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  • 2007
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    The Genius of Photography

    The Genius of Photography

    7.20 2007 HD

    Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising.

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  • 1966
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    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    5.10 1966 HD

    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...

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  • 2020
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    Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    8.50 2020 HD

    Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the...

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  • 2006
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    Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

    Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

    8.10 2006 HD

    Charlie Brooker's acerbic take on recent TV contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.

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  • 2016
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    Going Forward

    Going Forward

    1 2016 HD

    Three-part dark comedy series about three days in the life of a sandwich generation couple - a care worker and a limo driver - who have put their...

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  • 2019
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    I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

    I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

    1 2019 HD

    Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The...

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  • 2011
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    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    7.00 2011 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

    Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

    5.30 2005 HD

    A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.

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  • 2009
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    Cowards

    Cowards

    7.00 2009 HD

    Four-man sketch show packed with surprise and invention - all delivered with a unique brand of joyful deadpan absurdity.

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  • 2015
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    Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

    Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries

    8.00 2015 HD

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

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  • 2010
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    The Beauty of Maps

    The Beauty of Maps

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

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  • 2013
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    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

    7.00 2013 HD

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

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  • 2023
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    Tales of the Tardis

    Tales of the Tardis

    4.40 2023 HD

    Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

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  • 2006
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    Lead Balloon

    Lead Balloon

    7.56 2006 HD

    Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack...

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  • 2013
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    Up the Women

    Up the Women

    6.30 2013 HD

    It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage...

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  • 2018
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    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    7.50 2018 HD

    Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of...

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  • 2013
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    Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

    Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    The Brain: A Secret History

    The Brain: A Secret History

    1 2011 HD

    Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to...

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  • 2009
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    Electric Dreams

    Electric Dreams

    8.00 2009 HD

    A family of six and their home are stripped of all their modern technology to live a life of decades past. In each episode, the family lives through...

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  • 2011
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    Everything and Nothing

    Everything and Nothing

    7.10 2011 HD

    Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? Professor Jim Al-Khalili...

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