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The Bank That Almost Broke Britain
Episode 10-02-2020
Ten years on from the global financial crash, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of how a small Scottish bank briefly grew to become the biggest in the world before ...
10-02-2020
BBC 2
Silenced: The Hidden Story Of Disabled Britain
Episode 21-03-2022
For more than a century, one group of people in Britain has been shut out of society, denied basic human rights and treated with fear and prejudice.\n\nNow, in this shocking, mo ...
21-03-2022
BBC 2
Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost In Time
Episode 18-06-2024
Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that has been called the British Pompeii.\n \nThe village earned ...
18-06-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 9: Episode 5
The west of Britain is explored for the best of its archaeological digs and post excavation discoveries.\n\nIn north Somerset, archaeologists are blown away by the discovery of ...
28-03-2024
BBC 4
Queen Victoria: My Musical Britain
Episode 10-03-2024
To celebrate Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday, historian Dr Lucy Worsley explores the character and legacy of the famous monarch in a way that has never been attempted befo ...
10-03-2024
BBC 4
The Great Butterfly Adventure: Africa To Britain With The Painted Lady
Episode 23-05-2021
The migration of the painted lady has long fascinated scientists, artists and nature lovers alike. The longest butterfly migration on earth, it sees millions of these delicate c ...
23-05-2021
BBC 4
The Sound Of Movie Musicals With Neil Brand
Episode 2
In the second episode of the series, Neil Brand looks at how the movie musical entered a second golden age in the aftermath of World War II. \n\nHe starts by examining one of th ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Grenfell
Episode 07-06-2022
This documentary from Bafta-winning director Ben Anthony brings together multiple stories from the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - the most devastating tower block fire in British ...
07-06-2022
BBC 1
Inside Cinema
Series 1: 2. Guilt-free Pleasures
What’s your favourite cinematic guilty pleasure? And why the guilt? Film critic Catherine Bray hosts a celebration of trashy films spanning Showgirls to Love Actually to C ...
03-12-2020
BBC 4
Wayne Mcgregor: Atomos
Episode 07-04-2019
In Atomos, bodies, movement, film, sound and light are atomised into miniature shards of intense sensation. Taking creative points of departure from atomised film, music and bio ...
07-04-2019
BBC 4
Revolution: New Art For A New World
Episode 06-11-2017
Directed by acclaimed film-maker Margy Kinmonth, this bold and exciting feature documentary encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian avant-garde. ...
06-11-2017
BBC 4
Reel History Of Britain
6. Britain's Home Guard
Melvyn Bragg, accompanied by a vintage mobile cinema, travels across the country, to show incredible footage preserved by the British Film Institute and other national and regio ...
08-10-2024
BBC 2
Coventry Cathedral: Building For A New Britain
Episode 29-05-2022
In November 1940, German bombers destroyed much of the city centre of Coventry and reduced the city’s medieval cathedral to rubble. Just 22 years later, in May 1962, a new ...
29-05-2022
BBC 4
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Episode 20-11-2022
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. Her original compositions and soaring ...
20-11-2022
BBC 4
Paloma Faith: As I Am
Episode 16-10-2021
Paloma Faith has sold well over a million albums with number ones all over the world, headlined Glastonbury and sung to tens of thousands every week, but now she has taken on he ...
16-10-2021
BBC 2
Digging For Britain
Series 6: 4. The Horsemen Of Hadrian's Wall
In this special, Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weapon in Britain - their cavalry. These fearsome horsemen were the key to defend ...
22-10-2024
BBC 4
Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield
Episode 16-10-2024
Lying on the remote north west coast of England is one of the most secret places in the country - Sellafield, the most controversial nuclear facility in Britain. Now, Sellafield ...
16-10-2024
BBC 4
A Tale Of Five Temples - The Story Of Hinduism In Britain
Episode 13-03-2022
Documentary exploring the history of five Hindu temples across Britain, tracing their stories and the spread of Hinduism in the UK. Featuring the elaborate rituals and the movin ...
13-03-2022
BBC 1
Awesome Beauty: The Art Of Industrial Britain
Episode 06-02-2020
Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's spectacular industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a passionate and thought-provoking journey that challenges o ...
06-02-2020
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 7: 4. Iron Age Revealed
Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular grave. A team of archaeologists in East Yorkshire have uncovered the remains of only the third ...
11-12-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 8: 3. South
In this episode covering the south of Britain, we find out how a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old neolithic underwater settlement, go to a secret ...
04-12-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 6: 2. East
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the east of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by ...
08-10-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 6: 1. West
Professor Alice Roberts explores some of this year's most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Britain. Each discovery comes straight from the trenches/site, filmed by ...
01-10-2024
BBC 4
David Olusoga Remembers... Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners
Episode 16-07-2024
Historian, author and presenter David Olusoga looks back on how his 2015 documentary Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners helped shine a light on the extent of Britain's involvement ...
16-07-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 9: Episode 4
Alice Roberts travels across the Midlands, looking at the best archaeology uncovered last year in the heart of England. \n\nIn a Digging for Britain exclusive, we join palaeonto ...
27-03-2024
BBC 4
Digging For Britain
Series 9: Episode 2
The south of England is the location for a rich and colourful selection of outstanding archaeology excavated in this episode.\n\nThe HS2 High Speed Rail line from London to Birm ...
