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  • 2015
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    The Joy of Mozart

    The Joy of Mozart

    1 2015 HD

    Tom Service delves into the life and times of Mozart to try and rediscover his greatness.

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  • 2018
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    The Old Grey Whistle Test: Live for One Night Only

    The Old Grey Whistle Test: Live for One Night Only

    1 2018 HD

    Hosted by Bob Harris, this live studio show features music, special guests and rare archive to mark 30 years since the legendary series was last...

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  • 2013
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    Dusty Springfield at the BBC

    Dusty Springfield at the BBC

    6.00 2013 HD

    A selection of Dusty Springfield's performances at the BBC from 1961 to 1995, from her folk beginnings with The Springfields through to her...

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  • 2016
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    EMI: The Inside Story

    EMI: The Inside Story

    7.00 2016 HD

    One record company has been a constant presence in popular music throughout our lives. EMI brought The Beatles to the world and in every decade...

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  • 2007
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    Yusuf Islam: BBC Four Sessions

    Yusuf Islam: BBC Four Sessions

    8.20 2007 HD

    The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens gives his first full concert in nearly three decades, in an exclusive BBC performance at the Porchester...

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  • 2018
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    A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WW1

    A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WW1

    1 2018 HD

    Thousands of black soldiers fought in the First World War. Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of one of them - Arthur Roberts. Arthur grew up in Glasgow...

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  • 2004
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    Lightning: Nature Strikes Back

    Lightning: Nature Strikes Back

    1 2004 HD

    It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant. It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds. And it may even have...

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  • 2001
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    Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story

    Free Will And Testament: The Robert Wyatt Story

    1 2001 HD

    Robert Wyatt is one of the best-kept secrets of contemporary British music. Drummer and vocalist in Soft Machine which played with Hendrix and Pink...

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  • 2003
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    Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

    Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

    1 2003 HD

    Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to...

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  • 2011
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    Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    6.00 2011 HD

    Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous East Window at York Minster...

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  • 2010
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    The Man with the Golden Gavel

    The Man with the Golden Gavel

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary about Swiss aristocrat and art entrepreneur Simon de Pury

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  • 2024
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    Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

    Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings

    1 2024 HD

    Anita Brookner, art historian, TV presenter and author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac, added to her accomplishments in the 1980s by sharing...

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  • 2018
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    Captain Jack and the Furious Few

    Captain Jack and the Furious Few

    1 2018 HD

    The remarkable story of a pioneering aviator from Ulster during World War I.

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  • 2017
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    Marc Bolan: Cosmic Dancer

    Marc Bolan: Cosmic Dancer

    1 2017 HD

    This intimate biography, narrated in Marc Bolan's own words, traces his remarkable journey from Hackney's 'king of the mods' to Tyrannosaurus Rex, as...

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  • 2018
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    Beats, Bass and Bars: The Story of Grime

    Beats, Bass and Bars: The Story of Grime

    1 2018 HD

    British rapper Rodney P tells the story of how grime rose from the council estates of east London to become the most important British musical...

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  • 2011
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    Pink Floyd: Miscellany 1967-2005

    Pink Floyd: Miscellany 1967-2005

    1 2011 HD

    This one-hour compilation, beginning with the Arnold Layne promo from 1967 and culminating with the reunited band's performance at Live 8 in 2005, of...

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  • 2011
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    Birth of the British Novel

    Birth of the British Novel

    1 2011 HD

    Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all...

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  • 2011
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    Reggae Concert from the Edinburgh Festival

    Reggae Concert from the Edinburgh Festival

    1 2011 HD

    Live performance specially recorded for Whistle Test from the Reggae Concert at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973, featuring The Cimarons, Winston...

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  • 2018
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    All Aboard! The Great Reindeer Migration

    All Aboard! The Great Reindeer Migration

    1 2018 HD

    A BBC Four Slow Christmas treat follows Norway’s Sami reindeer herds as they migrate across the mountainous region of Finnmark, far north of...

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  • 2013
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    House of Surrogates

    House of Surrogates

    1 2013 HD

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