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Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Adventures
Series 1: Episode 1
University Challenge legends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are embarking on a genius adventure as they travel around Britain on a journey through time, exploring their favourit ...
11-08-2022
BBC 4
The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius Of Carl Faberge
Episode 13-11-2021
Stephen Smith explores the extraordinary life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge. He talks to HRH Prince Michael of Kent about Faberge items in the Royal Collection ...
13-11-2021
BBC 4
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering A Genius
Episode 10-10-2021
An entertaining docudrama that portrays the astonishing life of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a forgotten genius and a child prodigy akin to Mozart. He was the greatest poet of th ...
10-10-2021
BBC 4
Mackintosh: Glasgow's Neglected Genius
Episode 23-02-2020
Glasgow artist Lachlan Goudie examines the life, work and legacy of Scotland's most celebrated architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - the man Lachlan Goudie calls ' ...
23-02-2020
BBC 4
Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide To Britain
Series 1: 3. Northern Ireland
University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they ...
25-01-2020
BBC 2
Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide To Britain
Series 1: 2. Wales
University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they ...
18-01-2020
BBC 2
Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide To Britain
Series 1: 1. England
University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they ...
11-01-2020
BBC 2
Child Genius Vs Celebrities Christmas Special
Celebrity Christmas Special 2019
Jimmy Carr, Jo Brand, Richard Bacon and radio host Vick Hope take on four of the most formidable competitors in the history of Child Genius to see who's brightest
24-12-2019
Channel 4
The Lost Genius Of British Art: William Dobson
Episode 04-02-2019
Has one of Britain's greatest artists been unfairly forgotten? Waldemar Januszczak thinks so. In this documentary, Januszczak argues that the little known 17th-century portrait ...
04-02-2019
BBC 4
Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide To Britain
Series 1: 1. England
University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they ...
24-10-2018
BBC 2
Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide To Britain
Series 1: 1. England
University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they ...
24-10-2018
BBC 2
The Genius Of Turner: Painting The Industrial Revolution
Episode 21-02-2018
A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. T ...
21-02-2018
BBC 4
Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius
Episode 10-12-2017
Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park.\n\nFilmed ext ...
10-12-2017
BBC 2
Puttin' On The Ritz: The Genius Of Fred Astaire
Episode 10-03-2024
A short compilation of clips from Fred Astaire's days at the RKO studio, where he formed an unforgettable partnership with Ginger Rogers.
10-03-2024
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 6. Lift
Hannah goes behind the scenes to look at the technology behind the lift, entering a 246m high lift shaft to test everything from the brakes to her own fear of heights.\n\nAlong ...
26-01-2024
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 5. Headphones
Headphones: these marvels of miniaturisation are worn by over 30 million people in the UK. Hannah Fry visits legendary headphone honchos Bose to find out how today’s teeny ...
19-01-2024
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 4. Microwave
Hannah Fry discovers the hidden WWII radar technology that heats up baked beans, learns the legend of the melted candy bar in an engineer’s pocket that kick-started a kitc ...
12-01-2024
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 3. Smartphone
With over six billion of them across the planet, smartphones have changed the modern world. With rare access to electronics giant Samsung, Hannah uncovers the technological game ...
03-01-2024
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 2. Vacuum Cleaner
Hannah takes a look at the vacuum cleaner, going behind the scenes with Dyson and discovering how the motor in their latest vacuum spins nine times faster than that of a Formula ...
27-12-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 2: 1. Passport
Hannah gains access to a top-secret site where anonymous staff and the latest tech work to make the British passport one of the most secure documents on the planet. She reveals ...
20-12-2023
BBC 2
Shakespeare: Rise Of A Genius
Series 1: Episode 3
Shakespeare’s life and legacy is threatened when the Gunpowder Plot unearths a secret he has worked all his life to bury: his family are Catholics, traitors to the crown. ...
24-11-2023
BBC 2
Shakespeare: Rise Of A Genius
Series 1: Episode 2
A 30-year-old Shakespeare is at the top of his game: he’s got a job at England’s best theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and the money is rolling in. ...
17-11-2023
BBC 2
Shakespeare: Rise Of A Genius
Series 1: Episode 1
1587. William Shakespeare leaves the small rural town of Stratford to pursue his dreams of becoming a playwright in the dangerous, growing metropolis of London. Public theatre i ...
