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It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems...

A selection of memorable performances of classical music from the BBC's archives.

Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the eyes of...

Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work...

While making Simon Schama’s History of Now, Simon met several of the most influential contemporary artists working in the world today. In this...

Leading musical artists perform live for the cameras

Dr Jago Cooper travels through Peru and Ecuador to reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of one of the greatest empires the world has ever...

A series of programmes about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister.

A captivating insight into British life straight from the mouths of school children from the 1960s and '70s.

How the Art Nouveau movement flourished in the burgeoning cities of Europe at the end of the 19th century.

Former director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon explores the story of Australian art through the country's rich...

With unprecedented access to Venice's emergency and public services this series goes behind the 15th-century facades to experience the real, living...

Riding onboard with a cheetah, a green turtle and a white-tailed sea eagle as they show us around their homes, with natural sounds and embedded...

Doctors to Be: 20 Years On is a biographical documentary series first broadcast on BBC Four by the BBC in 2007. It is a sequel to the series about...

Dr Jago Cooper explores the rise and fall of the forgotten civilisations of Central America.

What you had to say, do and dress in order to get ahead at various times in history

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss...