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Arguably the greatest tragedy to befall the west coast of Scotland remains, to this day, largely unknown. On the event of the 100th anniversary, the people of Lewis tell their story to the rest of the nation through the words and testimonies of the islanders. On 1 January 1919, having survived the First World War, in excess of 250 naval men were returning home to celebrate their first New Year of ... Read more

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Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is a documentary which follows an investigation to solve the 'Jack the Stripper' murders, the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history. It is the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history - the so-called 'Jack the Stripper' murders took place in Swinging Sixties London. Six women lost their lives to a killer who... Read more

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Writer and environmentalist Peter Owen-Jones spends a year in the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest, exploring its wildlife, history and meeting the Commoners, the people whose ancient way of life has helped shaped the land since Neolithic times. ‘The New Forest is a timeless place - there are no fences and the animals roam free. I’ve always wondered how the forest and the commoning way o... Read more

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2018 saw the downfall of a series of famous men in the face of allegations of sexual harassment. The issue has never received so much media attention, but the debate about what is and isn't appropriate in the workplace continues. A hand on someone's back, complimenting their fragrance - is this a colleague being friendly, or are they crossing a line? What constitutes sexual harassment? To find... Read more

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Granted exclusive access to hundreds of drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, film-maker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched by his own hand, painted with his own brush. Executive produced by Michael Moore, The Eyes of Orson Welles brings vividly to l... Read more

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A look at Hugo Chavez's 14-year presidency - a story of short-term achievements in health and education but also of a tragic legacy of his idealism, populism and pursuit of power.

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This balanced mocku-documentary is Louis Theroux meets Alan Partridge. It is the US midterm elections, and spoof news reporter Jonathan Pie is sent across the pond on the campaign trail. Jonathan meets real people who don't normally have a voice as he sorts through the utter carnage of US politics and delivers an extremely entertaining, witty take on Trump's America. He talks to all sides: Republi... Read more

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Sidney Nolan is unquestionably one of the best-known names in the history of Australian modern art. His images are iconic treasures of the Australian visual language – everyone feels they know Nolan, but that is far from the truth. He was a restless spirit, boundlessly curious, intellectual and mischievous, and his creativity was unrelenting; he was a genius. This film explores and celebrates the ... Read more

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For many people, going to college or moving out of home offers a chance to look at their relationship with their parents from a fresh perspective. 23-year old Dammy confronts her mum about her longstanding issues by having the type of brutally honest discussions that many of us so often avoid. Dammy suffers from anxiety and hasn’t had a serious conversation with her mum about it. First off, it ... Read more

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Last year 17 teenagers were stabbed to death in what was the deadliest year in a decade in London. Tina Daheley asks the police, politicians and an audience of Londoners why some young people are turning to knife crime and what can be done to stop the number of young lives lost on the capital's streets.

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Saudi Arabia is ranked as one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a woman. Despite this scary fact, Saudi-born, British fashion stylist, Basma Khalifa, 29, has been persuaded to move back to Saudi Arabia – a country she hasn’t been to since her parents moved to Northern Ireland when she was three years old. Although she grew up Northern Ireland, she’s never felt totally at home in t... Read more

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Why do humans make art? When did we begin to make our mark on the world? And where? In this film, Britain's most celebrated sculptor Antony Gormley is setting out on a journey to see for himself the very beginnings of art. Once we believed that art began with the cave paintings of Ice Age Europe, tens of thousands of years ago. But now, extraordinary new discoveries around the world are overtu... Read more

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Journalist Livvy Haydock investigates the rise of vigilante groups who, without official endorsement from the police, target suspected paedophiles. With access to two UK-based paedophile hunting groups, Guardians Of The North from Sunderland and Predator Exposure in Leeds, Livvy observes their methods and stings first-hand to explore whether these groups are helping or hindering the police in t... Read more

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This landmark documentary gathers together the compelling and, in some cases, never-before-heard testimony from the last Holocaust survivors living in Britain today. All of these extraordinary people were children during the Holocaust, but now in their later years, they reflect on their experiences with a different perspective and understanding of how this past trauma permeates through to their co... Read more

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All over the world, children with intersex traits are being operated on to be sex assigned at birth - sometimes with devastating consequences. The UN says as many as 1.7%% of the world have intersex traits - that's the same as the number of people with red hair. All over the world, children with intersex traits are being operated on to be sex assigned at birth - sometimes with devastating conseque... Read more

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A spectacular aerial journey following the world’s longest monument, the Great Wall. In slow-TV style, fly 2,500 kilometres along the wall, from the Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert.

