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Documentary series about women who commit murder.

The HMS Ark Royal carried the Harrier and 3 types of helicopter during its active service, these included the Lynx which is currently the fastest helicopter in the world and the Sea King, equipped with an early warning radar system.

A travel series that sends five ordinary British households to review some of the world’s most popular holiday destinations.

From the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of a thousand years of palace building, the mystery of why so many have vanished and the magic of the ones that survive.

Prostitutes are often seen as either immoral individuals or exploited victims. Rupert Everett uncovers the real story of the sex industry, going behind the stereotypes to hear the unvarnished truth from sex workers and their clients.

Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen.

Liz Bonnin meets the animals using outlandish means to find a mate and raise a family, and reveals the fascinating science that lies behind these animal antics.

The two navigators, Ferdinand Magellan and Sir Francis Drake, shared the same ambition: to circumnavigate the globe by ship, in the service of their countries, Spain and England, which hoped to gain political and economic supremacy from the feat.

From friendships to romance, Judge Geordie will see Vicky Pattison drive around the country solving Britain’s relationship problems.

Eight British teen tearaways are incarcerated in one of America's toughest jails in a bid to divert them from a life of crime.

Car customiser to the stars, Yianni Charalambous is the man the rich and famous trust with their precious rides. With a client list that includes some of the biggest names in the world of sport and entertainment, including Harry Styles, Sergio Aguero and Gordon Ramsay, Yianni is in high demand and making a fortune. However, as this unique UKTV Original series shows, life at the top isn't always straightforward.

Croydon-born cook and food writer Rachel Khoo demonstrates her imaginative flair for the cuisine of Paris. From her tiny Parisian kitchen, Rachel proves that simple cooking can produce sensational results.

Liz Bonnin joins forces with some of the world's top cat experts to conduct a groundbreaking scientific study. With GPS trackers and cat cameras, they follow 100 cats in three different environments.

Beauty and the Beast: Ugly Face of Prejudice is a UK Channel 4 documentary series that investigates the extremes of discrimination against people with facial disfigurement.

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring to life, and - most of the time - do exactly what we want them to. But how on earth do these objects work? To find out, James May (fuelled by endless cups of tea) heads into his workshop with thousands of little pieces to assemble some of our most beloved and recognisable objects from scratch to see what it actually takes to get them to work.

A look inside one of the world’s biggest startup nations - Israel, and Shenzhen, looking at how and why the city has evolved so rapidly.

From the Sky, an ongoing series, presents a bird's eye view of various regions of the world. The sublime images taken from a helicopter provide the viewer with an unusual perspective of landscapes that one only dreams of, with surprising architecture, wilderness and impossibly gigantic cities. On occasion, touching down, we meet with the people who live in some of the most amazing places on earth. From the sky these regions render all their secrets.

Series using the Rank Organisation's "Look at Life" documentary shorts to examine British society during the 1960s.

The inside story of the beloved castle where the Royal Family escape.

Series of documentaries exploring Britain's relationship with fabric, featuring knitting, needlework and wallpaper.

Four modern confectioners recreate the treats of the past, from a Tudor sugar banquet to giant Easter eggs, and discover the roots of our national sweet tooth.

The host Nadiya Hussain prepares various dishes inspired by her family's recipes which can be easily replicated at home.

Four-part series in which Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional view of art's most important epoch - the Renaissance.

Annual Strongman competition featuring 16 giant athletes. Staged over 3 days, it's regarded as the hardest Strongman competition in the world.

Danny Baker uses archive material to look at aspects of British manufacturing.

BBC Young Dancer 2015 is a brand new award for young people that showcases the very best of young British dance talent. Young dancers enter in one of four categories of dance: ballet, contemporary, hip hop and South Asian dance. BBC Young Dancer 2015 culminates in a grand final at Sadler's Wells, when the best dancers in each category will dance against each other for the title.

Self-styled “perfect” couples put their relationships to the test on a romantic getaway in the sun, without realizing that their families are the ones testing them. After two days the family members must come clean and share what they now really think of the couple but not before making them watch back every last embarrassing detail of their holiday romance.

Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world's most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage.

The Real Prime Suspect is a case of life imitating art imitating life. Former Met detective Jackie Malton - the real-life inspiration for DCI Jane Tennison from Prime Suspect - retraces notorious murder cases from the UK and US.

