Series 2 (shortened Versions): Episode 1
Three entrepreneurs come together to discover what our cast of customers think of their inventions. Joined in the studio by presenter Lucy Alexander, the inventors watch footage ...
07-02-2022
BBC 1
Series 8: Episode 6
As crews book on across Lancashire and Cumbria for the sunny Easter bank holiday weekend, an urgent call from the police for backup to help a patient who is walking into the sea ...
10-11-2021
BBC 1
Series 9: Episode 6
A trap is set to demolish a pair of bogus builders, an electric bike thief regrets leaving his own bike behind at the scene of his crime, and a boozed-up burglar breaks in but i ...
30-08-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: 14. Stop That Squeak
Ava the Postie discovers she's got a flat tyre on her bike, so rings Odd Job Austin to see if he can come and help. Odd Job Austin is hard at work in his workshop, but there see ...
15-08-2021
CBeebies
Series 1: 12. Long And Short
Let's find out about the world with Kit and Pup! Kit and Pup are cycling. Can you see who is riding the long bike and who is riding the short bike?
13-07-2021
CBeebies
Series 4: Episode 25
Vintage bike restorer Tim Gunn brings all his skill to bear on a wartime bicycle once owned and used by a Bletchley Park code breaker. Huw Banister’s mum Rachel rode to an ...
05-05-2021
BBC 2
60-minute Versions: Episode 17
Jay Blades and the team bring three treasured family heirlooms, and the memories they hold, back to life.\n\nVintage bike restorer Tim Gunn brings all his skill to bear on a war ...
22-01-2021
BBC 2
Series 3 Episode 5
Chris suffers multiple injuries after a quad bike accident near Penrith. Cyclist Vivienne is in a bad way after her bike leaves a notorious Cumbrian pass.
08-12-2019
Channel 4
Nottingham
Aled Jones explores the amazing network of man-made caves under the streets of Nottingham and discovers the hidden Christian history of the city. In the company of city archaeol ...
24-02-2019
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 2
Former Welsh rugby international turned endurance athlete Richard Parks undertakes extreme adventures in Wales. \n\nIn this episode, Richard is on a three-day mountain bike expe ...
25-05-2018
BBC 2
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 ...
06-05-2026
CBBC
Episode 06-05-2026
Dr Michael Mosley investigates Britain's most secretive and controversial military research base, Porton Down, on its 100th anniversary. He comes face to face with chemical and ...
06-05-2026
BBC 4
Series 2 - Revolutions
Featuring the revolutionary period in Britain after the execution of Charles I, from Cromwell's iron rule to Charles II's attempts to restore the lustre of the monarchy.
05-05-2026
BBC 4
Goes To Sea: 3. Manhattan Ahoy!
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain's biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. Nearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators have left for ...
21-04-2026
BBC 2
Episode 16-04-2026
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 ...
16-04-2026
BBC 4
Goes To Sea: 2. Don't Feed The Birds
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain’s biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. Nearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators have lef ...
14-04-2026
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
With unique behind-the-scenes access, this series follows the construction workers at Hinkley Point C, Britain’s biggest and newest nuclear power station, which is being b ...
09-04-2026
BBC 2
Goes To Sea: 1. Let Go All Lines
HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain’s biggest ever warship. It took nine years to build her at a cost of £3.5 billion. \n\nNearly 1,500 sailors, marines and aviators ar ...
07-04-2026
BBC 2
Series 1 - King Death
Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the greatest horror of medieval Britain - the Black Death.
31-03-2026
BBC 4
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 ...
25-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Crewing Up
It is early 2016 and sailors begin to arrive at Rosyth dockyard in Scotland where HMS Queen Elizabeth is still under construction. Captain Jerry Kyd and his 700 sailors assemble ...
04-03-2026
BBC 2
Series 1 - Beginnings
Simon Schama begins his history of Britain at the miraculously preserved Stone Age cottages of Skara Brae in Orkney and then moves on to the world of Anglo-Saxon England.
03-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 9: Episode 3
The show travels to the north of the UK to look at the most fascinating archaeology uncovered in the region over the course of 2021. \n\nIn North Yorkshire, a team of community ...
03-03-2026
BBC 4
Series 16: 20. Wrong Flight Landed Us In Lithuania!
Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford present a sun-drenched holiday edition of Rip Off Britain, featuring the shocking story of the budget airline passengers from south Wales w ...
04-02-2026
BBC 1
Series 13: 2. Our Rarest Find And Biggest Dig
Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge ...
20-01-2026
BBC 4
Series 13: 1. Scottish Massacre And 70s Skate Park
Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more ...
11-01-2026
BBC 4
Series 17: 31. Banned From 500 Shops By Facial Recognition
The team investigate the growing use of facial recognition technology on Britain's high streets after a woman from Salford is falsely identified as a toilet roll thief – r ...
05-01-2026
BBC 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Series 5: 3. Glasgow
Britain’s premier art detectives, Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri, are on the hunt to find and restore one of the nation’s great lost masterpieces. Can a mysterious ...
30-09-2025
BBC 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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