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Historian and Archetypal Englishman Julian Davidson travels from the frozen wastes of Norway to the sunny shores of the Italian Adriatic coast, sampling the delights of some of the most dramatic and fascinating railway journeys in Europe.

When she was a child, Kate Humble wanted to be a nomad. Living in some of the world's most remote wildernesses, cheek by jowl with nature, seemed like such a wildly romantic existence.

A captivating insight into British life straight from the mouths of school children from the 1960s and '70s.

Dr Clare Jackson tells the story of The Stuarts in Exile and sheds new light on the political, military and cultural threat the Jacobite's posed to the embryonic British state. Although the '15' ultimately failed, it crystallised the stark choice facing those living in early 18th-century Britain. Are you for the Stuarts or are you for Hanoverian's?

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.

Educating Cardiff captures every detail of life at Willows and to kick the series off we are introduced to Head Teacher Joy Ballard, her stellar team of staff and some dynamic kids. From Year 7 to Year 11, newly qualified teachers to old-hands, this series shows what it’s like to learn and teach in the Welsh capital.

The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your own songs. This film challenges and overturns that misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more original than the original.

It really will be Christmas every day as the Robshaw family, stars of BBC2's Back in Time for Dinner, time-travel through six decades of festive nostalgia.

Groundbreaking series with unprecedented access to a police murder investigation, telling the true story, as a drama, from the perspective of the police and the victim and suspect's families.

Channel 4 shows us what we can really get now a days with £1million. From Scottish castles to tiny homes in central London and even some ex-council houses, a record number of British properties are valued at £1million or more. Filmed over one of the most unpredictable years for the housing market, this documentary reveals what a seven-figure price tag actually buys across the nation and uncovers a council house millionaire.

An eye-opening look inside the Post Office - an iconic national institution undergoing the biggest shake-up in its nearly 400-year history as it battles to reinvent itself for the modern world.

X-Fire, was a paintball-based TV gameshow, aired on Channel 4 in the UK and presented by Ed Hall.

This documentary series follows The Landmark Trust as they work on important projects. Each episode explores several case studies of the restorations carried out by the organisation. The experts discuss the history of the buildings and the structures that they work with, detailing the significance of the preservation. In the first episode, director Dr Anna Keay delves into the story of a Georgian villa in Lyme Regis. The episodes capture the process as the extraordinary rebuilding and repairing of these constructions get underway.

Ground-breaking series following a group of friends coping with teenage life in the age of smartphones and social media. The teenagers share their tweets, texts and updates with viewers.

In America at any one time there are over 70,000 children behind bars. Kid Criminals meets children in high-security juvenile prisons who have committed shocking crimes.

Is a series that sees one lonely-heart date four potential suitors at their workplace - be they a baker, dentist, banker or zoo keeper - to learn what they might really be like as a partner and in the hope to find true love. After two full days of dating on the job, the budding singleton will decide which one they like best and will then meet them when they get off work.