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  • 1970
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    What Darwin Didn't Know

    What Darwin Didn't Know

    1 1970 HD

    What Darwin Didn't Know is a documentary show on BBC Four presented by Armand Marie Leroi which charts the progress in the field of Evolutionary...

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  • 1970
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    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    1 1970 HD

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on...

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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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  • 2011
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    British Masters

    British Masters

    1 2011 HD

    British Masters is a three-part BBC television series on 20th century British art, presented by Dr James Fox and first broadcast in July 2011 on BBC...

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  • 2017
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    Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots

    Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots

    1 2017 HD

    Evolutionary biologist Dr Ben Garrod and electronics engineer Professor Danielle George explore whether machines built to enhance our lives could one...

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  • 2014
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    The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

    The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

    7.00 2014 HD

    Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to...

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  • 2007
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    Travels with a Tangerine

    Travels with a Tangerine

    1 2007 HD

    Arabic scholar Tim Mackintosh-Smith journeys 75,000 miles through 40 countries in the footsteps of 14th century traveller Ibn Battutah, who was born...

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  • 2020
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    Soul America

    Soul America

    1 2020 HD

    A three-part docuseries chronicling the journey of soul music, from its birth out of gospel and R&B in the 1960s, when it delivered an assertive,...

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  • 2016
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    Music Moguls: Masters of Pop

    Music Moguls: Masters of Pop

    1 2016 HD

    This is the secret, and untold, history of pop and rock from the men and women who pulled the strings behind the scenes - the producers, the managers...

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  • 2014
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    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

    8.00 2014 HD

    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, will present the revealing and surprising story of Britain in the reigns of George I and...

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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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  • 2015
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    Rock 'n' Roll America

    Rock 'n' Roll America

    9.00 2015 HD

    A three-part series tracing the history of American rock 'n' roll music from the 1950s onwards.

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  • 2007
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    Children's TV on Trial

    Children's TV on Trial

    1 2007 HD

    A look at kids' telly from the 1950s to the 1990s, covering the social trends and behind-the-scenes stories in each decade.

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  • 2019
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    Lost Films of WWII

    Lost Films of WWII

    1 2019 HD

    The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary people.

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  • 2008
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    Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North

    Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North

    9.00 2008 HD

    Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness...

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  • 2010
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    The Highland Sessions

    The Highland Sessions

    1 2010 HD

    Series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions...

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  • 2004
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    Light Fantastic

    Light Fantastic

    1 2004 HD

    Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four. The...

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  • 2017
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    Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

    Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

    1 2017 HD

    Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured the...

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  • 2011
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    Symphony

    Symphony

    8.00 2011 HD

    Simon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world and explores the surprising way in which it has...

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  • 2016
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    Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS

    Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS

    1 2016 HD

    Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the...

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