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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 2003
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    Time Commanders

    Time Commanders

    8.30 2003 HD

    Contest in which teams fight each other in virtual reruns of the world's greatest battles.

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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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  • 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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  • 2008
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    Crooked House

    Crooked House

    6.78 2008 HD

    A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the...

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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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  • 2012
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    Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

    Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings

    4.50 2012 HD

    Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated...

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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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  • 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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    Colour: The Spectrum of Science

    Colour: The Spectrum of Science

    1 2015 HD

    We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours...

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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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  • 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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  • 2004
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    The Alan Clark Diaries

    The Alan Clark Diaries

    6.50 2004 HD

    Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.

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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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  • 2006
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    Time

    Time

    8.00 2006 HD

    Time is a 2006 documentary television series first broadcast on BBC Four in the United Kingdom. It is written and presented by Michio Kaku.

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