Listings for 2 AM

BBC News Channel
02:0003:00 (1 hr)

World News Today

The latest news and business developments including World Business Report.
Current affairs
(widescreen)
teletext
BBC Parliament
02:0002:30 (30 min)

Lords Questions

Recorded coverage of questions in the House of Lords from Tuesday 24 March.
Current affairs
(widescreen)
BBC Radio 1
02:0004:00 (2 hr)

Mary Anne Hobbs

Radio 1's experimental music show - uncompromising electronic beats from the darker side of the club.
BBC Radio 1 Extra
02:0006:00 (4 hr)

HomeGrown M1X with Twin B

Twin B with the best new UK music in the mix. This programme may contain strong language. Log on to bbc.co.uk/1xtra. Coming up next at 6.00am - Dev.
BBC World Service
02:0002:06 (6 min)

BBC News

The latest news updates from around the world.
BBC7
02:0002:15 (15 min)

South Riding

Headmistress Sarah Burton opens up her school for voters in the election. Winifred Holtby dramatisation with Sarah Lancashire. Episode 12 of 15 [Rpt of Tue 10.00am].
Dave
02:0002:45 (45 min)

Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive

Reality series following ten spoiled rich kids as they saddle up for hard labour and tough life lessons in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Brittny cracks the whip when she and Haley become team leaders, and who saves the day with some suggestive horseplay? Alex now has his eye on a new girl, and Fabian confronts the cops.
Interests
ITV3
02:0003:20 (1 hr, 20 min)

Kavanagh QC

Care in the Community

Kavanagh and old friend Peter Foxcott travel to Kavanagh's home town of Bolton to defend a young couple charged with killing their baby daughter. When the father changes his story in mid-trial, Kavanagh is forced to give the mother a hard time in the witness box. Foxcott, feeling betrayed, hatches an idea of his own.
Drama
  • John Thaw (actor)
  • Oliver Ford Davies (actor)
  • Nicholas Jones (actor)
  • Valerie Edmond (actor)
  • Haydn Gwynne (actor)
  • Robert Lang (actor)
  • Charles Beeson (director)
teletext
Sky Three
02:0003:00 (1 hr)

Taste

Designer food programme hosted by Beverley Turner, presenting all the information a fashionable foodie needs. Angela Hartnett presents fish dishes. There is a guide to raw food with Sue Alexander and tips on table setting with Emily Chalmers. Plus advice on edible flowers and the top five chocolate desserts.
Cookery
(widescreen)
teletext
E4
02:0502:25 (20 min)

My Name Is Earl

BB

US comedy series. Earl attempts to cross out number 147 on his list: `Shot Gwen Waters with a BB Gun'. To make things right he must reunite Gwen with her estranged father which Earl finds increasingly difficult.
Sitcom
  • Jason Lee (actor)
  • Jaime Pressly (actor)
  • Ethan Suplee (actor)
  • Nadine Velazquez (actor)
teletext
BBC World Service
02:0602:20 (14 min)

World Briefing

BBC reporters and correspondents bring you up-to-date with the latest news from around the world.
BBC Four
02:1003:40 (1 hr, 30 min)

Proms on Four 2008

King's Singers - 40th Anniversary

Suzy Klein introduces a concert by the King's Singers, who return to mark their 40th anniversary with a wide-ranging Anglo-French programme including French folk songs by Poulenc, French renaissance madrigals, English Victorian part-songs and more recent arrangements of traditional English folk songs of the type they have made their own.UPDATED LISTING: Slot duration change - now runs for ten minutes fewer than billed.
Music and Arts
(widescreen)
teletext
BBC Three
02:1003:10 (1 hr)

Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain

Natalie Cassidy presents a series of films about young Britons inspired by subjects close to her own heart. This time she is investigating our last sexual taboos. Otto, a young man with Down's Syndrome, searches for love. Tessa, Niki and Andy are all twenty-somethings who are asexual. Can they find love without sex?
Documentary
(widescreen)
teletext
ITV1 Meridian
02:1003:05 (55 min)

The Jeremy Kyle Show

Jeremy Kyle hosts the confrontational talk show in which guests thrash out their conflicts, dilemmas and relationship issues in front of a studio audience.
Talk show
(widescreen)
teletext deaf-signed
BBC7
02:1503:00 (45 min)

Baldi

Three in One: The crime-solving priest goes horse racing and uncovers the 'SP' on an ex-jockey's murder. Starring David Threlfall. Episode 1 of 6 [Rpt of Tue 10.15am].
BBC One South East
02:2002:50 (30 min)

MasterChef

John Torode and Gregg Wallace are looking for the country's next star chef. In this heat, contestants will face three high-pressure tests: inventing a dish from scratch, cooking in the fast-paced professional kitchen of the Charlotte Street Hotel and creating a two course meal to impress the judges. Only one of them will get through to the forthcoming quarter-final and one step closer to becoming Masterchef.
Cookery
(widescreen)
teletext deaf-signed
BBC World Service
02:2002:30 (10 min)

World Business News

All the big business stories.
more4
02:2004:30 (2 hr, 10 min)

True Stories

Grizzly Man

Documentary telling the story of controversial animal rights activist Timothy Treadwell, who lived among wild grizzly bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park before he and his girlfriend were mauled to death by one. The Sundance-winning documentary features Treadwell's own film footage, interspersed with the thoughts of friends, family and animal experts.
Documentary
(widescreen)
E4
02:2503:10 (45 min)

Dark Angel

I and I Am a Camera

Sci-fi drama series set in 2019, after a shockwave has left the US poverty-stricken. An apparent stalker becomes an unlikely ally, when Max and Logan investigate the murders of a group of recent parolees.
Drama
  • Jessica Alba (actor)
  • Michael Weatherly (actor)
  • John Savage (actor)
  • Valarie Rae Miller (actor)
  • Richard Gunn (actor)
  • Nana Visitor (actor)
teletext
BBC Parliament
02:3003:00 (30 min)

Welsh First Minister's Questions

Recorded coverage of questions in the Welsh Assembly to First Minister Rhodri Morgan from Tuesday 24 March.
Current affairs
(widescreen)
BBC World Service
02:3002:40 (10 min)

World Briefing

BBC reporters and correspondents bring you up-to-date with the latest news from around the world.
Channel 4
02:3003:30 (1 hr)

Red Bull Air Race 2008

The final race of the Red Bull Air Race World Series brings the 12 best pilots in the world to the Swan River in Perth, Australia. Hannes Arch needs just one point from the race to win the 2008 world championship. Konnie Huq and Dougie Anderson present all the highlights of the race weekend.
Sport
teletext
BBC World Service
02:4003:00 (20 min)

Business Daily

Reports from the business world.
Dave
02:4503:00 (15 min)

Radical Highs

Series about unconventional and high-risk sports. Mountainboarding - similar to snowboarding but without the snow - can be practised in the English countryside, the only requirements being strong nerves and a good sense of balance.
Sport
BBC One South East
02:5003:20 (30 min)

MasterChef

John Torode and Gregg Wallace are looking for the country's next star chef. In this heat, contestants will face three high-pressure tests: inventing a dish from scratch, cooking in the fast-paced professional kitchen at Sartoria and creating a two course meal to impress the judges. Only one of them will get through to the forthcoming quarter-final and one step closer to becoming Masterchef.
Cookery
(widescreen)
teletext deaf-signed
ITV4
02:5003:00 (10 min)

ITV4 Nightscreen

Text-based information service.
Entertainment

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