Series 1: Episode 2
David Olusoga reveals how the end of the royal monopoly and the expansion of commerce was the 'big bang' moment in the story of the slave trade. In the 18th century, the trade i ...
17-10-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
David Olusoga meets the historians who have built the Register of British Slave Traders. For five years, they have searched through thousands of documents, piecing together a co ...
14-10-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
Radio 1 presenter Sian Eleri investigates a seemingly ordinary farmhouse in north Wales, which, in the late 1990s, was widely considered the most haunted house in Britain. \n\nT ...
26-09-2026
BBC 3
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 ...
21-09-2026
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 ...
14-09-2026
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 ...
07-09-2026
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 ...
04-08-2026
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 ...
04-08-2026
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 ...
28-07-2026
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 ...
28-07-2026
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 ...
24-07-2026
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 ...
23-07-2026
BBC 2
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 ...
21-07-2026
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 ...
21-07-2026
BBC 4
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 ...
20-07-2026
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 ...
17-07-2026
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 ...
16-07-2026
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 ...
15-07-2026
BBC 2
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 ...
14-07-2026
BBC 4