What’s On BBC Two Today Tuesday 16 May 2023
A full run down of everything airing on BBC Two today.
02:55
This Is BBC Two
Preview of upcoming programmes
06:30
Bargain Hunt
Natasha Raskin Sharp visits Stirling Castle
07:15
Escape to the Country
S23E44
Sonali Shah is house-hunting in Norfolk
08:00
Coast to Coast Food Festival
S01E07
Sean Fletcher explores the food festival at Llangollen
Sean Fletcher explores the food festival at Llangollen, where local food experts reveal their passion for their produce. Farmer Jim Smith tests his tastebuds with some hot sauces in Edinburgh, chef Suzie Lee discovers the key to producing cider in Armagh, and the secrets behind making a homemade pie on a budget are revealed
08:30
Coastal Defenders
S01E07
A ferry service is stranded when a lifeboat canister goes missing
The diving team get a late call from a boat in peril. A missing lifeboat cannister means a ferry is unable to sail, causing chaos for the passengers that use the service for their daily commute. It’s a needle-in-a-haystack hunt in near-zero visibility – and to make matters worse, local leisure cruisers create imminent danger for the diver underwater
09:00
Nicky Campbell
Calls on the day’s talking points
11:00
BBC News
The latest national and international stories
12:15
Politics Live
The latest stories from Westminster and beyond
13:00
The Super League Show
Action from the latest fixtures
13:45
Impossible
S05E17
Quiz, hosted by Rick Edwards
14:30
Eggheads
S20E83
Quiz show, hosted by Jeremy Vine
15:00
Eat Well for Less?
S06E02
Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin help a family in west London lower their food bills
Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin help the Gambling family in Ealing, west London, lower their food bills. Douglas and Angella are two self-confessed ‘foodies” who like to keep their kitchen stocked up with high-quality products. Now the couple have two young children, they find themselves increasingly reliant on takeaway meals and pre-measured ingredient boxes. Can Gregg and Chris get the programme’s biggest ever spenders to change their food shopping habits?
16:00
Beechgrove Repotted
S01E02
The transformation of Edinburgh’s Saughton Park
16:15
Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr
S03E02
The designers transform the bedrooms of a grand hotel in Surrey
The contestants are sent to Wotton House, a grand hotel in the Surrey Hills, where they must each transform one of the nine bedrooms to create a space that reflects their signature style but with an eccentric British twist. The designers relish the challenge, embracing the idea of British eccentricity, although some take a more liberal approach, leading to surprising results. Alan Carr follows their progress, while helping Michelle Ogundehin survey the spaces is guest judge Guy Oliver, who has designed the interiors for some of the best-known hotels in London
17:15
Flog It!
S15E44
From Croome, a Palladian mansion in Worcestershire
18:00
Richard Osman’s House of Games
S05E57
With Nabil Abdulrashid, Luke Kempner, Sarah Millican and Philippa Perry
18:30
Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip
S01E12
Clive learns to make perfect pasta in Bologna
Clive visits Bologna, considered by many to be Italy’s food capital, where he leans to make perfect pasta and finds out why an osteria – an Italian wine bar – is superior to a pub. But it’s not all food and drink as he also dons his hard hat and climbs some scaffolding to learn the history of an 800-year-old tower
19:00
Digging for Britain
S10E02
Alice Roberts visits a lost medieval friary
Alice Roberts visits more archaeological digs around the country, finding out about discoveries that shed new light on British history during the prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Tudor eras. In this edition she heads to a spectacular monument that is older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time, and a lost medieval friary
20:00
Inside the Factory
S06E08
Gregg Wallace visits the Denby pottery factory in Derbyshire
Gregg Wallace visits the Denby factory in Derbyshire, which has been making pottery since 1809. Gregg follows production of one of the factory’s best sellers, the Halo Heritage mug. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey visits a cutting-edge car factory that uses clay to make life-sized models of its new designs. She also has a go at the intricate art of pattern printing onto a teapot at the Burleigh pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent
21:00
Forensics: The Real CSI
S03E01
The forensics team must identify and arrest a rapist
Documentary revealing the crucial role that forensics plays in bringing criminals to justice. A woman arrives at a police station to report she has been raped. The victim agrees to undergo a forensic examination to recover potentially critical evidence and the hunt to identify her unknown attacker begins
22:00
Colin from Accounts
S01E06
Ashley takes Gordon to her birthday dinner
22:30
Newsnight
Headline analysis with Kirsty Wark
23:15
Moonlight
Drama, starring Mahershala Ali
2016 – Drama
Movie cast
A young African-American man in a rough Miami neighbourhood grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood. He finds support from a drug dealer and his kindly girlfriend, who can see he is being neglected and offer him sanctuary. Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning drama, starring Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes
01:00
Murder in the Pacific
S01E01
Documentary examining the bombing of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior
Documentary examining the May 1985 bombing of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, a symbol of peace that had just returned from a visit to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the inhabitants were suffering the effects of nuclear fallout following the 1954 testing of American H-bomb Bravo. After travelling south to Auckland harbour, New Zealand, two explosions sank the ship and killed a crew member
01:45
MasterChef
S19E10
Nine more contenders enter the kitchen in the fourth round of heats
Nine more contenders enter the kitchen in the fourth round of heats, preparing a family favourite which Gregg Wallace and John Torode will judge blind, before granting three of the cooks a pass to the next round. The six remaining competitors face an invention test to earn their place in the contest, after which two will find themselves falling at the first hurdle
02:45
A Special School
S02E01
Documentary following life at Ysgol y Der in Penarth
Documentary following life at Ysgol y Der in Penarth, the Vale of Glamorgan, which is Britain’s biggest special school. It’s the first day back after the summer holidays and headteacher Chris Britten recalls the strain of staying open during the pandemic, while some of the young pupils go on the first field trip of the year. Back at school, staff have to act quickly to try to control the situation when a sixth-former who finds it hard to control his emotions and temper has an outburst and escapes from class. Narrated by Iwan Rheon
03:15
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