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Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: 3. Audiences And Spectacle
Audiences are preoccupying Mary Beard this week – do they matter and what’s their role? We’ve spent much of lockdown lamenting the loss of attending live perfo ...
22-02-2021
BBC 2
Culture In Quarantine: Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet
What if your first true love was someone you’d been told to hate? Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents, two young people will risk everything to be togeth ...
09-02-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 2: Episode 1
Mary Beard is back! Britain’s best known classicist is countering the pandemic with a rich feast of performance, conversation and debate.\n\nHot on the heels of the US pre ...
08-02-2021
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 1: Episode 5
In a special programme to close the series, Mary is in the company of award-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen. His films, including Hunger, Shame a ...
08-11-2020
BBC 2
Inside Culture With Mary Beard
Series 1: Episode 4
Playing her part in BBC Arts #MuseumPassion season, Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown, venturing out of her study to the British Museum. On her first ...
01-11-2020
BBC 2
Krept And Konan: We Are England
Episode 11-07-2021
As we emerge into the sunlight from the long shadow of lockdown, the UEFA Euros Tournament in June is one of the world’s most highly anticipated sporting events. And, with ...
11-07-2021
BBC 1
A Northern Soul
Episode 06-12-2018
Director Sean McAllister returns to his hometown, Hull, as curator of its UK City of Culture opening. Back living with his 90-year-old parents and reflecting on changes to a cit ...
06-12-2018
BBC 2
Inside Museums
Series 2: 1. The Story Of Slate
Huw Stephens tells the story of the Welsh slate industry with a visit to the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. It’s an extraordinary story of ruthless landlords exploiti ...
04-04-2022
BBC 4
Recipes That Made Me
Series 1: 1. Punjab
In this series, restaurateur Nisha Katona travels around the UK meeting passionate home cooks to discover family recipes passed down through generations from across the Indian s ...
30-09-2023
BBC 2
Zara Mcdermott
Uncovering Rape Culture
Beginning with her own sexual assault, Zara investigates sexism and ‘rape culture’ in Britain. The assault left her with many unanswered questions. Why did it happen ...
01-03-2023
BBC 1
The Mobo Awards
Highlights 2020
MOBO Awards 2020 is a virtual, 90-minute celebration of black music and culture, bringing together stars from music, film, TV, sport and online to celebrate outstanding achievem ...
09-12-2020
BBC 1
The Bradford Aunties
Episode 14-04-2024
Tahera, Rubina and Ghazala are charming, opinionated and determined ladies from Yorkshire, with one major thing in common – they‘re all Asian aunties, women who use ...
14-04-2024
BBC 1
Great Continental Railway Journeys
Series 7: 3. Berlin To Stuttgart
Michael Portillo embarks on a rail journey through Germany, steered by a Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide published in 1936. His unique window on Europe between the wo ...
13-03-2024
BBC 2
See Hear
Series 43: Episode 12
Jazzy Whipps and Benny Ngo take to our screens once more for this year’s See Hear on Tour: Yorkshire. The pair take to the wheel of their campervan on a road trip to disco ...
17-01-2024
BBC 2
Art That Made Us
Series 1: 8. Brilliant Isles
In the 1950s and 1960s, the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way to an explosion of new voices from across the British Isles, reinventing the art ...
11-12-2023
BBC 2
Oceans Apart: Art And The Pacific With James Fox
Series 1: 1. Australia
James Fox tells the story of Australia's indigenous culture, the oldest continuous culture anywhere in the world, and the disaster of its contact with the West. \n\nHe traces ho ...
22-08-2023
BBC 4
Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain
Series 1: Episode 1
Sir Lenny Henry presents a joyous celebration of British-Caribbean life with a host of famous faces from art, music, entertainment TV and theatre. Over two episodes, guests incl ...
14-06-2023
BBC 2
Nigel Slater's Middle East
Series 1: 2. Turkey
Nigel Slater continues his Middle Eastern culinary adventure by visiting Turkey, home to one of the world's grandest cuisines. Travelling from the bustling megacity of Istanbul ...
