Author: holly.stimpson@bigcircus.co.uk

Premiered: May 2025 (YouTube)

Every single one of us relies on raw materials. Through a live recorded experiment, we explored public perceptions of where we should source the minerals and metals that we need for the energy transition. We invited 100 volunteers from a cross-section of society to the Natural History Museum, London to analyse and understand the general public’s knowledge of raw materials and their opinions of where they should come from – opening our ears and listening to the full diversity of perceptions presented and how these may have changed throughout the experiment.

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Broadcast : April 2025 (Channel 5)

Sally Lindsay’s 1970s’ Quiz Night is a brand new comedy quiz looking back at some of the best, biggest and funniest bits of the decade.

With Sally hosting, two teams of celebrity guests will compete against each other across a series of fun rounds. There will be questions to answer, games to play, and classic clips to enjoy, on topics from sitcoms to scary children’s programmes, food to pop music, gameshows to the biggest headlines of the decade. If you love the 1970s, come and be part of this fun, nostalgic treat!

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Series Two – Broadcast: April 2025 (BBC1)

Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker follows The National Trust as it searches for a new tenant of a 600-acre dream farm in the spectacular Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park in North Wales.

Along with fields, woodland and mountain pasture the farm comes with a beautiful four-bedroom farmhouse, holiday letting accommodation, views of Wales’ highest mountain, Yr Wyddfa, and access to a spectacular lake.

To select the new tenant, seven applicants have been shortlisted to live and work on the farm for three weeks. They’ll take part in a series of tasks designed so they can prove their skills with livestock, passion for conservation and ability to run a successful business if they are chosen to take on the tenancy.

Throughout, the applicants will be monitored by Eryri General Manager, Trystan Edwards and Giles Hunt, the Land and Estates Director for all of the National Trust. Those who impress will be offered the chance to become temporary farm managers – taking responsibility for the livestock and living in the farmhouse.

They’ll also choose which applicants should leave the process, one by one, until just two are left, and are invited to attend a final meeting with Giles and Trystan. Only the winner will be offered the truly life changing 15-year tenancy of this incredible farm.

All episodes available on catch up at Channel 4

Broadcast: December 2025 (Channel 4)

With a bottle of Baileys sold every two seconds during the festive season this is the company’s most important time of the year.  With exclusive access, we follow them as they ramp up production to satisfy the Christmas demand and pin their hopes on an ambitious new festive launch – a Terry’s Chocolate Orange flavoured Baileys drink.  We track the creation of each bottle back to the start, on the Irish farm supplying the cream at the heart of the recipe – where even the cows have Christmas cheer with high tech Christmas gifts and festive playlists to relax them as they’re milked.  We follow the creative teams dreaming up the campaigns that will boost Bailey’s Christmas demand and celebrity influencers whipping up a social media storm. Also we’ll see the factories going flat out to meet festive demand and see their new innovation taking shape as we follow everything from the liquid scientists behind its flavour creation, to the first bottles rolling off the production line.

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Broadcast: December 2025 (Channel 4)

Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for the Legoland resort in Windsor and the countdown is well and truly underway as the team have just a few weeks to transform the 150 acre site into a winter wonderland, before up to 20,000 guests a day pour in through the gates. With 700 real Christmas trees arriving on site, the world’s biggest Lego Christmas tree to piece together and festive guests to keep happy, it’s going to be a busy time.  Add in a Christmas jumper dog day, grottos to build and festive shows to rehearse, the staff have their work cut out bringing Christmas cheer to one of the UK’s busiest resorts. We’ll also join the model makers sprinkling some festive cheer across the park with models big and small, as they create giant Lego displays and transform the intricate scenes in Miniland.

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Broadcast: December 2025 (Channel 5)

Host Sally Lindsay tests two teams of celebrities led by captains John Thomson and Shappi Khorsandi on their memories of classic Christmas TV, music and film in a nostalgic festive feast of questions covering everything from Band Aid to Albert Square, Morecambe & Wise to Quality Street.

Featuring a selection box of rarely-seen clips like Christmas ‘Runaround’ and ‘Farmhouse Kitchen’, as well as old favourites including ‘The Good Life’ and ‘Only Fools & Horses’, Christmas Past is brought to life with some serious quizzing and silly games.

The teams reminisce over some favourite – and forgotten – Christmas ads, Christopher Biggins and Lesley Joseph share some revealing panto memories, and anarchy prevails as team captains John Thomson and Shappi Khorsandi are given a box of props and 30 seconds to act out a list of classic Christmas films to their team-mates.

Crackers are pulled, Snowballs are drunk, and seasonal merriment is guaranteed as Stephen Bailey auditions for a panto, Debbie McGee attempts to wrap a football, and the teams attempt the fiendishly difficult game: Chocolate Or Sprout?

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Series Four – Broadcast: December 2025 (BBC1)

My Life at Christmas returns to BBC1 with Anita Rani in intimate conversations with Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster, Baroness Floella Benjamin and Ade Adepitan reflecting on life, faith and festive memories.  

Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster

In a rare in-depth interview Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster welcome Anita Rani into their home to discuss their lives, family, fame and faith and how Christmases past and present have helped shape them. During an intimate fireside chat, Christmas crafting with Penny in a festive greenhouse and a stroll with the couple around the stunning grounds of their countryside home, their conversation covers everything from Rod’s rise to fame as one of the 20th century’s rock icons, Penny’s transformation from model to Special Constable in the City of London police, and trading Christmas gifts with Elton John. A festive treat not to be missed.

