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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (S2)
From Thursday 26 June at 22:35
The first series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle gained a BAFTA nomination and critical acclaim from the press.
Now Stewart returns with six new episodes, each exploring a different aspect of modern life, in a hilarious stand-up routine performed to a crowd at London’s Mildmay Club.
Whatever the topic – charity, London, charity again (because he got sidetracked the first time), stand-up comedy, identity or democracy – Stewart addresses it with razor sharp wit, using every argument at his disposal to convey his point.
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Sparkling stand-up…
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Glastonbury 2013
Sunday 30 June at 19:00
Get a pulsating festival experience at world’s largest open-air music festival, without having to pull on your wellies, pitch a tent or brave the crowds.
This six-hour (non-stop!) extravaganza will stream direct from the iconic three-day event on its pinnacle day.
Make a date to rock and roll with BBC Entertainment like never before!
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Fresh Meat (S1)
Mondays at 22:35
A brand-new comedy drama series that follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far – university!
Away from home for the first time and on the brink of adult life, they are about to discover who they really are. From the moment they first meet as housemates, their lives are destined to collide, overlap and run the whole gamut of appalling behaviour and terrible errors of judgment familiar to anyone who’s ever experienced one of life’s great rites of passage.
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Student shenanigans…
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The Old Guys (S2)
Fridays at 17:30
Past-their-prime housemates Tom and Roy are back, with their libidos in overdrive and still not ready to join the pipe and slippers brigade just yet.
They are both still competing for the affections of their sassy neighbour Sally, but potential love rival Rajan – owner of the local delicatessen and a pub quiz champion – forces them to join forces. But do any of them really stand a chance with the cool, unattainable goddess?
Meanwhile, Sally can’t wait to get her son Steve off her hands and is happily encouraging his relationship with Amber, Tom’s feisty daughter.
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Aged men behaving badly…
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Come Dine with Me: Supersized (S7)
Sundays at 21:30
Five strangers, who love to entertain, take it in turns to throw a dinner party in their own personal style. But this is no ordinary supper – after each dinner, the guests secretly score the host a mark out of ten. The food, entertainment and atmosphere are taken into account when scoring, and the top-scoring host wins £1000.
All the contestants think they know exactly what makes the perfect dinner party, but not everyone likes Stilton ice cream, cross dressing waiters and performing Yorkshire Terrier dogs.
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Cook-off shenanigans…

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Stones in Exile
Saturday 22 June at 21:30
In 1969, the cash-strapped Stones moved to France along with an eclectic mix of beautiful women, drug dealers and addicts, musicians, technicians and French chefs. It was here, in the basement of their rented villa, that the Stones’ arguably most successful album, Exile On Main St., was born.
With Executive Producers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this documentary looks back over this exuberant period of scandal and creativity, and reveals an insight into what it was like to be in – or around – the Rolling Stones during those hedonistic and chaotic days.
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Rock royalty…
Bang Goes the Theory (S5)
From Sunday 30 June at 18:00
Bang Goes the Theory looks at how science shapes the world around us, in an engaging and relevant way.
In series five, Jem makes his own diamond (and proves they aren’t really forever), Liz investigates bedbugs and Yan explains the science of popcorn. There’s also a whole episode on radiation in the aftermath of the Fukishima nuclear disaster, in which Jem climbs into a reaction chamber to explain exactly what happened in Japan. Meanwhile, Dallas investigates a radiation clean-up operation and Liz looks at what radiation does to the human body.
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Testing science…
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Richard Hammond’s Crash Course (S2)
Mondays at 21:00
Richard Hammond travels across America to master all manner of mad, bad and sometimes dangerous jobs in just five days.
While some of the challenges – driving a cab in Manhattan and navigating a massive high-tech Zeppelin around the Golden Gate Bridge – indulge his passion for cars and monster engines, others are unchartered territory.
Can Richard conquer his fear of heights and jump from the top of a bridge, handle being set on fire as a Hollywood stuntman and avoid a venomous bite as a snake handler?
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On the job…
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Frozen Planet
Wednesdays at 21:00
Ambitious and epic in scale, this landmark series is the ultimate portrait of the great wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic before they change forever.
Narrated by naturalist guru Sir David Attenborough, Frozen Planet takes new technology to the most extreme and remote parts of our planet, capturing ground-breaking imagery as camera teams go deep under the ice into a magical world of giants, plunge into the heart of an erupting polar volcano and fly to the South Pole across the Antarctic ice cap.
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Polar adventure…
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Paul Merton’s Adventures
Thursdays at 21:00
Comedian Paul Merton brings his much-loved brand of subversive curiosity to a search for the ultimate great escape.
Stunning and surreal in equal measure, the series follows Paul on travel adventures doing what he does best... investigating the extraordinary, the wonderful and the downright silly!
Whether he’s experiencing life aboard the biggest cruise ship in the world, being pummelled in a punishing Austrian spa or encountering the hedonistic excesses of Ibiza, you can be sure it will all be fertile territory for Paul’s unique way of seeing the world.
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Getaways with a difference…

