According to BBC's 100 things we didn't know this time last year, zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been raised in French zoos. The same feature also teaches us that Anthony Worrell Thompson has swum The Channel.
Crossing the Arctic Circle, the far north of Norway and facing freezing conditions, but it's worth it: Joanna Lumley pursues a dream to track down the light show.
Favourite, even cherished, host Michael Aspel hands the baton over to Fiona Bruce in this first of a new series of the famed show. The Roadshow is in Yorkshire at the ruins of Bolton Abbey.
Live from Wembley Stadium, Ant and Dec present England's greatest football players going up against the rest of the world in aid of the children's charity Unicef.
Cheery Charley Boorman sets out on an epic journey from his Irish birthplace to Australia, using whatever transport is available.
Dr Iain Stewart presents a cracking new series that explores climate change. No academic gibberish here - even newcomers will be able to understand the terminology.
The director and star of A Beautiful Mind reteam for a boxing picture with power and brutality. Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) is an injured boxer reduced to labouring in the docks to feed his family.
