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  • 2003
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    Meades Eats

    Meades Eats

    1 2003 HD

    Meades asks if Britain really has suffered a "Gastronomic Revolution", and offers an A-Z of British food.

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  • 2007
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    Crisis at the Castle

    Crisis at the Castle

    1 2007 HD

    Three British aristocratic families struggle to hang on to their historic homes. Their lifestyle is assumed to be idyllic, but constant battle with...

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  • 2016
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    UK's Best Part-Time Band

    UK's Best Part-Time Band

    1 2016 HD

    Rhod Gilbert enlists the help of a series of musical legends to scour the country in search of the best of the UK's unsung musicians - who regularly...

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  • 1970
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    Wilderness Explored

    Wilderness Explored

    1.00 1970 HD

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  • 2006
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    Tales from the Palaces

    Tales from the Palaces

    1 2006 HD

    Tales from the Palaces is a British television documentary series following the conservation teams inside Britain's Historic Royal Palaces: Hampton...

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  • 2013
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    Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

    Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

    8.00 2013 HD

    Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic story of the women who tasted power in the Roman Empire.

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  • 2019
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    Rhythms of India

    Rhythms of India

    1 2019 HD

    Composer Soumik Datta travels around India exploring the country's rich and diverse culture and history through its music.

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    Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

    Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

    1 2013 HD

    Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.

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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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  • 2019
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    Charles I: Downfall of a King

    Charles I: Downfall of a King

    8.00 2019 HD

    Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss...

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  • 2016
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    Music Moguls: Masters of Pop

    Music Moguls: Masters of Pop

    1 2016 HD

    This is the secret, and untold, history of pop and rock from the men and women who pulled the strings behind the scenes - the producers, the managers...

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  • 2005
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    In Search of Speed

    In Search of Speed

    1 2005 HD

    In search of World Speed Records by land, air and water

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  • 2011
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    Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

    Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

    1 2011 HD

    Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced.

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  • 2018
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    Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox

    Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox

    1 2018 HD

    Art historian Dr James Fox traces the momentous impact of the west's contact with the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. It is a story of...

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  • 2014
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    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

    8.00 2014 HD

    The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, will present the revealing and surprising story of Britain in the reigns of George I and...

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  • 2003
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    Holidays in the Danger Zone

    Holidays in the Danger Zone

    1 2003 HD

    Holidays in the Danger Zone is a series of documentaries, originally broadcast on BBC Four in the UK. They have also been shown on BBC Two and...

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  • 2020
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    Being Beethoven

    Being Beethoven

    8.00 2020 HD

    Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the...

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  • 2019
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    New Forest: A Year in the Wild Wood

    New Forest: A Year in the Wild Wood

    1 2019 HD

    Writer and environmentalist, Peter Owen-Jones spends a year in the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest, exploring its wildlife, history and...

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    The Worst Journey in the World

    The Worst Journey in the World

    1 1970 HD

    The Worst Journey in the World is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama based on the memoir of the same name by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The...

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  • 2009
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    How the Celts Saved Britain

    How the Celts Saved Britain

    1 2009 HD

    Dan Snow shines a light into the Dark Ages after the collapse of the Roman Empire in Britain

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