Why do elephants have trunks, leopards have spots and zebras have stripes? Tinga Tinga Tales tells kids how their favourite animals came to be the way they are. There are games, songs and full episodes online.
Watch performances from the likes of Nanci Griffith and Cara Dillon, recorded live at Radio 2's Folk Awards. Click to watch The Transatlantic Sessions perform 'I am a Man of Constant Sorrow'.
The Sun is getting hotter and one day life on Earth will become impossible. The BBC Archive's latest collection reveals where mankind might make its home in the distant future. 
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Trevor Eve, Imogen Poots, Tom Riley and Hermione Norris star in the new three-part ITV drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire that starts on Monday 6 September 2010
Stephen Graham, Vicky McClure and Thomas Turgoose star in This Is England '86, a four-part drama starting on Channel Four on Tuesday 7 September 2010
Since the early '90s writer and director Graham Linehan has made a huge positive impact on television comedy.
The ITV Talent Show has been a permanent fixture on television, but should it now be consigned to the archives?
Josie Gibson, 25 has won the final series of Big Brother 2010. She said, she could not believe she has made it.
A confident performance by Daniel Sloss in an otherwise less-than-great pilot that becomes lost in trying to decide what it is.
The final episode of the police drama ‘The Bill’ will be on our screens at the end of the month following the axing of the programme in March due to a fall in ratings.
The finale, which has been given the title ‘Respect’ will be followed by a one-hour special documentary called ‘Farewell The Bill’ outlining [...]
Unbelievably the family labelled as Britain’s laziest and fattest return to our screens for a second helping of Lorraine Kelly’s Next Big Fat Challenge at the end of August.
The Chawners came to prominence when daughter Emma appeared in the X Factor auditions and was so awful she was sent packing by Simon Cowell and the [...]