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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
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
Simon Schama’s Story Of Us
Series 1: 2. Whose Britain Is It Anyway?
Simon Schama traces how artists have tried to make sense of Britain’s place in the world after the end of empire. As mass immigration changed the face of the country, arti ...
23-01-2025
BBC 2
Why The Industrial Revolution Happened Here
Episode 12-12-2024
Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history: the Industrial Revolution. He explains the unique economic, social and political condit ...
12-12-2024
BBC 4
The Great British Countryside
2. Yorkshire
Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury venture across Britain's biggest county, Yorkshire, from the Moors and the Dales to the coast to discover how Britain's epic past lives on in the ...
18-10-2024
BBC 2
Cornwall With Simon Reeve
Series 1: Episode 1
Simon Reeve travels through glorious Cornwall during a summer like no other, as the county emerges from lockdown and businesses are in a race to survive.\n\nCornwall is hugely r ...
04-08-2024
BBC 2
Invasion! With Sam Willis
Series 1: Episode 1
Three-part series in which intrepid historian Dr Sam Willis reveals a remarkable story of invasion in Britain spanning thousands of years.\n \nFrom the time continuous settlemen ...
07-02-2024
BBC 4
A Very British Deterrent
Episode 27-06-2022
With Trident renewed for another generation, A Very British Deterrent tells the story of the remarkable events, eye-watering costs, power relationships and secret deals done hal ...
27-06-2022
BBC 2
New Elizabethans With Andrew Marr
Series 1: 3. Made In Britain
In the final episode, Andrew looks at one of the greatest challenges faced by modern Elizabethans: the loss of Britain’s manufacturing heartlands and the surprising impact ...
01-06-2022
BBC 2
We Are Black And British
Series 1: Episode 2
Six black Britons from very different backgrounds and viewpoints are coming together under one roof at a time when race and racism in the UK have sparked a nationwide discussion ...
09-03-2022
BBC 2
Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men
Episode 12-08-2018
Over the last few years, the story we have been hearing about British Asian men has been overwhelmingly negative. But for some British Asian communities there are real problems. ...
12-08-2018
BBC 2
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: 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 ...
18-07-2025
BBC 1
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
When Bruce Springsteen Came To Britain
Episode 06-07-2025
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 ...
06-07-2025
BBC 2
When Blondie Came To Britain
Episode 06-07-2025
In 1977, a small and relatively unknown group called Blondie arrived in Bournemouth ahead of their first ever UK tour. This is the story of the key part Britain played in helpin ...
06-07-2025
BBC 2
Digging For Britain
Series 11: 3. A Norman Panic Room And A Mesolithic Fish Trap
In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mysterious Iron Age burial and the ruins of a Gothic masterpiece.
01-07-2025
BBC 4
Britain's Best Young Artist
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 ...
25-06-2025
CBBC
Digging For Britain
Series 6: 3. North
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the north of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the site, filmed by the arc ...
12-06-2025
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 11: 1. The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse
Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor’s lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval pilgrims and a formidable fortress perched on top of a Scottish mountain.
15-05-2025
BBC 4
Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History
A World Turned Upside Down
Dr Sam Willis takes the story of shipwrecks into the Georgian age when Britain began to rule the waves and disasters at sea imperilled its trading power.
15-05-2025
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
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 ...
08-05-2025
BBC 4