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Season 2025 / Episode 8 and airs on Apr 05, 2025 19:20
Series of one-off documentaries that uses 60 years of the BBC archive to bring together clips under one theme, sometimes the shows have a presenter but often they don't.
The singer marks her 80th birthday by looking back over her career, highlighted by some of her finest performances at the BBC, including appearances on Top of the Pops, Parkinson, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Wogan and The One Show. Songs include Pearl's a Singer, No More the Fool, Lilac Wine and Fool If You Think It's Over, and in between, Elkie remembers working alongside the likes of Chris Rea and Robert Palmer, and reveals personal insights into what has inspired her.
The Irish singer and composer as seen on the BBC, including her breakthrough single Orinoco Flow, which stayed at the top of the UK charts for three weeks in 1988. Since then she has released nine top 10 albums and won multiple awards all while maintaining her privacy, rarely giving interviews and never touring.
As The Big Night of Musicals ends on BBC One, Elaine Paige keeps the show running by rustling up a fresh selection of tunes from favourite musicals, including Les Misérables, Oklahoma!, Hamilton and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The performances, all taken from the BBC archive, feature the likes of Shirley Bassey, Alfie Boe, Hugh Jackman and Barbara Dickson, as well as a set of full cast ensembles.
Tomorrow, Eric Clapton turns 80. To mark the occasion, BBC Two presents an evening of programmes dedicated to the acclaimed British blues guitarist, kicking off with a selection of his BBC performances over the decades. Highlights include the regae-infused hit I Shot the Sheriff, the 1980s ballad Wonderful Tonight and appearances with Smokey Robinson, Bobby Whitlock and Tina Turner.
A compilation of 40 big hits by the artists that originally performed them, such as John Fogerty's Rockin' All Over the World - which became synonymous with 1970s rockers Status Quo - and Lori Lieberman's Killing Me Softly with His Song - covered by many artists, including Roberta Flack. Others featured include Gladys Knight, Neil Diamond, Nine Inch Nails, Dolly Parton and the Zutons, whose song Valerie became a massive hit for Amy Whitehouse.
A selection of stripped-back performances by artists who have appeared in the Radio 2 Piano Room. Highlights include Jessie Ware with her own version of Cher's 1998 hit Believe, rap star Stormzy giving a tender rendition of Oleta Adams' 1991 soul classic Get Here, Pink's cover of Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor and Coldplay with the Proclaimers' anthem Sunshine on Leith. Other artists include Ed Sheeran, Clean Bandit, Joy Crookes, James Blunt, Emeli Sandé, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, Belinda Carlisle, Sugababes, Raye, Suzanne Vega, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Bono and the Edge, Alison Moyet, Rag 'n' Bone Man, Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Bublé, Anastacia, and Jools Holland and Rod Stewart.
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