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  • 2014
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    TB: Return of the Plague

    TB: Return of the Plague

    4.00 2014 HD

    TB is the most deadly infectious disease in history - it has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years. Multi-BAFTA winning film-maker,...

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  • 2018
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    Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History

    Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History

    1 2018 HD

    Documentary exploring the music of rock band Roxy Music, who have a good claim to be one of the UK's most influential bands. Led by charismatic front...

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  • 2019
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    A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China

    A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China

    7.00 2019 HD

    A spectacular aerial journey following the world’s longest monument, the Great Wall. In slow-TV style, fly 2,500 kilometres along the wall,...

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  • 2023
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    8.00 2023 HD

    The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller.

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  • 2011
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    The Pendle Witch Child

    The Pendle Witch Child

    8.00 2011 HD

    The extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device,...

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  • 2007
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    Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

    Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

    8.00 2007 HD

    Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885,...

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  • 2020
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    L'énigme quantique d'Einstein

    L'énigme quantique d'Einstein

    7.00 2020 HD

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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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  • 2014
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    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On

    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On

    1 2014 HD

    More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On features previously banned songs by the BBC including "Lola" by the Kinks, "Jackie" by Scott Walker...

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  • 2011
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    John Steinbeck: Voice of America

    John Steinbeck: Voice of America

    1 2011 HD

    Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

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  • 1971
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    BBC In Concert: Neil Diamond

    BBC In Concert: Neil Diamond

    7.00 1971 HD

    Songsmith Neil Diamond performs live with strings and horns laid on by the BBC, including hits such as Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, Cracklin' Rosie...

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  • 2019
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    Anni Albers: A Life in Thread

    Anni Albers: A Life in Thread

    1 2019 HD

    How Walter Gropius's decision to relegate Anni Albers to the weaving class of the Bauhaus created the greatest textiles artist the world has ever...

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  • 2011
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    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

    The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse

    5.80 2011 HD

    The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private archive of films, TV shows, letters and...

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  • 2013
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    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

    1 2013 HD

    Big Bill Broonzy would inspire a generation of musicians, yet he was not the man they believed him to be. This first, very intimate, biography of the...

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  • 2014
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    Martin Amis's England

    Martin Amis's England

    1 2014 HD

    Novelist Martin Amis, a fierce critic of contemporary society, examines his experience of Englishness. Richly illustrated with archive footage, he...

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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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  • 2016
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    Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?

    Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?

    1 2016 HD

    Yehudi Menuhin was the 20th century's greatest violinist. He was a child prodigy but the man behind the violin was harder to know. Endlessly touring...

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  • 1971
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    James Taylor in Concert - BBC Studios

    James Taylor in Concert - BBC Studios

    7.20 1971 HD

    Music concert from 1971 featuring American singer-songwriter James Taylor, with a special guest appearance by Carole King.

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  • 2005
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    A Very English Village

    A Very English Village

    1 2005 HD

    Storyville film-maker Luke Holland , who has lived in Ditchling on the East Sussex Downs for the last ten years, explores aspects of village life...

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  • 2010
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    The Joy of Stats

    The Joy of Stats

    6.30 2010 HD

    Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.

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