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- Nigel Havers is usually cast in upper class roles, but his roots turn out to be very different.
- 201048m9.2 (8)TV EpisodeA second generation of British scientists includes the son of a boat builder, a charismatic risk-taker, an unsung botanist pioneer, and the visionary who kick-started the Industrial Revolution by perfecting the steam engine.
- In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's unique talents a star-studded cast performs songs from some of his best-loved shows. Bryn Terfel is the demon barber of Fleet Street and he's joined by Maria Freedman, Simon Russell Beale, Julian Ovenden, Caroline O'Connor, Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell, with a special guest appearance from Dame Judi Dench. David Charles Abell conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, aspiring young performers supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, and a specially formed BBC Proms Sondheim Ensemble.
- Annie Lennox uncovers tangled family relationships blighted by illegitimacy and poverty on her late grandmother's branch of the family.
- Actor Derek Jacobi grew up in Walthamstow, where his parents ran a market stall. But a clue in his mother's family tree hints at a more colourful past - his great-grandmother's name was Salome Laplain. Armed with this tantalising detail, Derek discovers that, far from being from humble roots as he had thought, he is in fact descended from a wealthy French Huguenot fleeing religious persecution in France - who had connections to Protestant royalty on this side of the channel.
- Actor Brian Blessed has always loved his unusual name - but has no idea where his Blessed ancestors came from.
- Scottish comedian Billy Connolly always believed his history to be from Scotland. He travels to India in the path of his ancestors. He makes the discovery that his great-great-great grandfather played an important role in Indian History.
- (1170-1400) - In the Middle Ages, Britain was caught in a power struggle between the Crown and the Church. The two were reconciled in the code of chivalry which ordered devotion to one's king as well as God: a story revealed in the fabulous objects left in Britain's cathedrals and castles, or safeguarded in museums. David Dimbleby also re-assesses the reign of Richard II, arguing that under his rule England experienced a superb cultural renaissance, and travels to Munich in search of Britain's only preserved medieval crown.
- 201048m8.9 (9)TV EpisodeScience came of age by the early 19th century, propelling Britain to the future with communications delivered at the tap of a finger, electrical power and light conjured from trial and error, focused experiments, and just-discovered equations.
- Sarah Millican is astonished to discover that her three times great grandfather was one of the first ever divers in the world.
- From the Henry VIII's accession in 1509 to the last play of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, the Tudors dynasty used reformation, art, seamanship, and propaganda to the most powerful World empire.
- In the 1700's, the age of Commerce produced a new 'middle' class with new ant-puritan pleasure and novelty, a Golden Age in painting, and hero burial of Horatio Nelson, a commoner, at the St Paul's Cathedral.
- Actress Alex Kingston sets out to learn more about her great-grandfather William Keevil, who died during the First World War.
- The American South has given us words like "y'all" and "rednecks" as well as dozens of colorful phrases like "fly off the handle," "having an axe to grind," and "barking up the wrong tree.
- The actress wants to know more about her father's family but has little to go on other than the name of a house in Scotland and involvement with the church. However, she discovers a story of convicts and transportation to Tasmania.
- The time team travel to High Ham in Somerset. Victorian excavations of the area uncovered a series mosaics that indicate a Roman Villa existed on the site. The team begins the job of untangling exactly what was on the site. While there is evidence of the Romans, there are other things that tell a much wider and in some ways sadder story.
- Dan Snow looks at the early pioneering days of the railways, as George Stephenson builds the railway between Liverpool and Manchester across Chat Moss, providing a much-needed goods route between industrial Manchester and the sea.
- Twiggy grew up in a close-knit family in London, but her mother told her almost nothing about her relations, not even her grandmother's name.
- The journalist sets out to discover if there is any truth in the story that his ancestors came to Britain with the Norman invaders. Along the way he uncovers the story of a Tudor ancestor accused of treason.
- Roxburgh was one of Scotland's most prosperous Medieval cities. Then, it simply vanished. Time Team examines the site in an effort to learn of the town and why the city was abandoned.
- (AD 43-1066) - For a thousand years, from Emperor Claudius to William the Conqueror, the British Isles were defined by invasion, each successive wave bringing something new to the mix. The Romans brought figurative art, the Anglo-Saxons epic poetry, the Normans monumental architecture. David Dimbleby travels throughout Britain and beyond - to France, Italy and Turkey - in search of the greatest creations of the age.
- The kingdom of Naples, covering southern Italy, had truly royal gardens. The Bourbon dynasty rivaled Versailles' gardens at Caserta, just before the geometrical fashion ended. Later gardens followed the English style of 'fake nature', only adapted to the Mediterranean climate.
- Tony and the team take a look around a site at Brancaster in Norfolk, which is believed to have been a Roman 'Shore-Fort' in the past.
- Julie follows her roots back to Ireland. On the trail of her great-grandfather Anthony Clarke, Julie's journey takes her to County Mayo where she discovers Anthony was at the centre of a revolutionary movement fighting for land rights.
- The actress grew up in London but knows her father's family originated in Poland and has long suspected that they suffered during the Holocaust. She uncovers a story of separated family members trying to keep one step ahead of the Nazis.
- The writer and actor is well known for his taste for the ghastly and the ghoulish, but even he is surprised to trace his ancestors back to the wilds of Northern Ireland and discover that his family contained vampire slayers.
- The actress uncovers the story of a secret lover, an illegitimate child and a landmark divorce case as she investigates her three-times great grandmother. But the scandal doesn't stop there as she looks into the life of the Delavel family.
- Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean.
- Ian Hislop looks at the effect of the Beeching railway closures of the 1960s and examines whether Beeching and the government ministers made the right decision.
- Documentary tour of medieval England focused on beliefs, especially religious beliefs and how they changed from the year 600 to 1450
- Jonathan's Cave, Sloping Cave and Well Cave at Wemyss have had continuous use since Pictish times. They dig through many layers of occupation. Is there a passageway between Well cave and MacDuff castle above?
- The Alps are known as the majestic mountain range of Europe. But their formation from a collision between Europe and Africa left an unstable structure that is now a classic study in erosion by rivers of water, ice and rock suggesting an even greater former glory. Left unexplained is why the Mediterranean Sea exists between the continents.
- 201158m8.3 (25)TV EpisodeItaly north of Rome, mainly city states and the larger ones' hinterland, like Venice's, has many gardens belonging to country homes of rich patrician or merchant families. An impressive front and vista could impress, more intimate elements like mazes allowed for party and more private fun.
- A special episode studying the effects and aftermath of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, and whether it could happen again.
- 20131h8.3 (15)TV EpisodeWith proper medical research, deadly poisons and venoms can become revolutionary, lifesaving medicines. Mosley examines how scientists have gone from finding antidotes for these poisons to applying them as treatments, in the process turning killers into cures.
- Sheridan is keen to know where her musical talent comes from and is soon, hot on the trail of her great-great-grandfather Benjamin Doubleday.
- A trip from Kingswood Junction on the Grand Union Canal, down the South Stratford Canal on a Kate Boats narrowboat. After arriving in Bancroft Basin in Stratford they took the boat out onto the Avon River and moored near the church.
- Monty Don visits some of the most famous gardens in France. He turns to France's artistic tradition to see what influence it has had on the country's gardens.
- A documentary charting the birth and growth of the Scottish nation.
- A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes from the era, food sourced from the land and the absence of modern conveniences.
- 1994– Not Rated8.2 (13)TV Episode