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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...

British historian Lucy Worsley reveals how some of the biggest moments in US history are actually fibs and stories concocted by pop culture, politics...

From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of...

Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.

Timothy Spall and his wife Shane are back on board their beloved barge the Princess Matilda as they conclude their trip around the British coast.

Comics Britannia is a three-part documentary series from BBC Four which started on 10 September 2007. It was then repeated on BBC Two starting on 19...

A life-changing moment is captured in six powerful, dramatic monologues. Written, directed and performed by disabled people and curated by Mat Fraser.

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has...

Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? Professor Jim Al-Khalili...

Dawn French, interviews her favorite comediennes and asks about their upbringing, family life, entree into comedy, routines for generating material,...

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

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

Contest in which teams fight each other in virtual reruns of the world's greatest battles.

Untrained mariner Timothy Spall has spent a fortune on technology for his new challenge - the unpredictable Irish Sea - as he and his wife continue...

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

The remarkable story of a band of visionaries and volunteers who rescued some of the narrow gauge railways that once served Britain’s...

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...

The rise and fall of Lady Jane Grey. England's Queen for only 9 days

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...