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Archaeology At Hinton Ampner
From Roman coins to Stone Age axes and prehistoric bones, Britain’s countryside is full of hidden ancient treasures.\n \nAnita Rani is in Hinton Ampner, a medieval village ...
01-04-2024
BBC 1
Digging For Britain
Series 9: Episode 4
Alice Roberts travels across the Midlands, looking at the best archaeology uncovered last year in the heart of England. \n\nIn a Digging for Britain exclusive, we join palaeonto ...
27-03-2024
BBC 4
Scotland From The Sky
Series 3: Episode 1
In the first episode of a new series, presenter James Crawford explores how we have managed to surmount the challenges of our tough terrain to connect communities and places acr ...
11-03-2024
BBC 2
Scotland From The Sky
Series 2: Coast
A return of the series where presenter Jamie Crawford explores Scotland from above, using stunningly beautiful aerial images to uncover fascinating stories from Scotland’s ...
06-03-2024
BBC 2
Murder, Mystery And My Family
Series 4: 1. Maybrick
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine an infamous Victorian poisoning case in which a wife was convicted of the murder of her husband. \n\nLive ...
19-02-2024
BBC 1
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
Episode 29-01-2024
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet ...
29-01-2024
BBC 4
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
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 ...
23-01-2024
BBC 4
The Magic Of Dance
Series 1: 4. The Romantic Ballet
Margot Fonteyn traces the story of the Romantic Ballet and its greatest exponents. In 1832, the most famous ballerina in the world was Marie Taglioni. One of the first ballerina ...
14-01-2024
BBC 4
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
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 ...
09-01-2024
BBC 4
Imagine... Russell T Davies: The Doctor And Me
Episode 26-12-2023
imagine… follows one of Britain’s most celebrated TV writers as he prepares to once again return as the showrunner of Doctor Who. Back in 2005, Davies was responsib ...
26-12-2023
BBC 1
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
Art That Made Us
Series 1: 7. Wars And Peace
Art goes to war during the first half of the 20th century: war with the old imperial order, war with convention and war with the very idea of what it means to be human. This is ...
04-12-2023
BBC 2
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 11: 9. Paignton To Tiverton
Michael Portillo's exploration of the West Country continues in south Devon. Guided by his 1930s Bradshaw’s, Michael arrives in Paignton to investigate an extraordinarily ...
04-12-2023
BBC 2
Great Asian Railway Journeys
Series 1 (60-minute Versions): 7. Yogyakarta To Surabaya
Michael Portillo’s railway journey following his 1913 guidebook continues in Indonesia. Beginning in Java’s royal city, Yogyakarta, Michael visits the Sultan’s ...
25-11-2023
BBC 4
Art That Made Us
Series 1: 5. Consumers And Conscience
This episode traces the story of Britain during the 18th century, a period that saw an explosion of creativity and a country with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay f ...
20-11-2023
BBC 2
Story">The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story
StorySeries 1: Episode 3
Documentary series exploring the Yorkshire Ripper investigation. In this final episode, Liza Williams charts the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe in January 1981, his subsequent trial ...
12-11-2023
BBC 4
This Cultural Life
Series 1: 1. Kenneth Branagh
Actor and film-maker Sir Kenneth Branagh talks to John Wilson about the key influences and inspirations that have shaped his own work. In a wide-ranging conversation, he reveals ...
02-11-2023
BBC 4
The Met
Series 4: Episode 2
Twenty-two-year-old Agnes Akom has been reported missing, but what begins as a search for a missing person develops into something potentially far more serious. Agnes has not be ...
31-10-2023
BBC 1
Scotland’s Sacred Islands With Ben Fogle
Series 2: Episode 2
Ben takes a tiny passenger ferry from mainland Argyll down the length of Loch Sween to arrive on Islay.\n\nWhile the island is famed for its whisky - the island has more distill ...
30-10-2023
BBC 1
Why The Industrial Revolution Happened Here
Episode 22-10-2023
Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history: the Industrial Revolution. He explains the unique economic, social and political condit ...
22-10-2023
BBC 4
Union With David Olusoga
Series 1: 1. The Making Of Britain
Historian David Olusoga starts the story of Union in the 17th Century, an era of defined by deep religious divisions between Protestant and\nCatholic.\n\nIn 1603 King James VI o ...
11-10-2023
BBC 2
Expert Witness
Series 2: 5. Body In The Woods And Murder At The Post Office
This episode follows two shocking criminal cases in Yorkshire, each involving a woman murdered by her partner, and two expert witnesses with very different disciplines in forens ...
15-09-2023
BBC 1
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 10: 12. Reading To Taplow
Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo picks up his rail journey from Warwick to Rye along the River Thames. In Reading, he traces the origins of educ ...
12-09-2023
BBC 2
The Violence Paradox
Series 1: Episode 1
Taking his clues from archaeology, modern laboratory experiments, historical criminology and literature, psychologist Steven Pinker traces the social and neurobiological roots o ...