09-04-2022
BBC 2
Ryan Gander: The Idea Of Japan
Episode 28-11-2021
Ryan Gander OBE is a leading conceptual artist. He creates artworks full of symbolic meaning - images, sculpture, installations and films that may appear to be about one thing, ...
28-11-2021
BBC 4
A Week In The Wild
Episode 22-03-2021
In this programme, three celebrities take on iconic, long-distance hikes in some of the world's most remote locations.\n\nOn this expedition, ex-politician Stanley Johnson, TV p ...
22-03-2021
BBC 2
Northern Soul: Living For The Weekend
Episode 27-07-2018
The northern soul phenomenon was the most exciting underground British club movement of the 70s. At its high point, thousands of disenchanted white working class youths across t ...
27-07-2018
BBC 4
The Story Of The Jews
4. Over The Rainbow
Simon Schama plunges us into the lost world of the shtetl, the Jewish towns and villages sewn across the hinterlands of eastern Europe which became the seedbed of a uniquely Jew ...
24-04-2018
BBC 4
Reggae Fever: David Rodigan
Episode 27-08-2021
David Rodigan's unlikely career as a reggae broadcaster and DJ has developed in parallel with the evolution of Jamaican music in the UK. His passion and his profession have give ...
27-08-2021
BBC 4
Later... With Jools Holland
Jools’ 30th Birthday Bash
In the BBC’s centenary year, Later… with Jools Holland also celebrates a big birthday marking 30 years of the show, with the first ever episode\nbeing broadcast on ...
12-11-2022
BBC 2
Civilisations
Series 1: 8. The Cult Of Progress
If David Olusoga's first film in Civilisations is about the art that followed and reflected early encounters between different cultures, his second explores the artistic reactio ...
04-05-2018
BBC 2
Reel Stories
Pet Shop Boys
Often sublime, occasionally ridiculous, never boring; Pet Shop Boys sit down with Dermot O’Leary to watch back the twists and turns of a career like no other.\n\nSince for ...
19-04-2024
BBC 4
Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling
Series 1: Episode 5
Martin and Phil drive through the epic scenery of one of the world’s most famous roads and explore modern Norwegian culture in Trondheim, Norway’s capital of cool.\n ...
19-04-2024
BBC 2
Japan With Sue Perkins
Series 1: Episode 1
Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She finds a nation caught between the demands of a hi-tech future and the ...
06-04-2024
BBC 2
Art Of Persia
Series 1: Episode 2
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed takes viewers on a remarkable journey to places rarely seen, as she travels through Iran, telling the story of a complex and fascinating ...
05-02-2024
BBC 4
See Hear
Series 43: Episode 11
Jazzy Whipps and Benny Ngo take to our screens for this year’s See Hear on Tour: the east coast. The pair take to the wheel of their campervan on a road trip to discover t ...
10-01-2024
BBC 2
Towards Tomorrow: Robot
Episode 26-12-2023
Documentary from 1967 on how robotics could shape human society. Your future is being created now - for better or for worse?\n\nHow close are we to constructing the robot of the ...
26-12-2023
BBC 4
An Art Lovers' Guide
Series 2: 3. Baku
In the final episode of the series, Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke set off on their most adventurous trip yet - to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.\n\nA former Soviet state, bord ...
11-12-2023
BBC 4
Oceans Apart: Art And The Pacific With James Fox
Series 1: 3. New Zealand
Concluding the series on the clash between the West and Pacific peoples and cultures, James Fox explores how New Zealand's indigenous Maori people resisted colonisation and marg ...
05-09-2023
BBC 4
Oceans Apart: Art And The Pacific With James Fox
Series 1: 2. Polynesia
Continuing his exploration of the collision of the West and Pacific culture, James Fox explores how, ever since Captain Cook's voyages 250 years ago, the West has created a myth ...