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Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery
From Monday 24 June at 16:55
Join renowned Swedish Chef, Tareq Taylor, on a spectacular culinary tour of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Across eight episodes, Tareq travels across Scandinavia, meeting local food producers, restaurateurs and specialists who discuss their passion for the work that they do and the secrets to their success.
Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery provides an insider view into the growing food culture of northern Europe.
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Phil Spencer Secret Agent (S1)
Weekdays at 16:00
Property expert Phil Spencer comes to the rescue of desperate homeowners who can’t move on because their homes won’t sell. Needing to sell up but unable to find a buyer, they can’t understand where they’re going wrong. Phil is the man to tell them – they just don’t know it yet!
Starting his undercover mission, Phil secretly gathers information about the property before meeting the owners and revealing the brutal truth – outlining exactly what he thinks of their home, its presentation and the price. Once owners have chosen whether to renovate, reduce the price or smarten the place up, the pressure is on their secret agent Phil to pull in a buyer.
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The Roux Legacy
Tuesdays at 16:55
An extraordinary opportunity to see the godfathers of the British food revival at work – the much-loved and hugely respected Roux family. We will see Michel, Albert, Alain and Michael Roux Jnr working and cooking, often side-by-side. Rarely filmed together for the past 30 years, it's been a real treat to see even two Roux men in the same kitchen, and this series offers all four!
The Roux Legacy is unique opportunity to learn how the family changed the culinary world, and how they continue to inspire and innovate.
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Gastronomic greatness…
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Planet Cake
Wednesdays at 16:55
Delve into the busy kitchens of internationally-renowned cake decorators Planet Cake, following the daily dramas faced by owner Paris Cutler, a former stockbroker, and her passionate team.
Egos and artistic temperaments collide as these talented decorators are pushed to their limits and race against time to design, create and deliver the most extraordinary couture cake masterpieces that have brought Planet Cake worldwide fame.
With a client list that includes Nicole Kidman, Celine Dion and Rihanna, not to mention a diverse range of non-celebrity customers – each with their own funny, poignant or just plain outrageous stories to tell – there’s never a dull moment at Planet Cake.
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Sweet success…
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Food Poker
Fridays at 18:15
Matt Allwright pits top chefs against each other, asking them to create dishes from the random ingredient cards dealt to them.
The chefs then decide in secret what dish they will prepare and choose either to 'pitch' their idea or 'fold' if they don't believe they can cook anything with the available ingredients.
Those who pitch their ideas must do so to a panel of seven food experts, who use poker chips to vote for the two dishes they wish to see prepared.
Food Poker provides an innovative take on a cookery show, combining the thrill of a poker round with the competitive egos of top chefs.
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Gastronomic gambles…
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Celebrity MasterChef (S5)
Sundays at 18:00
Chef and restaurateur John Torode and food writer and ingredients expert Gregg Wallace embark on another search for top cooking talent among 20 celebrities.
All are passionate cooks and competent in their own kitchens, but not all of them will shine when they are forced out of their comfort zone and pushed to their limit with gruelling challenges.
An athlete, an actor, a TV presenter, a politician’s wife... who will win the coveted crown of Celebrity MasterChef 2010?
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Cooking for glory…

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Rowing the Arctic
Thursday 20 June at 22:45
In 1992, Scottish adventurer Jock Wishart was part of the first team to walk unsupported to the geomagnetic North Pole. Twenty years later he’s going back, but astonishingly this time he’s rowing there. Two decades have seen ice sheets disappear to the extent that such a feat is possible, though far from easy.
Joining Jock on his dangerous venture in a tiny rowing boat is endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont, acting as presenter and cameraman.
By embarking on this risky odyssey Jock is determined to demonstrate why, for every person in the world, climate change matters.
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Icy voyage…
Luther (S1 & S2)
From Friday 28 June at 21.00
DCI John Luther serves his own idea of a moral order as much as the rules and codes of criminal law.
In series one, he faces a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted, predator and prey. We encounter his capacity for violence as well as his kindness, his sudden vulnerability and dizzying, visionary mind. We discover why his wife left him for another man, and why his colleagues are frequently left open-mouthed in awe.
In series two, he returns to policing after a brutal personal blow… but it’s a different world. His old unit has gone and he’s now working in the newly created Serious and Serial Crime Unit. It's Luther’s chance for a fresh start… but is it one he really wants?
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Crime time…
Glastonbury 2013
Sunday 30 June at 19:00
Get a pulsating festival experience at world’s largest open-air music festival, without having to pull on your wellies, pitch a tent or brave the crowds.
This six-hour (non-stop!) extravaganza will stream direct from the iconic three-day event on its pinnacle day.
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James May’s Things You Need to Know
Sundays at 20.20
In this authoritative series, James May grapples questions we would all love to know the answers to, such as how big was the Big Bang, is there life on Mars and when will we be able to travel in time?
Covering the human body, the universe and the sky above, each episode reveals facts that are fascinating, surprising and sometimes downright bizarre, while archive footage, animation and motion graphics provide entertaining and informative viewing.
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Switch on for answers…

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Nina and the Neurons: Engineering (S7)
Daily at 18:10
From towering skyscrapers, underground tunnels, car-making robots and roads for our cars, engineering is all around us, all around the world and always helps us in our everyday lives.
In each episode, Nina and a team of junior ‘engineers’ investigate such fascinating questions as what makes bridges so strong, how do aeroplanes fly, how do tall buildings stay up and how do space rockets blast off?
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Science made fun…

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Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery
From Monday 24 June at 16:55 on BBC Lifestyle
Explore the taste of the Nordic region with one of Sweden's most celebrated celebrity chefs.
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Think you could tell if the Would I Lie to You? host was talking rubbish? Put your fib detection skills to the test.
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