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
Great Coastal Railway Journeys
Series 1: 11. Tynemouth To Bardon Mill
The stunning coastline of Northumberland is the setting for Michael Portillo’s rail adventure from the city of Newcastle to England’s northernmost town, Berwick-upon ...
28-08-2023
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
Arena
The Everly Brothers: Songs Of Innocence And Experience
The Everly Brothers were among the most successful and revered of all the giants of early rock 'n' roll. A determining influence on the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and the Beac ...
12-08-2023
BBC 4
The Rko Story: Tales From Hollywood
3. A Woman's Lot
The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and ...
10-08-2023
BBC 4
The Ascent Of Man
5. Music Of The Spheres
Dr Bronowski gives his own novel proof of Pythagoras' famous theorem and traces the spread of Greek ideas through the Islamic empire to Moorish Spain and Renaissance Europe.
07-08-2023
BBC 4
Flog It!
Series 17: Episode 16
Today Flog It! comes from Tilbury Docks in Essex. Antique experts Elizabeth Talbot and Philip Serrell hunt for items to take off to auction. Phillip finds a rare Romany oil lamp ...
06-08-2023
BBC 1
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 14: 9. Felixstowe To Norwich
Michael Portillo continues his rail exploration of the east of England, beginning with the seafront at Felixstowe, where in January 1953, the town was engulfed in the worst floo ...
31-07-2023
BBC 2
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 14: 6. Tilbury To Barbican
Michael Portillo travels through the Britain of his youth from London’s Docklands and East End to the ‘city within a city’, the Barbican. \n\nAt Tilbury, he t ...
24-07-2023
BBC 2
The Ascent Of Man
1. Lower Than The Angels
Jacob Bronowski opens the first programme at man's birthplace, the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, and traces the evolution of man's unique gifts - foresight and imagination. ...
24-07-2023
BBC 4
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 14: 5. Bradford To Hebden Bridge
Michael Portillo continues his postwar exploration of north west England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge.\n\nIn Centenary Square in Bradford, Michael encounters Bradford& ...
20-07-2023
BBC 2
Made In Great Britain
Series 1: 2. Chocolate
This delectable episode traces our love affair with chocolate back to York. It was here that chocolate was transformed from a luxury drink for the rich into the nation's favouri ...
18-07-2023
BBC 2
Who Do You Think You Are?
Series 20: 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a global superstar of musical theatre, still writing and producing blockbuster shows. He has also combined his nose for business with his love of architec ...
06-06-2023
BBC 1
Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age
1. Wind, Water And Steam
Documentary series celebrating Britain's rich industrial heritage, presented by Fred Dibnah. The tour of treasured sites of industrial history begins on the old Bolton, Bury and ...
06-06-2023
BBC 2
Storyville
The Queen Of Africa: The Miriam Makeba Story
A Storyville documentary that takes a look at the life of South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. Forced into a life of exile for exposing the harsh realit ...
30-05-2023
BBC 4
Inside The Factory
Series 7: Crumpets
Gregg Wallace visits the factory making 432 million crumpets every year. Crumpets are a British classic made from a precise combination of ingredients, using some clever chemist ...
24-05-2023
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam
4. Steaming Down The Road
Fred traces the development of steam power. He looks at early experiments in its use for road transport, and at the development of the traction engine.
16-05-2023
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam
2. The Age Of The Steam Locomotive
Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power, from early colliery railways to the end of steam travel in Britain in the 1960s.
09-05-2023
BBC 2
Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam
1. The Early Pioneers
Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station. Fred visits Cornwall to look at the ear ...
08-05-2023
BBC 2
Great Asian Railway Journeys
Series 1: 15. Penang To Kuala Kangsar
Michael Portillo’s 2,500-mile rail tour of south east Asia reaches Malaysia.\n\nOn the island of Penang, Michael traces the origins of the former British colony in Georget ...
03-05-2023
BBC 4
Moment Of Proof
Series 3: Episode 12
A man is conclusively linked to a series of murders at music venues by a shoelace with traces of his final victim’s DNA on it. After two people are set upon at a music fes ...
11-04-2023
BBC 1
A History Of Britain By Simon Schama
Series 2 - The Wrong Empire
Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers, asking how a trading enterprise based on the idea of liberty became an empire built on slavery.
21-03-2023
BBC 4
Irish Rock At The Bbc
Episode 17-03-2023
A whistle-stop tour of rock from over the water, taking in some of the finest Irish rock offerings from the early 70s to the present day, as captured on a variety of BBC shows f ...
17-03-2023
BBC 4
Great Australian Railway Journeys
Series 1 (30-minute Versions): 7. Canberra To Melbourne – Part 1
Armed with his 1913 Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo crosses the south east of Australia, from the seat of government in Canberra to the multi-ethnic heart of its second ...
14-03-2023
BBC 2
Storyville
Scandalous! The Tabloid That Changed America
Sex! Gossip! Scandal! Over the course of 60 years, the National Enquirer became the most infamous tabloid in America, pumping out salacious stories, stretching the limits of jou ...
12-03-2023
BBC 4
My Name Is Ottilie
Episode 10-03-2023
Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of British music.\n\nOne night in 19 ...
10-03-2023
BBC 4