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Professor Robert Bartlett, a leading authority on the Middle Ages, presents a series which examines the way we thought during Medieval times.

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

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...

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

Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the unique and...

Dr Jago Cooper explores the extraordinary and resilient culture of the American Northwest, revealing one the most inspiring stories in human history.

After Dark was a British late night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003....

A series which shows the manufacture of some traditional artefacts in Australia, Rurutu, New Zealand and Hawaii.

Tory! Tory! Tory! is a 2006 BBC television documentary series on the history of the people and ideas that formed Thatcherism told through the eyes of...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the...

A look at traditional Japanese crafts and craftspeople. Each edition of the series follows the work of those making a culturally important product in...

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on...

It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems...

What you had to say, do and dress in order to get ahead at various times in history

During the reign of Henry VIII much was created buildings, music, artworks. Did this compensate for the destruction of the monastries and their...

The Worst Journey in the World is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama based on the memoir of the same name by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The...

Writer and woodsman Rob Penn begins a year-long project to bring part of an abandoned woodland, Strawberry Cottage Wood, back to life.