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- Tracing the rise of camping in the UK from its middle class "escape to the country" roots to the present trend of festival and family holiday camping.
- Tony Robinson walks our oldest roads to find the truth behind the megaliths, burial sites, ley lines and hidden caves along their path, and connect the clues they have left hidden in the British landscape.
- Tony hikes across Dartmoor in the footsteps of Britain's greatest detective, plunges into a reputedly bottomless lake and comes face-to-face with a four-legged beast.
- Tony follows the Roman road of Dere Street north through Hadrian's Wall, contemplates the ancient night sky, braves the roar of a Celtic horn, mixes medieval potions and encounters ancient invaders.
- William Crawley embarks on a compelling personal challenge as he looks at the nation's relationship with 'our drug of choice' - alcohol.
- How the flair and artistry of players like George Best and Kenny Dalglish inspired the biggest football clubs in England
- Gloria Hunniford looks back at her extraordinary career and reveals what it has been like to be woman, mother and grandmother on television and radio for more than half a century.
- How managers and players such as David Moyes and Charlie Nicholas dealt with the highs and lows of English football.
- How midfielders like Graeme Souness and Martin O'Neill brought their grit, muscle and passion to the English game.
- Powerful documentary which revisits the Heysel Stadium disaster of May 1985, when 39 fans were crushed to death before the European Cup Final between Liverpool FC and Juventus.
- For over fifty years, Richard Hayward was at the centre of cultural life in Northern Ireland. Yet after his death in a car crash in 1964, his name and achievements faded from view. Actor Dan Gordon sets out to rediscover Hayward's extraordinary life and career and find out why we know so little about him today.
- Dan Gordon returns to his native east Belfast to explore the work of four writers with strong connections to this part of the city. In doing so he considers how these writers - St John Ervine, Thomas Carnduff, Sam Thompson and Stewart Parker - explored the experiences of Belfast's working class communities and brought their voices to a wider audience.
- Presenter William Crawley explores the role and relevance of religion in modern day Northern Ireland.
- In 1967, four unknown actors in a kids TV show became the biggest pop band in the world. In America, they outsold Elvis and The Beatles combined. They were The Monkees. But The Monkees were not a real band, they were a man-made money making machine, driven by ego and ambition. A machine that would ultimately crash and burn. This is the inside story of pop music's first manufactured band.
- Seventy-five years of life in Northern Ireland, recorded by the people who live there, is chronicled in a new landmark television series. Never before broadcast, footage of life in Northern Ireland shot through the eyes of local people and the lens of a home movie camera. The series has condensed hundreds of hours of home movie footage shot by local people to form the "people's archive" of life in Northern Ireland through the decades. Super 8 Stories, produced by Double-Band Films, will feature people at work, sporting moments and historical events coupled with the musical classics from each era. Footage spanning much of the 20th century has been donated by people from Craigavon to Coleraine, from Beleek to Ballymena and is certain to provoke nostalgic memories of bygone times. The home movies will show personal and intimate footage capturing people relaxing on holiday in Fermanagh, enjoying the show band heydays of the Sixties, electric trams ruling the streets of Belfast and the start of the Troubles.
- Behind-the-scenes documentary following rookie actor Patrick Kielty in a new production of Marie Jones' controversial play, A Night in November.
- When Queen Victoria's grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, was born with a paralyzed arm, it led to a story of child cruelty, secret shame and incestuous desire.
- Documentary about the thousands of children evacuated from Belfast during the Second World War.
- Newton Emerson takes a celebratory yet irreverent look at Craigavon.
- Described as a photographic discovery of the century, this documentary uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney.
- Tony uncovers a prehistoric shark tooth, shines a light in an abandoned railway tunnel and discovers DH Lawrence's mountain retreat in the Peak District.
- Alvin Jackson tells the stories of the six prime ministers who presided over the Stormont government from 1921 to 1972, and reveals how they shaped the history of Northern Ireland.
- In September 1912 half a million men and women signed the Ulster Covenant. Some, it was said, even signed in their own blood. To mark its centenary, William Crawley explores the story behind this extraordinary event.
- Former Royal Marines commando Arthur Williams embarks on a journey to explore the experiences of nearly two million British soldiers who suffered life-changing injuries and disabilities during the First World War.
- Powerful documentary recounting the untold stories of men from Northern Ireland who fought in Normandy on 6th June 1944. Featuring rare archive footage and eye-witness interviews.