With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.
The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.
Dr Xand van Tulleken stages the first ever large-scale experiment of its kind, looking for ways to reduce air pollution in the UK. Can air quality be improv...
Richard Bilton investigates the problems Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy policy is causing 40 years later, including th...
Billy is about to make a tough decision - does he start a career at 16 or go to college?
As Jess's apprenticeship draws to a close, she needs to find a new job or risk not being able to do what she loves.
Kaitlyn is about to get her GCSE results whilst also facing the prospect of her and her mum having to move house again.
Real-life soap opera, filmed over a year in North Yorkshire. Mum and daughter Kat and Kaitlyn have had a tough time over the last few years but...
Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.
The great transport experiment which left buses booming in London but in a state of managed decline outside the capital.
Second class service: How the nations and regions lost out to London and ended up with fewer services, older trains and...
Dallas Campbell reveals how we can only understand the world around us by discovering the hidden wonders beneath our feet.
Ayshea Buksh meets the angry residents of a Stratford estate trying to stop the council bulldozing their homes for the Olympic Park in Stratford.
Following the engineers building London's brand new underground railway, Crossrail, as they race to build ten ...
This episode follows engineers building London's brand new underground railway, Crossrail, as they rebuild a Vi...
Documentary series following a team of engineers and construction workers as they build London's Crossrail - trying ...
The Second World War puts our residents in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past and a return for students who lived h...
David follows the trails of a traumatised soldier on the run, a family man at breaking point and one resident who developed an interest in the pa...
A ruthless factory owner is hit by an arson attack, a pacifist couple make a stand and one man sets sail for a life on the glamourous Atlantic li...
David Olusoga discovers a scandalous poisoning, a reversal of fortune for a Victorian factory girl and a building dynasty that helped create ...
David investigates the house’s history from World War II to the present, discovering tales of mystery and crime, before seeing the house renewed ...
Investigating the residents of No 10 Guinea Street, David Olusoga discovers a struggling entrepreneur and a World War I tragedy, and unmasks the ...
David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the asy...
David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...
David Olusoga uncovers infidelity and divorce, traces a WWII prisoner to Ravensworth Terrace, and sees the house fall into disrepair before it is...
Tracking the house's occupants in the early 20th century, David finds a boarding house landlady whose family is threatened by war and a young cou...
Tracing the residents from the 1880s to 1900s, David discovers a family torn apart by catastrophe. The house becomes a refuge for destitute stree...
David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a doc...
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga traces the history of the house in Liverpool from ...
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the story from 1891 to 1945, through two W...
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the residents of the house in Liverpool fr...
Anita meets the local residents living around Woodberry Wetlands, a surprising wildlife oasis in the heart of the city, who share their lov...
Daniel Raven-Ellison is on a mission to make London the World's first National Park City. Alongside better-known parks like ...
Anita Rani is in London at the remarkable Woodberry Wetlands, a haven for all sorts of wildlife just a stone's throw from the tower blocks of Stoke Newi...
Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.
Once a quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Newcastle, Jesmond is being taken over by students and anti-socia...
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