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  • 2010
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    The Joy of Stats

    The Joy of Stats

    6.30 2010 HD

    Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.

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  • 2011
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    Reggae Concert from the Edinburgh Festival

    Reggae Concert from the Edinburgh Festival

    1 2011 HD

    Live performance specially recorded for Whistle Test from the Reggae Concert at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973, featuring The Cimarons, Winston...

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  • 2011
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    Pink Floyd: Miscellany 1967-2005

    Pink Floyd: Miscellany 1967-2005

    1 2011 HD

    This one-hour compilation, beginning with the Arnold Layne promo from 1967 and culminating with the reunited band's performance at Live 8 in 2005, of...

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  • 2003
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    Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse

    Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse

    1 2003 HD

    Michael Palin visits the Baltimore apartment gallery of Etta and Claribel Cone, wealthy American sisters who amassed one of the world's finest...

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  • 2019
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    For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing and Me

    For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing and Me

    1 2019 HD

    What’s the best way to save the ageing breed of male Morris dancer from extinction? Richard Macer infiltrates the endangered world of bells,...

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  • 2015
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    The Art of the Impossible: M.C. Escher and Me

    The Art of the Impossible: M.C. Escher and Me

    1 2015 HD

    Dutch graphic artist MC Escher created some of the most famous graphic illusions in 20th century popular culture. He inspired artists, designers and...

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  • 2019
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    Rich Hall's Red Menace

    Rich Hall's Red Menace

    1 2019 HD

    2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the...

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  • 2013
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    House of Surrogates

    House of Surrogates

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2016
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    EMI: The Inside Story

    EMI: The Inside Story

    7.00 2016 HD

    One record company has been a constant presence in popular music throughout our lives. EMI brought The Beatles to the world and in every decade...

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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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  • 2014
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    Martin Amis's England

    Martin Amis's England

    1 2014 HD

    Novelist Martin Amis, a fierce critic of contemporary society, examines his experience of Englishness. Richly illustrated with archive footage, he...

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  • 2020
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    Sacred Songs - The Secrets of Our Hearts

    Sacred Songs - The Secrets of Our Hearts

    1 2020 HD

    Award-winning British choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its...

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  • 2023
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    Mike Yarwood at the BBC

    Mike Yarwood at the BBC

    1 2023 HD

    Rory Bremner looks back at the life and career of Mike Yarwood, master of the imitation game and one of the BBC's most successful stars of the 1970s...

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  • 2010
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    The Genius of Omar Khayyam

    The Genius of Omar Khayyam

    1 2010 HD

    Sadeq Saba travels to Iran to explore the life and work of Omar Khayyam, the great medieval mathematician and poet whose philosophy continues to...

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  • 2012
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    R.E.M. at the BBC

    R.E.M. at the BBC

    5.00 2012 HD

    In September 2011 R.E.M., the rock band from Athens, Georgia, decided to call it a day after 31 years. This collection from the BBC archives includes...

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  • 1972
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    Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert

    Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert

    1 1972 HD

    A classic concert by Gordon Lightfoot from 1972, accompanied by Red Shea and Richard Haynes. They perform songs including Summer Side of Life,...

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  • 2011
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    Birth of the British Novel

    Birth of the British Novel

    1 2011 HD

    Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all...

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  • 2018
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    A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WW1

    A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WW1

    1 2018 HD

    Thousands of black soldiers fought in the First World War. Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of one of them - Arthur Roberts. Arthur grew up in Glasgow...

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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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