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Jay takes a three-part journey through the fascinating history of his adoptive home.

The third series of this nature documentary uses the very latest in underwater filming techniques to reveal brand new and untold stories from magical underwater worlds focusing on five major underwater habitats: the tropical seas, temperate seas, polar seas, high seas and deep seas.

Sara Davies is meeting people from across the UK who’ve come up with brilliant ideas but need some help getting them made. Can Sara and her team of experts make their ideas work?

Noah's Ark is a British television series, which aired on ITV. It was first broadcast on 8 September 1997. The final episode was aired on 13 October 1997. There were 6 episodes in the first series. A second series aired in 1998.

The hit BBC drama Line Of Duty told the story of a fictional anti-corruption police unit. Now for the first time, senior police officers behind the real life sting operations re-open the casebooks to reveal the methods used to uncover corruption and secure convictions. Narrated by Martin Compston, The Real Line Of Duty uncovers the wider story of the Metropolitan Police turned the torch on their own.

Emma Willis takes viewers on a maternity road trip, introducing them to seven never-before-seen birth stories. Warm, humorous and full of natural drama, these two heartwarming episodes are an honest and heartfelt personal account of child birth and the special bond that links all those involved.

Louis Theroux looks at the extreme pressures placed on relationships by conditions such as autism and dementia, meeting both those diagnosed and the people who love and care for them.

Lenny Henry combines topical stand-up, character sketches and music performance in his first topical series since Saturday Live. He is joined every week by a celebrity guest and Ninia Benjamin, Tameka Empson and Jocelyn Esien of 3 Non-Blondes fame.

Fly-on-the wall documentary series following the ups and downs of Swansea call centre CEO Nev Wilshire and his staff of extraordinary characters.

The hunt for the best getaways in Scotland.

The inside story of how the UK left the EU. Despite an election victory in 2015, David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership leads to his resignation 13 months later.

5 television programmes on BBC 1 First broadcast on BBC 1 from April 1974 Rebroadcast on BBC 1 on Thursdays from 20 June 1974 at approximately 11.15 p.m

Joy Dunlop guides viewers through the first steps to inspire us to speak Gaelic. Throughout the series, she’ll introduce words and phrases on a variety of everyday topics. A Gaelic learner herself, Joy will support us through pronunciation and vocabulary on topics such as friends, family, home, work and weather. We’ll meet diligent learners who have embraced speaking Gaelic, from new learners to lapsed native speakers and the on-off learners who have improved their language skills over the decades. And, the intrepid Calum Maclean takes us on adventures to hidden treasures around Scotland. Supporting materials can be found online: www.speakgaelic.scot and in the SpeakGaelic podcasts on BBC Sounds.

Bargain-blagger Joe Wilkinson and luxury-lover Katherine Ryan show us how to live the champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget with some fantastically affordable getaways.

The remarkable stories and characters at the heart of Leeds Bradford Airport as it attempts to reinvent itself as one of Britain’s most successful regional airports. The series reveals the behind-the-scenes characters responsible for the smooth running of all things airside.

Four part series about British folk music, originally aired on BBC2

The Comic Side of 7 Days is a British television programme shown from 2005 on BBC Three. It is a topical comedy programme which shows the satirical side of the past 7 days of news. It was broadcast weekly on a Friday, with several repeats during the following week. The show was created by Andy Marlatt and Tony Roche. It was produced and directed by David Tyler. The number seven features heavily during the programme and features in several lists between sections. Various comedians comment on the week's news. These have included Jo Caulfield, Richard Herring, Will Smith, Lucy Porter, John Oliver and Junior Simpson. The main narrator is Jon Holmes. The voiceover artists are Emma Kennedy and Ewan Bailey.

Alexander the Greatest was a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren, it was written by Bernard Kops and made for the ITV network by ATV.

Holly & Fearne Go Dating was a British reality TV show which was first broadcast on ITV on 5 September 2007.

