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The 1951 Festival Of Britain: A Brave New World
Episode 22-02-2023
Set against the post war period of debt, austerity and rationing, the 1951 Festival of Britain showed how to carve out a bright new future through design and ingenuity, while st ...
22-02-2023
BBC 4
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
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
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-up Star
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
Rip Off Britain
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
A Tale Of Five Temples - The Story Of Hinduism In Britain
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
Miniature Britain
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
Saving Britain’s Pubs With Tom Kerridge
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
Powering Britain
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
The Bank That Almost Broke Britain
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
Awesome Beauty: The Art Of Industrial Britain
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
How We Built Britain
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
Britain's Most Historic Towns
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
Built In Britain
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
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 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
Britain's Best Junior Doctors
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
Britain's Best Home Cook
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
Britain's Best Home Cook
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
Britain's Best Home Cook
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
Britain's Cycling Superheroes: The Price Of Success?
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
Fake Britain
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
Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners
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
Fake Britain
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
Fake Britain
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
A Wild Year
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
The Sky At Night
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
The Great British Countryside
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
Rip Off Britain
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
Rip Off Britain
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
Rip Off Britain
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
Turner: The Man Who Painted Britain
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
When Bruce Springsteen Came To Britain
Episode 31-10-2025
To mark the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s first UK concert, this one-hour documentary examines the American singer-songwriter’s unique relationship with th ...
31-10-2025
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Building Of Britain
Victorian Splendour
Series in which Fred Dibnah explores the engineering skills that went into the building of Britain. This edition is devoted to 19th-century achievements.
20-10-2025
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Building Of Britain
Building The Canals
In his exploration of the engineering skills that went into the building of Britain, Fred Dibnah looks at the construction of the canal network.
15-10-2025
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Building Of Britain
Scottish Style
The series in which Fred Dibnah explores the engineering skills that went into the building of Britain focuses on Scottish baronial style.
14-10-2025
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Building Of Britain
The Art Of Castle Building
Fred Dibnah explores the skills that went into building Britain. He examines the construction of the great chain of castles on the coast of North Wales.
09-10-2025
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Building Of Britain
Mighty Cathedrals
Series revealing the skills that went into the building of Britain over the centuries. Fred looks at the 11th-century building programme of the Normans.
09-10-2025
BBC 2
Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story
Episode 08-10-2025
This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy. The film reveals the full extent of the British government’ ...
08-10-2025
BBC 2
Digging For Britain
Series 12: 2. Dinosaur Highway And Roman Sauna
Alice journeys around central Britain to uncover the most exciting archaeological discoveries made in the region in 2024.\n\nA quarryman makes the chance discovery of a set of v ...
07-10-2025
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 12: 1. Saxon Gold And Buried Coins
Alice travels through the east of Britain to the area’s most exciting archaeological digs.\n\nShe joins archaeologists digging an astonishing Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural ...
30-09-2025
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 10: 6. Ice Age Camp And A Saint With Syphilis
In Scotland and the north of England, Alice investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval skeleton and the earliest evidence of salt making in Britain.
24-09-2025
BBC 4
Dan Cruickshank And The Family That Built Gothic Britain
Episode 24-09-2025
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 ...
24-09-2025
BBC 4
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
Series 5: 1. Brighton
Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri visit Brighton Museum to investigate who painted two neglected pictures of religious subjects.\n\nBendor believes a grubby image of Mary Magdale ...
17-09-2025
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 11: 6. Forgotten Fortresses And Lost Villages
Digs in the west of Britain reveal a forgotten fortress teetering on the edge of a cliff, evidence of the oldest house in Cardiff and a discovery at a Roman mosaic that shocks t ...
29-07-2025
BBC 4
Rip Off Britain
Series 16: 45. Forced To Take Five Flights To Board Our Cruise
In a sun-soaked Holidays edition of Rip Off Britain, Louise Minchin, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear the astonishing story of a couple who were forced to take five fl ...
25-07-2025
BBC 1
Churchill: When Britain Said No
Episode 23-07-2025
Just weeks after VE day, Britain's great war leader Winston Churchill found himself in another battle - to be elected prime minister. He was confident of victory - a just reward ...
23-07-2025
BBC 2
Rip Off Britain
Series 16: 34. Landed In Debt… For Someone Else’s Shopping
Louise Minchin, Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and the team at Rip Off Britain HQ hear from the women from South Wales who have been hounded for hundreds of pounds worth of ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain
Episode 2
In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how George II had to adapt to a growing 'middling rank' no longer content with being downtrodden subjects.
15-07-2025
BBC 4
Battle Of Britain
Episode 12-07-2025
1940. Britain fears an impending German invasion. Goering is confident his Luftwaffe will pave the way for that. It falls to brave squadrons of fighter pilots to fend off the at ...
12-07-2025
BBC 2
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain
Episode 1
Dr Lucy Worsley's series begins in 1714 when, to prevent the crown falling into the hands of a Catholic, Britain shipped in a ready-made royal family from Hanover.
08-07-2025
BBC 4