The First Refugees | Civilisations Stories

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: 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: First Encounters | Black and British: A Forgotten History

Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Afric...

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: What Sort of Boy? | Rainbow City

First episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring E...

1066: A Year to Conquer England

Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war and the Battle of Ha...

2: 1940-1965 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of the GI babies labelled war casualties, the boom in mixed-race couples following mass migrati...

2: Intolerance | Windrush

The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.

2: Lovers Rock | Small Axe

Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love at a blues party in 1980. The film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called lovers rock, an...

2: Making Ourselves at Home | Empire

Jeremy Paxman continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things.

2: The Asturias | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan reveals stories of passengers coming to Britain from Bombay in the late 40s following Independence, including Anglo-Ind...

2: Why You Marry? | Rainbow City

Second episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Err...

3: 1965-2011 | George Alagiah: Mixed Britannia

George Alagiah tells the story of couples facing violence on the streets during the 70s, how adoption became a battleground an...

3: A Better Fortune | Rainbow City

Third episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring Er...

3: A New Generation | Windrush

Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and the tragedy of the New Cross ...

3: Judgement Day | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

How Jerusalem became the object of rivalry between Christian nations, the focus of the longing of Jews and the site o...

3: The Age of Revolution | Story of Ireland

Here, he looks at the changes wrought on Ireland's demographics by the Plantation of Ulster. Presented by Fergal Keane.

3: The Batory | A Passage to Britain

Dr Yasmin Khan unearths the stories of those travelling on the great ocean liner the Batory, in the 1950s.

4: A British Story | Windrush

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebrities in sport, entertainme...

4: Beards and Turbans | Rainbow City

Forth episode of a groundbreaking BBC drama series from 1967 about the experience of the West Indian community in Birmingham, featuring ...