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The story of the discovery that everything is made from atoms, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history, and the brilliant minds...

The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary people.

The three-part series tells the story of British architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael Hopkins and Terry Farrell.

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.

Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in...

Hannah Fry takes a spectacular look at the science of size by imagining a parallel world in which everything is made bigger or smaller.

When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring...

From the Himalayas in the north to the Nilgiris in the south - for a hundred years these little trains have climbed through the clouds and into the...

The History of the World Backwards is a comedy sketch show written and starring Rob Newman. It is a mock history programme set in an alternative...

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has...

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

Legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, sent ships to the land of Punt. Cheryl Ward sets out to recreate the voyage, in...

An exploration of the work of Britain's greatest fell walker and author, Alfred Wainwright.

Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France to discover the history of Islam in Europe

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. The...

How the invention of writing gave humanity a history. From hieroglyphs to emojis, an exploration of the way in which the technology of writing has...

The main decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia and the US tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Mark Miodownik reveals how the properties of materials are made to work for us

Professor Richard Fortey travels to some of the greatest fossil sites on earth to discover more about the distant past.