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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons in Svalbard.

Nigella Lawson shows how easy it is to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen and on to the plate – using ingredients available a ...

The Second World War was the ultimate conflict of the machine age, and the tank was its iconic symbol. The “tankies” who fought ...

Dame Margot Fonteyn acts as tour guide to the British ballet.

An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.

A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare’s History Plays.

James May gives a straightforward guide to some of science’s big ideas, explaining everything from evolution and Einstein to engineering ...

In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time ...

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an ...

Professor Brian Cox reveals how the fundamental scientific principles and laws explain not only the story of the universe but also answer ...

Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. ...

The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and ...

This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with ...

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 ...

Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of ...

Documentary series following former British Royal Marine Bruce Parry as he visits a number of remote tribes around the world, spending a month ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.

Britain’s top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.

Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter ...

The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.

Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets regularly with wealthy businessman Leonard to relieve ...

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you’ve never seen before.

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. ...

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and ...

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are ‘quite interesting’.

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what’s being going on around the world that week. The guests poke ...

The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, ...

A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.