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Monty Don’s British Gardens
2025
The nation's outdoor home. From the humble backyard to the grandest of grounds, what do Britain's gardens tell us about our culture, climate and history?Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark
2003
A three-part insight into an amazing wartime mission in Norway, undertaken in the early 1940s, which was immortalised by the Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark.Inside Monaco: Playground of the Rich
2020
star 6A look inside the famous Casino de Monte Carlo, where the present fortunes of Monaco began. Its impressive architecture conjures up an era of exotic glamour but it no longer provides the vast revenues it once did. They have to work hard to attract the new wealthy, especially from Asia, where the approach to gambling is very different.Frankie Goes to Russia
2018
star 7.7Comedian Frankie Boyle visits Russia ahead of the 2018 World Cup. He explores Russian football and culture, and examines the current relationship between Russia and the West following recent controversial geo-political events.Blockbusters
1993
star 7.8Blockbusters is a British television game show based upon the American game show of the same name in which contestants answer trivia questions to complete a path across or down a game board of hexagons.Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country
1986
When the young Alfred Wainwright first saw the mountains of Lakeland it was an experience that changed his life. As an old man he recreated his love affair with Lakeland in the company of Eric Robson, exploring Orrest Head and Kendal, Haweswater and Borrowdale. It was journey that culminated in an emotional visit to his favorite mountain—Haystacks.Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
1993
star 10A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.Mary's Foolproof Dinners
2024
Mary shares her wit and wealth of cookery know-how with her celebrity pals, all keen to keep up in the kitchen. Success every time, in a joyful celebration of food with friends.This Farming Life
2016
star 10Documentary series following the struggles and triumphs of five very different farming families in some of Scotland's most beautiful and remote landscapes.In Search of the Dark Ages
1979
In Search of the Dark Ages was a television series, written and presented by Michael Wood, and first shown in 1979. It is also the title of a book written by Wood to support the series, which was published in 1981. The television series consisted of a series of separate programmes, hence the collective title is often written as In Search of ... The Dark Ages. It began with In Search of Offa, recorded in 1978 by BBC Manchester, and shown on 2 January 1979. Subsequent programmes in the first series were on Boadicea, King Arthur and Alfred the Great, shown with a re-run of Offa over successive nights in March 1980. The first series was such a success when shown in an off-peak slot on BBC Two that a second series was broadcast in 1981, with subjects including William the Conqueror, Ethelred the Unready, Athelstan and Eric Bloodaxe.Rage Against the Regime: Iran
2024
star 8Eyewitnesses and survivors reveal the truth about the mass anti-government protests in Iran, from the contested election of 2009 to Bloody November.Britain's Greatest Generation
2015
Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
star 5.5A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as the title character. The series included dramatizations of Mansfield's life as well as adaptations of her short stories.Saved by a Stranger
2021
Saved by a Stranger
2021
Anita Rani explores the experiences of 2 people thrown together by a major event in modern history who have since become separated. The series follows them as they try to find the individual who helped them.Play School
1964
star 4Play School is a British children's television series produced by the BBC which ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988. Devised by Joy Whitby, it accidentally became the first ever programme to be shown on the fledgling BBC2 after a power cut halted the opening night's programming. Play School originally appeared on weekdays at 11am on BBC2 and later acquired a mid-afternoon BBC1 repeat. The morning showing was transferred to BBC1 in September 1983 when BBC Schools programming transferred to BBC2. It remained in that slot even after daytime television was launched in October 1986 and continued to be broadcast at that time until it was superseded in October 1988 by Playbus, which soon became Playdays. When the BBC scrapped the afternoon edition of Play School in September 1985, to make way for a variety of children's programmes in the afternoon, a Sunday morning compilation was launched called Hello Again!. There were several opening sequences for Play School during its run, the first being "Here's a house, heTrust Me, I'm a Vet
2017
Trust Me, I'm a Vet
2017
What is really good for our pets' health? They can't tell us, but science can. Steve Leonard leads a team of vets to seek out the latest research.The Renaissance Unchained
2016
Four-part series in which Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional view of art's most important epoch - the Renaissance.A Pembrokeshire Farm
0000
A Pembrokeshire Farm
0000
Griff Rhys Jones undertakes a personal restoration project, taking on his decaying farmhouse in Wales.Headmaster
1977
Headmaster
1977
Drama series about the efforts of a traditional British school headmaster to adapt to the changing education system.Wonders of the Monsoon
2014
star 10Wonders of the Monsoon’ will explore the worlds of such places as the Himalayas to Northern Australia. The show will look at how the wildlife and culture of these places has shaped the Earth through some of its greatest natural phenomena on the planet. The series will take a journey to see how life manages to flourish under the tumultuous weather conditions that annually transforms an enormous part of our planet.
