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Brian Redhead reports from the 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill, Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to...

Presenter Holly Hamilton tells the feelgood story of the Glentoran team who left Belfast on a European football adventure just before the First World...

Documentary about comets. Many ancient civilisations believed comets were gods. Now, space missions can show what comets are really made of and where...

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...

Medievalist Dr Stephen Baxter takes a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children. At a time when half the population was under 18 he...

An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where,...

"Pre X Factor, pre-digital, pre-#MeToo, The Making of a Boyband lurks in a creepier, more cynical time. Broadcast on the BBC in 1996, the documentary...

In September 2006, two very different groups attempted to climb the snow-capped Himalayas. One sought freedom, the other adventure. A murder...

Who is really behind Britain’s biggest ever burglary? The police, the victims and even the suspects talk for the first time about the...

Panorama explores the latest scientific research on the effects of cannabis on the human mind. In particular, the programme will look at the growing...

A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’...

An animated cartoon with an anti nuclear theme made by David Stone while a student at the Royal College of Art.

While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and...

A documentary charting the early years of the Aztec civilization in ancient Mexico.

A collection of classic hits from the stable of one of Britain’s greatest and most successful music producers, the legendary Trevor Horn. From...

The small and marginalised remaining Caribs of Dominica set out on a voyage to re-discover their heritage and raise awareness to their plight; by...

Governments around the world are uncovering secret operations to expand China's influence - the work of a little-known branch of the Chinese...