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9.00pm Tuesday 14 September on BBC TWO

The BBC's Battle Of Britain season, marking the 70th anniversary of the most significant air battle in British history, begins with an intimate drama-documentary telling the extraordinary story of Geoffrey Wellum (Sam Heughan), one of the battle's youngest spitfire pilots (the season continues on Tuesday in Wellington Bomber)

7.30pm Saturday 11 September on BBC TWO

Jir� Belohl�vek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take centre stage for one of the musical highlights of the year, with performances from American soprano Ren�e Fleming and Ukrainian-born viola player Maxim Rysanov, alongside the traditional Last Night fare

5.00pm Saturday 11 September on BBC TWO

Newly relegated Burnley take on their Lancastrian rivals, Preston North End, in this live Championship clash from Turf Moor

9.00am Saturday 11 September on BBC TWO

Steve Backshall and Naomi Wilkinson present a new, live and unpredictable show that aims to prove that you don't have to travel halfway around the world to enjoy amazing adventures or animal encounters

The BBC is to broadcast comprehensive coverage of the Mercury Prize 2010 across TV, radio and online.

Coverage of the night will be presented live from the event, on 7 September, by Lauren Laverne on BBC Two and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music.

Steve Lamacq presents 6 Music's coverage of the event from 8pm. Alongside interviews with some of the nominees and the attending great and good of the music industry, the show features live performances from the night and expert analysis of proceedings from Steve, 6 Music News and industry insiders on the build-up to the live announcement of the winner.

Lauren Laverne presents BBC Two's coverage of the awards show, hosted by Jools Holland from London's Grosvenor House Hotel. This live programme, from 10-10.30pm, includes clips of all 12 of the nominated acts performing and the live announcement of this year's winner.

8.30pm Bank Holiday Monday 30 August on BBC TWO

The competition hots up as contestants battle it out for a place in the final, as Sandi Toksvig and Eric Knowles continue their quest to find the Antiques Master

An ambitious new drama series about the interwoven lives, loves and betrayals of seven characters whose relationships are forged in the white heat of the Sixties through to present day, has been commissioned for BBC Two, Channel Controller Janice Hadlow announced today at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.

Commissioned as part of the channel's increased investment for drama, White Heat is a six-part series written by award-winning writer Paula Milne (Endgame, Small Island, The Virgin Queen, The Fragile Heart, The Politician's Wife) and produced by ITV Studios for BBC Two.

Passionate, dangerous and compelling, the characters' love stories and friendships are set against a backdrop that takes us from Wilson to Thatcher, feminism to the Falklands, hedonism to HIV - exploring the personal and political journeys which shaped their destinies to make them the people they are today.

The BBC has secured the first major political interview with Tony Blair since the year he stood down as Prime Minister.

Andrew Marr will conduct the exclusive one-hour interview with the former PM which will run on BBC Two on Wednesday 1 September at 7pm.

Andrew says: "Having the chance to speak to the former PM for an hour is a remarkable opportunity to learn more about what he was trying to achieve in office and how with hindsight he now regards his record."  

This will be the BBC's first major retrospective interview about Blair's time in Number 10 since 2007 and will coincide with the launch of his memoirs.

6:40pm Saturday 21 August on BBC TWO

The National Youth Orchestra's annual BBC Prom puts the spotlight on two 19th-century French masterworks: Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

A blunder by a production company has forced BBC Two to postpone the release of its new gameshow Perfection.

Production company Yard 12, who produced the Nick Knowles-hosted gameshow for the BBC, has forced a reshoot of 26 out of 30 episodes after a technical glitch ruined the episodes.

Yard 12 accidentally showed contestants on the gameshow the correct answers on a screen behind the quizmaster before the question was asked.

The cost of the reshoot has been covered by Yard 12 at no extra cost to the BBC.

Romola Garai (Emma, Atonement), Chris O'Dowd (IT Crowd, The Boat That Rocked), Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Bleak House), Richard E Grant (Withnail And I, Gosford Park), Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Charles II), Amanda Hale (Murderland, Bright Star) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League Of Gentlemen) have begun filming on BBC Two's bold four-part adaptation of Michel Faber's international best-selling novel, The Crimson Petal And The White, made by Origin Pictures.

Adapted by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon, and directed by award-winning Marc Munden (The Devil's Whore, The Mark Of Cain), this intimate psychological thriller lifts the lid on the darker side of Victorian London revealing a world seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.

Star of stage and screen Imelda Staunton is to join the cast of the forthcoming Halloween Special and the second series of the award-winning comedy-thriller Psychoville, written by and starring Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.

For Imelda this marks a return to TV comedy, after her recent roles in the Harry Potter series, the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake and the roving gossip Miss Pole in BBC One's Cranford. Imelda will star as a sharp-suited, shadowy figure with mysterious motives.

Imelda says: "There's nothing I enjoy more than hanging out with weirdoes, freaks and undesirables, so of course I jumped at the chance to work on Psychoville with Steve and Reece."

And once again writers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton take centre stage playing a range of loveable grotesques in a world that only they could imagine.

To coincide with the first Papal Visit for 28 years (16-19 September) the BBC today announces a series of new documentaries across BBC television.

In Benedict: Trials Of A Pope on BBC Two (1 x 60') award-winning film maker Mark Dowd goes in search of the real Joseph Ratzinger.

Ratzinger is a man who was the darling of liberals in the Second Vatican Council but who is now the champion of traditionalists.

9.00pm Saturday 31 July on BBC TWO

The music of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim is celebrated in this BBC Prom in honour of his 80th birthday, featuring a star-studded cast (coverage of the BBC Proms 2010 continues on Thursday in Mahler's Third Symphony With The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)

BBC Two Daytime announces the commission of Royal Upstairs Downstairs, a brand-new factual series which follows in the footsteps of Queen Victoria to the grand houses, castles and intimate family homes across Great Britain that she visited throughout her 63-year reign.

Royal Upstairs Downstairs unites the presenting talents of Tim Wonnacott (Bargain Hunt) and Rosemary Shrager (School For Cooks) as they bring to life the details of each individual visit, during a time steeped in tradition but led by invention and unparalleled industrial, political and social change.

The series delves into the age of Queen Victoria from the immense banquets and celebrations held in her honor to the incredible preparations which went on behind the scenes.

Liam Keelan, Controller of Daytime, who commissioned the series, says: "I'm delighted to bring daytime viewers a unique insight into one of most remarkable periods in British history and the Queen who reigned over it.