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  • 2013
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    Spies of Warsaw

    Spies of Warsaw

    6.60 2013 HD

    A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of...

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  • 2017
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    Queers.

    Queers.

    6.00 2017 HD

    A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.

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  • 2019
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    The Troubles: A Secret History

    The Troubles: A Secret History

    8.00 2019 HD

    In a landmark 7-part series, Spotlight - Northern Ireland’s leading team of investigative journalists - reveal important new discoveries about...

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  • 2013
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    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    7.00 2013 HD

    The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

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  • 2015
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    Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    7.50 2015 HD

    Simon Sebag Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain's history.

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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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  • 2018
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    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    7.70 2018 HD

    Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of...

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  • 2011
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    Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

    Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

    7.90 2011 HD

    Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently,...

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  • 2022
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    In Conversation with Alan Yentob

    In Conversation with Alan Yentob

    1 2022 HD

    From the BFI Imax in London, Alan Yentob talks to Bob Geldof and Stephen Fry about their achievements and the challenges they have faced in their...

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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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  • 2012
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    Room at the Top

    Room at the Top

    6.90 2012 HD

    Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings...

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  • 2015
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    A Timewatch Guide

    A Timewatch Guide

    6.00 2015 HD

    Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine changes...

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  • 2013
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    Up the Women

    Up the Women

    6.30 2013 HD

    It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage...

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  • 2007
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    The History of the World Backwards

    The History of the World Backwards

    1 2007 HD

    The History of the World Backwards is a comedy sketch show written and starring Rob Newman. It is a mock history programme set in an alternative...

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  • 2011
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    If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

    If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

    1 2011 HD

    Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

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  • 2011
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    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    7.00 2011 HD

    Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

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  • 2017
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    British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    6.50 2017 HD

    Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.

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  • 2018
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    Vic and Bob's Big Night Out

    Vic and Bob's Big Night Out

    8.00 2018 HD

    Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.

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  • 2010
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    The Secret Life of the National Grid

    The Secret Life of the National Grid

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2004
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    Journeys from the Centre of the Earth

    Journeys from the Centre of the Earth

    1 2004 HD

    Geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a series showing how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the human history of the Mediterranean.

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