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

Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

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

Creative performance readings of iconic British novels.

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the...

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

Precision: The Measure of All Things is a three-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of measurement. It was originally...

Reserved history teacher Fran has long had a strained relationship with her eccentric, free-spirit mother Mim. When Mim announces that she is dying...

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

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

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a...

A landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected to...

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

This documentary takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in modern British history. From Jack the Ripper in the 1880s to...

The search is on for an exciting new name in British photography. Six talented photographers from across the UK embark on the photographic...

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, escorts you through the most important of all intellectual disciplines:...

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.

The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which...

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...

Three 1-hour films exploring British folk music from the rebirth of English romance to the latter day revival.