Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Lasting just over four days, the Great Smog plunged London into a terrifyingly murky gloom - the acrid pollution seeping into homes, leaving Londoners gasping for breath, shutting down transport and emergency services, and overwhelming hospitals and undertakers alike.
Stephen K. Amos and Susan Calman present a unique series in which LGBTQ people from across the UK ta...
Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, base...
Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Create...
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Follow Gordon Ramsay over 9 months in the lead up to his biggest restaurant venture to date: the ope...
Inimitable actress Miriam Margolyes is on a mission to confront her fear of ageing and death and tac...
Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history. She uncovers for...
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Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and gra...
Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.
Ambitious 11-part docudrama of the life, teaching, and work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This ...
The show first appeared in the summer of 1975, produced some 130 episodes up till the ending of 1979...
Two times guinness world record holder and world-renowned endurance rider Kevin Sanders has a dream....
The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and ...
With 1066, Professor Jennifer Paxton's exciting and historically rich six-lecture course, experience...
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls b...
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investiga...
The Savoy hotel... Its very name synonymous with glamour and exclusivity. But what really goes on be...