A girl's undying passion towards her first love. A young man makes an enemy of society in order to accept her feelings. The sorrow and redemption of a woman who, despite abiding strictly to her principles, is derailed by her husband's change of heart. The story of three people whose lives are placed at the mercy of the monster known as love.

A portrait of what life in like in Britain today. Investigative reporter Stacey Dooley aims to find out what life is like in modern Britain by spending 72 hours in the company of a wide range of extraordinary characters and families.

Barra Best sets out to uncover and explore some of Northern Ireland's lost railways.

The story of two newly qualified nurses on their first assignment in the West Indies.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain is a 2009 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War. It was a follow-up to his 2007 series Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain.

The Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats was a cartoon series which aired between 1995 and 1996 on ITV kids strand CITV, and was recently shown on Scottish children's programme wknd@stv. The series was about anthropomorphic automobiles that bore resemblances to cats and dogs. The main characters are freedom fighters trying to save their homeworld of Autopia from The Crusher. The show ran for two seasons, each consisting of 26 ten-minute episodes. Hot Rod is a bright red animal hybrid. He's part car, part canine, and he's just one of a collection of dog-cars and cat-cars found on the anthropomorphic automotive world of Autopia. And this place would be something of a car utopia, if it wasn't for the fact that Hot Rod has fallen foul of the Autopia police force, who come in the bulldogged shape of the Gridlockers. He's also caught the eye of the all-powerful, megalomaniac machine known as the Crusher, who has a variety of bounty hunters and mean machines at his disposal. And that's our cue for lots of freewheelin' action as Hot Rod and his miss-matched pals in the resistance attempt to dodge the constabulary and tackle the bad guys head-on in a bid to rid the land of tyranny for ever!

Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II. Conflict arose when American soldiers must share their barracks. Samuel West starred as the RAF pilot Archie Bunting. Martin Clunes starred as Group Captain Barker; a man with an inability to say the word "Luftwaffe".

No Excuses was about Shelley Maze, a female rock star. The series showed her trying to come to terms with her failing career and her relationships with the people she'd worked with.

Examines the stories behind the unsolved murders of four women across four decades in Northern Ireland.

Popular reality fare about overweight people competing to drop pounds. Divided initially into teams, the contestants are aided (and bullied) by trainers and must participate in physical reward challenges. At the end of each episode, there's a weigh-in that helps determine who is sent packing.

World Shut Your Mouth was a hidden camera television series starring Dom Joly that ran on Friday nights in 2005 on BBC One. Dom Joly made his name on the similar series Trigger Happy TV on Channel 4, and it was from its great success that he was hired by the BBC to produce new programming. His first effort was an unsuccessful spoof chat show named This Is Dom Joly. The lack of success in conventional comedy prompted him to go back to his hidden camera roots and started to create a new series which was very similar to Trigger Happy TV, with short stunts overlaid with a soundtrack. He was the main participant in these stunts. As with his previous work, the programme had an emphasis on surrealism, with sketches such as a spying gnome and nerds taunting skaters and him dressing up in aluminium foil like a superhero, being a partner of a traffic warden who was technically ignoring him. The main difference between Trigger Happy TV and World Shut Your Mouth was the scope of the show. Where Trigger Happy TV took place in various places around the United Kingdom, the larger budget of World Shut Your Mouth allowed for international travel and filming, and many of the stunts took place at, or near, major international landmarks.

Series following the high adrenaline adventures of a team of divers as they explore and film the depths of the world's greatest river system.

Bushcraft is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Romania and Russia. Following on from Extreme Survival, Bushcraft was first shown in 2004, and ended in 2005.

The Woman in White is a British drama television series which originally aired on BBC 1 in six 25 minute long episodes between 2 October and 6 November 1966. It was adapted from the 1859 novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Tommy Walsh introduces a look at eco-builds in the USA, showing homeowners who are taking strides to make the world a better place for living, breathing things.

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history.

