Moving stories of loss and remembrance, told by the loved ones of those killed in action.
Is a mystery that has bewildered police and investigators for fifty years about to be solved? On a 2012 research trip to Africa, Neil's colleague Glen finds a Lucan. Not the missing Lord, but his younger brother Hugh....
Is a mystery that has bewildered police and investigators for fifty years about to be solved? Neil and Glen's findings are quickly dismissed by the police and a 2018 scientific report, but it is not so easy to throw Neil...
In this first episode, Mary Beard reaches back to the myths and legends of the origins of Rome to gain an insight into the deep-rooted psyche of the people of Rome — a city born through fratricide and rape. But from the...
Is a mystery that has bewildered police and investigators for fifty years about to be solved? On November 7th, 1974, the dead body of a children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was discovered in a mail sack in the basement of a...
Although master builder Haterius constructs the Colosseum where Nero's Golden House once stood, his work is far from over. Rome's new emperor, Domitian, tasks him with adding in a complex network of underground tunnels —...
Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at how every event in ancient Rome revolved around religion. From the foundation myth through to the deification of emperors, nothing could happen without calling upon the pantheon of Roman...
Hollywood actor David Harewood travels back to his native Birmingham to look at his city's Blitz story. During the war, Birmingham's factories were crucial to war production, and although the city was heavily bombed,...
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...
The story of the Christmas truce On Christmas Eve 1914 on the Western Front, British and German soldiers sang carols to each other across a frosty, moonlit No Man's Land. The next morning, on Christmas Day, hundreds of...
We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome — a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the west for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of...
