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A series about the history of Africa with Basil Davidson. It was produced in a collaboration between Channel 4, the Nigerian Television Authority and RM Arts in 1984 and consisted of eight parts in four episodes. The film received the Gold Award from the 1984 International Film and Television Festival of New York. Each part is around an hour long.

True Life Crime UK investigates the most harrowing true crime mysteries rocking headlines and social feeds. The victims were young; the crimes against them were shocking and haunting questions remain.

Alexis Conran proves how easy it can be to cook decent meals in an air fryer.

Gabrielle, formerly member of a terrorist cell, flees to England after an attempt on her life. Fearing that Gabrielle may betray it to the authorities, the cell sends the hitman Constant Delangre after her. Will Delangre find Gabrielle before the local police can defend her?

Three British aristocratic families struggle to hang on to their historic homes. Their lifestyle is assumed to be idyllic, but constant battle with roof-leaks, falling visitor numbers, and mounting debts all put pressure on their personal relationships and peace of mind.

Paul Hollywood goes on a culinary and cultural road trip across Japan, exploring the extraordinary country through its food and unique eating experiences

Oxford graduate, N.V. Standish was voted the man most likely to succeed back in 1960. In 1988, however, he makes his living by grilling hamburgers.

Series in which conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the lives, times and music of great composers.

Penelope Keith explores our changing relationship with villages

Documentary series exploring what happens when flights lose control.

The Sarah Millican Television Programme is a British comedic television show about television. It is shown on BBC Two and is hosted by comedian Sarah Millican. It began on 8 March 2012 and is scheduled to run for six episodes. A second series was broadcast from Christmas Day 2012 and throughout January, and a third series has been commissioned. An unbroadcast pilot episode was filmed on 25 May 2011. A series was then commissioned and filmed at the MediaCityUK complex in Salford in late-2011. The series is a co-production by So Television and Millican's own company, Chopsy Productions.

First-hand accounts from people whose train journeys went horribly off the rails.

Dusty Springfield hosts her 1960s variety show series with special guests.

Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed goes on a remarkable journey to places rarely seen, as she travels through Iran, telling the story of a complex and fascinating people, culture and history.

Africa on its own terms and in full voice - across Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa. Uncovering the energy and ambition of creatives reinventing African music, fashion and film.

Heston's Feasts is a television cookery programme starring chef Heston Blumenthal and produced by Optomen for Channel 4. The programme follows Blumenthal as he conceptualizes and prepares unique feasts for the entertainment of celebrity guests. The first series premiered on 3 March 2009, followed by a second series of seven episodes beginning in April 2010.

The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden mother; the drink flows, and hidden enmities, intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility.

Dara investigates the amazing star at the centre of our solar system.

Maltese version of the British show "Love Island". Ten singles come to stay in a villa for a few weeks and have to couple up with one another. Over the course of those weeks, they face the public vote and might be eliminated from the show. Other islanders join and try to break up the couples. Sometimes love blossoms, but sometimes all the couples do is fight. Will it be love, friendship or hate?

Enjoy some of Shakespeare's classics with a CBeebies twist!

David Attenborough examines the ecological and conservation crises that threaten the world

The Hayemaker invites celebrities into the ring.

Comedian and Strictly champion Chris McCausland is on a mission to discover the future of technology and what it might hold for him personally.

Five celebrities meet at a restaurant for a fancy meal. The catch is they have to play games between courses and the loser will have to pay for everyone's dinner.

Four years in the making, this is a privileged view into the lives of a cast of Hebridean animals in this landmark four-part series narrated by Ewan McGregor. Among the animals featured are basking sharks and white-tailed eagles, as well as red deer stags battling to win their mates and seals struggling to protect their newborn pups.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone brings together an array of untrained voices from the world of television, sport and theatre to release the official 2014 BBC Children in Need single.

Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection.

Daily routines have never been so much fun! Is it playtime or bedtime? Time for a nap or time for lunch? Morning, afternoon, evening and night – sing along with our fabulous songs that turn any time of day into a fun time!

