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Series which follows Martha Kearney's bee-keeping year and explores the science, art and culture of the honeybee, the most ingenious insect known to...

How the invention of writing gave humanity a history. From hieroglyphs to emojis, an exploration of the way in which the technology of writing has...

Four young British art historians delve into six decades of the BBC archives to discover the powerful way in which television influences our...

Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced.

Dan Snow shines a light into the Dark Ages after the collapse of the Roman Empire in Britain

In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the...

The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco...

These unorthodox military innovations were not developed by chance, each was constructed to solve a tactical or strategic problem, such as overcoming...

Three British aristocratic families struggle to hang on to their historic homes. Their lifestyle is assumed to be idyllic, but constant battle with...

Arabic scholar Tim Mackintosh-Smith journeys 75,000 miles through 40 countries in the footsteps of 14th century traveller Ibn Battutah, who was born...

Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.

The rise and fall of Lady Jane Grey. England's Queen for only 9 days

The Atheism Tapes is a 2004 BBC television documentary series presented by Jonathan Miller. The material that makes up the series was originally...

Where broken beauty is reborn. How legendary art restorer Koji Mayuyama is preserving ancient treasures, one divine touch at a time.

Series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions...

Series that explores national museum collections at a time of enforced closure.