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Paul Merton profiles some of the great stars of silent comedy, examining their lives and works, and uncovering seldom-seen material

Fossil Detectives is a 2008 BBC Television documentary series in which presenter Hermione Cockburn travels across Great Britain exploring fossil...

A crowdsourced social history of the NHS, told through people's treasured mementoes, whether they be the unsung medical heroes of the staff or the...

A look at traditional Japanese crafts and craftspeople. Each edition of the series follows the work of those making a culturally important product in...

Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the...

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to...

Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous. But Waldemar Januszczak disagrees and in this three-part series he tries to bring Rococo art closer to...

Meades asks if Britain really has suffered a "Gastronomic Revolution", and offers an A-Z of British food.

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with...

Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to...

Series of investigative science documentaries.

Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and...

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss...