Series 1: Episode 2
The success of the single and Geldof's subsequent trip to Africa sparks the largest global fundraising concert, held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, broadcast to more ...
13-07-2025
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
In late October 1984, a BBC news report about a 'biblical famine' in Ethiopia inspired rock star Bob Geldof to collaborate with Midge Ure on a pop song that would mobilise not o ...
12-07-2025
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. The American Revolution
In the first of a three-part series, Lucy Worsley explores how American history has been mythologised and manipulated by generations of politicians, writers and protesters. This ...
22-04-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 3
When Donald Trump took office in 2017, he tore up the rulebook on how to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, holding talks with the I ...
20-03-2025
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 2
In 2009, two new leaders took office: Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and Barack Obama in America. Bitter clashes between the two men were sparked by their very different ideas abo ...
13-03-2025
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
In 2003, Israel’s prime minister, Ariel Sharon, stunned the world with his decision to pull Israeli settlers and armed forces out of the Gaza Strip, which took place in 20 ...
06-03-2025
BBC 2
Episode 16-02-2025
Their roles as husband and wife Patrick and Yolande Trueman made actors Rudolph Walker and Angela Wynter firm favourites with EastEnders fans. Here, we join them, out of charact ...
16-02-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 8. Syria – A Loop Of Imperfection
America’s unwillingness to act after the chemical attack caused Syrian rebels to despair; no-one would come and save the day, leaving a vacuum that would be filled by the ...
24-09-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 7. Syria – The Risk Of Doing Nothing
In his acceptance speech for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama stated: 'I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans'. When ...
17-09-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 6. Libya – If You Break It You Own It
Barack Obama's first presidential trip abroad was to Cairo. He turned to the younger generation in the Arab world and told them 'you, more than anyone, have the ability to remak ...
10-09-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 5. Darfur – Carrots For A War Criminal
In 2003, the Sudanese government began a widespread ethnic cleansing campaign in the western part of the country. With the memory of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda still fre ...
02-09-2024
BBC 4
3. Children Of The Revolution
'Sculpture has changed more in the last hundred years,' says Alastair Sooke, 'than in the previous thirty thousand.' The third and last episode of the series tells the dramatic ...
01-09-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. Kosovo – In The Name Of Our Future
Three years after the civil war in Bosnia, the world looked like a very different place. The Bosnian genocide had been stopped, but Muslim separatists in the Kosovo region rekin ...
27-08-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Rwanda – That Was A Local Thing
Why did the entire world stand by in 1994 as nearly one million people were murdered over one hundred days of incomprehensible terror in Rwanda? American diplomats describe even ...
22-08-2024
BBC 4
2. Mavericks Of Empire
By the middle of the 18th century, Britain was in possession of a vast empire. It required a new way of seeing ourselves and so we turned to the statues of ancient Greece and Ro ...
19-08-2024
BBC 4
1. Masons Of God
Alastair Sooke reveals the astonishing range of our medieval sculpture, from the imposing masterpieces of our Gothic cathedrals to the playful misericords underneath church stal ...
18-08-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Bosnia – Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George HW Bush declared the age of a new world order, where the 'rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle'. For a new generation ...
15-08-2024
BBC 4
Episode 14-08-2024
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries first appeared on our screens in 2001 and had viewers instantly hooked by the combination of puzzling crimes and murder investigations, spiced up ...
14-08-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Iraq – For Every Insect There Is An Insecticide
After the Islamic revolution and the capture of 50 American hostages, Iran became a bitter enemy of the United States. To counterbalance Iranian influence in the region, the Whi ...
11-08-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 3
Beginning in 1972, this episode tells the story of a miscarriage of justice that would lead to major changes in police powers. \n\nIn 1972, the body of Maxwell Confait was found ...
07-08-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Double Jeopardy
Beginning in 1989, this episode tells the story of a murder in Billingham in Teesside that would lead to one mother challenging an 800-year-old law. \n\nIn November 1989, Julie ...
31-07-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Dna
This episode begins in Leicestershire in the heart of England, in the 1980s.\n\nIn 1983 and then only three years later, in 1986, the villages of Narborough and Enderby were sha ...
24-07-2024
BBC 4
17/06/2024
A party election broadcast by the Workers Party of Britain for the general election on 4 July.
17-06-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 3. Glory
Welcoming all visitors to Anfield is the statue of the legendary manager from Ayrshire, Bill Shankly, who in the 1960s laid the foundations on which Liverpool FC built decades o ...
15-06-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 2. Guts
In the early 1970s, Leeds United was the team that personified guts on the pitch and was the dominant force in English football. Central to this success was their tough tackling ...
08-06-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 2
Across the UK, there are hundreds of thousands of unsolved sexual offences lying dormant in police archives. Some go back decades. One remarkable police unit is trying to change ...
05-06-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Genius
Manchester United is one of the most successful football clubs in England, but its worldwide success was built on the shoulders of footballing geniuses from Ireland and Scotland ...
01-06-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 1
Across the UK, there are hundreds of thousands of unsolved sexual offences lying dormant in police archives. Some go back decades. One remarkable police unit is trying to change ...
30-05-2024
BBC 2
Episode 17-04-2024
Siân Phillips is joined by directors Moira Armstrong and Waris Hussein, to look back on the 1974 drama series Shoulder to Shoulder, which told the story of the Pankhurst f ...
17-04-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Shadows And Sleuths
Lucy investigates the return of Sherlock and finds that the darkness of the later stories mirrored the reality of Doyle’s life. After the loss of his eldest son, he became ...
12-01-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 2. Fact And Fiction
Lucy explores Doyle’s desire to distance himself from Sherlock. From the delights of the ski slopes to the horrors of the Boer War, she reveals how far Doyle went to make ...
02-01-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Doctor And Detective
This is the story of a power struggle between two men - one fictional, and one real. In one corner is the master of crime – the greatest detective who never lived, Sherloc ...
28-12-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 3
Documentary series exploring the Yorkshire Ripper investigation. In this final episode, Liza Williams charts the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe in January 1981, his subsequent trial ...
12-11-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 2
Documentary series exploring the Yorkshire Ripper investigation. Following the murder of Josephine Whitaker in April 1979, Peter Sutcliffe’s crimes started to make headlin ...
05-11-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 1
Documentary series opening, in 1975, with the first three years of the investigation into finding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. The location of the first two murders in ...
29-10-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 8. Show Time
The biggest celebrations in people's lives would be nothing without great hospitality operators working tirelessly behind the scenes. Tom looks at how the industry delivers exce ...
26-09-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 7. Shock Of The New
Transforming a casual dining concept into a chain of restaurants is one of the most high-risk ventures in hospitality. To find out where scalable ideas originate, Tom goes behin ...
20-09-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 6. Open Season
The changeable UK weather can bring sharp peaks and troughs in revenue for hospitality businesses. Tom heads to a remote hotel, an ice cream parlour and his own restaurant to lo ...
13-09-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 5. Join The Club
Tom serves up more revelations from the world of hospitality. This time, his attention turns to street food, which is experiencing something of a boom when the industry is strug ...
31-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 4. Chop And Change
Tom meets trailblazing operators who are risking everything to redefine the British pub, all whilst trying to navigate the cost of living crisis. He visits a rural pub that bega ...
23-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 3. All Hands On Deck
Tom Kerridge continues to lift the lid on the UK’s hospitality industry, this time turning the spotlight on staffing. Despite a UK-wide recruitment crisis, Tom discovers h ...
16-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 2. Rolling The Dice
Tom continues his deep dive into the industry he knows and loves. This time, he meets brave and ambitious entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses in the midst of some o ...
11-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Star Quality
Tom explores a part of the industry close to his heart: the highly skilled and competitive world of fine dining. He meets chefs who, like him, are obsessed with the pursuit of c ...
30-07-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: 3. Weirder And Weirder
Hannah explores a paradox at the heart of modern maths, discovered by Bertrand Russell, which undermines the very foundations of logic that all of maths is built on. These flaws ...
04-07-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Expanded Horizons
In this new series, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. It underpins so much of our modern world that its hard to imagine life without its technological a ...
03-07-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Numbers As God
In this new series, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. It underpins so much of our modern world that it's hard to imagine life without its technological ...
02-07-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Fame And Fortune
In September 1997, the Royal Academy puts on an iconoclastic exhibition at the heart of the art establishment – Sensation. It causes a sensation itself, with 300,000 peopl ...
10-11-2022
BBC 2
Series 1: 2. Is It Art?
In the 1990s, young artists, musicians and creatives use the recession in Britain to their advantage, putting on their own shows in abandoned spaces and warehouses and moving to ...
03-11-2022
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Upstarts
A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and provocative movement which would culminate in the notorious 1997 exhibition ...
27-10-2022
BBC 2
Episode 1
Rory Stewart tells the story of British interventions in Afghanistan in the 19th century, when the British Empire became obsessed with the idea that their rival, Russia, was con ...
15-09-2022
BBC 2