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Meades asks if Britain really has suffered a "Gastronomic Revolution", and offers an A-Z of British food.

Murder Squad was a documentary television series broadcast in 1992, 1996 and 1997 on the British ITV network. The series followed the Metropolitan Police's murder squad as they investigate homicides in the United Kingdom's capital city, London. The series includes the gathering of forensic evidence and police interviews with suspects.

Grave-digger Johnny Kingdom presents a look at the wildlife of the moors and woodlands of Exmoor.

Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves is a television programme broadcast on BBC Three. Presented by Chris Crudelli the documentary series travels around the Far East exploring different martial arts and learning the secret skills and knowledge of the 'Grandmasters'. The series investigates aspects of each different martial art by filming the masters demonstrating their style and skills. There is one series of 10 episodes. Each episode focuses on a mix of different martial arts and masters and shows Crudelli taking some martial arts and tricks to the streets, in a style similar to street magic. The opening narration states Crudelli is a master of combat and esoteric energies. An edited version was broadcast in the United States in half-hour segments as Mind, Body & Kickin' Moves on FSN.

In a landmark two-part series, the policies and personality of the man who ruled Britain for a decade are examined by Andrew Rawnsley, one of the most authoritative chroniclers of New Labour.

What to Eat Now is a six-part series, broadcast on BBC Two and presented by chef Valentine Warner. The basic message behind the series is that people should eat food that is in season. The series has covered autumnal foods, both meats such as rabbit and pigeon, and fruits and vegetables and fungi, including apples, pears, pumpkins, chicory, beetroot and truffle as part of the series. The programme was first broadcast on 15 September 2008. In looking at apples, the show visited Benedictine monks, and talked about how they could find the best apples to make a dish called "apple charlotte". In looking at beetroot, the show visited a farmer who practiced biodynamic farming, believing that the phases of the moon could affect plant growth. The show travelled to Lindisfarne to illustrate mussel catching. Warner has also published two books entitled "What to Eat Now" and "What to Eat Now - More Please!" to accompany the series'. A second series was broadcast in 2009.

Wayne Rooney hosts a competition that pits some of Britain’s best street footballers against each other in a series of public, skills-based challenges.

Documentary which goes inside the selection process for the best formation flying team in the world, the Red Arrows. Two pilots are selected to join the Arrows from a shortlist of nine elite RAF candidates. In order to be selected they have to perform a number of tests, from backseat flying, to close-formation manoeuvres, to socialising, to face-to-face, formal interviews.

In this three-part documentary series Waldemar Januszczak discovers paintings, sculptures and architecture of the Baroque period. Starting from the square of Saint Peter's Basilica in Italy to St Paul's Cathedral in England.

Doctor, Doctor is a live talk show broadcast on British television on Five hosted by the presenters Mark Porter and Raj Persaud. It is made by Princess Productions. The television program comprises several educational sections to present medical and health information in slightly different formats to match different supporting resources. It includes a presentation on a common illness or conditions with audiovisual aids, an interview with a guest celebrity who talk about an illness that they have suffered from, discussion between the presenters and a guest medical expert to give added insight to a selected medical topic, and a live phone-in when the television doctors answer viewers telephone questions and a few email questions.

Light-hearted look at the absurd behaviour displayed by British parents desperate to get it right for their offspring.

Tough Guy or Chicken? is a 2009 reality television series shown on BBC Three. It involves five young British men spending four months travelling the world taking tough challenges with deadly animals and in hostile locations. The series is made up of 8 episodes where, in each, the men are taken to a different part of the world to take on the different challenges that await them. If they are not up for the tasks required of them they fail the given challenge.

The series takes place on a “higgledy-piggledy” prehistoric planet and follows the antics of a little mischievous cave girl called Igam Ogam and her friends. who's more curious than a Curiosaurus is back in a brand-new series of prehistoric adventures with her friends Roly the monkey, you can't stop evolution and now there are new creatures on Igam Ogam's topsy-turvy planet.

