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  • 2014
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    Under Milk Wood

    Under Milk Wood

    6.10 2014 HD

    An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with...

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  • 2017
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    The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

    The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

    6.80 2017 HD

    This is the story of an unsung hero of photography: Harry Burton, the man whose images of the Tutankhamun excavation created a global sensation in...

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  • 2024
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    Joan Rivers at the BBC

    Joan Rivers at the BBC

    1 2024 HD

    Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first...

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  • 2010
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    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    1 2010 HD

    Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and...

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  • 2006
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    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    6.00 2006 HD

    Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome...

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  • 2006
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    Laughing With Hitler

    Laughing With Hitler

    6.50 2006 HD

    "Laughing with Hitler" is a journey into a supposedly humorless time. In the Third Reich, however, the Führer and his Nazi bigwigs were laughed...

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  • 2015
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    The Clash: New Year's Day '77

    The Clash: New Year's Day '77

    8.00 2015 HD

    Built around the earliest, until now unseen, footage of the Clash in concert, filmed by Julien Temple as they opened the infamous Roxy club in a...

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  • 2018
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    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History

    Stevie Wonder: A Musical History

    1 2018 HD

    Well-known fans celebrate Stevie Wonder and his music by selecting some of his best-loved songs. Wonder is one of the dominant figures in American...

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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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  • 2005
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    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

    The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary

    8.00 2005 HD

    On October 5th 1962, the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do. It was a moment that changed music history and popular culture forever. It...

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  • 2013
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    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

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

    1 2013 HD

    Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in a peat bog in Cashel in the Irish midlands

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  • 2014
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    Karajan's Magic and Myth

    Karajan's Magic and Myth

    1 2014 HD

    Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most...

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  • 2015
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    The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

    The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

    4.50 2015 HD

    This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin...

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  • 2003
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    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well

    Emmylou Harris: From a Deeper Well

    1 2003 HD

    Profile of veteran country singer Emmylou Harris, witnessing the heady success of her career while also discussing her late flowering of intensely...

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  • 2018
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    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

    5.00 2018 HD

    Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur...

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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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  • 2007
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    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

    Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

    7.70 2007 HD

    Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan...

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  • 2016
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    Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

    Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

    1 2016 HD

    Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A...

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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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  • 2011
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    Everything and Nothing

    Everything and Nothing

    8.50 2011 HD

    what is everything, and what is nothing? Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing...

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