Bbc Two TV Series - Page 28
America: A Personal History of the United States
1972
First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discovery to the present.The New Statesman
1985
star 6George Vance, custodian of an agricultural museum near Aylesbury, receives news that is about to change his life. Much to his surprise, George inherits the Earldom of Ynys Enlli.Oxbridge Blues
1984
star 5An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.Blott on the Landscape
1985
star 7.5A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry, Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extraordinaire, not forgetting Blott himself, gardener and mystery man, casting his enigmatic eye over the eccentricities of the great British aristocracy... Starring, George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Simon Cadell and Julia McKenzieWhen Louis Met...
2000
star 7A fly-on-the-wall series showing Louis Theroux spending time with guest celebrities.Stolen: Catching the Art Thieves
2022
star 8The world's greatest paintings - and the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets the underworld.Take On The Takeaway
2007
Take On The Takeaway
2007
Guest celebrity chefs aim to convert kebab lovers and curry addicts to home-cooked food while also beating the takeaway on price, speed and tasteMary Makes It Easy
2023
Mary Makes It Easy
2023
Mary Berry's famous friends need culinary help. The Queen of the Kitchen joins a host of stars to show how fun and easy it can be to whip up a fantastic feast.Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure
2024
Clive Myrie is on an epic Caribbean journey to reconnect with family, explore his own heritage and experience the rich mix of cultures that makes island life so very special.Basil's Swap Shop
2008
Basil's Swap Shop
2008
Basil & Barney's Swap Shop is a British children's television series that was produced for CBBC and ran on Saturday mornings on BBC Two and CBBC Channel from 5 January 2008 to 25 September 2010. Based on the original BBC children's Saturday morning show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which ran on BBC One from 1976 to 1982, it was hosted by Barney Harwood, along with veteran puppet character Basil Brush, from whom the show takes its title.The Crimson Petal and the White
2011
star 7.2Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice
2009
Three iconic adventurers - newsman John Simpson, polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes and solo yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston - go on a newsgathering trip to war-torn Afghanistan, attempt to sail around the most notorious of all maritime landmarks, Cape Horn, situated at the southernmost tip of South America, and man-haul sledges across the frozen sea ice of the Canadian Arctic.Wonders of Life
2013
star 7.7Physicist and professor Brian Cox travels across the globe to uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe: life.The Politician's Husband
2013
star 6.9A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.The Crystal Cube
1983
star 6.5The Crystal Cube was a spoof science program, based on shows such as Tomorrow's World. The show was hosted by Jackie Meld (Dame Emma Thompson).Amazon with Bruce Parry
2008
star 7Tracing the giant river from its origins, high in the Andes, to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil's Atlantic coast, Parry stays with the many and varied tribes who are desperately trying to maintain their way of life in a rapidly disappearing landscape.Charley Boorman: Ireland to Sydney by Any Means
2008
star 6.2The adventurer begins his most daring quest yet as he journeys from Ireland to AustraliaShackleton
1983
star 6A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
