BBC on TV, radio and online
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TV
McMafia on the BBC taps into our current climate of fear in a brilliant new drama starring James Norton
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TV
Settle in with the BBC's box set releases – available to stream now – and the best Netflix picks
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TV
A year of amazing TV awaits you. Here are the highlights (that we know of) set to come to our screens in 2018
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TV
Little Women, Doctor Who, Victoria Christmas special... there's so much TV to look forward to this year
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Jaw-dropping new announcements for up-coming series means TV has never been hotter
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Kids
Christmas is coming and the BBC's TV programming is getting fat. David Tennant stars in the BBC family Christmas show, The Highway Rat
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TV
In the golden age of the small screen, Peter Bowker has written a new WWII epic, World on Fire, for BBC One
Tried and Tested
TV
America is in the grip of an opiate epidemic that kills more people than car accidents. British documentarian Louis Theroux goes to West Virginia to find out why
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TV
Best-selling British novelist Patrick Gale's novels are being adapted for the BBC this summer in this heart-breaking study of male intimacy
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Festival
With Glastonbury on sabbatical, the BBC steps in with its own festival: the Biggest Weekend
Must See
Top of the Lake season two airs on BBC Two on Thursday. Take the time to watch season one of the chilling crime series while you can
In The Know
Unity, the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and religious works come with ways to get up close and personal to the music
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Things to do
Culture UK, a wide-ranging partnership between the BBC and arts organisations the length and breadth of the UK, aims to bring culture to new and ever-growing audiences
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TV
Although Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant return for the Love Actually sequel, trailer footage shows only a desperate Andrew Lincoln
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TV
Three-part BBC One thriller – a woman's life falls apart thanks to her maternity leave replacement – comes to an awkward end
Must See
For finale Episode 6, Planet Earth 2 explores the urban jungles that we call home – and reveals the other animals that make their home there
Features
Things to do
With Planet Earth II, David Attenborough presented the flora and fauna of the natural world. Here are the ones worthy of shiny prizes
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For Episode 5, Planet Earth 2 takes us to the wide open plains, where most of the animals are nomads
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For Episode 4, Planet Earth 2 shows us around the world's most arid terrain – and reveals some of its scariest inhabitants
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With Episode 3, Planet Earth 2 gives us its most incredible moments yet
Interview
Planet Earth II is the most talked about television series on our screens this winter. We speak to the executive producer of the series, Michael Gunton.
Features
With the second episode of Planet Earth II, David Attenborough takes us higher...
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Of all the wondrous David Attenborough documentaries, Planet Earth II will probably be the crowning achievement
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Things to do
Season 2 of Poldark is finally at an end. Is all what it seems in the Warleggan household? Will Poldark's marriage survive?
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Are they all going to die? Poldark episode two gets silly and flirty, but we still love it
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Best of
Poldark's back and two queens are on screen: the best Autumn TV shows 2016 has to offer. These will get you through the darkening days
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Classical Music
Watch BBC presenters at work in their glass studio, catch top artists playing live, or bring your mat and practise yoga with a string quartet
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Our thoughts on BBC drama Versailles
Features
We're not sure about this one BBC: Versailles episode two is lacking a little in substance
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Blood, breasts and brothers: Versailles on BBC2 is a sumptuous romp through the real history of Louis XIV's court
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Sexed up French aristocracy, new Orange is the New Black and your next Netflix obsession