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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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