1. Emergence
Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.\n\nRevealing as much about ourselves today as about our pa ...
14-03-2022
BBC 4
History Of Britain ">All episodes
Series 1: Episode 4
During the Blitz, over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on in ...
06-06-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 2
During the Blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain, and every bomb has its own story. This second episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the ...
19-05-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
During the Blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on ind ...
12-05-2021
BBC 2
Special
Britain is a nation of crafters, and now more than ever we are seeing an explosion in the number of evening classes and craft workshops up and down the country. People are disco ...
01-02-2021
BBC 4
Episode 21-12-2017
The Galaxy Britain Built celebrates the British contribution to the original Star Wars.\n\nPresenter and Star Wars fan David Whiteley uncovers some never-before-heard stories fr ...
21-12-2017
BBC 4
Episode 29-12-2024
Wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin travels across the UK to track down and attempt to film his favourite birds – our birds of prey. \n\nHis journey takes him from the wilds o ...
29-12-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 10. Alice's Film
Molly examines her shelf of special things at the back of Mack's stall. She chooses the piece of seaweed and remembers the day she got it... \n\nMolly keeps asking Alice questio ...
17-11-2024
CBeebies
Episode 1
In this first episode of a three-part series, presenter and musician Neil Brand argues that the movie musical was the most important form of cinema from the advent of the age of ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Episode 3
In this final episode, Neil Brand asks how the movie musical survived in our modern age.\n\nBy the 1970s the whole landscape of cinema had shifted; the biggest movies were no lo ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. Legends And Pioneers
Episode one opens at the Oscars with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde themselves) announcing that Damien Chazelle's beloved musical La La Land had won. However, ...
01-10-2022
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. Women’s Words And Voices
Georgia Mann presents a programme of contemporary classical music, written and inspired by women composers and poets. The BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Bramw ...
22-05-2022
BBC 4
The Trial Of Ratko Mladic
The Trial of Ratko Mladic, the worst times in Europe since the Second World War and the man at the heart of them.\n\nOn the 22nd of November 2017, the Bosnian Serb general, Ratk ...
16-05-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: Meet The Family
Meet the Family, voiced by Kathy Burke (Nil by Mouth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), puts cinematic families on the analyst's couch for a deep dive into what makes some of the most ...
27-01-2022
BBC 4
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
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
Series 9: Episode 1
This episode sees Alice Roberts tour the East of England, seeking out the most outstanding archaeological digs of the year.\n\nStarting in style, she witnesses the uncovering of ...
03-04-2025
BBC 4
Series 12: 6. Lost Mansions And Impaled Prisoners
This episode showcases the best archaeology found in the south of the UK. \n\nFirst, we travel to the Killerton estate in Devon, where the National Trust are hunting for remains ...
04-02-2025
BBC 4
Series 12: 4. Roman Crime And Ancient Dna
Alice heads to the north of Britain to explore the region's most fascinating archaeological digs. \n\nShe first heads to County Durham to join archaeologists digging at the sp ...
28-01-2025
BBC 4
Series 12: 5. Chariots And Slaves
Alice travels through the west of Britain, exploring the region's most exciting archaeological digs. \n\nA previously unknown Roman villa complex is unearthed west of Oxford, ...
28-01-2025
BBC 4
Series 12: 3. Island Treasures
In this episode, we make a special journey to some of the most exciting archaeological digs on Britain’s spectacular islands. Alice joins a team of archaeologists in Orkne ...
21-01-2025
BBC 4
Series 8: 1. West
Professor Alice Roberts returns with the eighth series of BBC Four’s Digging for Britain. In the first episode, we explore this year’s finds in the west of Britain. ...
20-11-2024
BBC 4
Series 7: 3. East
Professor Alice Roberts explores this year’s most exciting archaeological finds from the east of Britain. Every new discovery was filmed by the archaeologists themselves, ...
13-11-2024
BBC 4
Series 7: 2. West
Professor Alice Robert explores this year’s most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Britain. Every new discovery was filmed by the archaeologists themselves, g ...
06-11-2024
BBC 4
Series 2: 1. Collage
Jessie Cave and judges Sadie Clayton and Ricky Martin search for Britain’s Best Young Artist.\n\nToday, three of our 27 young artists enter the art studio to create a fant ...
03-09-2024
CBBC
Series 6: Episode 1
Get ready to be dazzled as Glow Up returns, hosted by the fabulous Leomie Anderson. Each week, eight of the most talented aspiring make-up artists will be judged on their creati ...
11-08-2024
BBC 1
Series 11: 5. 3000-year-old Shoes And Giant Axeheads
Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain’s oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England’s greatest warrior kings and Britain’s top-secret WWII ...
15-05-2024
BBC 4
Series 1: Episode 2
Anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts and historian Dr Yasmin Khan explore the tale of two of Britain’s greatest cities - how one became the capital of a global empire an ...
10-04-2024
BBC 2
8. Home Counties
From drinking medieval ale in the ancient town of St Albans to morris dancing in the oldest free-house in Britain, Si and Dave embark on a historic pub crawl to discover how Bri ...
03-04-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: 3. The Highlands
Today's destination is the Highlands, home to the fling, the tossed caber and the ferocious midge. Miriam Margolyes is the guide around Britain's highest mountain, Britain's sma ...
01-03-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: Episode 1
Britain’s housing market is broken – but it didn’t have to be like this. For decades, politicians sold the dream of home ownership. But for millions of people, ...
23-10-2023
BBC 2
2023: Episode 2
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ to investigate more of the problems you send in every day. In this edition, there's trouble a ...
31-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 3: 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. After seven weeks of industry assignments, the judges have ...
15-03-2023
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 8
It is the final of Glow Up, and three MUAs still have the chance to be crowned Britain’s next make-up star. But first, they have to overcome their biggest professional ass ...
27-02-2023
BBC 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Episode 3
In her story of Britain's imported German dynasty, Lucy Worsley shows how Britain's new ruling family fought the French, the Jacobites and each other, all at the same time.
02-06-2020
BBC 4
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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