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  • 2012
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    Dirk Gently

    Dirk Gently

    6.96 2012 HD

    Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

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  • 2010
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    Britain by Bike

    Britain by Bike

    1 2010 HD

    Clare Balding embarks on a pedal-powered odyssey across Britain to rediscover the magical world of 1950s cycling

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  • 2013
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    Hidden Killers

    Hidden Killers

    1 2013 HD

    Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the killers that lurked in every room of the home.

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  • 2021
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    Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

    Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

    1 2021 HD

    Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that...

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  • 2011
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    The Beauty of Books

    The Beauty of Books

    1 2011 HD

    Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

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  • 2019
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    Planespotting Live

    Planespotting Live

    1 2019 HD

    The joy of a very British hobby, brought to you by Peter Snow and his team, revealing the hidden histories, engineering marvels and true pleasures of...

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  • 2015
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    India's Frontier Railways

    India's Frontier Railways

    1 2015 HD

    Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecting families, cultures and history.

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  • 2007
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    The Book Quiz

    The Book Quiz

    1 2007 HD

    The Book Quiz is a literary panel show. The first series, broadcast in 2007, was hosted by David Baddiel with a second 2008 series was hosted by...

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  • 2020
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    Museums in Quarantine

    Museums in Quarantine

    1 2020 HD

    Series that explores national museum collections at a time of enforced closure.

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  • 2011
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    Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

    Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

    7.50 2011 HD

    Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful city -...

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  • 2016
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    Going Forward

    Going Forward

    1 2016 HD

    Three-part dark comedy series about three days in the life of a sandwich generation couple - a care worker and a limo driver - who have put their...

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  • 2016
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    Light and Dark

    Light and Dark

    6.40 2016 HD

    Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how, by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.

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  • 2010
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    Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

    Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea

    1 2010 HD

    A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.

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  • 1995
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    Parkinson: The Interviews

    Parkinson: The Interviews

    1 1995 HD

    Michael Parkinson reflects on the most memorable subjects of his interviews from the 1970s and 1980s.

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  • 2015
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    Mumbai Railway

    Mumbai Railway

    2.00 2015 HD

    From the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn explore the science behind the world's busiest railway....

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  • 2015
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    A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley

    A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley

    8.29 2015 HD

    Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been...

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  • 2013
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    The High Art of the Low Countries

    The High Art of the Low Countries

    1 2013 HD

    This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how...

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  • 2016
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    Genius of the Modern World

    Genius of the Modern World

    7.60 2016 HD

    Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund...

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  • 2016
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    Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

    Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

    7.30 2016 HD

    Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.

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  • 2016
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    Trainspotting Live

    Trainspotting Live

    1 2016 HD

    Trainspotting Live will bring three nights of spotting, joy and excitement to BBC Four as Peter Snow, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry and engineer Dick...

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