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My name is Jonathan Meades and this Series is called 'Even Further Abroad'. It peels off the drab grey overcoat of preconception to reveal the lime green posing pouch of reality beneath.

Top Gear Motorsport was a British television programme, covering various forms of motor racing, broadcast on BBC Two from 1994 to 1998. It was a spin-off programme from the popular motoring series Top Gear. The programme was presented by former Formula One driver and Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell. Other presenters were Penny Mallory, Tony Mason, Steve Berry, Mark James and Bob Constanduros. The series covered a wide variety of motor racing categories, including the World Rally Championship, the British Rally Championship, British Formula Three, Formula Renault and Formula Vauxhall Junior, British Superbikes and Eurocars.

Minty is a 1998 Australian / British comedy television series, in which Australian actress Angela Kelly appeared in the dual roles of Minty and Melanie. The 13-episode series was co-produced by Scottish Television and RT Films in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and supported by ScreenWest and The Lotteries Commission of Western Australia.

Comedy series spoofing television in the year 2020.

WYSIWYG is a 1992 CITV children's series broadcast in ITV. Five episodes were produced. It stars Julie Dawn Cole as Maz, Clive Mantle as Globyool, and Nick Wilton as Wysiwyg.

Presenter Neil Innes has fun exploring the origins of well-known words; and phrases in AWAY WITH WORDS. The 13-part series follows him on his travels from Yarmouth to Ely, Southend, Newmarket, Luton, Southwold, Duxford, Ipswich, Norwich, Corby, Bletchley, Cambridge and Colchester. But it won't be a map so much as a dictionary that he will have as a guide as he looks for the unlikely sources of all sorts of everyday names and sayings, and talks to some of the people who can throw light on them.

ITV's weekend news bulletin in the early evening.

The search for various historical lost treasures.

ITV's weekend news bulletin in the late night.

Driving School is a docusoap that was broadcast on BBC One in the summer of 1997, which followed a group of learner drivers around Bristol and South Wales. Made on a reduced budget but shown in primetime, it created one of the first reality TV stars in Maureen Rees. It was narrated by Quentin Willson, who would later present the similar Britain's Worst Driver.

Time Team Extra was a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. Time Team Extra is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of Time Team's fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated.

Channel 5 Nature Documentary covering the Oceans

The Passion was a three-episode 1999 British TV series written by Mick Ford. It was set in, and filmed in, North Devon, and related events set around a local amateur production of a passion play.

ITV's weekend news bulletin in the morning.

Documentary Following Fred Dibnah

The gruesome story behind the Moors Murders.

Mainly contain sketches from Allen's earlier shows and he also talks about his long career with the BBC.

BBC World News is the standard news bulletin featuring the latest international news broadcast throughout most of the day on BBC World News. Some editions also feature brief business and sport reports as well. A brief weather report is given at the end of each broadcast.

A step-by-step guide to the wonders of the internet.

War Walks was a BBC documentary series presented by historian, Professor Richard Holmes. The series was about several famous European battles. It included descriptions of the battles, the events leading up to them and the events resulting from them.

Historian Simon Schama explores the relationship between culture and the natural environment. He begins by looking at forests - places of myth and memory, fear and worship.

An accidental discovery of a drug for the mass unconscious and a naive schoolteacher's ardor lead to personal and almost global disaster. Harper's world edges on nightmares between life and death, waking and dreaming, insanity and sanity.

Antonio Carluccio, the godfather of Italian gastronomy, travels through Southern Italy sampling and cooking the region's specialities. His tour takes him from Sardinia to Sicily and from Campania to Calabria, with visits to Rome, Puglia and Basilicata. Among the treats in store are an impromptu barbecue in a vineyard, a shepherd's feast in the Barbagia Mountains, a Neapolitan pizza-making class, a moonlit octopus-fishing trip and a San Lorenzo's night grill for ten men called Lorenzo.

Dramatisation of Kingsley Amis’s novel, in which writer Alun Weaver returns to Wales to get reacquainted with his old university friends, ‘The Old Devils’.

The Rhythm of Life is a 1997–1998 BBC three-part documentary series presented by Sir George Martin, exploring the fundamental components of music—rhythm, melody, and harmony. Martin interviews influential artists like Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Céline Dion, and Billy Joel, examining the creation of music, its universality and why it means so much to us.

