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  • 2010
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    Birds Britannia

    Birds Britannia

    1 2010 HD

    Birds Britannia is a four-part BBC Four television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen...

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  • 2007
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    The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

    The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

    0.50 2007 HD

    Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with...

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  • 2015
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    Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

    Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

    8.00 2015 HD

    Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a...

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  • 2013
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    Brushing Up On...

    Brushing Up On...

    1 2013 HD

    Danny Baker uses archive material to look at aspects of British manufacturing.

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  • 2018
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    Discovering...

    Discovering...

    1 2018 HD

    Four extraordinary pieces of music performed in full by BBC orchestras.

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  • 2011
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    The Story of Variety with Michael Grade

    The Story of Variety with Michael Grade

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2017
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    Prejudice and Pride: The People's History of LGBTQ Britain

    Prejudice and Pride: The People's History of LGBTQ Britain

    0.80 2017 HD

    Stephen K. Amos and Susan Calman present a unique series in which LGBTQ people from across the UK talk about the objects that helped to define their...

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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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  • 2020
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    Art on the BBC

    Art on the BBC

    1 2020 HD

    Four young British art historians delve into six decades of the BBC archives to discover the powerful way in which television influences our...

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  • 2010
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    Beautiful Minds

    Beautiful Minds

    1 2010 HD

    Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or...

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  • 2016
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    Britain's Treasure Islands

    Britain's Treasure Islands

    1 2016 HD

    Naturalist Stewart McPherson travels to all the UK Overseas Territories, exploring their wildlife, landscapes, history and people

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  • 2009
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    Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

    Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

    7.00 2009 HD

    Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe was a special one-off British, video game culture show by Charlie Brooker, aired in September 2009 during the BBC's...

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  • 2011
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    Sandhurst

    Sandhurst

    1 2011 HD

    Documentary series shot at the Royal Military Academy over the course of a year, following the journey of one intake of cadets through the...

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  • 2025
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    Japan’s Master of Restoration

    Japan’s Master of Restoration

    1 2025 HD

    Where broken beauty is reborn. How legendary art restorer Koji Mayuyama is preserving ancient treasures, one divine touch at a time.

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  • 2020
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    The Mole - Infiltrating North Korea

    The Mole - Infiltrating North Korea

    8.20 2020 HD

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  • 2013
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    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    7.00 2013 HD

    Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during...

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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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  • 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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  • 2010
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    The Beauty of Diagrams

    The Beauty of Diagrams

    1 2010 HD

    Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.

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  • 2011
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    The Brain: A Secret History

    The Brain: A Secret History

    1 2011 HD

    Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to...

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