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Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy – Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever – quantum physics.

Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.

Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecting families, cultures and history.

Part quiz, part panel show which celebrates the UK’s unique and fascinating museums.

Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and ...

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium ...

The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of ...

Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the ...

In this “entertaining medical series” (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and ...

Series which follows Martha Kearney’s bee-keeping year and explores the science, art and culture of the honeybee, the most ingenious insect ...

It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient ...

Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.

Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather ...

Historian Dr Helen Castor explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether ...

This documentary takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in modern British history. From Jack the Ripper in the 1880s to ...

In a series of authored films, some of our most engaging experts reveal their favourite hidden objects, forgotten places and artistic passions.

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful ...

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch – one of the world’s leading historians – reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what ...

A mock-documentary following the challenges – both personal and professional – faced by the team responsible for delivering the ...

The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which ...

Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. ...

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where ...

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain’s social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly ...

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10’s policy enforcer and ...

Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.

The often-hilarious stories of the BBC’s first 50 years. The corporation’s pioneers describe its evolution – which was often by ...