Round up week 36 (31 August - 6 September 2019)

Rylan Clark-Neal to host all new Ready Steady Cook on BBC One

Cookery hit Ready Steady Cook is set to return to BBC One daytime in 2020, with new host, Celebrity MasterChef finalist Rylan Clark-Neal. The new series will offer up fresh challenges to put the next generation of chefs through their culinary paces.

George the Poet joins BBC Sounds for new series of award-winning podcast

The second series of the award winning Have You Heard George’s Podcast? by George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet, comes to BBC Sounds this autumn.

Radio

Style doyenne Mary Portas takes the helm of her first series on BBC Radio 4, Mary Portas: On Style, this autumn.

BBC Radio 1 has announced the new line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Residency - the strand that brings listeners the biggest names in cutting-edge, forward-thinking dance music from across the electronic music spectrum.

Drama

Charlie Condou joins the long-running BBC One medical drama Holby City this winter as Ben, a new locum surgeon on the Keller ward.

Uriel Emil joins the long-running BBC One medical drama Casualty this Autumn as new paramedic Lev.

Entertainment

BBC One’s Saturday night game show Catchpoint bounces back for a second series.

Factual

BBC Two announced two brand new travel series exploring the length of North and South America with adventurer and author Simon Reeve.

Crimewatch Roadshow Live returns to BBC One daytime on Monday 9 September. Every weekday morning for three weeks, the series appeals to the public to help solve the UK’s biggest unsolved cases.

Scotland

Radio Scotland’s weekday news programmes are getting a new look as the schedule gets a refresh.

New drama, documentaries, popular factual series along with new comedy and sport are features of the Autumn schedule on the BBC Scotland channel.

World Service

The ancient 'Katta Langar' Qur’an, named after the Uzbek village that is its centuries-long home, is the subject of a 40-minute documentary now live on the website bbc.com/uzbek and the BBC News Uzbek YouTube channel.

On 17 September World Questions comes to Gaborone, Botswana for a vibrant debate in the heat of an election campaign.

Corporate

A new archive of BBC interviews and documents reveals the corporation’s role in a range of secret activities during World War Two, including sending coded messages to help European resistance fighters.

Broadcast highlights

• Peaky Blinders, Sunday 1 September, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
• Unmasked: Make-up’s Big Secret, Monday 2 September, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer
• Rise Of The Nazis, Monday 2 September, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
• Scarborough, Friday 6 September, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
• Inside Music, Saturday 31 August, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds
• The First Time with Karen O, Sunday 1 September, BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds
• Monty Python At 50: The Self-Abasement Tapes, Wednesday 4 September, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
• Friday Night Is Music Night, Friday 6 September, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds