Episode 01-09-2021
To the sound of pinging sonar, Robert Llewellyn ups periscope to discover why submarine movies have gripped us for over a century. He travels along the River Medway to find a be ...
01-09-2021
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Series 3: 35. Winter Stillness
Ice cold pond, snow-covered banks, soft hues in the sky. Bob Ross teaches us to admire the simple beauty of nature.
02-08-2021
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Episode 16-07-2021
A journey through Eric Clapton's performing life at the BBC and elsewhere, from his 60s blues days to his noughties blues days. Clapton has been described as the best guitarist ...
16-07-2021
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Series 3: 26. Warm Summer Day
Grab a cold lemonade and follow Bob Ross as he leads you through wooded beauty to a hot summer swimming spot.
15-07-2021
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Series 3: 14. Winter Night
Bob Ross captures the still of cold darkness and rests a cosy little cabin on top of a snow-covered hill – a real black canvas favourite.
24-06-2021
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Series 4: 35. A Mild Winter's Day
Winter scenes don’t have to be cold! With a touch of the sun’s warmth, Bob Ross turns the chill of winter into a golden day.
14-06-2021
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Code-breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Documentary that reveals the secret story behind one of the greatest intellectual feats of World War II, a feat that gave birth to the digital age. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths ...
11-05-2021
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6. Svalbard
In a revelatory look at Svalbard, the most northerly region in the series, Steve Backshall leaves no stone unturned as he unravels the secrets that lie covered in ice for most o ...
14-04-2021
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Series 4: 1. Valley View
American painter Bob Ross creates a cold day warmed by daylight's radiance, as he paints a quiet mountain masterpiece with a beautiful lake in a glen that will leave you rested ...
05-04-2021
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Series 3: 3. Shades Of Grey
Bundle up and endure the cold weather in this snow-filled adventure. Bob Ross paints a wintry mountain scene using only grey and white tones.
22-03-2021
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Series 3: 1. Winter Sun
Find the glistening sun peeking through the trees in a wintry scene. American painter Bob Ross creates a cold day warmed by daylight's radiance.
17-03-2021
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Series 2: 13. Winter Cabin
In this 30-minute masterclass, Bob Ross gently places a magical little wooden shanty upon a bed of soft snow in the middle of a cold, wintry forest.
22-02-2021
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Winter Specials: 19. Winter's Grace
Enter into the realm of the far north with American painter Bob Ross and view at first hand the glory of a cold, snow-blanketed, wintertime landscape scene.
19-01-2021
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Episode 4
Roper welcomes Pine into his inner circle, leaving Corky out in the cold.\n\nMeanwhile, Burr has concerns for the safety of her source when she suspects key information has been ...
11-01-2021
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Series 16: 16. Après Skiers V Polyhymnians
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.\n\nTwo teams who won their first heats return f ...
04-01-2021
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Series 1: Episode 1
The first episode follows two groups of novice crafters as they master the art of hooky rugmaking and traditional letterpress. Meanwhile, origami artist Sam Tsang teaches how to ...
02-12-2020
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Episode 28-10-2020
Berlin is a place that is indispensable to the imagination, a city where history ticks all the boxes. The longest of all the helter-skelter rides that Berliners have taken throu ...
28-10-2020
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2. The Russians Are Coming!
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, the front line of the Cold War was hidden beneath the ocean. Submariners from three navies - American, Soviet and British - played a deadly game of ...
05-11-2019
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Episode 3
Johnny Kingdom, gravedigger-turned-amateur filmmaker spends a year recording the bird life in and around his home on his beloved Exmoor.\n\nJohnny has spent three years creating ...
09-09-2019
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How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin
Documentary which tells the extraordinary unknown story of how the Beatles helped to destroy the USSR.\n \nIn August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liv ...
28-06-2019
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1. Come Fly With Me
In the first of this series, James May travels the globe in search of his ultimate flying machine. He begins by heading into the frozen wastes of Russia to pilot one of the best ...
05-02-2019
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Episode 21-10-2018
Sir George Benjamin conducts the world premiere of his darkly dramatic new opera based on the life of Edward II - a major event in contemporary music with an internationally ren ...
21-10-2018
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Series 2: 3. Requiem: Part One
Kerstin is caught up in a murderous bank robbery by two Russians, but a third man's participation proves puzzling, and the A Unit investigation suggests a Cold War connection. I ...
24-10-2015
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Cold
Donal MacIntyre explores extreme cold weather. He is buried alive, frozen solid and meets those that have survived the deadliest winter weather, from avalanches to ice storms.
28-07-2014
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Earthquakes
Iain Stewart reveals the stories and science behind some of the world's most dramatic earthquakes, including how 1960s Cold War spying gave scientists a clue to understanding them.