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Travelogue that follows photographer Don McCullin, now 83, documenting his country from inner cities to seaside towns, on a journey in search of his own nation. Sixty years after starting out as a photographer, McCullin returns to his old haunts in the East End of London, Bradford, Consett, Eastbourne and Scarborough. Along the way he encounters an array of English characters at the Glyndebourne F... Read more

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Following on from the Bafta-nominated Behind Closed Doors, documentary-maker Anna Hall's latest film goes into uncharted territory in which she finds children who have witnessed domestic abuse and then asks them what happened to them. In this film, four children go on camera to talk about what they witnessed and experienced, and the ongoing effect this has on them. Working with charities ... Read more

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This is the David Bowie story you don’t know. The story of how David Robert Jones became David Bowie, how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and how Ziggy became immortal, changing the musical landscape as he did so. The story that finally makes sense of one of the greatest icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. Part three of Francis Whately’s Bowie trilogy.

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War Requiem: Staging a Masterpiece was filmed over 12 months, with unprecedented access this landmark film follows the English National Opera as they pursue the challenge of staging Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. One of the greatest British choral works of the 20th Century, War Requiem is seen by many as a true masterpiece. The ENO is the first company to transform the work into a dramatised perf... Read more

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In-depth documentary showing an interesting insight into Sir Frank Williams, his career and family. From nothing other than an obsession with speed, Williams builds one of the world's most enduring Formula One racing teams, but a near fatal car accident in 1986 at the height of this success leaves Frank fighting for his life and the future of the team hanging in the balance.

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Phoenix Dance Theatre performs Sharon Watson’s Windrush: Movement of the People, a contemporary dance work exploring the narrative of the arrival of SS Empire Windrush that brought the first Caribbean migrants to the UK. The work is a lively celebration of the rise of multicultural Britain and features an uplifting soundtrack of calypso, jazz, gospel and reggae, with original music created by Chri... Read more

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Charting Sweden’s remarkable rise as a music superpower. James Ballardie explores the unique Swedish song writing formula behind some of the biggest pop hits since the 1990s.

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Abused By My Girlfriend tells the remarkable story of Alex Skeel, a 23-year-old man from Bedford who survived an abusive relationship with his girlfriend Jordan Worth. Combining observational filming with personal and police archive, this film provides a raw and uninhibited window into a teenage romance that descended into terrible violence. Alongside Alex's shocking and thought-provoking t... Read more

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The first all-Asian girls' cricket team train for their last tournament together. Now they have left school, will outside pressures of life get in the way?

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The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses in 1988 sparked a culture war in Britain between those in the Muslim community, who considered the book blasphemous and called for the book to be banned, and those defending it as an expression of freedom of speech. Protests, which began in the north of England, soon spread across the UK and to the rest of the Islamic world, culminati... Read more

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We only see the world through our own eyes. We cannot know the experience of others, and we all have our own version of normal. But what if some children are seeing their world completely differently and no-one is aware how truly different that actually is? These children have a cerebral visual impairment, which means that part of their brain that deals with vision is not working properly. Ian Ham... Read more

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Young children used to say they want to be actors, footballers or pop stars, but today many of them say that they want to be YouTubers. Jamie Genevieve is a YouTuber at the very top of her game and says she was lucky to catch the vlogging wave early on, saying that nowadays it’s much harder to make it to the top. But this also reveals Jamie’s humility: a trait that makes her one of the most-follow... Read more

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The black market is where we go for our fake gear, but who is behind it all? Investigative reporter Livvy Haydock has spent the last six months investigating the people flooding the UK with fake clothes, bags and even pills. During the course of her investigation Livvy meets a young importer of fake goods ready to sell on to buyers and markets around the country. She also investigates the back all... Read more

