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Asteroids: Spark of Life?
Could the destructive impacts of asteroids on Earth be the key to our very existence?
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Part 1—Miss Marple, The Body in the Library
The ordered tranquillity of life in St Mary Mead is shattered by a mysterious discovery.
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An Unknown Substance—Storyville
Following the imprisonment of a Russian politician, his wife campaigns to bring him home.
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Allies in Exile—Storyville
Documentary following two Syrian film-makers as they navigate the UK asylum system.
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John Berger: The Art of Looking
Documentary exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger.
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Episode 1—Paris Police, Paris Police 1910
Meg Steinheil is discovered bound and gagged, with the bodies of her husband and mother.
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The Lost City of Sanxingdui
In the mountains of Sichuan, China, lies a mysterious ancient city that was lost to time.
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In the Shadows—Beck
A fatal gang shooting leads police to a mysterious figure with unknown motives.
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A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planets—The Planets, Series 1
The four inner planets were born the same, yet have lived radically different lives. Why?
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New World Symphony at the Proms—BBC Proms, 2026
Dvorak’s masterpiece alongside a new triple concerto from BBC Young Musician star alumni.
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15/07/1976—Top of the Pops
With Sunfighter, Liverpool Express, Bobby Goldsboro, Glamour Puss and Demis Roussos.
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A Want in Her—Storyville
An exploration of family, addiction and unconditional love from filmmaker Myrid Carten.
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Alaska and Russia—Full Circle with Michael Palin, Series 1
Michael starts a Pacific voyage in the Diomede Islands and visits Alaska and Russia.
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World Cinema Classics—Talking Pictures
Celia Imrie presents a celebration of international films.
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Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman’s dreamlike chronicle of an extended family in early 20th-century Sweden.
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The New Scout Hut—To the Manor Born, Series 3
Audrey upbraids Richard for not sponsoring a charity event in aid of a new scout hut.
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Copenhagen: A Prologue with Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn introduces a television adaptation of his highly successful play.
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Copenhagen
Two physicists behind the atomic bomb, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, meet in 1941.
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Mozart at the Proms—BBC Proms, 2026
Soloist Felix Klieser brings his extraordinary talent to Mozart's Third Horn Concerto.
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A Touch of Murder—I, Claudius, Series 1
Historical drama series chronicling the reigns of the Roman emperors.
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City of the Sacred—Rome: A History of the Eternal City, Series 1
Simon Sebag Montefiore investigates how the Romans worshipped and sacrificed to the gods.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore Remembers... Rome: A History of the Eternal City—Remembers...
Simon Sebag Montefiore talks about his joy at telling audiences the stories of Rome.
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The Fall—Kabul, Series 1
Kabul, August 2021. As American troops withdraw, the Taliban return.
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Andrew Davies Remembers... Middlemarch—Remembers...
Andrew Davies looks back on his acclaimed 1994 adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
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