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The 2022 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts took place between 22 and 26 June. The three headlining acts were Billie Eilish, ...

The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues ...

Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and ...

It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life’s hold on Earth has been so precarious ...

Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare’s plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to ...

Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes ...

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

Groundbreaking series in which Michael Wood tells the story of one place throughout the whole of English history. The village is Kibworth in ...

The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which ...

Series in which three Australian brothers – Danny, Ben and Sam Wood – set out cycling on the trail of Hannibal, the warrior who ...

Julia Bradbury sets out on four walks that explore South Africa’s claim to be ‘a world in one country’, going far beyond the ...

Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. ...

A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.

Julia Bradbury takes her boots and backpack to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous ...

Birds Britannia is a four-part BBC Four television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen ...

For more than 2,000 years, a mathematical riddle has baffled the world’s greatest minds. It’s a problem of such difficulty that it has tormented ...

Legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s first female pharaoh, sent ships to the land of Punt. Cheryl Ward sets out to recreate the ...

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer’s glory days and beyond.

Take a gentle walk as familiar faces explore landscapes in Yorkshire and Cumbria in this series of immersive and intimate documentaries.