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Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open their very own micropub and revitalise their high...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martyn Hillier

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: J. Johnston

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathryn Warner

At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Harewood

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon T. Roden

Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Sandeman

In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Farnaby

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. While her service to her country is...

Genre: History

Cast: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melvyn Bragg

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. She reveals that our obsession with royal bedrooms,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

The beautiful gay erotic superstar Johan Paulik is enthusiastically celebrated in this jam-packed compendium of Johan's greatest on-screen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Esser

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tamsin Greig

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-day paparazzi-inspired obsession. Historian Dr....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy' - every film a crime. ...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Caroline Sturdy Colls

Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces: the Tower of London,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Flynn

Opera based on the story of Edward II and Piers Gaveston. Music by George Benjamin, libretto by Martin Crimp. BBC broadcast of the 2018 premiere at...

Genre: Music

Cast: Stéphane Degout

This Traveltalk series short visits an array of locations associated with England's heritage. Included are Runnymede, Windsor, Ascot, Lincoln, Wells,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James A. FitzPatrick

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clarissa Dickson Wright

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeremy Ashbee

Mary Berry discovers the rich history of Great Britain's greatest stately homes through the prism of food.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Berry

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Marr

Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janina Ramirez

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Humphries

This four-part series tells the stories of the landscapes, towns and cities which inspired four of the UK's greatest writers - Jane Austen, Thomas...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gyles Brandreth

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

This is the true tale of the biggest scandal ever to engulf the British Royal Family – a forbidden love affair which had a devastating impact....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Meades

Aubrey Manning sets out on a journey to study the changing face of Britain's countryside

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aubrey Manning

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Worsley

The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janina Ramirez

History series telling the glorious and gory story of the city's rise to power.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Suzannah Lipscomb

Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at a dynamic decade. 1980s Britain changed in everything from politics and sport to fashion and popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dominic Sandbrook

Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Moss

On the edge of London stands Hampton Court, one of Britain's biggest palaces and most popular tourist spots, attracting almost a million visitors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tracy Borman

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St James's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alice Roberts

Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Copley

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Margaret Thatcher