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  1. Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years

    The story of youth hostelling, told using archive film found at the YHA headquarters.

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  2. Artichokes, Chalk an Hoat Cuisine

    Billy Kay takes a wry look at the changing diet of Scots who grew up in the 1950s.

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  3. James May at the Edge of Space

    James May takes a rare and privileged flight 70,000 feet above Earth in a U2 spy plane.

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  4. Touring Round Torquay

    Steve Carver becomes a coach holiday courier on a six-day trip to south Devon.

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  5. Liz Smith's Summer Cruise

    Actress Liz Smith goes on an Adriatic cruise, the first real holiday of her life.

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  6. Train Tracks

    An exploration of the rhythms and themes of the railway train in music.

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  7. An Traigh Mhor

    The story of the unusual Barra Airport, famous for its beauty.

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  8. Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration

    Michael Morpurgo travels to the Isles of Scilly to explore their legends and myths.

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  9. 25 Per Cent Leith

    Comedian Chris Neill explores of how much his Leith heritage has made him who he is.

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  10. A Taste of Iran

    Sadeq Saba travels around Iran meeting its people and exploring its culinary history.

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  11. M1 Magic

    Historian Juliet Gardiner explores the surprising story of 'Motorway One'.

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  12. M1: The Modernist Marvel

    Poet John Hegley reflects on the M1, Britain's first motorway in 1959. From 2009.

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  13. Alexander Armstrong's Very British Holiday

    In 2009, many consumers are forgoing foreign holidays. Can Britain's destinations cope?

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  14. Sun, Sex and Holiday Madness

    Greg James joins hedonistic Britons heading to the party capital of Magaluf, Mallorca.

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  15. Overexposed

    Miles Warde presents a powerful account of young photojournalists on the frontline.

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  16. Around the World by Zeppelin

    Documenting the Graf Zeppelin airship's circumnavigation of the globe in 1929.

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  17. Women, Weddings, War and Me

    Documentary about a young woman's return to Afghanistan, the country of her birth.

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  18. African Railway

    Sean Langan is off to east Africa to ride the rails of the historic Tazara railroad.

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  19. Geoff's Personal Atlantic

    Geoff Holt is quadriplegic, but he recently sailed a catamaran across the Atlantic Ocean.

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    Top Deck Tales

    Robert Elms celebrates London, the city he loves, with a journey on the number 36 bus.

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  21. The Eiger: Wall of Death

    A history of one of the world's most challenging mountains and its infamous north face.

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  22. Blackpool on Film

    The story of a remarkable British holiday resort told using moving images from the past.

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  23. Dream Town: A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool

    Actor and Blackpool native David Thewlis revisits his childhood haunts in the town.

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  24. The Yorkshire Dales on Film

    Life in the Yorkshire Dales as seen on newsreels, documentaries and home movies.

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  25. Walled City Nights

    Mark Patterson explores the historic Walls of Derry late at night.

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  26. Newcastle on Film

    Featuring archive footage from the 1900s through to the present day.

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  27. Eilean Bh脿laigh

    Aspects of Vallay Island, reflected in a guided tour and an exhibition in Lochmaddy.

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  28. Learning to Love Risk

    Travel writer Nick Thorpe reflects on our cultural and personal attitudes to risk.

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  29. The Ghost Trains Of Old England

    Ian Marchant travels on the trains that don't appear in timetables, to unused stations.

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  30. Oktoberfest!

    Journalist John F Jungclaussen joins millions of revellers in Munich.

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  31. Grayson on His Bike

    Grayson Perry and his teddy Alan Measles tour Bavaria on a customised motorcycle.

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  32. Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

    Poet Simon Armitage follows in the footsteps of one of his personal heroes, Odysseus.

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  33. An Cuiltheann

    The Skye Cuillin has been a lure for mountaineers since the early 1800s.

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  34. The Hebridean Trail

    Scotland's well-known walker Cameron McNeish explores the Outer Hebrides.

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  35. Ship of Spies

    Tom Mangold joins a spy-themed cruise round the Caribbean, speaking to 2 former CIA chiefs

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  36. A Shared Vision

    Bespectacled poet John Hegley heads to Zanzibar in East Africa with old specs.

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  37. Ay Mariachi!

    Hustling troubadours hit Mexico City by night. Neil McCarthy enjoys a mariachi.

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  38.

    The Music That Melted

    Under a full moon and the Northern Lights, Richard Coles hears the Ice Music of Norway.

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  39. Jules Verne's Volcano

    A year after the ash cloud, Chris Watson goes on his own volcanic adventure.

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  40. Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration

    Michael Morpurgo tours the Isles of Scilly to investigate local myths and legends.

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  41. Julia Bradbury's Icelandic Walk

    Julia Bradbury walks the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most famous hiking route.

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  42. A303: Highway to the Sun

    Tom Fort whisks us through the landscape around the A303 road and 5,000 years of history.

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  43. Shalom Berlin

    70 years after the Holocaust, young Israelis now see Berlin as a cool holiday destination.

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  44. Reversing Dr Beeching

    In Scotland, Dr Beeching has been shunted into reverse as closed railway lines reopen.

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  45. Wandering Souls

    Cathy Fitzgerald hears the war stories of the living - and the dead - in Vietnam.

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  46. Rowing the Arctic

    Mark Beaumont and Jock Wishart head an expedition to row to the 1996 north magnetic pole.

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  47. Eilean Mh脿igh

    A trip to the Isle of May lighthouse and national nature reserve.

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  48. Na St脿itean

    Tha Liam O' Casaid air tadhail air c貌rr is 40 st脿it.

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  49.

    From Birmingham to Beijing: The Lure of a Chinese Career

    The stories of graduates finding work internships far afield in China.

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  50. American Nomads

    Richard Grant travels the deserts and mountains in search of the modern American nomads.

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