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  • 2019
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    Canal Boat Diaries

    Canal Boat Diaries

    9.50 2019 HD

    Travelling through England’s landscapes, towns and villages, Robbie Cumming offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat the Naughty...

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  • 2008
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    10 Things You Didn't Know About...

    10 Things You Didn't Know About...

    8.00 2008 HD

    Iain Stewart reveals some surprising facts about the world's most destructive and spectacular natural phenomena, from earthquakes and tsunamis to...

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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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  • 2016
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    Handmade: By Royal Appointment

    Handmade: By Royal Appointment

    1 2016 HD

    Four-part series following the making of four beautiful objects, handcrafted by companies with a royal warrant.

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  • 2013
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    Secret Knowledge

    Secret Knowledge

    1 2013 HD

    In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

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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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  • 2022
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    The Read

    The Read

    1 2022 HD

    Creative performance readings of iconic British novels.

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  • 2013
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    Fabric of Britain

    Fabric of Britain

    1 2013 HD

    Series of documentaries exploring Britain's relationship with fabric, featuring knitting, needlework and wallpaper.

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  • 2018
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    From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature

    From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature

    7.00 2018 HD

    Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of...

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  • 2006
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    Planet Earth: The Future

    Planet Earth: The Future

    8.60 2006 HD

    The three-part complementary series features eminent scientists, theologians and conservationists discussing the environmental and conservation...

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  • 2020
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    Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    8.70 2020 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    New Forest: A Year in the Wild Wood

    New Forest: A Year in the Wild Wood

    1 2019 HD

    Writer and environmentalist, Peter Owen-Jones spends a year in the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest, exploring its wildlife, history and...

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  • 2002
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    Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

    Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

    6.30 2002 HD

    Over three episodes, Dawn French interviewed some of the most prolific and celebrated female comedians of the time. Later in 2006, several of the...

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  • 2012
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    Metalworks!

    Metalworks!

    6.00 2012 HD

    Series looking at aspects of British metalworking over the centuries, including the art of the silversmith, the history of armour and the work of the...

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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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  • 2014
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    The Secrets of Quantum Physics

    The Secrets of Quantum Physics

    6.60 2014 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures

    Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures

    1 2012 HD

    It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems...

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  • 2015
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    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    1 2015 HD

    An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to...

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  • 2017
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    Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand

    Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand

    1 2017 HD

    Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series on musical theatre evolution over the last century.

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  • 2014
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    Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures

    Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures

    1 2014 HD

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

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