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  • 2022
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    Inside Classical

    Inside Classical

    1 2022 HD

    The BBC's orchestras are joined by world-renowned singers and musicians at some of the UK's most beautiful concert halls, performing the best in...

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  • 2020
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    H2O: The Molecule that Made Us

    H2O: The Molecule that Made Us

    8.00 2020 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Mind Games

    Mind Games

    1 2003 HD

    Quiz show hosted by Marcus Du Sautoy who poses the trickiest puzzles to bend the minds of the team members Kathy Sykes, Irving Finkel, Jim Al-Khalili...

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  • 2021
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    Winter Walks

    Winter Walks

    7.50 2021 HD

    Take a gentle walk as familiar faces explore landscapes in Yorkshire and Cumbria in this series of immersive and intimate documentaries.

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  • 2021
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    Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

    Write Around the World with Richard E Grant

    1 2021 HD

    Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that...

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  • 2015
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    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    1 2015 HD

    An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to...

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  • 2008
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    Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

    Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

    10.00 2008 HD

    From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of...

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  • 2018
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    Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives

    Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives

    9.00 2018 HD

    Monologues inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost.

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  • 1998
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    The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

    The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

    1 1998 HD

    The main decision-makers from Israel, the Arab states, Russia and the US tell the inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.

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  • 2016
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    Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

    Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

    7.30 2016 HD

    Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.

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  • 2019
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    Handmade in Bolton

    Handmade in Bolton

    1 2019 HD

    Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.

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  • 2017
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    The Live Lounge Show

    The Live Lounge Show

    1 2017 HD

    Clara Amfo takes us behind the scenes of Radio 1's Live Lounge - the biggest live studio showcase in the world.

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  • 2015
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    The Quizeum

    The Quizeum

    1 2015 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Classic Albums

    Classic Albums

    7.70 1997 HD

    A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a...

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  • 2019
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    American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    8.00 2019 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

    Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

    8.00 2004 HD

    Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary...

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  • 2015
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    In and Out of the Kitchen

    In and Out of the Kitchen

    1 2015 HD

    Damien Trench is a neurotic cookery writer, living in Queen's Park with his partner, Anthony. The show focuses on Damien and everything that happens...

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  • 2016
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    Genius of the Modern World

    Genius of the Modern World

    7.60 2016 HD

    Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund...

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  • 2005
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    Europe: A Natural History

    Europe: A Natural History

    8.00 2005 HD

    A series chronicling the events which shaped the continent of Europe as we now know it.

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  • 2019
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    Planespotting Live

    Planespotting Live

    1 2019 HD

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

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