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  • 2015
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    The Quizeum

    The Quizeum

    1 2015 HD

    Part quiz, part panel show which celebrates the UK's unique and fascinating museums.

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  • 2009
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    Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's

    Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's

    7.70 2009 HD

    In this three-part documentary series Waldemar Januszczak discovers paintings, sculptures and architecture of the Baroque period. Starting from the...

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  • 2009
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    Britain's Best Drives

    Britain's Best Drives

    1 2009 HD

    Britain's Best Drives is a six-part 2009 British television series in which Richard Wilson travels across the UK in reviewing the best driving roads...

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  • 2022
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    Skint

    Skint

    3.00 2022 HD

    The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues about...

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  • 2018
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    Vic and Bob's Big Night Out

    Vic and Bob's Big Night Out

    8.70 2018 HD

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

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  • 2014
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    Secrets of Bones

    Secrets of Bones

    7.00 2014 HD

    Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod looks at how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every...

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  • 2013
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    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    8.00 2013 HD

    In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the...

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  • 2011
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    Everything and Nothing

    Everything and Nothing

    7.30 2011 HD

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

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  • 2009
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    It's Only a Theory

    It's Only a Theory

    1.50 2009 HD

    It's Only a Theory is a British television panel game show, first aired on BBC Four in 2009. It was conceived by and starred Andy Hamilton and...

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  • 2011
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    The Beauty of Books

    The Beauty of Books

    1 2011 HD

    Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

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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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  • 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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  • 2019
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    American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    8.00 2019 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    The Music of the Primes

    The Music of the Primes

    1 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Lost Kingdoms of Africa

    Lost Kingdoms of Africa

    10.00 2010 HD

    Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. The...

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  • 2014
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    The Wonder of Animals

    The Wonder of Animals

    8.00 2014 HD

    Chris Packham uses groundbreaking science and brand-new behaviour to delve deep beneath the skin and discover the unique features that have made...

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  • 2017
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    Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics

    Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics

    8.00 2017 HD

    Dr Helen Czerski examines the world of sound waves.

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  • 2018
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    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    7.50 2018 HD

    Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of...

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  • 2013
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    Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

    Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

    7.50 2013 HD

    Series celebrating the art of the cinema soundtrack, as Neil Brand explores the work of the great movie composers and demonstrates their techniques.

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  • 2016
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    Genius of the Modern World

    Genius of the Modern World

    7.60 2016 HD

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

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