Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim princess he married. Tensions ran high when an Englishman fell for a Mughal ruler's daughter.
Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to...
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...
Inspired by the original micropub craze in Kent, three entrepreneurial Londoners decide to open thei...
Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he...
Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible i...
The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandem...
His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television C...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwea...
At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than...
Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...
Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a tea...
INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una ...
A special celebrating the origins and legacy of Star Wars' legendary bounty hunter, Boba Fett.
A thought provoking documentary feature film providing a comprehensive exploration of the evolution ...
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves fr...
Chief curator of historic royal palaces Lucy Worsley provides an exclusive tour of London’s most ext...
Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and he...