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  • 2006
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    Rich Hall's Cattle Drive

    Rich Hall's Cattle Drive

    6.00 2006 HD

    Rich Hall's Cattle Drive is a television sitcom starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. It was broadcast in 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC Four, and...

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  • 2007
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    Comics Britannia

    Comics Britannia

    1 2007 HD

    Comics Britannia is a three-part documentary series from BBC Four which started on 10 September 2007. It was then repeated on BBC Two starting on 19...

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  • 2014
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    Treasures of Ancient Egypt

    Treasures of Ancient Egypt

    7.50 2014 HD

    Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.

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  • 2008
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    Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

    Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

    10.00 2008 HD

    From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of...

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  • 2012
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    Punk Britannia

    Punk Britannia

    7.50 2012 HD

    A brand new take on the most transformative force in British popular music history.

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  • 2021
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    Winter Walks

    Winter Walks

    7.50 2021 HD

    Take a gentle walk as familiar faces explore landscapes in Yorkshire and Cumbria in this series of immersive and intimate documentaries.

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  • 2017
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    The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

    The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

    1 2017 HD

    The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco...

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  • 2010
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    On Hannibal's Trail

    On Hannibal's Trail

    1 2010 HD

    Series in which three Australian brothers - Danny, Ben and Sam Wood - set out cycling on the trail of Hannibal, the warrior who marched from Spain to...

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  • 2009
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    Wainwright Walks: Coast To Coast

    Wainwright Walks: Coast To Coast

    1 2009 HD

    Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the...

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  • 2008
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    Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury

    Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury

    7.00 2008 HD

    Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire.

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  • 2018
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    From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature

    From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature

    7.00 2018 HD

    Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of...

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  • 2018
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    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths

    7.50 2018 HD

    Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of...

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  • 2013
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    Hidden Killers

    Hidden Killers

    1 2013 HD

    Suzannah Lipscomb reveals the killers that lurked in every room of the home.

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  • 2012
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    Metalworks!

    Metalworks!

    6.00 2012 HD

    Series looking at aspects of British metalworking over the centuries, including the art of the silversmith, the history of armour and the work of the...

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  • 2013
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    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    8.00 2013 HD

    In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the...

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  • 2014
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    The Wonder of Animals

    The Wonder of Animals

    8.00 2014 HD

    Chris Packham uses groundbreaking science and brand-new behaviour to delve deep beneath the skin and discover the unique features that have made...

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  • 2016
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    Genius of the Modern World

    Genius of the Modern World

    7.60 2016 HD

    Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund...

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  • 2004
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    Light Fantastic

    Light Fantastic

    1 2004 HD

    Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four. The...

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  • 2017
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    Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand

    Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand

    1 2017 HD

    Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series on musical theatre evolution over the last century.

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  • 2010
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    Beautiful Minds

    Beautiful Minds

    1 2010 HD

    Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or...

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