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  • 2013
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    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons

    7.00 2013 HD

    Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during...

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  • 2008
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    Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury

    Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury

    7.00 2008 HD

    Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire.

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  • 2013
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    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    8.00 2013 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

    Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

    1 2013 HD

    The fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.

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  • 2010
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    Johnny Kingdom's Year with the Birds

    Johnny Kingdom's Year with the Birds

    1 2010 HD

    Johnny Kingdom spends a year following and filming some of the bird species he finds near his home and on his land.

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  • 1970
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    Wilderness Explored

    Wilderness Explored

    1.00 1970 HD

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  • 2011
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    Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

    Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

    1 2011 HD

    Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced.

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  • 2017
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    Prejudice and Pride: The People's History of LGBTQ Britain

    Prejudice and Pride: The People's History of LGBTQ Britain

    0.80 2017 HD

    Stephen K. Amos and Susan Calman present a unique series in which LGBTQ people from across the UK talk about the objects that helped to define their...

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  • 2006
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    Autopsy: Life and Death

    Autopsy: Life and Death

    1 2006 HD

    In this new four-part series, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in...

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  • 1970
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    Heist

    Heist

    1 1970 HD

    Heist is a one-off 2008 television comedy-drama, written by Peter Harness and directed by Justin Hardy. It was completed at the end of 2006 and first...

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    How to Be a Composer

    How to Be a Composer

    1 1970 HD

    Journalist and critic Paul Morley spends a year learning the art of musical composition

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  • 2012
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    Treasures of Ancient Rome

    Treasures of Ancient Rome

    7.00 2012 HD

    Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and...

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  • 2018
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    WWI: The Last Tommies

    WWI: The Last Tommies

    1 2018 HD

    Vivid and heartbreaking stories told by the last Tommies - filmed in their 90s and 100s - remembering life and death in World War I, illustrated with...

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  • 2011
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    The Secret World of Whitehall

    The Secret World of Whitehall

    1 2011 HD

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  • 1970
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    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    1 1970 HD

    Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales,...

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  • 2009
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    I've Never Seen Star Wars

    I've Never Seen Star Wars

    1 2009 HD

    I've Never Seen Star Wars is a comedy chat show broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Two, first broadcast on 12 March 2009. Created and produced by Bill...

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    The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow Part 1

    The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow Part 1

    5.00 1970 HD

    Documentary on the life of Brian Epstein, the man who brought The Beatles to fame. First in a two-part documentary examining the turbulent life and...

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  • 2016
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    Handmade on the Silk Road

    Handmade on the Silk Road

    1 2016 HD

    Three traditional crafts along the ancient trade route of the Silk Road.

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  • 2016
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    Dangerous Earth

    Dangerous Earth

    1 2016 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

    Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

    8.00 2013 HD

    Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic story of the women who tasted power in the Roman Empire.

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