2023: Episode 2
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ to investigate more of the problems you send in every day. In this edition, there's trouble a ...
31-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 8
It’s the final of Glow Up, and three MUAs still have the chance to be crowned Britain’s Next Make-Up Star. After seven weeks of industry assignments, the judges have ...
15-03-2023
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 8
It is the final of Glow Up, and three MUAs still have the chance to be crowned Britain’s next make-up star. But first, they have to overcome their biggest professional ass ...
27-02-2023
BBC 1
Series 3: 2. Manchester
At the Manchester Art Gallery, Dr Bendor Grosvenor discovers a painting of a country gentleman from the 1770s which he believes has been misattributed to Nathaniel Dance. He fee ...
11-01-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 8
It’s the final of Glow Up and three MUAs still have the chance to be crowned Britain’s next make-up star. But first they’ll have to overcome their biggest prof ...
28-07-2022
BBC 1
Series 14: Episode 10
Tackling the scammers whose techniques just keep on evolving to try and trap innocent victims. Including the new 'money flip' con that’s hitting social media with devastat ...
13-05-2022
BBC 1
Episode 13-03-2022
Documentary exploring the history of five Hindu temples across Britain, tracing their stories and the spread of Hinduism in the UK. Featuring the elaborate rituals and the movin ...
13-03-2022
BBC 1
Episode 25-05-2021
Biologist George McGavin goes on a journey around the British Isles to show us the extraordinary little things that are vital to our land. With a revolutionary new microscope ca ...
25-05-2021
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 2
It is early 2020, and Tom Kerridge is adding a fourth pub to the list of businesses he wants to support.\n\nThe Black Bull in Stirlingshire has been serving the villagers of Gar ...
16-12-2020
BBC 2
Series 1: Nuclear
Keeley Donovan meets the people working at Britain’s biggest operational nuclear site at Heysham on the Lancashire coast. Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 power stations make enoug ...
09-12-2020
BBC 2
Episode 10-02-2020
Ten years on from the global financial crash, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of how a small Scottish bank briefly grew to become the biggest in the world before ...
10-02-2020
BBC 2
Episode 06-02-2020
Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's spectacular industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a passionate and thought-provoking journey that challenges o ...
06-02-2020
BBC 4
1. The East: A New Dawn
David Dimbleby journeys through Britain, and through 1,000 years of our history, to discover the buildings that have made us who we are. \n\nHis journey begins in the east of En ...
30-01-2020
BBC 4
Stewart Stirling
Alice explores the story of Stewart Britain by visiting Stirling, the home of the Scottish royal dynasty who eventually took the English throne and created Great Britain
22-06-2019
Channel 4
Episode 1
Evan Davis gains access to bits of Britain you never see, to look at the scale of the engineering challenge Britain faces, and how we can tackle it. He visits the vast Crossrail ...
31-01-2019
BBC 2
Britain's Wildest Weather 2017
Britain's Wildest Weather examines the extreme weather that hit the country in 2017, hears the amazing experiences of the people caught up in it, and finds out why such erratic ...
15-12-2018
Channel 4
The Year Britain Froze
The end of 2010 saw the coldest December in Britain since records began. This documentary tells the story of the extreme weather of 2010 and explores the science of why Britain ...
01-12-2018
Channel 4
Series 1: Episode 2
BBC Two brings viewers the first medical-themed quiz show. Two teams of junior doctors from teaching hospitals around Britain go head to head as they tackle an array of rigorous ...
26-06-2018
BBC 2
Series 1: 7. The Semi-final
Claudia Winkleman presents the series looking for Britain's best home cook. It's the semi-final and Mary Berry, Dan Doherty and Chris Bavin continue to test the last four home c ...
26-06-2018
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 6
Claudia Winkleman presents the series looking for Britain's best home cook. It is week six, and Mary Berry, Dan Doherty and Chris Bavin test the remaining five home cooks on the ...
19-06-2018
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 5
Claudia Winkleman presents the series looking for Britain's best home cook. It is week five, and Mary Berry, Dan Doherty and Chris Bavin test the remaining six home cooks on the ...
12-06-2018
BBC 1
Episode 28-01-2018
Sir Dave Brailsford and other insiders tell the story of the extraordinary triumphs and recent controversies that have rocked Britain's cycling medal factory. Sir Dave Brailsfor ...
28-01-2018
BBC 2
Series 5 (30 Minute Reversions): Episode 18
Matt reveals the fake alcohol blighting Britain's pubs and the fake architects who could leave your renovation in ruins. And what's in your takeaway? Fake Britain lifts the lid ...
13-12-2017
BBC 1
Episode 1
In this episode of Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners, one of Britain's biggest house builders is proposing to build 1,500 homes near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. While ma ...