ITV News Meridian is the regional news programme for the ITV Meridian region and part of the ITV Central region, serving South East England. The news service is produced and broadcast from ITV Meridian's studios in Whiteley, near Fareham with reporters also based at bureaus in Abingdon, Brighton, Maidstone, Poole and Reading. The Head of News is Robin Britton who previously launched Thames Valley Tonight and the West edition of Meridian Tonight.

Atletico Partick is a Scottish sitcom that aired on BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ian Pattison and produced and directed by Colin Gilbert who worked together on Rab C. Nesbitt.

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

Has anyone amazing ever taken on the role of Sherlock Holmes? Let's just think about this for a second. Well, there's... Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jnr, Basil Rathbone and Tom Baker to name but a handful. However, there's one name amongst these actors which truly stands out as a superstar. That's right, Roland Rat even tried his hand at the role in Tales of the Rodent Sherlock Holmes. What's in Sherlock's Casebook? Dr Watson (Kevin the Gerbil) keeps a nice diary of all his cases with Sherlock Holmes (Roland Rat), but it's not just packed with stories about hounds and studies in pink. No, sir! In fact, there's a whole range of cases which only get the briefest of mentions. However, these adventures see our favourite Baker Street duo taking on such startling cases as chasing a dastardly canary trainers, investigating a mysterious, empty box and even trailing the fiendish Blue Carbuncle! Popping up along the way to thwart Holmes and Watson are a selection of British TV treasures including Mollie Sugden, Barbara Windsor, Rodney Bewes and Christopher Ryan.

The show aired on ITV1 on Saturday 6 November 1999

Time Signs is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1991. Presented by Mick Aston, the series tells the story of a Devon valley throughout history. Phil Harding does some reconstruction archaeology. Time Signs was later developed into Time Team, the long-running archaeology series that has aired since 1994. Time Team has the same producer and also features Mick Aston and Phil Harding.

Four-part spoof "rockumentary" written by and starring Graham Fellows. At the age of 55, Sheffield-born former security guard and now "versatile singer/songwriter" John Shuttleworth, realises he must hit the big time before it's too late, and sets off on a rock tour of Britain with his portable organ and neighbour and agent Ken Worthington.

Hannah Hauxwell travels abroad

Rock & Roll (U.S. title) or Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History (U.K. title) is a 10-part American-British television documentary series about the history of rock and roll music produced by the BBC and WGBH, and which screened in 1995 on PBS in the United States and on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during 1996.

The British correspondent in Lebanon, Robert Fisk, tries to find the roots of misunderstanding between the Muslims and the Western World, and why some Muslims do not trust the West. He travels from Lebanon to Palestine, then to Egypt, and finally concludes his journey in the terrorized Balkan. He also makes a short trip to Poland, showing an eloquent description of the Holocaust.

Each week, comic Phil Kay will take a different theme.

A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.

Strung out along 5,000 kilometers of the Equator, between Asia and Australia, Indonesia's 17,000 islands make up the largest and most varied archipelago on earth. From freezing glaciers to coral reefs, orangutans to Komodo dragons, the sheer diversity of landscapes and life defies the imagination. This series tells the story of one of the world's most fascinating regions and its magical wildlife.

Channel 5 Nature Documentary

Kevin Jones arrives at Blackstream prison beaten and suffering from brain damage-a state he wasn't in at sentencing. Something happened to him during his transfer, and though the prison psychologist tries to help him remember...he can't.

A ten-part series on Japanese language and culture.

Frances Pye intervenes in a street fight. During the fight she receives a blow to the head causing memory loss. Due to her amnesia family members try to take advantage of her illness. Will she get wise to their schemes? Will she identify the people from the fight?

Simon Hall is a partner in a firm of recruitment consultants. Troubles at work and at home lead him to question the values and morality of the business in which he has been so successful.

Win, Lose or Draw is a British television game show that aired for nine series in the ITV daytime schedule from 1990 to 1998, produced by Scottish Television. The game was based on an American television game show of the same name.

Documentary and debate series.

Earth is really the planet of the insects. This series shows insect behaviour and society.

Police psychologist, Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald's personal life implodes meanwhile, Albie Kinsella, a divorced factory worker goes on a deadly rampage.

A short Natural History series

Documentary series following hopefuls through a year at the Drama Centre in London.