Sounds Like Love 2021

Looking behind the science of why Marmite, a British institution falls into the love it or hate it group. Discover its origins, its role in fighting two world wars and even a Marmite-based recipe for cake lovers. Find out who will claim victory – those with a penchant for its taste or those who detest it.

A co-production between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel, Death Is Our Business examines in intimate and moving detail how Black funeral homes in New Orleans have had to adapt to the devastating impact of COVID-19 in their community.

Alan Yentob invites us into the intriguing world of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. The only living British author to hold the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ishiguro's novels and short stories have been translated into more than fifty languages. Two of his most popular novels, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, have also enjoyed success as star-studded film adaptations.

Turn back time on a journey through the BBC archives to celebrate singing superstar Cher and her 75th birthday. This selection of songs and chat show moments features many of the hits that have made Cher the only artist to have US number ones in each of the past six decades. Including favourites like Believe, Love and Understanding, Walking in Memphis and her first UK chart topper I Got You Babe, recorded with ex-husband and singing partner Sonny Bono.

To mark Burns Night, Jamie MacDougall hosts an evening of musical celebration with Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson and Robyn Stapleton accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Featuring Robert Burns classics such as Ae Fond Kiss, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose and Auld Lang Syne.

Nothing quite captures the world’s attention like the rise, the fall, and the rebranding of royalty. From Queen Victoria’s attempts to unite Europe, to the end of Russia’s Romanovs, right up to Princes William and Harry, this series explores the survival strategies of royals through the ages.

The start of the most definite account yet of the rise, reign and fall of Britain's most notorious gangsters begins with their ascent to power and the influences that shaped them.

A milestone in physics: In 2015, scientists proved the existence of gravitational waves. These waves travel billions of light-years through space, eventually reaching Earth and bringing us insights that were previously unattainable.

Documentary following women who have found love later in life with female partners, including 61-year-old widow Sally from Sussex and her new love, Lisa. Elsewhere, cameras follow mother-of-four Jocelyn, who left her husband and began a new relationship with her partner Sadie, and Mitra from London, who had to overcome the prejudice of her Middle Eastern mother when she found her true love.

Autumnwatch returns for a week of live wildlife stories from across the UK.