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After Dark was a British late night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003....

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.

A witty and stimulating look at Chance, Logic, Data and Statistics and the roles they play in our lives.

Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or...

Joseph Leo Koerner argues that the Renaissance in Northern Europe - more so than its Italian counterpart - laid the foundations of modern art.

Mark Miodownik reveals how the properties of materials are made to work for us

A series of programmes about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister.

With intimate, behind-the-stage access, these short films explore the creative process of extraordinary dancers and choreographers as they rehearse...

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

Charles Hazlewood and a period instrument orchestra delve deeper into Mozart's music in programmes immediately following BBC Two's Genius of Mozart...

Maritime historian Dr Sam Willis looks at how and why the shipwreck came to loom so large in British history.

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

The story of the dance revolution - the beat, the clubs and the DJs that changed music culture forever.

While making Simon Schama’s History of Now, Simon met several of the most influential contemporary artists working in the world today. In this...

These unorthodox military innovations were not developed by chance, each was constructed to solve a tactical or strategic problem, such as overcoming...

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

Documenting the rise of mass air travel, starting with a look at the advent of commercial air travel through to the dropping of prices and the rise...

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,...

Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.