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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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  • 2010
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    Chemistry: A Volatile History

    Chemistry: A Volatile History

    4.70 2010 HD

    Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.

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  • 2011
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    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency

    7.00 2011 HD

    Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

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  • 2003
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    Visions of Space

    Visions of Space

    1 2003 HD

    Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work...

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  • 2018
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    Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

    Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

    3.00 2018 HD

    Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores the story of the village from Norman times to the present day. With ancient churches, castles, market places and...

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  • 2017
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    Killing for Love

    Killing for Love

    1 2017 HD

    Obsessed young lovers, heinous murders, a sensational trial, and a shocking miscarriage of justice. Killing for Love is a riveting dissection of the...

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  • 2009
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    Cowards

    Cowards

    7.00 2009 HD

    Four-man sketch show packed with surprise and invention - all delivered with a unique brand of joyful deadpan absurdity.

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  • 2009
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    A History Of Christianity

    A History Of Christianity

    7.00 2009 HD

    Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a...

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  • 2014
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    The Man Who Makes Things From Scratch

    The Man Who Makes Things From Scratch

    1 2014 HD

    In this series, Tom is facing a new challenge, can he make 4 everyday items using only raw materials from the UK and his own handy work?

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  • 2015
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    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell

    1 2015 HD

    An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to...

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  • 2019
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    Victorian Sensations

    Victorian Sensations

    1 2019 HD

    Victorian Sensations transports us to the thrilling era of the 1890s. Dr Hannah Fry, Paul McGann, and Philippa Perry explore a decade of rapid change...

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  • 2011
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    The Story of Variety with Michael Grade

    The Story of Variety with Michael Grade

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2010
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    Britain by Bike

    Britain by Bike

    1 2010 HD

    Clare Balding embarks on a pedal-powered odyssey across Britain to rediscover the magical world of 1950s cycling

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  • 2011
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    If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

    If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

    1 2011 HD

    Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four...

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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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  • 2019
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    James May's Big Trouble in Model Britain

    James May's Big Trouble in Model Britain

    7.50 2019 HD

    James May follows a year inside Hornby Hobbies – an iconic British toymaker on the brink of collapse.

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  • 2014
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    Secrets of Bones

    Secrets of Bones

    7.00 2014 HD

    Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod looks at how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every...

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  • 2015
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    Rock 'n' Roll America

    Rock 'n' Roll America

    9.00 2015 HD

    A three-part series tracing the history of American rock 'n' roll music from the 1950s onwards.

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  • 2022
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    Simon Schama Meets

    Simon Schama Meets

    1 2022 HD

    While making Simon Schama’s History of Now, Simon met several of the most influential contemporary artists working in the world today. In this...

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  • 2011
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    The Brain: A Secret History

    The Brain: A Secret History

    1 2011 HD

    Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to...

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