09-11-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 6. Trainer
Hannah Fry visits eBay’s authentication centre, where they are waging war against fake high-value trainers. She discovers how American breakfast waffles transformed our tr ...
07-09-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 5. Fitness Tracker
With around a third of the population now owning fitness trackers, Britain has become a nation obsessed with tracking its every move.\n\nHannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crash ...
26-07-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 4. Electric Car
Hannah Fry discovers why innovations in meat packing almost derailed the electric car revolution and how a breakthrough in camcorder batteries led to Elon Musk’s electric ...
25-07-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 3. Virtual Assistant
Hannah Fry delves into the inner workings of virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, which are now found in almost half of all UK homes.\n\nHann ...
24-07-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 2. Food Delivery App
Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK.\n\nHannah meets the R&D team behind food ...
18-07-2023
BBC 2
The Secret Genius Of Modern Life
Series 1: 1. Bank Card
Hannah Fry takes a look at the bank card. This humble piece of plastic is often taken for granted, but it’s the digital key to accessing cash and is packed full of extraor ...
17-07-2023
BBC 2
The Blob: A Genius Without A Brain
Episode 09-03-2023
Not an animal, nor a plant, nor fungi, the blob is one giant single cell whose amazing capacities are leading pioneer scientists to a very new world – that of brainless in ...
09-03-2023
BBC 4
Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Adventures
Series 1: Episode 3
University Challenge legends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull travel through time, exploring their favourite British scientific breakthroughs from across the Industrial Revolution ...
16-08-2022
BBC 4
Genius Of The Ancient World
3. Confucius
In the final episode, Bettany travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundamentally shaped the country of his birth for arou ...
13-08-2022
BBC 4
Genius Of The Ancient World
2. Socrates
Series in which historian Bettany Hughes investigates three giants of ancient philosophy. In the second episode she is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick ...
23-07-2022
BBC 4
Genius Of The Ancient World
1. Buddha
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. To begin, she investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.
09-07-2022
BBC 4
Art On The Bbc: The Genius Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Episode 07-03-2022
Art historian Dr Janina Ramirez embarks on a journey through six decades of the BBC archives to create a television history of one of the most celebrated figures in art - Leonar ...
07-03-2022
BBC 4
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story
Episode 26-11-2021
Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne. Sam is amazed how few people, outside of his native n ...
26-11-2021
BBC 4
The Genius Of Marie Curie - The Woman Who Lit Up The World
Episode 07-03-2021
Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the at ...
07-03-2021
BBC 4
The Genius Of David Bowie
Episode 08-01-2021
A selection of some of David Bowie's best performances from the BBC archives, which also features artists who Bowie helped along the way, such as Mott the Hoople, Lulu, Iggy Pop ...
08-01-2021
BBC 4
Carved With Love: The Genius Of British Woodwork
1. The Extraordinary Thomas Chippendale
09-09-2020
BBC 4
Everyday Miracles: The Genius Of Sofas, Stockings And Scanners
Away
Mark Miodownik looks at how materials have enabled us to indulge our curiosity about the world around us, revealing why the everyday and even the mundane is anything but.
27-11-2019
BBC 4
Everyday Miracles: The Genius Of Sofas, Stockings And Scanners
Home
Mark Miodownik shows that the things of modern life around us that we maybe take for granted are revealed to be little pieces of domestic magic - from razor blades to tights.
20-11-2019
BBC 4
Child Genius
Child Genius: The Final
The child geniuses tackle their specialist rounds, including epidemiology and cryptoanalysis. The last two then go head to head in a quick-fire round. Who will claim the trophy?
02-03-2019
Channel 4
Child Genius
Child Genius
Several competitors face elimination in a semi-final featuring nerves, illness, hugely demanding anagrams and some sudden death spelling
01-03-2019
Channel 4
Child Genius
Child Genius
It's the quarter-final and the contenders take on science and some of the world's most complex principles. There's also a triple-point question offering big gains or big losses.
28-02-2019
Channel 4
Child Genius
Child Genius
The 14 remaining competitors take on geography, facing a fiendish memory round of flags and another twist in the rules
27-02-2019
Channel 4