4: Only Connect | The Other Side

1: Get It On 70-72 | The 70s

Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the 1970s. He reveals a Britain brimming with aspiration as ordinary people first felt the thrill of freedo...

1: The Sound of the Crowd | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...

1: We Can Be Heroes | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Suzy Klein shows how, as the aristocracy weakened and the middle classes flourished, compos...

2: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

2: Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in the 19th centu...

3: Goodbye Great Britain 75-77 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at sex discrimination laws, football hooliganism and industrial unrest.

3: Party Like It's 1899 | Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century

Suzy Klein examines how the music of the 19th century was able to flourish through econ...

3: Seaside (Llandudno) | How Britain Worked

Guy Martin helps to get Llandudno - the queen of Victorian sea-side resorts - up to scratch in time for the summer season, workin...

3: World in Motion | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. The late 80s saw Britain transformed, from the rise of the yuppie to a growi...

4: The Age of Tragedy | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music that deal...

4: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.

5: Age of Money | Seven Ages of Britain

The story of Britain through its art. In the 18th century, the triumph of commerce led to the emergence of a new 'middle' class, who ...

5: The Age of Rebellion | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded sound c...

6: The Popular Age | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music seemed...

9: The Vital Spark | Civilisations

Simon Schama explores the fate of art in the machine- and profit-driven world, looking at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity.

Edwardian Supersize Me | The Supersizers

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend the week on the diet of a wealthy Edwardian couple, being c...

Elizabethan | The Supersizers

Giles Coren and Sue Perkins experience the food of the Elizabethan era to see just how healthy the diet was.

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for Tea

The Ellis family discover how life has changed for northern working-class families. 1960 marks the start of an era of prosperity. Dad Jon pu...