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- In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
- Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
- Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationships with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England.
- Lesley Whittle was just 17 when she was snatched by Donald Neilson - the Black Panther.
- Documentary telling the story of the 1951 Festival of Britain, which in a period of austerity showed how to carve out a bright new future through design and ingenuity.
- Inspired by Shakespeare's curse 'I am sick when I do look on thee.' A homage to those who came before us, and to the Pakistani diaspora who remain resilient in the face of adversity and prejudice in 'Great' Britain.
- A compilation of archive amateur and broadcast film showing many aspects of life in the Yorkshire Dales.
- Clive Backhouse periodically revisits one building over a time span of 50 years. A comfort blanket woven with childhood memories that is his reset, his emotional anchor, his constant that reflects the changing demographics of his area and a time when he was happy.
- One film in a four-part, cyclical narrative. These films are made entirely from amateur archive footage which was licensed for use by the Producers: Yorkshire Film Archive (England)
- Lucy Beaumont presents this documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the triple trawler tragedy of 1968 and the protest by trawler-men's wives against the dangerous working conditions.
- Using speeded-up filming, this film shows a businessman making the train journey from Leeds Central to Bradford Exchange, which normally takes around 20 minutes, in a mere 5 minutes. He arrives looking rather flushed and out-of-breath.
- Part of the Yorkshire Media Consortium Project, this film focuses on the lives of four women connected by the fact that they were travelling through Bradford Interchange at the same time.
- Dave Woods looks back at the memorable 1968 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium between Wakefield Trinity and Leeds when the appalling weather led to one of the most dramatic finales in British sporting history.
- Professor Joanna Bourke charts how, over the past five centuries, dentistry has been transformed from a backstreet horror show into a gleaming modern science.
- Documentary examining how Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain's coal miners in the 1984 miners' strike and in doing so changed the face of Britain forever.
- Explore the mind of Andy Kirkpatrick, a world-class climber living a life of conflicting desires and identities. We follow Andy on an 18-day, solo ascent of El Capitan, California, where life on the wall is precarious, tough and "crushingly lonely".
- In a cook off at the KitKat factory, two top chefs compete to make the perfect replica of the chocolate-covered wafer bar, before being judged by the workers and bosses behind the real thing.
- Carina from Bristol discovers that there is a hole in her plan to make a chocolate balloon. Meanwhile, Karl hopes to win over the judges with his Angel of the North.
- Challenged to produce chocolates based on their favourite desserts, two contestants choose tiramisu as their inspiration. The Bikers visit the Quality Street production line.
- The hopefuls go supersize and bite-size in two exciting rounds. New-fangled chocolate toys lead to meltdowns, before the contestants try to wow with a grab-bag of morsels, from boozy bubbles to amaretto waves.
- The semi-final sees the contestants creating Easter eggs chock-full of treats. However, they quickly find themselves treading on eggshells as they try to meld two fragile white chocolate hemispheres together.
- Staff in Sunderland prepare for the arrival of 50,000 Spice Girls fans for a concert at the Stadium of Light. But there is a potential fault with an overhead line and a set of fans have lost their tickets for the concert of a lifetime.
- Tens of thousands of Newcastle United fans use the network to get to the opening game of the season and express their displeasure at the club's owner. A guide horse undergoes training on the Metro.
- The Metro System's ageing fleet comes under pressure when a train breaks down in a tunnel near the Metro's busiest station. Track inspection supervisor Wayne has his work cut out repairing decaying sleepers.
- It's the Metro's busiest and most colourful day of the year - the Great North Run. This year, a new station in South Shields will be put to the test. One regular runner prepares to run the course in tribute to a friend.
- David uncovers the story of the next resident of the house, a ruthless factory owner. He learns of a pacifist couple who took a stand against the Boer War and of Edward Partridge Fearnley, who worked on luxury ships in the 1920s.
- David follows the trails of a traumatised soldier on the run, a family man who is at breaking point and a married couple with a shared interest in the spiritual movement of theosophy, one of whom developed an interest in the paranormal.
- WWII puts residents of Number 5 in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past. The post-war period sees No. 5 home to a film critic and his wife. There is a return for students who lived here at the Millennium.
- Did Harold Shipman begin killing patients when he was working as a junior doctor in Pontefract? Did preconceptions about the elderly victims allow him to to get away with murdering hundreds of people, in plain sight, for nearly 30 years?
- 2017– 59m6.8 (9)TV EpisodeMonica and Giles visit the Swinton Estate in the Yorkshire Dales. They explore the ancestral home of Lord and Lady Masham as well as the wider estate. The challenges of making history pay in the modern world are revealed.
- Derek heads to Suffolk to collect two Bentleys with a majestic pedigree; Cynthia a stunning 1963 S3 and Harry, a 1965 Continental.
- Michael finds out about shoddy: a successful 19th century recycling industry in the textile town of Batley.
- This week Michael Portillo follows some of the earliest railways in the UK, from Newcastle to Melton Mowbray. First, Michael takes a Turkish bath in the famous spa town of Harrogate.
- Sir Patrick Stewart meets 50s racing legend Sir Stirling Moss and tells us why he thinks he is a national treasure.
- On the last leg of his journey from a notorious slum in Manchester to the grandeur of a ducal seat in Derbyshire, Michael tunes into the music of the mills and collieries of Victorian England.
- Michael begins this leg of his journey in the Worth Valley in Yorkshire at the home of the three Bronte sisters, who were early investors in the railway.
- Prunella and Tim travel the Rochdale canal, past once mighty mills, the epic beauty of the Pennines and the longest and highest canal tunnel in Britain.
- Steered by his Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo continues his journey from the heart of the East Midlands to Northumberland's Holy Island. He begins in Hessle, on the north bank of the River Humber, in the shadow of the magnificent Humber Bridge, where he learns about the technology that made it possible. In Kingston upon Hull, Michael meets his friend and sparring partner, local MP Alan Johnson, who tells him about another famous son of his city, William Wilberforce. In Scarborough, Michael's handbook directs him to the castle, where the founder of the Quaker movement was once imprisoned. His last stop of the day is York, where Michael learns what made the ancient capital a centre for the sweet-making industry.
- The Humber Bridge was, at the time of completion, the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world. Rob discovers the secrets of its construction, why it took so long to build and the effect it had on the people of Hull and Grimsby.