A British comedy sketch show from 1975 featuring winners of the ATV talent show New Faces; made by ATV for the ITV network Designed to emulate the fast moving style of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, it featured Marti Caine, Lenny Henry, Victoria Wood, impressionist Aiden J Harvey and singer Trevor Chance. To help out with the first show was the more experienced TV personality Leslie Crowther. The Summer Show consisted of five, forty five minute specials on the subjects of "holidays", "health and strength","mystery and crime","kids", and "entertainment". The performers, who were paid £175 a week for their efforts, were encouraged to diversify. Thus it featured the unlikely sight of Wood and Crowther duetting and other thrown together combinations for songs, sketches and dances. Wood said of the experience "it was one of those really bad variety shows where they got the scripts out of other people's dustbins. It was just dreadful." She was told by costumers, who said she was too big for the costumes, "if only you'd lose two stone you could wear this of Anna Massey's" Wood immediately went back to the unemployment queue when it ended. Whereas the series was a springboard for other cast members. Caine got her own TV series and Henry joined The Black and White Minstrel Show. [1]

This series revisits the musical highs of a great decade of pop music - the 1970s.

Three part series hosted by Jonathan Ross, telling the story of Eric and Ernie's attempts to break America. Over the course of five years in the 1960s, Morecambe and Wise made multiple trips to New York to appear on the USA's biggest variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show. The untold story of their attempt to make it in the States is documented for the first time, including footage that has never been shown on British television before.

Sitcom about male mid-life crises. Max Wild longs to return to his 1950s Teddy Boy youth - but after living the life again, soon wants to return home.

A landmark 3-part series from the BBC's Natural History Unit revealing the extraordinary animals and remarkable people who make a home in the iconic mountain ranges of the world. There is one episode each on the Himalaya, Rockies and Andes.

Treasure Island is a 1977 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel. It was filmed in 1977 on location in Plymouth and Dartford, and in Corsica, and also at BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane, London. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny. This four-episode adaptation by John Lucarotti, while particularly faithful to the original, adds an expanded narrative concerning the declining Daniel Hawkins, as well as clarifying Squire Trelawney's naiveté in trusting Blandly and Silver. This takes place in the first episode; Billy Bones tempts Jim's father into arranging a two-man treasure voyage, the corrupt shipping agent Ezra Blandly guesses their intentions and tips off Silver, who hoodwinks and then cruelly tortures the information out of a hapless alcoholic Mr Arrow. Billy Bones plans founder, and Hawkins snr catches pneumonia in the rain, which finishes him. Lucarotti's additions to the original provide useful backstory, and the pirate idiom is sufficiently well captured for these additions not to be too obvious.

Each week, the show follows two different sets of young friends in Kavos. The hotel rigged cameras to film every aspect of their holiday in a Big Brother-style of filming.

Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

'Hidden India' is a 3 part BBC series bringing out the unexplored side of natural India to the outside world, with each episode covering various facets of India like its rivers, mountains and vibrant wildlife.

Dream Street was a British children's television series that ran from 6 May 1999 to 2002 on CITV. The show was narrated by British comedian Russ Abbot, and was aimed at children aged from 2 to 7. The show featured talking toy vehicles, and was radio controlled.

Series exploring the wildlife and landscape of Australia.

The story that left the world holding its breath. With exclusive content we examine the race against time to try to save five people on a doomed dive to the Titanic.

'Jeremy Pang's Asian Kitchen' will take you on a journey of Asian cookery. He will visit different food producers across the UK to learn more about what they produce, before turning them into ingredients for a delicious Asian dish.

The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two in 2010. Over three episodes, it sees Professor Robert Bartlett's journey from Great Britain via Jerusalem to the Kingdom of Sicily to examine the expansion and ambition of the Normans between the 10th and 13th centuries.

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.

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they were capable of. The BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and was featured in this series. The series was successful enough for two series to follow it, namely Making the Most of the Micro in 1983 and Micro Live from 1984 until 1987.

A look at the development of British indie music, born in the 1970s when the music industry was controlled by the major record labels and releasing a record independently seemed an impossible dream.

Archaeologist and explorer Ella al-Shamahi heads for South America, in search of legendary cities and civilisations

Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix go on an eco-friendly trip to explore the cuisine and culture of Austria and Croatia.

Henry is a forty-something man suffering a midlife crisis and looking to escape from his current situation - but this forty-something man also happens to be the King of the United Kingdom.