31-05-2014
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Series 1: 1. Liverpool
With the UK’s identity as an island nation more important today than for the last 50 years, Adrian Chiles, Mehreen Baig and a team of experts explore four spectacular coas ...
19-05-2024
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Series 1: 3. Enemies
The third episode sees Mrs Thatcher plunged into dramatic conflicts with determined enemies that will define her premiership and her legacy.\n\nAgainst a backdrop of economic do ...
26-02-2024
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Series 1: Episode 3
Autumn, 2020. The Met is open, but in a safe and very limited way. Visitor income helps keep the museum running, so times are hard. Since it was founded, like so many US arts in ...
22-01-2024
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Episode 10-01-2024
In 2017, a routine archaeological dig is taking place on the site of a proposed housing development in the village of Fenstanton in the Cambridgeshire Fens. When human remains a ...
10-01-2024
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Episode 30-11-2023
During a routine house call to renew a car insurance plan, salesman Walter Neff meets the sultry Phyllis Dietrichson, and together, they hatch a plan to get rid of her husband a ...
30-11-2023
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Series 1 (60-minute Versions): 4. Ho Chi Minh To Hoi An
Michael Portillo boards Vietnam’s spectacular Reunification Railway to make a 1,000-mile journey from Ho Chi Minh City in the south to the capital, Hanoi. Michael visits t ...
28-10-2023
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Series 3: Episode 4
The civil servants at DoSAC are preparing for a visit from the DoSAC shadow minister Peter Mannion. For Mannion and his team, this informal pre-election briefing is a good oppor ...
02-09-2023
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Episode 06-07-2023
Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. It ...
06-07-2023
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9. Engines At Work
Fred meets up with a few old friends at the North Staffs and Cheshire Traction Engine Club. All \nthe engines are in steam so Fred is in his element, chatting to his mates and e ...
27-06-2023
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Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight
Smart and witty, jam-packed with augmented-reality graphics and fascinating history, this film, presented by professor David Spiegelhalter, tries to pin down what chance is and ...
31-05-2023
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2018: Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw The Line?
2018 has been an extraordinary year for British artist Tracey Emin. With large-scale commissions catapulting her from London's St Pancras station to the streets of downtown Sydn ...
21-05-2023
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Series 1: 1. Now Let’s Dance!
Ester is about to turn forty and planning to celebrate the big birthday with all her friends and family. But the day before the party, she receives a phone call that will tip he ...
20-05-2023
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Series 1: 8. Da Nang To Hoi An
Michael Portillo continues his thousand-mile journey through Vietnam aboard the Unification Railway from Ho Chi Minh City to the capital, Hanoi.\n\nLeaving what locals still cal ...
12-04-2023
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Series 3 - Forces Of Nature
In a programme focusing on the French Revolution, Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality and fraternity.
28-03-2023
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Series 1: Episode 6
Guichard falls into the trap when he is lured to Château de Bagatelle by a phone call from Fiersi's son, Julien. And Commissioner Lépine confronts Fondari, the head ...
18-03-2023
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Series 1: 5. Tinker Tailor
Smiley thinks that the time has come to call on Jim Prideaux, whose assignment to Czechoslovakia went disastrously wrong, with the mole at the heart of the Circus to blame.
04-01-2023
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Episode 18-12-2022
There could be nothing more sweet and sentimental than the sound of traditional carols performed by a velvet-voiced choir at Christmas. Or so you would think. Composer Howard Go ...
18-12-2022
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Paul Simon
The legendary American singer-songwriter with his six-piece band in an intimate concert from LSO St Luke's in London's Shoreditch. Simon plays songs from throughout his solo car ...
02-09-2022
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The James Webb Road Trip
On 12 July 2022, the Sky at Night joined the rest of the world to watch as the James Webb Space Telescope released its long-awaited first images. And it didn’t disappoint. ...
17-08-2022
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Series 1: Episode 1
The search is on for an exciting new name in British photography. Six talented amateur photographers have made it through a nationwide call-out to be selected for the opportunit ...
13-07-2022
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Series 1: 4. Winter
The Erne is slowly falling under its winter spell. Early morning mists and vast tranquil silences are punctuated by the faint calls of birds migrating from colder climates to sp ...
02-07-2022
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Series 1: Episode 1
Iolo starts his journey during spring in Nant Ffrancon in the Ogwen Valley where he finds one of Britain's most-threatened birds - the twite. Mountain guide Hannah Hughes takes ...
14-06-2022
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4. New Start
The final episode tells the inside story of two relationships - Barack Obama's campaign to win over Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, and Medvedev's own complex dealings with V ...
20-04-2022
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Episode 29-03-2022
The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal m ...
29-03-2022
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Series 3: Episode 1
When the body of local farmer Ifan Williams is discovered in a remote river in the middle of the North Wales countryside, DCI Cadi John and DS Owen Vaughan are called to investi ...
19-03-2022
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