21-03-2024
BBC 4
Rip Off Britain
Series 16: Episode 2
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ, and they’re investigating how Britain is fighting back against the fraudsters.\n\nThe ...
03-10-2023
BBC 1
Made In Great Britain
Series 1: 5. Cheese
Britain produces more varieties of cheese than France and is one of the biggest cheese producers in the world. In this episode our makers arrive in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire ...
21-07-2023
BBC 2
Made In Great Britain
Series 1: 1. Steel
In this episode, four craft-makers experience Sheffield's rapid transformation from a rural market town to an industrial powerhouse that built modern Britain known as 'Steel Cit ...
17-07-2023
BBC 2
What Britain Buys And Sells In A Day
Series 1: 3. Cars
Presenters Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain’s imports and exports. As our trading relationships face their biggest change in ...
02-06-2023
BBC 2
What Britain Buys And Sells In A Day
Series 1: 2. Seafood
This week Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood - a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores is la ...
01-06-2023
BBC 2
Rip Off Britain
2023: Episode 1
From a brand new home, Rip Off Britain HQ in Salford, Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are joined by Britain’s best consumer experts to help solve the ...
24-05-2023
BBC 1
The Stolen Maharajah: Britain's Indian Royal
Episode 02-08-2022
Documentary about the last Maharajah of the Punjab, Duleep Singh, who was wrenched from his mother's arms as a child in the 1840s and put into the care of an official of the Bri ...
02-08-2022
BBC 4
Saving Britain’s Pubs With Tom Kerridge
Series 1: Episode 3
Coronavirus is spreading and the British public are told to stay away from pubs. Tom and the landlords he has been supporting face a moral dilemma. Do they keep trying to trade ...
23-12-2020
BBC 2
Keeping Britain Fed
Episode 23-11-2020
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the supermarkets have become like the UK’s fourth emergency service. While most people have been staying safe in their homes, an ar ...
23-11-2020
BBC 2
Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story
Episode 03-11-2019
In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb - codenamed Operation Grapple X. It was the culmination of an extraordinary scientific project, which against almost in ...
03-11-2019
BBC 4
A Passage To Britain
Series 1: 3. The Batory
Dr Yasmin Khan explores an extraordinary collection of ships' passenger lists to trace the changing story of migration from the Indian subcontinent to Britain over three key dec ...
19-09-2018
BBC 2
Who's Spending Britain's Billions?
Episode 31-10-2017
As Britain continues to spend less on the public sector, do we really know where our taxes are being spent?\n\nSpending on schools, hospitals and foreign aid are well debated. I ...
31-10-2017
BBC 2
Joan Armatrading: Me Myself I
Episode 13-10-2023
Joan Armatrading is one the most influential singer-songwriters in Britain. A national icon, she is known for her singular vision, both as a writer and as a performer. She has p ...
13-10-2023
BBC 4
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-up Star
Series 3: Episode 4
At the Selfie Factory in London’s O2, the seven remaining MUAs enter the lucrative world of social media make-up, creating fun and impactful looks for the global video sha ...
08-03-2023
BBC 1
The Galaxy Britain Built: The British Force Behind Star Wars
Episode 03-11-2022
Superfan David Whiteley celebrates the unsung British heroes behind the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise, 1977’s eponymously titled Star Wars. \n\nThe Star War ...
03-11-2022
BBC 4
The Enigma Of Nic Jones - Return Of Britain's Lost Folk Hero
Episode 25-02-2018
Nic Jones is a legend of British folk music. His 1980 record Penguin Eggs is regarded as a classic. In a poll by The Observer a few years ago, Penguin Eggs was rated number 79 o ...
25-02-2018
BBC 4
The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words
Episode 28-01-2025
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of ...
28-01-2025
BBC 4
Back In Time For Birmingham
Series 1: Episode 1
This series sees the Sharma family go back in time to discover what life was like for families who came from South Asia to settle in Britain from the 1950s onwards. The city of ...
07-03-2023
BBC 2
Hamza: Strictly Birds Of Prey
Episode 29-12-2024
Wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin travels across the UK to track down and attempt to film his favourite birds – our birds of prey. \n\nHis journey takes him from the wilds o ...
29-12-2024
BBC 1
Molly And Mack
Series 1: 10. Alice's Film
Molly examines her shelf of special things at the back of Mack's stall. She chooses the piece of seaweed and remembers the day she got it... \n\nMolly keeps asking Alice questio ...
17-11-2024
CBeebies
The Sound Of Movie Musicals With Neil Brand
Episode 1
In this first episode of a three-part series, presenter and musician Neil Brand argues that the movie musical was the most important form of cinema from the advent of the age of ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
The Sound Of Movie Musicals With Neil Brand
Episode 3
In this final episode, Neil Brand asks how the movie musical survived in our modern age.\n\nBy the 1970s the whole landscape of cinema had shifted; the biggest movies were no lo ...
02-12-2023
BBC 4
Black Hollywood: 'they've Gotta Have Us'
Series 1: 1. Legends And Pioneers
Episode one opens at the Oscars with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde themselves) announcing that Damien Chazelle's beloved musical La La Land had won. However, ...
01-10-2022
BBC 2
Inside Classical
Series 1: 1. Women’s Words And Voices
Georgia Mann presents a programme of contemporary classical music, written and inspired by women composers and poets. The BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Bramw ...
22-05-2022
BBC 4