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2010
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South Africa Walks
South Africa Walks1 2010 HD
Julia Bradbury sets out on four walks that explore South Africa's claim to be 'a world in one country', going far beyond the normal tourist...
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2012
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Why Poverty?
Why Poverty?1 2012 HD
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
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2021
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Lights Up
Lights Up1 2021 HD
A virtual theatre festival staged in lockdown. Household names join groundbreaking new talent - pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be when...
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1970
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How to Be a Composer
How to Be a Composer1 1970 HD
Journalist and critic Paul Morley spends a year learning the art of musical composition
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2017
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Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business
Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business1 2017 HD
This series looks at the career of the multiple Grammy-award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, as Nile Rodgers shares a lifetime of experience...
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2003
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The National Trust
The National Trust1 2003 HD
Documentary series lifting the lid on the National Trust, filmed over two of the most stressful years in its more than 100-year-old life. The...
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1995
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Showstoppers
Showstoppers1 1995 HD
A series of shows featuring songs from stage and screen musicals.
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1970
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100 Years of Girl Guides
100 Years of Girl Guides1 1970 HD
100 Years of Girl Guides is a BBC television documentary. It was shown on the digital television station BBC Four on Sunday 16 August 2009 at 21:00....
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2009
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A History Of Christianity
A History Of Christianity7.00 2009 HD
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a...
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2014
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Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces
Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces1 2014 HD
From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many...
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2021
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The Violence Paradox
The Violence Paradox1 2021 HD
Psychologist Steven Pinker believes we may be living in the most peaceful period in human existence. He explores the reasons why this might be and...
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2008
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Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury
Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury7.00 2008 HD
Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire.
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2010
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Michael Wood's Story Of England
Michael Wood's Story Of England8.00 2010 HD
Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in...
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2014
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The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney
The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney1 2014 HD
Series which follows Martha Kearney's bee-keeping year and explores the science, art and culture of the honeybee, the most ingenious insect known to...
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2014
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Secrets of Bones
Secrets of Bones7.00 2014 HD
Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod looks at how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every...
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2018
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WWI: The Last Tommies
WWI: The Last Tommies1 2018 HD
Vivid and heartbreaking stories told by the last Tommies - filmed in their 90s and 100s - remembering life and death in World War I, illustrated with...
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1970
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Nightmare in the City That Never Sleeps
Nightmare in the City That Never Sleeps1 1970 HD
Today New York is America's greatest city. But 30 years ago this summer, they couldn't even keep the lights on. A blackout plunged seven million...
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2022
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Skint
Skint3.00 2022 HD
The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues about...
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2013
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Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain1 2013 HD
The fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.
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2010
S1 E3
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors6.00 2010 HD
The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which...