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  • 2011
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    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    7.00 2011 HD

    Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

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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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  • 2018
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    What We Were Watching

    What We Were Watching

    7.50 2018 HD

    Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

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  • 2009
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    A History Of Christianity

    A History Of Christianity

    7.00 2009 HD

    Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a...

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  • 2017
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    Killing for Love

    Killing for Love

    1 2017 HD

    Obsessed young lovers, heinous murders, a sensational trial, and a shocking miscarriage of justice. Killing for Love is a riveting dissection of the...

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  • 2018
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    A Stitch in Time

    A Stitch in Time

    1 2018 HD

    Fashion historian Amber Butchart fuses biography, art and the history of fashion as she explores the lives of historical figures by examining the...

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  • 1970
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    Heist

    Heist

    1 1970 HD

    Heist is a one-off 2008 television comedy-drama, written by Peter Harness and directed by Justin Hardy. It was completed at the end of 2006 and first...

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  • 2008
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    Medical Mavericks

    Medical Mavericks

    1 2008 HD

    Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

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  • 2006
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    The Martians and Us

    The Martians and Us

    1 2006 HD

    Documentary series about the history of British science fiction.

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  • 2024
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    The Truth About AI

    The Truth About AI

    1 2024 HD

    Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and...

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  • 2010
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    Indian Hill Railways

    Indian Hill Railways

    1 2010 HD

    From the Himalayas in the north to the Nilgiris in the south - for a hundred years these little trains have climbed through the clouds and into the...

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  • 2003
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    Rich Hall's Fishing Show

    Rich Hall's Fishing Show

    7.00 2003 HD

    Rich Hall's Fishing Show was a comedy programme written by and starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. It was first broadcast on 11 November 2003 in the...

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  • 2015
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    The Inca: Masters of the Clouds

    The Inca: Masters of the Clouds

    7.50 2015 HD

    Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires the world has ever...

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  • 2007
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    The Twenties In Colour

    The Twenties In Colour

    1 2007 HD

    Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War takes black-and-white films from the era and colourises the footage, bringing the past vividly back to life.

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  • 2021
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    This Cultural Life

    This Cultural Life

    1 2021 HD

    John Wilson speaks to leading names in art and culture about their formative influences and inspirations.

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  • 2018
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    Jonathan Meades on Jargon

    Jonathan Meades on Jargon

    10.00 2018 HD

    In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up...

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  • 2010
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    Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

    Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

    1 2010 HD

    Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in...

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  • 2014
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    Art of China

    Art of China

    8.30 2014 HD

    Andrew Graham-Dixon undertakes an epic journey to uncover the art of China.

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  • 2011
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    Ceramics A Fragile History

    Ceramics A Fragile History

    1 2011 HD

    Ceramics are one of the oldest and most-fundamental art forms around. Ceramics are used for everything from eating and drinking to celebrating birth,...

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  • 2011
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    The Gene Code

    The Gene Code

    10.00 2011 HD

    Dr Adam Rutherford explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome.

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