Series 13 - Hurricanes And Heatwaves: The Highs And Lows Of British Weather
A national obsession is explored in this archive-rich look at the evolution of the weather forecast from print via radio to TV and beyond - and at the changing weather itself.
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Episode 1
Michael Palin follows Ernest Hemingway's footsteps across Europe, Africa and America. He starts in Spain for Pamplona's bull run, Valencia's bullfighting and a Kenyan safari.
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Episode 13-06-2026
A man returns to his hometown of Naples, 40 years after abruptly leaving as a teen, stirring up a past which he's kept buried. He is determined to see his boyhood friend, now a ...
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Episode 2
Michael Palin moves from the busy streets of Chicago to a suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. Here, in a town that Hemingway apparently called a place of 'wide lawns and narrow minds' ...
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Dramatised documentary. An alarming vision of Britain caught in the grip of an environmental and social nightmare. It's summer 2006, and temperatures have topped 100 degrees, wi ...
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Shorts: Should I Delete Instagram?
Ellis Horne loves Instagram but worries about its effect on her own body image. Ellis meets young people who feel their mental health has been negatively impacted by constant ex ...
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Episode 13-06-2026
Documentary looking at the heatwave of 1976. The longest driest spell on record led to drought, water rationing and forest fires. As the country sweltered, tensions rose.
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Shorts: 1. Do I Have Adhd?
Kirsty Craib believes she has ADHD and has spent the last eight years trying to get assessed, without success. Many young women report experiencing the same struggles getting su ...
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The Year Of The Ladybirds
Documentary exploring the long, hot summer of 1976, the driest for two centuries. It was seen by many as a year of disaster for the countryside. But was it really?
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Episode 13-06-2026
Herbie and June Harris and their children waited all year to go on holiday. But quite unexpectedly, Herbie lost his job, and Stephen, their eldest, left school and couldn't find ...
13-06-2026
BBC 4