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2013
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Spies of Warsaw
Spies of Warsaw6.60 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 History8.00 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 War7.00 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 Montefiore7.50 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 Bradbury7.00 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 Maths7.70 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 Electricity7.90 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 Yentob1 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 Us8.00 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 Top6.90 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 Guide6.00 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 Women6.30 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 Backwards1 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 Home1 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 Regency7.00 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 Worsley6.50 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 Out8.00 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 Grid1 2010 HD
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2004
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Journeys from the Centre of the Earth
Journeys from the Centre of the Earth1 2004 HD
Geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a series showing how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the human history of the Mediterranean.