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

In this new four-part series, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in...

Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous. But Waldemar Januszczak disagrees and in this three-part series he tries to bring Rococo art closer to...

Unnatural Histories is a 3-part British television documentary series produced by the BBC and BBC Natural History Unit. It takes a new look at three...

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

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

Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during...

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

Series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions...

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

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...

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

Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales,...

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

Dan Snow and wildlife experts Lucy Cooke and Niall Strawson uncover historical, geological and wildlife treasures live from the Jurassic Coast in...

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

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

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

Leading musical artists perform live for the cameras