BBC4

Tom Ang invites three eminent photographers to use unfamiliar digital cameras to produce compelling images of Britain’s rural, urban and industrial landscape. Ian Berry, Dan Chung and Joe Cornish travel across northern England to capture the passion of grassroots football in Liverpool, the rise of new service industries in Sheffield, and a spectacular stretch of shoreline on the Yorkshire coast

Charles Mackerras and the Czech Philharmonic celebrate Dvorak’s birthday with a programme by the great composer. Scherzo capriccioso is followed by the Violin Concerto, with soloist Sarah Chang, and the evening closes with the evergreen Symphony No 9 (From the New World)

Sean Pertwee narrates a series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it. This edition goes back 3 billion years to witness dinosaurs roaming in Oxford, the Jura mountains of France swallowed by tropical seas, St Petersburg buried by desert sands and the birth of the Mediterranean Sea.

Series focusing on defining moments of history. This edition recalls two days that brought Ancient Egypt dramatically to life, revealing the past glories of this fascinating civilisation. In 1822, Jean Francois Champollion translates the Rosetta Stone and cracks the baffling code of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and 100 years later, Howard Carter makes an amazing discovery after reading the name Tutankhamun in a lost tomb

The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective

Patrick Moore talks to astronomer John Brown about the solar mission Rhessi, which is observing sunspots and solar flares

Film-maker Alessandro Rossetto’s tribute to his mother Flavia, whose hairdressing salon in Padua is closing down after 40 years. Neither Flavia nor her customers are happy, but she recognises that the time has come to shut up shop and retire

Comedy about a French factory worker who uproots from his village and family in search of rediscovery through philosophical and liquid refreshment in Venice