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Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful ...

Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.

Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain’s history.

We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the ...

Dr James Fox looks at the art and culture of Japan.

Vienna was the capital of the Habsburg dynasty and home to the Holy Roman Emperors. From here, they dominated middle Europe for nearly 1,000 ...

Series showing how new camera technology is revealing the inner workings of the Earth’s most spectacular natural wonders.

A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.

Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries – the ...

Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world – Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche ...

When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will ...

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever – quantum physics.

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of Scandinavia through its art.

Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium ...

Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather ...

The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of ...

This documentary takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in modern British history. From Jack the Ripper in the 1880s to ...

Historian Dr Helen Castor explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether ...

In this “entertaining medical series” (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and ...

Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and ...

Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. ...

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until ...

Powerful adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters as they struggle with love, ...

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

A mock-documentary following the challenges – both personal and professional – faced by the team responsible for delivering the ...