Big Cats About The House

Big Cats About The House 2018

8.00

Documentary series following life at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, run by Giles Clark to support big cat conservation.

2018

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain 2007

8.50

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain is a 2007 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the end of the Second World War onwards. The series is highly praised and resulted in a follow up series covering the period 1900 to 1945 called Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain. A book released by Marr at accompanying the series and bearing the same name also details this period of history.

2007

Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story 2022

7.00

In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how successful was the original 'cancel culture' warrior?

2022

Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys

Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys 2019

7.00

Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska.

2019

Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution

Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution 2021

7.00

The story of two powerful personalities at the heart of a political phenomenon. Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their closest allies chart the rise and difficult legacy of New Labour.

2021

Simon King's Shetland Diaries

Simon King's Shetland Diaries 2010

9.00

Wildlife cameraman and presenter Simon King sets off on an adventure to the Shetland Isles to live, through the changing seasons, with his family.

2010

Gorilla Family & Me

Gorilla Family & Me 2015

8.00

Gordon Buchanan travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet a family of rare Grauer's gorillas.

2015

Monty Don's Paradise Gardens

Monty Don's Paradise Gardens 2018

1

Monty Don travels the Islamic world and beyond, from Morocco to India and Iran, in search of paradise gardens, and uncovers the influence they have had back home.

2018

Shakespeare In Italy

Shakespeare In Italy 2012

1

Francesco da Mosto takes to the Italian road again in search of Shakespeare in Italy.

2012

Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve

Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve 2013

5.50

For centuries, pilgrimage was one of the greatest adventures on Earth, involving epic journeys across the country and around the world, and new BBC Two series Pilgrimage With Simon Reeve sees Simon retrace the exciting adventures of our ancestors.

2013

Back in Time for the Factory

Back in Time for the Factory 2018

6.00

A group of modern women are going back in time to the 60s, 70s and 80s to work and live through three decades of British factory life and learn how an unsung army of female workers took on the fight for equality at work and at home - how will these 21st-century women adapt to a period of rampant sexism, huge gender pay gaps and tough working conditions?

2018

Snow Cats and Me

Snow Cats and Me 2019

8.00

Gordon Buchanan helps cat expert Dr Victor Lukarevsky as he tries - for the first time ever - to rescue and rehabilitate lynx from the lucrative fur and pet trades back to the wild.

2019

In The Footsteps of Alexander the Great

In The Footsteps of Alexander the Great 1998

8.00

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great was a BBC documentary television series first shown in 1998. It was written and presented by British historian and broadcaster Michael Wood. Wood retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Vergina in Macedonia, where his father Philip II of Macedon died and Alexander was proclaimed king, through seventeen present-day countries to the borders of India and back to Mesopatamia, where he died. Whereas most of Wood's documentary series had titles beginning "In Search of...", the title of this series reflected a slightly different approach. The series was directed by David Wallace.

1998

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle 2023

5.80

This is the story of a power struggle between two men - one fictional, and one real. In one corner is the master of crime – the greatest detective who never lived, Sherlock Holmes. In the other is writer, physician and spiritualist leader Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between author and creation.

2023

The Chinese Are Coming

The Chinese Are Coming 2011

6.30

Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower.

2011

The Choir

The Choir 2006

1

The Choir is a BAFTA award winning TV series following Gareth Malone as he tackles the task of teaching choral singing to people who have never had the chance, or experience to sing before. The first series aired in 2006, the second series, The Choir: Unsung Town, which involved the creation of a choir in South Oxhey, Hertfordshire began on BBC Two on 1 September 2009, whilst the third series, The Choir: Military Wives was aired in November 2011.

2006