Moving stories of loss and remembrance, told by the loved ones of those killed in action.
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...
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,...
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 —...
A documentary about Thomas Hardy's Dorset with Sir Michael Hordern.
John Humphrys returns to South Wales to discover more about the devastating Nazi bombing campaign and how it affected those who experienced it. He sees the reconnaissance maps the Germans used to identify key bombing...
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...
In AD80, the Colosseum opens. Emperor Titus plans 100 days of games to commemorate.
