Episode 1 | Mary Beard’s Shock of the Nude

2: The City and the Soul | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

As the Industrial Revolution promised more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and lit...

Benin Bronzes | Civilisations

David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.

Propaganda films | Age of the Image

James Fox explains the method in which propaganda was created to advertise Nazism.

1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with monsters ...

2: Andreas Vesalius | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human ...

Making a chair (Part 1) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. First up cutting the diffe...

Cotton mill | Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

The creation of one of the first cotton mills in Cromford.

Florence Nightingale's rose diagram | The Beauty of Diagrams

Florence Nightingale's revolutionary and controversial rose diagram showed that hospitals, as they were, could k...

Making a chair (Part 2) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, bending the bow o...

S6E6: Chairs | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investigate...

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

Cherry investigates the source of wood used for making Windsor chairs, and the process it undergoes to make it ready for ...

Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford explains how Vesalius' anatomy had reached and was being used in Tudor England.

Cobalt mining incidents | Panorama

Miners tell their stories of accidents and the working conditions in the cobalt mines of Kolwezi, DRC.

Episode 2 | Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude

Mary Beard looks at how artists have rejected the 'body beautiful', challenging viewers to question what it is to be human.

Evicting the miners | Panorama

Tesla's supplier of cobalt, Glencore, says it has bought the land that houses the artisanal mines in Kolwezi and plans to evict all the ''ille...

Galenic anatomy | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford explains Galen's theory of the four humours.

Islamic Art | Civilisations

Mary Beard explores Islamic artwork and the debates within Islam about the role of artists and images.

Making a chair (Part 3) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, sanding the separ...

Making a chair (Part 4) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, assembling the co...

Making a chair (Part 5) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Last up, polishing the cha...