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  • 2017
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    Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business

    Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business

    1 2017 HD

    This series looks at the career of the multiple Grammy-award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, as Nile Rodgers shares a lifetime of experience...

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  • 2014
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    Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces

    Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces

    1 2014 HD

    From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many...

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  • 2012
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    BBC RICL 2012 The Modern Alchemist

    BBC RICL 2012 The Modern Alchemist

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    Handmade in the Pacific

    Handmade in the Pacific

    1 2018 HD

    A series which shows the manufacture of some traditional artefacts in Australia, Rurutu, New Zealand and Hawaii.

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  • 2025
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    Japan’s Master of Restoration

    Japan’s Master of Restoration

    10.00 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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  • 2013
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    The Art Of Australia

    The Art Of Australia

    1 2013 HD

    Former director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon explores the story of Australian art through the country's rich...

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  • 2019
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    Charles I: Killing a King

    Charles I: Killing a King

    1 2019 HD

    Documentary series that investigates a momentous event in history, the trial and execution of King Charles I, an act that changed politics and power...

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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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  • 2016
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    Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution

    Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution

    1 2016 HD

    Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the unique and...

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  • 2010
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    Johnny Kingdom's Year with the Birds

    Johnny Kingdom's Year with the Birds

    1 2010 HD

    Johnny Kingdom spends a year following and filming some of the bird species he finds near his home and on his land.

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  • 2011
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    Agony & Ecstasy: A Year with English National Ballet

    Agony & Ecstasy: A Year with English National Ballet

    1 2011 HD

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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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  • 1970
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    The Britpop Story

    The Britpop Story

    1 1970 HD

    The Britpop Story is a British television documentary about the Britpop movement which occurred in Britain during the 1990s. Hosted by John Harris,...

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  • 2014
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    Castles: Britain's Fortified History

    Castles: Britain's Fortified History

    10.00 2014 HD

    Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain's castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature.

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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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  • 2019
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    Secrets of Skin

    Secrets of Skin

    1 2019 HD

    Featuring groundbreaking new science, experiments and leading scientists from a variety of disciplines, the series unravels the natural history of...

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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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  • 2012
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    Jonathan Meades On France

    Jonathan Meades On France

    1 2012 HD

    Jonathan Meades scrutinises the 95 per cent of France that Brits drive through and don't notice en route to the 5 per cent that conforms to their...

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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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  • 2010
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    Time to Remember

    Time to Remember

    1 2010 HD

    From newsreels and films of the early twentieth century, this series gives us a look at how the first half of the 20th Century saw itself.

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