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Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw’s Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth ...

Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1978 BBC seven-part serial based on the eponymous 1886 book by the British novelist Thomas Hardy. The six-hour ...

Rick Stein takes an epic culinary journey by sea, down rivers and overland to explore the Far East’s diverse food cultures.

Rick Stein discovers the many varied delights of Mediterranean food.

The hunt for a young chef who wants to make it to the top of the culinary world.

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history ...

Four-part BBC series following Francesco da Mosto as he explores the history of Venice, beginning with its creation in the 5th century and ...

David Attenborough explains the enormous growth of interest in tribal art, and explores the emotions which lie behind the masks and decorations ...

Documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis’ rise to power, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences ...

Psychoville is a British dark comedy television . Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in ...

Gardeners’ World is a long-running BBC Television programme about gardening, first broadcast in 1968 and still running as of 2013. Its ...

19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the ...

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces.

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It’s what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, ...

A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the ...

Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

Law & Order is a series of four British television plays written by G. F. Newman and directed by Les Blair. It was first transmitted in 1978 ...

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry ...

Budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash.

Later… with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where ...

Tracing the giant river from its origins, high in the Andes, to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, Parry stays ...

The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

Keith Barret, a taxi driver, is estranged from his wife, Marion, and children, Rhys and Alun. Although it’s clear the separation is having ...

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors ...

Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank is a BBC Television documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank explores the mysteries of Ancient Egypt.

Academic quiz show where teams of students from UK universities answer questions on all manner of subjects.

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.