The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?

A sock puppet explores a family history told from the perspective of a mother and father.
About the development scheme for a residential area in the City. Barbican, which will be largely com...
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known a...

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary pla...

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guer...

Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. Sh...

Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in B...

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-...

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," be...

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...

A documentary revealing an observation on three barbershops throughout the course of one summer's da...

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But ...

A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.

During a three-month period in 1888, a knife-wielding serial killer murdered six women on the street...

At the 1996 Atlanta Games, the Magnificent Seven became the first American women to ever win gymnast...

A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped afte...