David Dimbleby takes to his wooden sailing boat to explore Britain's rich maritime heritage.

Documentary series following life at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, run by Giles Clark to support big cat conservation.

Nigella Lawson shows us food we can all bring to our own tables, vibrant and varied but always relaxed.

Sir Lenny Henry and his special guests celebrate Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, mixing rarely seen archive clips with some more familiar favourites.

Britain's most visionary chef Heston Blumenthal delivers meticulously tested tips and techniques to help viewers transform their dinners from bog standard to reliably brilliant without even breaking a sweat.

Showcasing some of the best new comedy talent, filmed in the iconic Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House.

Britain's Greatest Bridges visits the country's most historic and iconic bridges, revealing the genius of their designs.

Turner Prize-winning artist and double Bafta Award-winning TV presenter Grayson Perry investigates contemporary masculinity. As a frock-wearing, mountain-biking father of one, he's got a unique perspective on his own tribe. In each episode, Grayson spends time in a different ultra-male world to see what their extreme maleness can tell us about the changing lives and expectations of all men in Britain today, as Grayson reflects on his prejudices, his own masculine identity and his upbringing.

Robson Green explores the extraordinary lives and homes of the people who live on Britain's coastline - from families who are swapping their city homes for a new life by the sea to those who have lived on the coast for generations.

The story of the engineers and mechanics behind some of the largest lifting and moving equipment in the world.

In an exhilarating mix of aviation adventure and historical detective work, presenter James Crawford takes to the skies to explore Scotland's cities, coasts and countryside.

Steve Backshall, wildlife expert, explores the ways animals move.

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the Regency.

Ian Hislop explores the British obsession with the past. He reveals how and why, throughout our history, we have continually plundered 'the olden days' to make sense of and shape the present.

Dr Jago Cooper visits South America to find out the truth behind some of the ancient civilisations that lived there.

Survival with Ray Mears is a 3 part television series hosted by Ray Mears, as he tracks predators in their natural habitats. The series was broadcast by ITV, and was billed as the return of the Survival brand. It was followed by Wild Britain with Ray Mears. Survival consists of three, hour-long, programmes, focusing on Mears' tracking of the world's top predators. He follows the leopard in Namibia, the bear in British Columbia, and the wolf in Central Idaho. An underpinning theme is the threats faced by each species: in Idaho the crew arrives with only days to countdown before the wolf’s status as a protected species is lifted, and local farmers indicate their intention to begin hunting them; in British Columbia the impact of global warming on the salmon population is felt by the bear; and in Namibia the uneasy co-existence between leopards and local farmers is highlighted.

A reality television series which follows Charlotte Crosby as she travels the world and experiences a variety of different cultures.

Rory Stewart examines the writings of Lawrence of Arabia, and learns that the warrior hero himself later questioned the very nature of his intervention in the Middle East.

The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology examining the mysteries within the archives of London based The Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to documenting and researching the esoteric and the weird. New head archivist Jonathan Sims attempts to organize and record a collection of seemingly unconnected statements of mysteries, supernatural and the occult, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work from his dedicated archival team. Individually the statements within the archives are unsettling. Together they begin to form a clear and disturbing picture. As you look deeper in to the archives something stares back.

200 babies are brought together to take part in an ambitious scientific study exploring how the incredible changes that happen in the first two years of life make us who we are.

Desperate Scousewives was a British reality television series based in Liverpool. It premiered on E4 at 10:00pm on 28 November 2011. It ran for eight episodes before it was officially announced that the show had been cancelled due to stagnating ratings and a perceived lack of interest in cast members from viewers.

History series in which Professor Sue Black and her team use forensic science to analyse the skeletons of everyday people from across the ages in staggering detail to shed light on our forebears.

Chase the Case is a strategy gameshow that trades general knowledge for information. Five players begin the game by being given a case containing a secret amount of cash. Players answer questions to win visits to a soundproof secret vault where they can learn information about what's in their opponents' cases. As they are never allowed to see inside their own case, the only way to figure out what they are carrying is by the power of deduction. The audience play along at home as they are privy to all of the intelligence acquired in the vault. In a fast-paced endgame, players attempt to steal each other's cases via tense head-to-head challenges but only the player who gets over the finish line first will get to open the case they are holding and take home the prize.

Discover how and why the world’s most iconic bridges were built.

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.