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- Each week four contestants come together as a team to recreate a historical battle via computer simulator. With two of the group playing generals with an overview of the battlefield, the other two play Lieutenants who are more in touch with the progress of the battle. When they lose or win, two military historians take them through on the simulator what actually happened in the real battle.
- This movie is a BBC Four television dramatization of the events of the Wolfenden committee, whose report led to the decriminalization of homosexuality in Britain. Set in the 1950s, this movie depicts social attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain at that time, largely focusing on the committee's chair, Jack Wolfenden (Charles Dance), and his own homosexual son Jeremy (Sean Biggerstaff).
- 70 years after the historic struggle, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battle of Britain, when 'the few' of the RAF faced the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe.
- The world's greatest paintings - and the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets the underworld.
- An enchanting, fantasy-filled property series where Alan snoops around incredible homes around the world. Fuelled by his secret passion for architecture and interior design, he discovers what really makes a home, paradise.
- Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the truth behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two priceless paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a brutal and audacious robbery.
- A group of twenty-first-century crafters move in to a late-1800s Victorian Arts and Crafts commune in the Welsh hills to renovate four of the key rooms in the house. Presented by Anita Rani.
- Literary discussion series, hosted from a different venue each week.
- TV SeriesClare Balding sets out on six cycle rides across Britain, following in the tracks of the cyclist and author, Harold Briercliffe, to see if the world he described in his 1940s guidebooks still exists.
- 2003–20056.6 (17)TV EpisodeNo one could have dreamed or anticipated the seismic shocks America suffered in the 20th century with the assassination of its youngest-ever leader and the disgrace and expulsion of its most successful election winner
- Following the embarrassment caused by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Japanese devised a climactic battle over the island of Midway intended to finish U.S. naval power in the Pacific. On June 4th 1942 three aircraft carriers of the United States and and four of Japan fought a battle that changed the course of World War II.
- Eleven contestants compete across a range of five fun games, the player who finishes in first place and last place in each game is eliminated until just three of them contest the endgame for a cash prize.
- Celebrated actress and Charles Dickens expert Miriam Margolyes boards the RMS Queen Mary 2 as she prepares to follow Dickens' path as he journeyed to the United States of America in 1842.
- The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
- Miriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night patrol with officers of the NYPD. She also visits Roosevelt Island, makes an unexpected discovery at the New York Public Library and is incarcerated in the notorious "Tombs" prison.
- In Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wrote about, a Dickens Society, a Dickens Drinking Club, his pet raven stuffed and mounted in the local library - and the only life-size statue of Dickens in the world.
- Miriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva", according to Charles Dickens. There's also a tour of Virginia's tobacco factories.
- Miriam Margolyes follows Dickens's trail inland 1,000 miles along the course of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky, in the company of cowboys. Along the way she is taught how to improve her manners by an American etiquette instructor and attends the Kentucky derby.
- Having sailed down the Ohio River on a Mississippi steamboat, Miriam Margolyes arrives in St Louis. She attempts to teach at a high school, visits the inspiration for Martin Chuzzlewit and meets the United Houma Indian Nation on a sacred burial ground.
- Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took to be a 19th-century lady's maid. Plus a visit to Niagara Falls.
- Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker community of Mount Lebanon and the army cadets of West Point Military Academy.
- Alan Cumming meets people who have taken on the challenge of building their dream home. Alan meets a Norfolk family who have created their own serene paradise home. He then visits a magical woodland playground in the Canadian wilderness.
- Alan visits a farmhouse-converted mini chateau hidden in the French countryside. Then, he meets a family who have created a naturalistic home on a Swedish island.
- Alan returns to his roots in the Scottish Highlands to visit a hidden getaway complete with 360-degree views and golden eagles circling the property.
- Alan treks up the scenic hills of Liguria to an elegant subterranean villa and explores a sleek Irish barn house uniquely combining both modern and traditional styles.
- Alan escapes to a waterside fantasy retreat, a sun-soaked property with endless skylights, and a tranquil floating villa designed for relaxation.
- A team of wrestlers and board game enthusiasts re-fight the battle of Zama in 202 BC between the Romans and Hannibal's Carthage.
- Anita Rani is joined by internationally renowned potter Keith Brymer Jones and arts and crafts expert and dealer Patch Rodgers as the six crafters are faced with the challenge of breathing life back into the Victorian parlour.
- This week the crafters are returning to nature as they not only restore the master bedroom to all its Arts and Crafts glory - but also take part in some fresh water swimming and an authentic Victorian picnic.
- This week the crafters tackle the massive dining room creating decorative plates with a tricky glaze, a set of curtains and a pair of fire dogs for the hearth. They also perform a nursery rhyme.
- The crafters are set their toughest test yet, Concentrating on the communal areas of the house they have to craft a metal weather vane, a decorative mirror, a pergola and write, publish and print a magazine.