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  1. JFK: The Final Visit to Britain

    Glen Campbell uncovers the events behind President John F Kennedy's last visit to Britain.

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  2. 4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

    Documentary following the investigation of a 4,000-year-old body found preserved in a bog.

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  3. Exploring the Past: Post War Britain

    Six young people trace their family histories in post-war Britain.

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  4. JFK: Calamity and Conspiracy

    Nicky Campbell looks back 50 years to the day John F Kennedy was killed.

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  5. The Fir Tree

    Film telling the story of a Christmas tree through the 'voice' of the tree itself.

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  6. Suffragettes Lecture

    Baroness Hollis of Heigham delivers a lecture on the Suffragettes, from 6 November.

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  7. Kindertransport: Journey to Life

    75 years after Kindertransport, those who came to Britain speak about their memories.

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  8. July 1914 Crisis Lecture

    Historian Vernon Bogdanor lectures on Diplomacy: Sir Edward Grey and the Crisis of 1914.

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  9. PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster

    Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII and their greatest disaster.

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  10. Charles Chilton - Lincoln Frees the Slaves

    The history of slavery and the American Civil War, through songs and eyewitness accounts.

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  11. Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space Again

    Charles Chilton and his cast recall 1953, when six million listeners were moon bound.

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  12. Music of the Monarchy with David Starkey

    David Starkey presents music created for- and by royalty, performed in historic locations.

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    Dinosaurs in the Drawing Room

    How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.

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  14. Knight Club

    Film following novice British knights at the Battle of the Nations 2013.

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  15. The Search for Alfred the Great

    Neil Oliver joins a team investigating the final resting place of Alfred the Great.

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  16. Remembering the Holocaust: Defiant Requiem

    How a choir of Jewish prisoners defiantly performed Verdi's Requiem in front of the Nazis.

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  17. Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years

    Dick Strawbridge charts Belfast's journey from humble sandbank to industrial powerhouse.

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  18. Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World

    Jago Cooper uses scientific and archaeological evidence to examine Easter Island's demise.

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  19. Walking With the Dead

    Writer Colm T贸ib铆n explores the Dublin locations haunted by James Joyce's Dubliners.

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  20. Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics

    Historian Dan Snow looks back at 90 years of the Winter Olympics.

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  21. The End of the Pier Show

    Can Hastings Pier rise from the ashes and reinvent herself?

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  22. Mystery of the Moor

    Mike Dilger investigates Bronze Age burial goods discovered on Dartmoor.

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  23. The Necessary War

    Sir Max Hastings argues that the First World War was far from being futile.

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    Venus in View

    Mari Griffith examines the motivation behind the attack on The Rokeby Venus 100 years ago

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  25. The Great Glass Mystery

    Examining the disappearance of stained glass from Coventry Cathedral during WWII.

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  26. World War One At Home

    Stories from the Home Front 1914-1918. Robert Hall presents.

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  27. The Miners' Strike - A Personal Memoir by Kim Howells

    Kim Howells recalls the miners' strike of 30 years ago and and ponders its outcome.

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  28. Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs

    The story of British and German soldiers' photography during the First World War.

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    I Was There: The Great War Interviews

    Never-before-seen footage from interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War.

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  30. Oh Do Shut Up Dear! Mary Beard on the Public Voice of Women

    Mary Beard on how women have been silenced throughout the history of Western culture.

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  31.

    Poetry Idol

    Shahidha Bari goes in search of the biggest poetry competition in the Middle East.

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  32. Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

    British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of one of WWII's worst atrocities.

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  33. The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers

    A look at the Maxim machine gun and how it affected one Hebridean community.

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  34. The Greatest Knight: William the Marshal

    The fascinating story of knighthood, told through the life of Sir William Marshal.

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  35. Cuimhneachain Cogaidh: Catriona Garbutt

    Catriona Garbutt le cuimhneachain teaghlaich mun Chiad Chogadh.

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    Blind Date with Don Camillo

    Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.

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  37. Thatcher and the IRA: Dealing with Terror

    Documentary examining Margaret Thatcher's strategy of dealing with the IRA.

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  38. Good Friday: Passion, War and Peace

    An insight into the Passion narrative through the lens of the First World War.

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    Bombay Jazz

    Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of jazz music history in India.

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  40. Easter Sunday: Bayonets and Green Blades

    Ministers Duncan McLaren and Sigrid Marten explore the places and people of WW1.

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  41. Messiah at the Foundling Hospital

    Revealing the story of how Handel's Messiah helped save London's Foundling Hospital.

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  42.

    The First Action Movie

    1903 Sheffield's on location 'Daring Daylight Burglary' inspired every action movie since.

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  43. 50 Golden Years of Sport on 麻豆社 Two

    Celebrating 50 years of sporting coverage on 麻豆社 Two.

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  44. The Art of Keynes

    Nicholas Wapshott on how the economist used government money to buy paintings in WWI.

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  45. Generation War: Fact and Fiction

    Martha Kearney and guests examine the facts behind the German drama series Generation War.

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  46. The French Revolution: Tearing up History

    Dr Richard Clay retells the history of the French Revolution through the story of its art.

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    Melencolia

    Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.

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  48. The Mysterious Mr Webster: 麻豆社 Arts at the Globe

    Revealing the mysterious man who many consider Shakespeare's greatest rival.

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  49. D-Day Dames

    Lyse Doucet recounts the stories of American women war correspondents in London for D-Day.

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  50. 70th Anniversary of D-Day

    Commemorations in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

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