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  • 2022
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    Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

    Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

    1 2022 HD

    Follows six talented performers who interpret Mary Shelley’s classic novel from their own perspective; as young people growing up in...

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  • 2019
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    Showbands: How Ireland Learned to Party

    Showbands: How Ireland Learned to Party

    1 2019 HD

    Ardal O'Hanlon looks at what started the showband era in Ireland, the people involved, and how it came to an end in the 1980s.

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  • 2018
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    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

    Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip

    5.00 2018 HD

    Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur...

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  • 2016
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    The Joy of Data

    The Joy of Data

    6.40 2016 HD

    A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured,...

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  • 2012
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    Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours

    Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours

    1 2012 HD

    Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the men behind Squeeze, have been called everything from the new Lennon and McCartney to the godfathers of Britpop....

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  • 2014
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    The Perfect Suit

    The Perfect Suit

    1 2014 HD

    Alastair Sooke explores the evolution of the gentleman's suit, which has evolved from working man's Sunday best to the casual wear of royalty over...

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  • 2012
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    Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing

    Immortal? A Horizon Guide to Ageing

    1 2012 HD

    Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 45 years that Horizon, and he, have...

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  • 2014
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    TB: Return of the Plague

    TB: Return of the Plague

    4.00 2014 HD

    TB is the most deadly infectious disease in history - it has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years. Multi-BAFTA winning film-maker,...

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  • 2015
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    Dawn Chorus: The Sounds of Spring

    Dawn Chorus: The Sounds of Spring

    1 2015 HD

    Uninterrupted and unspoiled by voice-over or music, the birdsong of sunrise in all its glory. Three different habitats, Britain's woodland, heathland...

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  • 2004
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    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe

    Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe

    1 2004 HD

    William Shakespeare's darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the...

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  • 2015
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    The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

    The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

    4.50 2015 HD

    This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin...

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  • 2007
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    The Lost World of Red Robbo

    The Lost World of Red Robbo

    1 2007 HD

    Documentary about the controversial 1970s union boss Derek Robinson, who led the British Leyland workers into a series of strikes

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  • 2007
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    Let the Music Play: The Barry White Story

    Let the Music Play: The Barry White Story

    7.00 2007 HD

    Barry White gave the world some of its most joyous music, and that voice mesmerised women everywhere, but his death was isolated and painful....

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  • 2018
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    The Joy of Winning

    The Joy of Winning

    7.40 2018 HD

    How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry. ...

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  • 2019
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    Bauhaus Rules

    Bauhaus Rules

    1 2019 HD

    Presented by Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, Bauhaus Rules brings the radical principles of the Bauhaus to a new generation, to discover if the...

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  • 2013
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    The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge

    The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge

    5.00 2013 HD

    Stephen Smith explores the extraordinary life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge. He talks to HRH Prince Michael of Kent about Faberge...

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  • 2013
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    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    1 2013 HD

    Filmed before a small studio audience in the bare style of some of the previous BBC music shows on which Thompson has appeared, this concert...

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  • 2010
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    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

    1 2010 HD

    Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and...

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  • 2011
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    John Steinbeck: Voice of America

    John Steinbeck: Voice of America

    1 2011 HD

    Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

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  • 2011
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    The Secret Life of Waves

    The Secret Life of Waves

    1 2011 HD

    Documentary-maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original film, he finds that waves are not made of water,...

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