3: War | Suez: A Very British Crisis

1: A People Stolen | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...

1: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that bro...

1: Why Britain? | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we learn about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations we...

2: A Precious Cargo | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...

2: White Plague | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The concept of 'plantation' is explored in this programme, referring not to crops but the settlement of British p...

2. On trial | The Compass

Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.

3: Lady Constance Lytton | Shoulder to Shoulder

1908: Constance Lytton: daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any d...

3: Resistance | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...

3: The Mission | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and In...

3: The Two Nations | Union with David Olusoga

The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-cl...

4: Heaven's Breed | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

In this programme we discover how a few thousand British people ruled over India, a country of more than 250 mi...

4: Our People | Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...

6: Age of Empire | Seven Ages of Britain

David Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India, tracing the British Empire from 1750 to 1900.

6: Empire for Sale | Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World

The fall of the British empire is usually attributed to nationalist groups fighting for independence, yet as N...

Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History

Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have l...

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.

British-Chinese Relations | Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea

Victoria Wood investigates the history of British- Chinese relations through the tea trade.

Can Partnership Succeed? | Panorama

James Mossman reports on the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Episode 1 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani marks the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India by exploring its impact on four British families, includi...

Episode 2 | My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947

Anita Rani and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Part...