Ade Adepitan

Anita Rani meets Paralympian and broadcaster Ade Adepitan to hear his inspirational life story and how sport, spirituality and the festive season have shaped him. From contracting polio as a toddler in Nigeria, to growing up with a disability in 1970s East London, to the rocky road that led to Paralympic glory with the British wheelchair basketball team. Now a respected broadcaster, Ade shines a light on causes close to his heart. Anita discovers his life-affirming Christmas story.

Baroness Floella Benjamin

Anita Rani pays a Christmas visit to Baroness Floella Benjamin, a pivotal figure to generations of young TV viewers. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Floella arrived in London aged 10 as part of the Windrush generation. Together, they retrace that journey and reflect on her extraordinary life shaped by faith and the festive season: from stage actor and iconic Playschool presenter to businesswoman, child rights campaigner, Dame and Baroness, even playing a role in the coronation.

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Broadcast : December 2024 (Channel 4)

Behind the scenes at the much-loved department store as it prepares for a busy festive season.  Includes a look at the planning and creation of the famous Christmas advert and an insight into the jobs of the buyers who travel all over the world to gauge the national mood, sourcing over 1,500 decorations and edible treats to sell.

This was the most watched programme on Channel 4 on the day it was broadcast.

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Series One – Broadcast: April / May 2024 (Channel 4)

Around a third of Britain’s farmland is rented to tenant farmers, in ‘Our Dream Farm’ Matt Baker heads to Northumberland, to a vacant farm on the Wallington Estate where the landlords, The National Trust, are searching for a new tenant.

On offer is a 10 year lease for 340 acres of grassland, woods, wetland and a fully refurbished, four bedroom traditional farmhouse. Seven applicants all with hopes and dreams of calling this place home and making a living from the land, have been shortlisted by The National Trust to spend 3 weeks working on the farm, demonstrating they have what it takes to be awarded this life changing opportunity and be chosen as the next tenant.

In each episode Matt will follow the process as the applicants are tasked with a variety of farm jobs, allowing them to demonstrate their abilities handling livestock, hosting farm visits and improving the land for nature and wildlife to thrive – all under the watchful eye of the National Trust. As well as working on the farm the applicants have all submitted a business plan setting out their vision for the farm’s future. Across the series they’ll be invited to attend a crucial meeting to pitch their vision at the estate’s manor house and historic headquarters.

Deciding who will be awarded the tenancy is the Wallington Estate’s General Manager, Sally Richards and Giles Hunt, the Land and Estates Director for the whole of the National Trust. Having seen the applicants in action and scrutinised their business plans, they have the difficult task of deciding who should stay and who should go as they whittle the shortlist down to the final 3. Only one can be awarded the tenancy and Matt will be alongside the applicants throughout to lend a supportive hand as they discover if they have what it takes to be chosen as the new tenant.

All episodes available on catch up on Channel 4

Series Two – Broadcast: March to May 2025 (Channel 4)

Series Two of Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker follows The National Trust as it searches for a new tenant of a 600-acre dream farm in the spectacular Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park in North Wales.

Along with fields, woodland and mountain pasture the farm comes with a beautiful four-bedroom farmhouse, holiday letting accommodation, views of Wales’ highest mountain, Yr Wyddfa, and access to a spectacular lake.

To select the new tenant, seven applicants have been shortlisted to live and work on the farm for three weeks. They’ll take part in a series of tasks designed so they can prove their skills with livestock, passion for conservation and ability to run a successful business if they are chosen to take on the tenancy.

Throughout, the applicants will be monitored by Eryri General Manager, Trystan Edwards and Giles Hunt, the Land and Estates Director for all of the National Trust. Those who impress will be offered the chance to become temporary farm managers – taking responsibility for the livestock and living in the farmhouse.

They’ll also choose which applicants should leave the process, one by one, until just two are left, and are invited to attend a final meeting with Giles and Trystan. Only the winner will be offered the truly life changing 15-year tenancy of this incredible farm.

Episodes available on Channel 4

Matt Baker: Christmas Travels with Mum & Dad

Broadcast: December 2024

Two special episodes for Christmas 2024 saw the Baker family get in the festive spirit on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh and help out at the Christmas festival in Robin Hood’s Bay.

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Matt Baker : Travels with Mum & Dad (Series 3)

Broadcast: Sept/Oct 2024 (More 4)

The third series of the Baker family travels saw Matt, his mum Janice, dad Mike and Archie the puppy explore more exceptional sights in the beautiful north. Over six episodes they took in the Northumberland County Show, Durham Regatta, Cragside House, Scarborough, The Yorkshire Wolds and Kielder Water.

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Matt Baker: Christmas Travels with Mum & Dad

Broadcast: December 2023 (More4)

Matt Baker takes his mum, Janice and dad, Mike on more adventures across the North of England – this time they’re celebrating the festive season in the picturesque Lake District and the historic city of York.

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Matt Baker: Travels with Mum & Dad (Series 2)

Broadcast: October 2023 (More4)

Matt, mum Janice and dad Mike are hitting the road again with their trusty caravan in tow, for a series of short – and even more spectacular – adventures as they visit some of the north of England’s most glorious destinations.

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Matt Baker: Christmas Travels with Mum & Dad

Broadcast: December 2022 (More4)

Matt Baker and his mum Janice, dad Mike and their old, refurbished caravan set off on a festive adventure in the North East. They explore County Durham’s spectacular Raby Castle as the estate begins preparations for their Christmas celebrations.

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Matt Baker: Travels with Mum & Dad

Broadcast: March 2022 (More4)

Matt took his hardworking parents away from their farm on a series of enjoyable day-trip locations around the North East, including Bamburgh Castle, Durham Cathedral, Beamish Open Air Museum and Hexham Racecourse.

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