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Nothing pulls harder at the heartstrings than an opera aria – that key moment when the action stops and the character draws us right in to the heart of the drama, revealing his or her innermost feelings and thoughts. These are chances for the singers to really show off, to wow an audience with some of the most famous music in opera. In this film, charismatic conductor and music director of the Roy... Read more

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The World Stone Skimming Championships is held on the tiny west coast island of Easdale. An island blessed with millions of perfect skimming stones after its slate mining industrial past was brought to an abrupt end by a huge storm. Water filled the immense quarries and created the world’s first stone skimming arena. The competition has always been, and is to this day, a community fundraising even... Read more

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Former Aberdeen and Rangers star Davie Robertson has left everything behind and moved to India to manage Real Kashmir FC. It's football in the danger zone, can he make it work?

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2018 marked the 40th anniversary of Soft Cell, one of the most charismatic bands in the history of popular music. To celebrate this landmark, Marc Almond and Dave Ball reunited for an emotional farewell concert at London’s O2 Arena that September. With unprecedented access, this film provides an intimate portrait of the band, following rehearsals as well as footage from the actual concert, wove... Read more

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Amar Latif was told, aged four, that he would be blind by the time he was 18. However, his lack of sight hasn’t prevented him from experiencing the world. He has travelled extensively, visiting over a hundred countries and taken up skydiving, bungee jumping and skiing. Whenever Amar travels he relies on someone sighted to guide him. In return he opens their eyes and all their senses to a completel... Read more

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The shocking accounts of five men who were abused by Daryll Rowe - the first ever person in the UK to be convicted after deliberately infecting men with HIV.

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This is the story of how one woman from America's most famous family changed with world through sport. Bill Clinton, Nicole Scherzinger and members of the Kennedy family reveal how JFK's sister Eunice, inspired by a tragedy in her own family, began Special Olympics more than 50 years ago. Clare Balding tells how Eunice defied her own father and overcame ignorance and prejudice to begin a movement ... Read more

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Allegations of a significant elephant-poaching problem in Botswana have sparked a political row between the president and his predecessor. As Alastair Leithead reports, the issue has ignited a national debate over whether there are too many elephants and whether hunting should be re-introduced.

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The showband was a uniquely Irish phenomenon. It was a movement that saw thousands of young people travel up and down the country in the late '50s, '60s and early '70s to the `Dancehalls of Romance' to be entertained by the Royal Showband, the Miami Showband and Big Tom and the Mainliners, and individuals including Dickie Rock, Joe Dolan and Brendan Bowyer. Ardal O'Hanlon looks back at the phenome... Read more

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When the #metoo movement spread around the world in 2016, thousands of women followed in France using the hashtag #balancetonporc (expose your pig). But soon using the hashtag became controversial for its vociferousness and created much debate. A tribune defending the right to flirt signed by 100 French women including Catherine Deneuve published in Le Monde newspaper shocked and fuelled the contr... Read more

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Celebrated conceptual artist Ryan Gander investigates the selfie – the icon of a new kind of self-regard that hardly existed just ten years ago. He discovers the roots of the selfie go back hundreds of years before smartphones. In the age of social media, when we are told to be our best selves and live our best lives, he investigates what that really means and what technology is doing to our sense... Read more

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Twenty-five years after the murder of his friend Stephen Lawrence, Duwayne Brooks explores the current wave of knife crime and the impact it is having across the nation.

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Art historian Professor Richard Clay immerses us in the febrile world of viral media, exploring the popularity and meaning of internet memes, from LOL cats to emoji, pratfall videos to ‘dank’ alt-right satire. Playfully fusing the conventions of a BBC Four authored documentary with a throwaway YouTube video style, the film examines the rise and rise of this new visual language and asks what makes ... Read more

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Featuring personal testimony by individuals whose lives have been destroyed by heroin, this film explores the impact of the drug across Northern Ireland and some of the efforts being made to get addicts help.

