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Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces.

A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the ...

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry ...

Budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash.

Later… with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where ...

Tracing the giant river from its origins, high in the Andes, to its end, where it meets the sea on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, Parry stays ...

The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

Keith Barret, a taxi driver, is estranged from his wife, Marion, and children, Rhys and Alun. Although it’s clear the separation is having ...

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors ...

Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank is a BBC Television documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank explores the mysteries of Ancient Egypt.

Academic quiz show where teams of students from UK universities answer questions on all manner of subjects.

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.

Britain’s top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.

Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter ...

The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.

Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets regularly with wealthy businessman Leonard to relieve ...

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you’ve never seen before.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and ...

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are ‘quite interesting’.

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what’s being going on around the world that week. The guests poke ...

The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, ...

A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.

Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, ...

This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers’ claims. The ...