Built especially for the challenging conditions of Antarctica, HMS Endurance is the Royal Navy’s only ice patrol ship and its only one capable of breaking into the icy wastes of Antarctica. We join the elite, 140-person crew as they embark on a four-month expedition in perhaps the most extreme and hostile environment on the planet. Follow the extensive and diverse duties of the Royal Navy and the British Antarctic Survey, and the trials and tribulations that the frozen continent brings. In the first episode, Return to the Ice HMS Endurance prepares for another season in Antarctica. Captain Bob Tarrant has taken her there for the last two years but in 10 days time he must hand over to a new captain and is determined that the ship is ready for the ice before he leaves. Faced with a series of engine problems, can the crew get the vessel ready for both a long and dangerous journey and a new commander? Then bad news from home causes further problems as the ship leaves the Falklands.

British version of the game show where unsuspecting members of the public hail a cab and find they're playing for thousands of pounds - if they can keep answering questions correctly before they reach their destination. If they don't, they may just be walking the rest of the way.

Matt Hayes and Mick Brown take up the challenge to catch every species of freshwater fish found in Britain at different locations: 35 fish in 30 days.

TV DIY star Tommy Walsh is set the challenge of a lifetime. In this series we see Tommy and his team push their talents right to the edge, going beyond anything he has previously attempted on TV.....to build an eco-friendly house in 60 days for £60K!

The Common Room was an interactive TV show on ITV Play. The Common Room's main presenters were Tim Dixon and Emma Lee. Zö Christien also presented occasionally.

London Ink is a reality show on Discovery Real Time that follows Louis Molloy and three other tattoo artists. Each of the artists brings a different style to London Ink. Louis Molloy, is an expert in parallel and straight lines and other difficult shapes, and has tattooed David Beckham. Dan Gold is an avid graffiti artist in the freehand new wave graffiti style. New Zealand artist Nikole Lowe specializes in Japanese, Tibetan and Indian-themed art. American Phil Kyle brings a new wave old school style with his own twist over to England. The show is a spin-off of Miami Ink and premiered on September 23, 2007. The first series was filmed at London Tattoo, 332 Goswell Rd, Islington, London The shop lives on as a day to day tattoo studio London Tattoo at the Islington location Glamour model Emily Scott appeared in the first episode of London Ink, in which she had a Koi fish tattooed on her right arm by Dan Gold.

Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four. The series comprised four programmes respectively titled: "Let There Be Light"; "The Light of Reason"; "The Stuff of Light"; and "Light, the Universe and Everything." The material was presented by Cambridge academic Simon Schaffer.

Demonic escapades of an ex-child program star and a demonic, mass-murdering essence, Noseybonk.

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Adam Curtis' short films from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe programmes.

Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year.

Time Team Digs is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 2002. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as Time Team Digs: A History of Britain. Time Team Digs is an eight-part series looking at previous Time Team digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day.

Directors Commentary was a comedy television series created and written by Paul Duddridge and produced by Miles Ross. It was made by Jones The Film for ITV and broadcast in 2004. It starred Rob Brydon as Peter de Lane, a fictional director who provided the audio commentary for the DVD releases of shows he had supposedly directed. These commentaries not only provided information on the programmes but also gave a glimpse into de Lane's life. It ran for 7 episodes, which have all been released on DVD. It used stock footage of real television programmes, such as Bonanza, Only When I Laugh and Flambards, and de Lane did not appear in person on screen.

Charles Hazlewood and a period instrument orchestra delve deeper into Mozart's music in programmes immediately following BBC Two's Genius of Mozart series.

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in south east Asian food industries.

Paul McKenna teaches you how you can reprogramme your relationship with food.

Regional series that takes families back to places and events of their youth.

The emotional and dramatic lives of elephants in Kenya's Samburu reserve.

Director Gerry Troyna, painting an affectionate portrait of the Indian railway culture.