What’s new to watch on BBC iPlayer? May 18th, 2024
We’re back in the Midlands this week on BBC iPlayer, as we take our seats in class for a new series of Phoenix Rise, where the misfits meet an inspirational new music teacher played by Fleur East.
Elswhere, 12 new sewers join new host Kiell Smith-Bynoe for the new series of The Great British Sewing Bee, and the nation’s best gardeners show their beautiful blooms at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. There are also true stories, with technology opening up new lines investigation into old cases with Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes, and an investigation into the darker side of the K Pop world in South Korea with Burning Sun.
What’s coming new to BBC iPlayer this week?
Phoenix Rise
The coming of age drama returns for a third series, following a group of misfits who form an unbreakable bond as they navigate the trials and tribulations of school life in the Midlands. Day one of a new school year and our misfit heroes are in huge trouble before home time. Will they get through it or will newcomers, Caleb, Faith and Matteo, tear the group apart? Meanwhile, inspirational new music teacher Miss Meehan (Fleur East) spurs Rani’s musical ambitions to new heights.
The Great British Sewing Bee
Kiell Smith-Bynoe welcomes the 12 sewers to the sewing room as we kick off the tenth series celebrating Sewing turning ten. In the first week, judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young task the new sewers with challenges inspired by the very first set in our first series.
For their first Pattern Challenge, it’s a denim A-line midiskirt. For the 90-minute Transformation Challenge, rather than altering the neckline of a T-shirt, they have to transform it into a completely new garment. Finally, in the Made-to-Measure, the sewers meet their models for the first time to make their interpretation of a casual day dress.
Who will impress the judges and win Garment of the Week, and whose hopes of staying in the competition won’t last beyond week one?
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Beautiful blooms, dazzling designs and prize winning plants. Gardeners go for gold at the world’s most famous flower show from the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Coverage begins with Nicki Chapman and Angellica Bell showing us the glitz and glamour of opening day of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. They’re joined by a team of gardening experts, including Carol Klein who’ll be showing us how to recreate the latest look for a colourful summer border, Toby Buckland who’ll be helping us solve some of our most common garden design dilemmas, and James Wong who’ll have the ultimate beginner’s guide to buying, styling and caring for houseplants.
Cold Case Investigators: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes
For the last seven years Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire’s Major Crime Unit has thrown its weight behind a pioneering forensic and investigative project – to look once again at 5,400 unsolved rape and sexual assault cases from the last 50 years.
By harnessing the power of modern DNA techniques, this group of detectives has been achieving what was previously impossible – identifying perpetrators and delivering justice for victims whose crimes happened years ago. They have achieved great success, with the team winning 90% of the cases it has taken to court, proving that there is no timescale on justice.
In this first episode, a team of detectives try to find those responsible for the kidnap and sexual assault of two schoolgirls, and the rape of a teenage boy.
Can they use modern DNA techniques to catch the perpetrators?
Burning Sun
The documentary by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed BBC Eye investigations team tells the story of two female Korean journalists who took on the task of investigating sex scandals involving prominent K-pop stars – and paid a high personal price.
In South Korea, K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of unconscious women being raped and humiliated were shared.
Korean journalist Kang Kyung-yoon and fellow-journalist Park tell the story of their investigation and how they became the targets for exposing the stars.
- Watch Burning Sun on BBC iPlayer from Sunday 19 May
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