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Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch – one of the world’s leading historians – reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what ...

The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which ...

The Alan Clark Diaries is a television serial dramatising the colourful diaries of controversial British Conservative politician Alan Clark. The ...

A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that ...

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

The often-hilarious stories of the BBC’s first 50 years. The corporation’s pioneers describe its evolution – which was often by ...

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian ...

Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that ...

Series tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time.

Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain’s castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature.

Naturalist Stewart McPherson travels to all the UK Overseas Territories, exploring their wildlife, landscapes, history and people

The search is on for an exciting new name in British photography. Six talented photographers from across the UK embark on the photographic ...

How the invention of writing gave humanity a history. From hieroglyphs to emojis, an exploration of the way in which the technology of writing ...

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the ...

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecting families, cultures and history.

Bushcraft expert and survivalist Ray Mears explores the awe-inspiring landscape of that shaped the story of the Wild West. … Discover how ...

Featuring groundbreaking new science, experiments and leading scientists from a variety of disciplines, the series unravels the natural history ...

A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.

Classic books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors’ original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers ...

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

Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the ...

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy – Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.

How the Art Nouveau movement flourished in the burgeoning cities of Europe at the end of the 19th century.

The rise and fall of Lady Jane Grey. England’s Queen for only 9 days

Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the killers that lurked in every room of the home.

Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensics Story

Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he ...

Jim Al-Khalili tackles the greatest question in science – how the universe began. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the mystery of ...