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- Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.
- After following in the footsteps of the brave World War II pilots of 'Fighter Command', Guy Martin now focuses on 'Bomber Command'. In this programme, Guy honors the Lancaster bomber crews of World War II, as he tries out several on-board roles from pilot to gunner and 'bomb aimer'. From previously experiencing life as a solo airman, will he have what it takes this time to be a crew member in the action of Bomber Command?
- Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London's history, this documentary reveals the shocking events that unfolded during the fateful Thames Flood of 1928.
- The tale of Britain's hardest working entertainer who is still touring and playing to packed houses in the year he turns 90. Featuring live performances, interviews and contributions from friends and family.
- Investigating the history and modern face of Holocaust denial.
- From shell shock in WWI to PTSD today many of those who made it home from war were left mentally scarred and traumatised. Historian Dan Snow explores the on-going mental health crisis in veterans.
- Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Stanley Abbs, to explore a brutal but often overlooked chapter of World War Two.
- Retrospective documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the funeral of Princess Diana narrated by Kate Winslet.
- In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up the wall - jargon.
- A 60 minute documentary about the British contribution to the original 'Star Wars' movie. Presenter, David Whiteley, tracks down the often-modest British talent who brought the galaxy to life.
- Documentary comparing the lives of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, neither of whom was expected to become queen, shown on the occasion when the length of Queen Elizabeth's reign exceeded that of Queen Victoria's, making her Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
- It's the bloody coronation of the Queen!!!
- The story behind one of the best loved British sitcoms ever made, from humble beginnings to smash hit. This show celebrates all of Dad's Army's iconic catchphrases, the hilarious stunts, and goes behind the scenes to discover what happened when the cameras stopped rolling. Former cast member Ian Lavender reflects on the show, and there are also contributions from Jonathan Ross, John Thomson, Al Murray, Eamonn Holmes, Kelly Holmes and many others.
- Gregg Wallace visits a boot factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Dr. Martens, while Cherry Healey gets to grips with the machines that make shoelaces.
- The royal family excels is representative functions, scrupulously maintaining protocol at an official level while using small talk to help ordinary people overcome it on most of their about 2400 official functions a year. Under the Windsor dynasty, commoners even came to be invited at the royal garden parties at Buckingham palace, while ceremonies like the Order of the Garter's maintain a dignified, almost sacred air of tradition, even if that is sometimes fairly new or drastically modernized. Royal visits can play a major part in diplomacy, amicable or formal, even with hateful regimes, as well as in keeping the Commonwealth together and the Windsors on their many thrones throughout the world. Still Blair's government decommissioned the royal yacht Britannia, the monarch's preferred mode of transport.
- The height of the reign was the coronation, 16 months after the succession, followed by years of high popularity and a blindly patriotic, enthusiastic press. The relationship with the media kept intensifying, including the introduction of annual Christmas messages on BBC radio and TV. Princess of Wales Lady Di overtook center stage in her modern style. The role of the other royals, who learn on the job, varied over the years, but overall monarchy remains popular enough to survive in most realms. Crucial in international relations is the undefined position of head of the Commonwealth, not guaranteed to future sovereigns.
- Three houses are reconstructed to the way they would have been in the early 1900s. House #1 is a four story home at the height of upper class luxury with five servants, electricity, and a boiler for hot water. House #2 is an average middle class home with 7 rooms and running water but no electricity. The last is a two room "typical working class dwelling" with only one bedroom and no bathroom where each member of the family must work manual labor all day. Three modern day families each live in one for a week, determined by the status of their own Edwardian ancestors.
- Three modern day families live in the interwar era for a week. They must deal with only 1920-30s domestic technology and live within the means available of their assigned class. They live through the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression.
- Three modern day families live during World War II for a week. They must deal with only 1940s domestic technology and live within the means available of their assigned class. They live through the constraints of wartime on the home front.
- At the rare occasion of a monarch's diamond (60 years reign) jubilee, Andrew Marr examines the nature and practice of the British monarchy, notably during that period. George V 'nationalised' the ruling branch of the German Saxe-Coburg dynasty as the nationalistic House of Windsor, to refute German sympathy allegations in World War I. Edward VIII's abdication over the US divorcée Simpson traumatized the royalist camp. George VI designed modern constitutional monarchy, aiming for 'mystical' popularity, a model elaborated on in the present reign. Political influence consists mainly in weekly audiences for the PM and numerous visits to and from foreign statesmen. Reading piles of red boxes is the daily price, travelling within and beyond the Commonwealth as well as touring the country - a never-ending life's work for the whole royal family.
- Three houses are reconstructed to the way they would have been during the 1970s. House #1 has been carved into flats with one family's single mother being the upstairs landlady and another single mom living downstairs in a tight space with minimal luxuries. House #2 is an average middle class home with a video player, a chest freezer, and duvets on their beds. House #3 is a working class home with furry wallpaper. Four modern day families each live in one for a week, determined by the status of their own 1970s ancestors. The adults relive their childhoods but, this time, as the parents. They live through a time of political unrest, work strikes, power cuts, the three day week, a water shortage, women's lib, the Winter of Discontent, and Tupperware parties. All the mothers work (a café waitress, a district nurse, a lollipop lady, and a landlady). All the children go to school except one 18-year-old, who is a teaching assistant. The two fathers see themselves doing most of the housework and cooking.
- 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 construction of the Rion-Antirion Bridge across the Gulf of Corinth in Greece is featured.
- Construction of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship in the history of the British Royal Navy, is chronicled; also featured are the US-made F-35b fighter jets that will be stationed aboard her.
- The journalist and TV presenter travels to India to investigate the story of the maternal grandfather she never met. Her family have told her that he suffered a great tragedy at the time of the Partition of India.
- Andrew discusses the major conventions of the spy novel, looking at the development of the genre through a series of authors, many of whom are mysterious characters in their own right.
- 2002–20178.4 (5)TV EpisodeA look at how the introduction of the penny post changed Britain, and how enthusiasm for the first stamps led to the emergence of stamp-collecting as a popular hobby.
- The series opens by charting the beginnings of SOE. The students face the Student Assessment Board - an intense 4-day course to discover who has the raw talent to progress to the full training.
- The students training begins as they learn how to use guns, explosives and silent killing techniques. We learn how these skills all came together and helped SOE pull off one of the most audacious assassinations of WWII.
- The students go to the remote Scottish Highlands where they learn the survival skills required for life in the field. They are schooled in some of the same techniques which prepared a group of agents to halt Hitler's atomic ambitions.
- The students attend the SOE "finishing school" where they will learn the skills needed to operate undercover inside enemy territory such as lock-picking and sending coded messages. They then face a mock interrogation.
- As the immersive history series draws to a close, eight of the original students have fallen by the wayside. The six remaining survivors undertake a 24 hour practice mission that will test the skills they have learned.
- In a special edition of the show, screened as part of the BBC's Hear Her Season, actress Michelle Keegan discovers her link to Gibraltar and connections to Italy and the Suffragettes.
- Draining the North Sea helps solve whether Germany or Britain won the Battle of Jutland when their most devastating warships clashed in WWI. Also the wrecks at the bottom of the Scapa Flow are uncovered.
- Explores the lives of Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward, the first generation of royals to grow up as celebrities. Attempts to embrace the modern world instead eroded reputations and spoiled the fairy-tale.
- Jeremy looks at how money issues, broken relationships and the tragedy of Diana's death led to Charles proposing a plan for the monarchy to become a family more easy for the public to relate to.