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  • 2010
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    South Africa Walks

    South Africa Walks

    1 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 Up

    1 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 Composer

    1 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 Business

    1 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 Trust

    1 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

    Showstoppers

    1 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 Guides

    1 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 Christianity

    7.00 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 Palaces

    1 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 Paradox

    1 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 Bradbury

    7.00 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 England

    8.00 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 Kearney

    1 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 Bones

    7.00 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 Tommies

    1 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 Sleeps

    1 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

    Skint

    3.00 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 Britain

    1 2013 HD

    The fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.

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  • 2010
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    The Great Outdoors

    The Great Outdoors

    6.00 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...

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