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Ten years on from the Parliamentary expenses scandal which rocked Westminster to the core, Emily Maitlis explores the profound impact it had on public trust in the political class.

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An investigation into the US laws letting older men marry girls under the age of 16. Ellie Flynn travels to the USA to visit states poised to reconsider their child marriage laws. South Carolina is considering closing its 'marry-your-rapist' loophole that allows girls under 16 to marry if they are pregnant and have a parent’s consent. Visiting the record office in Spartanburg County, Ellie fi... Read more

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The Believers Are But Brothers is an urgent political riff on young men and the internet adapted for television from an award-winning play. Artist, writer and activist Alipoor steps into the dark, blurry online world of fantasists and extremists to tell four fictional stories - of an ISIS recruiter, two British recruits and an alt-right ‘white boy’ from California. Extremists communicate openly ... Read more

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Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail of Mars, from Rome and Carthage to the present day.

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Since the border between the UK and Ireland was created in 1922, film crews and journalists have descended there to try and make sense of its absurdities and contradictions – as well as the turmoil it can cause. Border Country: When Ireland was Divided, brings 100 years of archival footage together with the stories of people whose lives have been affected by this crucial dividing line.

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The story of the meteoric rise of one of Scotland's best-loved comedy double acts. Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill have given birth to some of our best-loved characters and catchphrases and created a sitcom sensation that’s attracted TV and theatre audiences that others can only dream of. Featuring special interviews with Ford and Greg and other key people from their careers. Plus first-hand ... Read more

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Maryam Mirzakhani was a maths genius. She was also Iranian. Born at a time when women's rights and freedoms were being curtailed in her country, Maryam defied the odds to excel in a field traditionally dominated by men, becoming the first woman ever to win the highest award in mathematics - the prestigious Fields Medal. Tragically her brilliant career was cut short when she died of cancer at just ... Read more

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Twenty years on, this landmark BBC documentary reveals the full story of one of Britain’s most high-profile killings.

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They defined music and popular culture like no other band ever will. But how did The Beatles make the journey from Merseyside teenagers to international pop stars in the 1960s? The Beatles: Made on Merseyside recounts how American rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm and blues dragged post-war Liverpool into one of the most vibrant music cities ever with the Mersey Sound. Featuring unique archive and reve... Read more

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Presented by Emilia Fox and Professor David Wilson, this documentary casts new light on the Jack the Ripper case, identifying another victim and naming the killer.

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Over nine tumultuous months, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg takes us inside the most extraordinary political story of our time – Brexit.

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What’s the best way to save the ageing breed of male Morris dancer from extinction? Richard Macer infiltrates the endangered world of bells, beer and beards to discover an unlikely saviour of this ancient masculine tradition in the form of women. The Morris Ring, the oldest Morris organisation in the country, has voted to admit women dancers for the first time with the hope that its member side... Read more

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A year in the life of abstract artist Sean Scully, one of the world’s richest painters. Little known at home but a superstar abroad, Sean flies around the world to open 15 major museum exhibitions - a journey that also reveals his extraordinary life story. Now, at the age of 73, Scully opens up about his unique experiences spanning 55 years in an often hostile art world - how he built a reputa... Read more

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Karenina Velandia explores El Helicoide in Venezuela and looks at how it came to be one of the country's most notorious prisons. She talks to former prisoners and guards.

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For two years BBC cameras have followed, Dr Sheperd Doeleman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the work of the Event Horizon Telescope project team, a collective of the top scientific minds from around the world. The project combines radio observatories and telescope facilities from around the world to make up a virtual telescope with a diameter spanning the entire planet. This mega... Read more

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After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.

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As part of BBC News' "Europe's Identity Crisis" season, Mark Urban examines Macron's rise, troubles and future plans for France and the EU.

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In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her life today. With excerpts of her greatest stage roles (as Dido, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Orpheus), as well as of her appearances in the concert hall and recording studio (works by Handel, Berlioz, Schubert, Elgar, Bri... Read more

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Billy Bragg on how one song - Rock Island Line - kickstarted the skiffle craze in 50s Britain and gave birth to the great British bands of the 60s.

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Just 40 years ago it was illegal to be gay in Scotland, now the country is a leader in LGBTQ+ rights – and Glasgow is home to a thriving drag scene. This documentary takes a glimpse behind the make-up, wigs and corsets to find out what it takes to live a life in drag, why people do it and the daily battles drag queens still face, following three queens at different stages in their drag careers.... Read more

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Jodie Chalk first rode a motorcycle at age five, a gift from her father, Garfield. At 25 she is one of the most competitive riders in the UK, setting track records all over Britain but her dream is to be the first woman to win a British CB500 championship. With Garfield behind her on every corner she’s in with a chance, but as a woman in a male-dominated sport she’s struggling to find a sponsor an... Read more

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Stereoscopy is a Victorian technique used to create a 3D effect. During the late 1800s, it was a worldwide phenomenon bringing virtual reality-like experiences of world-famous locations and people into millions of homes, but its popularity gradually waned as it was overtaken by new technology. Now Queen's Brian May wants to bring it back.

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Woody Guthrie is one of America’s legendary songwriters. A voice of the people, he wrote hard-hitting lyrics for a hard-hit nation. His is a tale of survival, creativity and reinvention. He is proof that there is always potential for change and even in 2019, more than fifty years after his death, he is challenging Donald Trump from beyond the grave. With enormous influence on successive gene... Read more

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A star-studded account of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Highlights from Oscar’s brilliant comedies such as The Importance of Being Earnest and stories such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost are adapted and performed by a cast including Freddie Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and Ja... Read more

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Paul Adams investigates illegal and unsustainable fishing off the west coast of Africa to find out how one of the most fertile ecosystems on earth has been pushed to the brink.

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2019 marks the 50th birthday of the Open University. In its five decades, the OU has educated more than two million students. Sir Lenny Henry is one of them. Sir Lenny presents this documentary, which tells the story of the OU from 1969 to 2019, with archive and interviews with past graduates, observers and academics. It is nostalgic, affectionate, funny and a piece of cultural and social histor... Read more

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John Lee Hooker was one of the greatest bluesmen of the 20th century. Born into poverty and racial segregation, he lived through a monumental time in American history. This is the story of a cultural icon, and his far-reaching impact on popular music, told in his own words and those of his family and closest collaborators. Interviews with Keith Richards, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Bon... Read more

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The fine line between dedication and obsession with Scotland's most successful bodybuilding couple as they push themselves to the limit for the world finals in Vegas.

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A brutally honest film about grief and the ripple effects of knife crime. When Chanell Wallace was 11 years old, her brother Daniel, 20, was stabbed and killed on the streets of Nottingham. His murderer was given a life sentence, but 13 years on his parole process will soon begin. Daniel’s family have been invited to write a Victim Personal Statement that will be considered in the parole process... Read more

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Iolo Williams investigates the worrying decline of wildlife in Wales. Although there are still some good wild habitats which are full of fantastic species, they are becoming fewer and rarer. Iolo fears that the decline is escalating and unless we reverse it, we are in danger of losing much of the wildlife that makes Wales so outstanding as a land of the wild. In a passionate plea to save Wales's ... Read more

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After an accident leaves Stuart with a life changing brain injury, he and his film-maker friend Ciaran reflect on their shifting 20-year friendship in the face of memory loss and Stuart’s altered personality. Exploring how they have both coped with Stuart’s brain injury, the two friends try to understand what remains and what it is that endures when a friendship is fractured, leaving one with mor... Read more

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Teenage Kicks is an eye-opening exploration of the impact of technology on sex and relationships among young people today. Snapchat is changing the way teenagers form relationships. Instagram is changing the way teenagers see themselves and each other. And internet pornography is changing their sexual behaviour. This one-hour documentary delves into the lives of a diverse range of teenagers as t... Read more

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Trafficked into the sex industry after defecting from North Korea, two young women spent years in captivity in China before finally being helped to escape. BBC Korea Editor Su-Min Hwang reports on their extraordinary ordeal.