Having it Off is a one-off TV comedy series for BBC Choice made by Red Production Company in 2002. It was set at a cheap hairdressing salon in Eccles, Greater Manchester. It was shown only once and is not available yet on DVD. Out gay bitchy stereotype Guy La Trousse, desperately tries to escape the drudge of daily wash and crop and change the fortunes of the salon - and his career. This is all thwarted by April, nymphomanic loud-mouthed wife of the hairdressers owner. The BBC website describes it as "rude, crude, strongly working-class sitcom on the lesser-seen BBC Choice, Having It Off promised much yet fell curiously short of the mark, lacking the key that would have propelled it to a higher level". However, tapes have been known to change hands on eBay for high prices.

Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne.

Farmer Wants a Wife is a reality television series developed by Fremantle Media. The first edition premièred in the United Kingdom on ITV in 2001. However, the original format of the programme is likely to date back to the TV programme Bauer sucht Bäuerin, which was broadcast in 1983 on SRG SSR idée suisse in Switzerland. The basic structure of the program is that a number of farmers are presented with women from the city, from whom they choose one to be their spouse. After its UK debut in 2001, the show had more than 10 localised versions around the world, with mixed ratings reports. It was the No. 1 television show for stations that aired it in Belgium and Norway, and was the highest rated entertainment show in the Netherlands. Premiered in spring 2008, the U.S. version of Farmer Wants a Wife consists of 8 episodes, during which 10 women are trying to be chosen by just one bachelor farmer. In this the U.S. version differed from the other international versions and it was more fictionalised. In September 2009, Farmer Wants a Wife returned to British television for a series on Channel 5, presented by singer and television personality Louise Redknapp.

The Virgin Diaries is a reality TV show produced by Tiger Aspect for MTV UK. Each episode follows young adults between the ages of 16 and 18 as they contemplate sex, sexuality, and their own virginity. The show was criticised by psychiatrists and teen experts.

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.

Comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton, primarily based around his stand-up comedy routines, with sketches and parodies.

Boys and Girls was a British television gameshow broadcast in 2003 by Channel 4. The series was produced by Chris Evans through his company UMTV, and was presented by Vernon Kay. Evans only occasionally appeared on screen, usually as the driver of the golf buggy used to ferry the winning contestants off-set at the end of the show. Thus the show was one of the first Evans-produced shows not to feature Evans himself in a presenting role. Kay's co-presenter was Irish presenter and model Orla O'Rourke.

What's your beef? Podcast superstars Chris and Rosie welcome celeb couples for candid, comic chat - probing pet peeves, parenting problems and everything in between.

Dive into history. Family memories reveal Northern Ireland's crucial role in WWII's epic sea battle, as divers explore the lost wrecks that reveal the human cost of the conflict.

A twin brother and sister believe that their newly born baby brother is actually an alien who is preparing the way for an invasion from outer space.

The Adventures of Portland Bill is a British stop motion animated children's television series made in 1983. It was set in a fictional lighthouse located on the Guillemot Rock, just off the coast from the fictional village of McGuillycuddy.

Two-part retro-doc about how British holiday habits changed in the 1970s.

The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to Bill Cullen, a business magnate. The first series of the show aired on TV3 on 22 September 2008, and finished on 8 December 2008, with Brenda Shanahan as the winner. Shanahan worked at Cullen's company, Renault Ireland, on a 12-month contract worth €100,000. Steve Rayner, a Business Development Manager, won the second series in 2009. That series also featured Breffny Morgan. Michelle Massey won the job in the 2010 series, while Eugene Heary won in 2011. It was announced in May 2012 that the programme would not be renewed for a new series. The Apprentice is modelled on the American series of the same name, which stars entrepreneur Donald Trump, as well as the British series starring magnate Alan Sugar. Bill Cullen's assistants in the Irish version of The Apprentice are his partner, and former model, Jackie Lavin and PR "guru", Brian Purcell.

In a defining moment for the natural world, Gordon Buchanan makes an epic journey round the equator - taking to the skies with experts racing to protect both wildlife and people.

Examining the personal and musical development of bands and artists by investigating the stories behind three of their greatest hits.