07-11-2017
BBC 2
Series 5: Episode 18
Matt reveals the fake alcohol blighting Britain's pubs and the fake architects who could leave your renovation in ruins. And what's in your takeaway? Fake Britain lifts the lid ...
10-12-2014
BBC 1
Series 3 - Episode 14
Consumer series. Fake Britain looks at the hidden, underground cigarette factory in China churning out millions of fake cigarettes that are being sold on the streets of Britain.
28-05-2014
BBC 1
Shorts: The Fens: Horses
Hidden away in the most easterly part of the British Isles are the Fens of East Anglia; a landscape of big skies and distant horizons, of wild wetlands and fertile farmland. \n ...
29-05-2025
BBC 2
Space Britannia
The Sky at Night investigates Britain's attempt to become a major player in the modern space race. From Scotland's wild northern shore, where Britain's first spaceport is planne ...
18-10-2018
BBC 4
1. Cornwall And Devon
Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury venture across the most stunning parts of Cornwall and Devon to discover how Britain's epic past lives on in the most fascinating stories and char ...
17-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 13. The Final
It’s the final, and the three artists must create a piece of art that celebrates their home towns. But who will impress the judges and be crowned Britain’s Best Youn ...
06-05-2026
CBBC
Episode 06-05-2026
Dr Michael Mosley investigates Britain's most secretive and controversial military research base, Porton Down, on its 100th anniversary. He comes face to face with chemical and ...
06-05-2026
BBC 4
Series 2 - Revolutions
Featuring the revolutionary period in Britain after the execution of Charles I, from Cromwell's iron rule to Charles II's attempts to restore the lustre of the monarchy.
05-05-2026
BBC 4
Goes To Sea: 3. Manhattan Ahoy!
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain's biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. Nearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators have left for ...
21-04-2026
BBC 2
Episode 16-04-2026
As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise of Sir George Gi ...
16-04-2026
BBC 4
Goes To Sea: 2. Don't Feed The Birds
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain’s biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. Nearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators have lef ...
14-04-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
With unique behind-the-scenes access, this series follows the construction workers at Hinkley Point C, Britain’s biggest and newest nuclear power station, which is being b ...
09-04-2026
BBC 2
Goes To Sea: 1. Let Go All Lines
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain’s biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. \n\nNearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators ar ...
07-04-2026
BBC 2
Series 1 - King Death
Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the greatest horror of medieval Britain - the Black Death.
31-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 9: Episode 6
The north of England is so rich in archaeological finds that Alice Roberts is travelling back there once again to reveal more of its fascinating history.\n\nShe starts this jour ...
25-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Crewing Up
It is early 2016 and sailors begin to arrive at Rosyth dockyard in Scotland where HMS Queen Elizabeth is still under construction. Captain Jerry Kyd and his 700 sailors assemble ...
04-03-2026
BBC 2
Series 1 - Beginnings
Simon Schama begins his history of Britain at the miraculously preserved Stone Age cottages of Skara Brae in Orkney and then moves on to the world of Anglo-Saxon England.
03-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 9: Episode 3
The show travels to the north of the UK to look at the most fascinating archaeology uncovered in the region over the course of 2021. \n\nIn North Yorkshire, a team of community ...
03-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 16: 20. Wrong Flight Landed Us In Lithuania!
Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford present a sun-drenched holiday edition of Rip Off Britain, featuring the shocking story of the budget airline passengers from south Wales w ...
04-02-2026
BBC 1
Series 13: 2. Our Rarest Find And Biggest Dig
Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge ...
20-01-2026
BBC 4
Series 13: 1. Scottish Massacre And 70s Skate Park
Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more ...
11-01-2026
BBC 4
Series 17: 31. Banned From 500 Shops By Facial Recognition
The team investigate the growing use of facial recognition technology on Britain's high streets after a woman from Salford is falsely identified as a toilet roll thief – r ...
05-01-2026
BBC 1
Series 16: 35. The Hotel With No Running Water
Julia Somerville, Louise Minchin, Gloria Hunniford and the Rip Off Britain team in Salford are back with a sun-soaked holidays special focusing on your travel traumas, including ...
05-12-2025
BBC 1
Series 16: 33. Mistaken Identity Cost Me Thousands
Julia Somerville, Louise Minchin, Gloria Hunniford and the Rip Off Britain team in Salford reveal the story of how a car finance company’s mistake led to the credit record ...
03-12-2025
BBC 1
Series 16: 42. Telecoms Contract Pushers Caught On Camera
In a special investigation, Rip Off Britain goes undercover with BBC News to show how a telecoms firm is making promises about contracts business owners say it didn’t keep ...
02-12-2025
BBC 1
Episode 18-11-2025
While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and contradictions. This docudra ...
18-11-2025
BBC 4