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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops
Long-running music chart show featuring videos and performances

BBC 4

Only Connect

Only Connect
Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things.

BBC 4

Storyville

Storyville
Series showcasing the best in international documentaries

BBC 4

Natural World

Natural World
Wildlife series. In-depth stories of incredible animals with award-winning photography.

BBC 4

Parkinson

Parkinson
Michael Parkinson presents the long-running talk show

BBC 4

Digging for Britain

Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs

BBC 4

imagine...

imagine...
The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob.

BBC 4

Arena

Arena
Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

BBC 4

All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small
Popular drama series about a Yorkshire veterinary practice in the 1930s.

BBC 4

Mark Lawson Talks To...

Mark Lawson Talks To...
Mark Lawson in conversation with famous personalities from all walks of life

BBC 4

Remembering...

Remembering...
Famous names reflect on making some of TV's most popular and influential programmes.

BBC 4

Timeshift

Timeshift
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

BBC 4

Yes, Minister

Yes, Minister
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK government Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP

BBC 4

The Good Old Days

The Good Old Days
Songs and sketches of the music hall era performed by modern-day performers.

BBC 4

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Series of lectures presenting scientific subjects to a general audience

BBC 4

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Who Do You Think You Are? Usa

Who Do You Think You Are? Usa - Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox traces her maternal line back to ruthless and ambitious relatives who plotted and murdered their way to power in medieval times, and she's shocked to discover an a ...

27-01-2026

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Who Do You Think You Are? Usa

Who Do You Think You Are? Usa - Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey finds out much more about the grandfather she thought she knew as she uncovers how he survived adversity to become a beacon of his community. She also discovers a ...

28-01-2026

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Wainwright Walks

Wainwright Walks - Series 2: 4. Helm Crag

Series 2: 4. Helm Crag

Series in which Julia Bradbury explores the Lake District landscape that inspired the great British fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright to produce his beautifully crafted g ...

27-01-2026

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Wainwright Walks

Wainwright Walks - Series 2: 5. High Street

Series 2: 5. High Street

Series in which Julia Bradbury explores the Lake District landscape that inspired the great British fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright to produce his beautifully crafted g ...

28-01-2026

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Smiley's People

Smiley's People - Episode 4

Episode 4

Seminal spy drama series from 1982. Smiley gets into trouble with his superiors, who want the investigation closed. But he finally encounters the woman and gets her account.

28-01-2026

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One Foot In The Grave

One Foot In The Grave - Series 1: 4. I'll Retire To Bedlam

Series 1: 4. I'll Retire To Bedlam

Victor and Margaret are trapped in their garden shed by a swarm of bees. Later, a trip to the eye clinic gives Victor a chance to moan about the NHS. While he's out, Margaret ag ...

28-01-2026

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Smiley's People

Smiley's People - Episode 3

Episode 3

Vladimir has two proofs, but Smiley has only found one. It was an erotic photograph of Otto Leipzig, the General's lieutenant. Now aware that Vladimir has quarrelled with his po ...

28-01-2026

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Philip Larkin And The Third Woman

Philip Larkin And The Third Woman - Episode 27-01-2026

Episode 27-01-2026

Former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion discovers an unseen and unpublished poem by Philip Larkin when he returns to Hull to meet one of the poet's former lovers. Speaking for th ...

27-01-2026

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Henry Viii's Enforcer: The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Cromwell

Henry Viii's Enforcer: The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Cromwell - Episode 27-01-2026

Episode 27-01-2026

Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who used his position to smash the ...

27-01-2026

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Tribe (2005)

Tribe (2005) - Series 3: 1. Matis

Series 3: 1. Matis

Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease. They are determined to preserve their culture and they ...

28-01-2026

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Digging For Britain

Digging For Britain - Series 13: 4. England’s Last Anglo-saxon King And Scotland's First Whisky

Series 13: 4. England’s Last Anglo-saxon King And Scotland's First Whisky

Featuring the lost estate of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, a hilltop fort in Fife with an unprecedented wealth of discoveries linked to the Picts, the ...

28-01-2026

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