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The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues ...

In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

Art historian James Fox tells the story of our ever-changing relationship with nature through the lens of some of the world’s most extraordinary ...

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

Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon examines the history of French art, revealing how it emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, and rulers and ...

With sumptuous palaces, exquisite artworks and stunning architecture, every great city offers a dizzying multitude of cultural highlights. So ...

Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed goes on a remarkable journey to places rarely seen, as she travels through Iran, telling the story of a ...

The case of the Yorkshire Ripper is re-examined by film-maker Liza Williams.

British historian Lucy Worsley reveals how some of the biggest moments in US history are actually fibs and stories concocted by pop culture, ...

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.

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo host a weekly guide to the best (and worst) of streaming culture in the 21st century, across film and premium television.

A landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected ...

It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient ...

Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.

A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler’s Swastika – at home – and abroad, a record ...

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain’s social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly ...

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.

Series which follows Martha Kearney’s bee-keeping year and explores the science, art and culture of the honeybee, the most ingenious insect ...

In a landmark 7-part series, Spotlight – Northern Ireland’s leading team of investigative journalists – reveal important new ...

The joy of a very British hobby, brought to you by Peter Snow and his team, revealing the hidden histories, engineering marvels and true ...

Fashion historian Amber Butchart fuses biography, art and the history of fashion as she explores the lives of historical figures by examining the ...

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, ...

James May follows a year inside Hornby Hobbies – an iconic British toymaker on the brink of collapse.

Dr Helen Czerski examines the world of sound waves.

Part quiz, part panel show which celebrates the UK’s unique and fascinating museums.

Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine ...

Comedy drama that shines a light on the day-to-day life of a family looking after their severely learning disabled girl, Rosie.

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.

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

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 ...