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Alexandra Tolstoy, a passionate horse-rider and adventurer, explores very different cultures around the world that all depend on and share a deep love of the horse.

Show Me the Monet is a British television series first aired on BBC2 in May 2011. It is presented by Chris Hollins. The programme has been described as the "artworld's version of The X Factor and Dragons's Den".

Former Maestro competitor and drum and bass pioneer Goldie is invited to compose a piece of music to be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra in the 2009 Proms season.

Light-hearted look at the absurd behaviour displayed by British parents desperate to get it right for their offspring.

Britain’s housing market is broken. With spiraling prices and record rents, key figures reveal the roots of the crisis. How did we get here - and what could happen next?

Music writer Dylan Jones puts the case that the 1980s were the most radical, innovative and creative decade in the history of pop.

Ethelbert the Tiger is a children's animated TV Show. In each episode, Ethelbert, a friendly but naïve Indian tiger cub asks his wise human friend Dilip question, often regarding morals, ethics or behaviour. The pair then set off on Dilip's raft through a magic waterfall which transports them to another part of the world. They invariably meet a new animal friend who can help answer the question and give Ethelbert a different perspective on life. The programme's visual style is very colourful, not unlike silk painting or batik.

The City Uncovered with Evan Davis is a 2009 British documentary series.

Journalist Mobeen Azhar uncovers the truth behind the killing of a black man by a white supremacist gang member. Did Larnell Bruce die because he was black?

Examining British policing as forces up and down the country try to cope under the pressure of budget cuts.

Entertainment USA was a British television series broadcast by the BBC, first shown on BBC2 in 1983 it ran for eight years and was devised and presented by Jonathan King

In his latest book and this three-part series, investigative journalist Jacques Peretti strays into Adam Curtis territory. What if the way we understand our world is wrong, he wonders, and it’s not so much politicians who govern our lives but business deals done in secret, in the boardroom and on the golf course?

El Nombre was an anthropomorphic Mexican gerbil, originally from a series of educational sketches on Numbertime, the BBC schools programme about mathematics; he was also the only individual to appear in all sixty-eight episodes, as its original host, Lolita Chakrabarti, was relieved of her position after the end of the fourth series in 1996. His voice was provided by Steve Steen, while the other characters' voices were provided by Sophie Aldred, Kate Robbins, and former Blue Peter host Janet Ellis - and his name actually means "The Name" in Spanish, not "The Number", which would be "El Número".

A BBC theme day from 1991 celebrating Lime Grove Studios.

The series reveals how the success of peoples and nations of Europe was controlled by the natural mineral resources of the land: from Stone Age flints to the uranium of the Nuclear Age.

It was the biggest information leak in US diplomatic history – over 250,000 US diplomatic messages or “cables” between the US State Department and US embassies all over the world – turned into a global sensation by the website WikiLeaks.

Revealing anecdotes from some of Science Fiction's brightest stars give an entertaining insight into their best-known work.

Michael Portillo celebrates the modern railway’s 200th birthday, revealing the journey that changed the world.

Home cooks compete to impress four of the country's toughest and most feared food critics