An abandoned baby | A House Through Time

1: 1900: Age of Hope | People's Century

At the beginning of the twentieth century the world was stable and certain, but unequal. The Paris Exhibition of 1900 symbolises the ...

1: 1910-1939 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

A history of Britain's mixed-race community. George Alagiah tells how Britain escaped laws preventing interracial marriage and...

1: 1964 | Our Friends in the North

First episode of a 9 part drama charting 30 years in the lives of four Geordie friends from 1964-1995. While Nicky decides he wants to cha...

1: Arrival | Windrush

Series tracing the changes to British national life brought about by the first major influx of people from the Caribbean in 1948. The initial warm rece...

1: Building a New Society | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a m...

1: David Lloyd George | Great Britons (1990)

John Grigg narrates the life of David Lloyd George. As Lloyd George's biographer, Grigg remarks, ''My father knew Lloyd George''...

1: Leaders | Icons

Trevor examines the lives of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. He discovers exactly what made each of th...

1: London | Blitz Cities

EastEnders star Shane Richie travels around his home city of London to explore the history of the Blitz there.

1: Making Margaret | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent polit...

1: Mangrove | Small Axe

The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London's Notting Hill that was the subject of relentless police raids during the...

1: Media Portrayal | The Learning Zone

This programme looks at experience of Caribbean/Black community of Britain and their cultural heritage.

1: The Pankhurts | Shoulder to Shoulder

1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which ...

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...

10 Guinea Street | A House Through Time

David Olusoga reflects on the past, present and future of number 10 Guinea Street.

10: A Century of Pain and Pleasure | In Search of Scotland

Fiona Watson looks at how the decline of heavy industry in the 20th century has affected Scotland and how the Scot...

13: The Devil Is Coming | The Great War

The Battle of the Somme began in July 1916. By February 1917, an irreparable blow had been struck at the German Army, but at the cost...

13: Tough Old Gut | The World at War

Churchill described Italy as the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile', thinking the Allies could cut through it to reach Germany. However,...

17: 1959: Endangered Planet | People's Century

Rising consumption patterns extract a huge toll on nature. Toxic contamination in Minamata and Love Canal and the Torrey Canyo...

1937 Coronation | The Coronation

Queen Elizabeth II reflects on her father, King George VI's Coronation in 1937 and her first glimpse of the regalia.

2: 1966 | Our Friends in the North

While Harold Wilson and The Beatles rule England, everything has changed for the four from Newcastle.