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1: Are We Changing Planet Earth? | Climate Chaos

David Attenborough explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, and suggests that our daily activities may b...

Being Jewish in Scotland

The Jewish community has been well integrated in Scottish society for centuries, but their story is not well known. This programme tells their story...

Living without a Memory

Debbie, Sally and George are three people who didn't lose their memories gradually, theirs were stolen by illness, almost overnight. This one-off doc...

Kids with Machetes | Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley's first documentary series explores the global issue of child labour. She visits the Ivory Coast, meeting children working i...

Fast Tales

During the most demanding Ramadan for over 30 years, Dr Saleyha Ahsan meets prominent British Muslims undertaking 16 hour fasting days throughout July and talks t...

S1E14: Paint Materials and Blood Patterns | Expert Witness

Forensics analysis by an art expert proves paintings by a well-known Cornish artist are fake, and spattered blood ...

Britain: The Changing Coastline | Geography Casebook

Bernard Clark investigates man's efforts to defend the coastline of Dorset and Hampshire.

1: The Viceory of India | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan tracks down passengers who travelled from Mumbai to Britain in the 1930s on the luxurious P&O liner The Viceroy...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for Birmingham

The Sharma family experience life as a South Asian family in 50s Britain, from hard factory shifts to adapting their cooking to suit ...

Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges

Amol heads to India on a pilgrimage to the largest religious festival in history, the Kumbh Mela, where he wants to find out if faith can help ...

Kate Adie's Women of World War One

Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.

Sustainable fishing | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Simon investigates sustainable fishing practices.

Labour in Power: Inside the New Government | Panorama

Labour is back in power with a big majority and some big promises. Laura Kuenssberg follows Labour's first days in offi...

Episode 1 | The Surrogates

Caitlin and Emma try to help other people start a family. David looks for a surrogate.

Episode 1 | 1940s House

Reality show where a contemporary family are placed in a house for a number of months in an attempt to live under the conditions experienced in warti...

The Day I Died

Tonight's documentary explores the theory that near-death experiences actually come from beyond the brain. New clinical research is daring to suggest the impo...

White Man Walking | Storyville

A Storyville documentary that follows white film-maker Rob Bliss as he walks 1500 miles through America's southern states wearing a Black Live...

1: Scotland | Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones

Griff Rhys Jones travels the wild rivers of Scotland. He heads east, upstream from Kinlochleven, then follows the course of the wa...

Africa's Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub-Sahar...

Gulag

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag lega...