29-08-2023
BBC 4
Top Of The Pops
The Story Of 1982
1982 marks the peak of British 'new pop' as Wham, ABC and Culture Club make sensational appearances, and Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel premieres the moonwalk on British TV. Dexy's n ...
20-05-2023
BBC 4
Patagonia With Huw Edwards
Episode 05-03-2023
Huw Edwards fulfils a lifelong dream to explore Patagonia, and the unique attempt to preserve Welsh culture by isolating a Welsh community in one of the most remote and inhospit ...
05-03-2023
BBC 4
The Caribbean With Andi And Miquita
Series 1: Episode 2
Andi and Miquita travel to Barbados as this most British of Caribbean islands prepares to become a republic, cutting ties with the UK.\n\nThe duo meet anti-colonial calypso star ...
04-01-2023
BBC 2
Great American Railroad Journeys
Series 3: 7. Montreal, Quebec
Following a special 1899 Canadian edition of his Appleton's guide, Michael Portillo has left the United States and crossed the border to embark on the next leg of his rail journ ...
16-11-2022
BBC 2
Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered The World
Series 1: 2. The Club
This episode celebrates the club. From Studio 54, The Loft and Paradise Garage to Shoom, illegal raves, The Hacienda, Cream and on to the contemporary megaclub brands in Las Veg ...
04-11-2022
BBC 4
The Dark Side Of Direct Sales
Episode 23-08-2022
Big money, glam work trips abroad, and becoming your own boss. Sounds good for your first job out of college or uni, doesn’t it? \n \nSome direct-selling firms in the UK a ...
23-08-2022
BBC 3
The Whistleblowers: Inside The Un
Episode 13-07-2022
For more than 70 years, the UN has been at the forefront of work to uphold human rights and promote global peace. But what happens when the fixer of the world’s problems i ...
13-07-2022
BBC 2
Fighting For King And Empire: Britain's Caribbean Heroes
Episode 22-06-2022
This programme is based on a film entitled Divided By Race - United in War and Peace, produced by The-Latest.com.\n\nDuring the Second World War, thousands of men and women from ...
22-06-2022
BBC 4
Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
Series 1: Episode 1
At a time when debates about free speech feel increasingly polarised, we look back to 1963 when a Midlands housewife and teacher named Mary Whitehouse became the original &lsquo ...
21-04-2022
BBC 2
The Secret History Of Writing
Series 1: 2. Words On A Page
In 1448, in Mainz, Germany, a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg was experimenting with a lead alloy and a hand-held mould. His aim was to speed up the process of putting ink on ...
01-03-2022
BBC 4
Disclosure
Series 4: The Truth About Brewdog
Just how ‘punk’ is BrewDog? Reporter Mark Daly investigates the truth behind the company’s marketing and financial hype. He hears disturbing claims about BrewD ...
23-02-2022
BBC 4
Remarkable Places To Eat
Series 2: 2. Vienna
Fred Sirieix travels to Austria’s capital, Vienna, in the company of food writer Rachel Khoo. Rachel’s grandma is Austrian, and visiting Vienna and eating here feels ...
03-02-2022
BBC 2
Songs Of Praise
Faith In Coventry
Claire McCollum is in Coventry, the UK City of Culture 2021, to experience Faith, a 24-hour live event featuring music, theatre and art co-produced by Coventry City of Culture T ...
10-10-2021
BBC 1
Hayley Goes...
Series 3: 4. Fast And Furious
Hayley Pearce likes a fancy motor as much as anyone, and her Beamer is her pride and joy, but she is the first to admit that she knows nothing about cars! Car culture amongst yo ...
22-09-2021
BBC 1
The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan
Series 1: Episode 1
Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian and TV presenter whose idea of a nice trip away is two weeks in the Algarve. In this three-part series he is travelling way beyond his comfort z ...
08-08-2021
BBC 2
African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power
Series 1: 2. Senegal
In Senegal, a French-speaking nation of 15 million people in the far west of Africa, Afua Hirsch discovers a country with a cultural influence far beyond its size, with dynamic ...
06-06-2021
BBC 4