A documentary about Thomas Hardy's Dorset with Sir Michael Hordern.
It's 1940, and in London, the threat of invasion by Germany has become very real. Montagu Mansions resident Timothy Corsellis begins training as an RAF pilot, but begins to regret his decision when facing the prospect of...
By 1936, the ruling Nazi Party is transforming the lives of the residents at the building in Berlin. One new resident, academic Paul Dittel, has returned to Germany to join the SS, the elite political soldiers of the...
Dan Cruickshank explores the mysteries and secrets of the bridges that have made London what it is. He uncovers stories of Bronze-Age relics emerging from the Vauxhall shore, of why London Bridge was falling down, of...
Liverpool's docks were a primary German target in the Blitz. Liverpool actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was born in 1939, goes up in a plane to look at the effect it had on his home city. In an emotional journey, he talks to...
In the medieval and Tudor world there was no question in people's minds about the order of God's creation — men ruled and women didn't. A king was a warrior who literally fought to win power then battled to keep it. Yet...
Is a mystery that has bewildered police and investigators for 50 years about to be solved? On 7 November 1974, the dead body of a children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was discovered in a mail sack in the basement of a...
