New research in India suggests heat can double the risk of stillbirth and miscarriage.
At the end of the 1970s, the founding principles of disco — queerness, diversity and feminism — were coming under increasing attack from a predominantly white, straight, rock-loving audience. By the summer of 1978, disco...
In the final episode, Sian's investigation into the reports of mass UFO sightings that began in a playground in west Wales draws her into unsettling questions around secret military testing, evidence of a craft that...
Facing deportation to the UK, it seems inevitable that Elliot will fall into the hands of British cops who have put together an extensive case of his crimes. Once again, though, he has other ideas. After four years of...
Michael Portillo hits the West End to explore an exotic store, which was a favourite among Edwardian ladies. At Covent Garden's Royal Ballet School he hears how in 1909 a Russian ballet company took London by storm and...
Michael Portillo's postwar exploration of Merseyside to Teesside finds him in York, a paradise for rail enthusiasts. In the company of some of the most famous locomotives ever built, he recalls the controversy...
Steered by his Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo is on the last leg of his journey from Warwick to Rye in East Sussex. In the orchards of East Malling, Kent, Michael discovers that the Edwardians' serious attitude...
Sian is midway into her investigation, and with corroborating eyewitness accounts of cigar-shaped crafts building and now strange orbs of light in the sky that left people terrified, she's desperate for logical...
A cautionary tale about one of the UK's most notorious credit card fraudsters, whose five-year crime wave began at just 16 years of age. While his contemporaries were using fake IDs to get into nightclubs, he was...
The arrested activists arrive in Murmansk prison, having been sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention. They describe the threatening, degrading experience of the incarceration. A global campaign is launched from...
In a rare television interview, Doris Day looks back over her successful acting and singing career, and recalls happy memories of working with Rock Hudson, James Cagney, Clark Gable and James Garner.
This is the story of the Indian subcontinent told through the treasures of three very different people, places and dynasties that have shaped the modern Indian world. The Mughals created the most famous and dazzling...