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In the past 40 years Iraq has endured three major wars, a violent coup, two invasions, a decade of bombing, two insurgencies, attack by the so-called Islamic State group and a sectarian civil war. Living through such relentless bloodshed has taken a heavy toll on the nation's mental health. More than one third of Iraqi children are thought to have moderate to severe mental illness and all social i... Read more

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Was Cleopatra a seductress or a great politician? Shakespeare scholar Dr Islam Issa's exploration of why history and literature have recorded two very different Cleopatras.

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Two great rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates - have been the lifeblood of Iraq for centuries. But last summer, toxic water in the southern Iraqi city of Basra sparked an explosion of anger and unrest as people across the city fell sick.

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Fair competition is one of the underlying principles of sport. Although recently, issues surrounding gender within sports competitions, have raised questions about maintaining a level playing field. Are all athletes competing on an equal basis, does an unfair advantage exist? As Alex Capstick reports campaigners are divided and the sports authorities are struggling to find an answer.

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In May 2014, fire tore through the west wing of the Glasgow School of Art, destroying its famous library. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the building was one of the finest examples of modern architecture in the world. What followed was the biggest conservation project in Europe: to restore the building to Mackintosh's original vision. It was on the verge of completion when a second, more d... Read more

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Follows the story of a diver trapped on the bottom of the North Sea. At the time of the accident, Chris Lemons was relatively new to saturation diving. It was an exciting time in his life: he was engaged to be married and building a dream house in the highlands with his fiancee. After a system failure on the dive support vessel, Chris becomes stranded on the seabed with five minutes of oxygen, but... Read more

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The Singer sewing machine, international icon and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, helped put the town of Clydebank on the map. Over the course of a century, it employed tens of thousands of 'bankies' before its demise nearly 40 years ago. This documentary charts the story of those workers: how their lives were intertwined with the fortunes of Scotland’s first US multinational company. Th... Read more

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The shocking story of Gemma, a young woman with a learning disability who was abandoned by the system and brutally murdered by people she thought of as friends.

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What are the areas in which Britain’s coastal towns are thriving, or just surviving? BBC Look East’s Susie Fowler-Watt presents a series of special reports from Great Yarmouth.

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To celebrate Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday, historian Dr Lucy Worsley explores the character and legacy of the famous monarch in a way that has never been attempted before – through music. Lucy reveals how Victoria used music to transform the monarchy from a political power into a benevolent cultural force that brought the country together during a time of great upheaval and change. Lucy also ex... Read more

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Twenty years ago, Peter Mullan’s film Orphans shocked and wowed audiences around the world. This funny and poignant documentary reunites the cast as they remember the film that changed their lives. Peter Mullan is famous for being an actor, director and writer. He has had roles in the iconic Scottish films of the 1990s and is now in much demand in America. Orphans was his first feature film, a... Read more

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In one of his first and only interviews since he was imprisoned in April 2018, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks with journalist Kennedy Alencar about his imprisonment, the state of Brazil, his past, and his future.

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Decision makers and witnesses describe the power struggles, miscalculations, and media censorship that led up to the 1979 revolution in Iran, which ended the rule of its last monarch and turned the nation into an Islamic republic.

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When 21 year old Calum Barnes – better known as Glasgow rapper Lumo - takes his own life aged 21, it sends shockwaves through the Scottish hip hop community. As his family and friends try to make sense of his struggle, they uncover hidden clues in the lyrics and video diaries he left behind, which tell a complex story of identity crisis culminating in suicide. Suicide is the biggest killer of youn... Read more

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Film marking a year since one of the deadliest days of violence in the Gaza Strip for a generation. Made by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in Gaza examines, moment by moment, what happened on that fateful day. 14 May 2018 started as a day of mass protest at Gaza’s border with Israel, and would end as one of the most deadly days in Gaza for a generation. For weeks, Palestini... Read more

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This film tells the stories of three British soldiers who died in 2018 following lengthy battles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

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Family, friends and fellow riders reflect on the life of William Dunlop, one of Northern Ireland’s best ever motorcycle road racers. The programme also features many of his most famous race victories

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Film-maker Martin Read has chronic insomnia and hasn't slept properly for more than 30 years. He's on a mission to find answers and hope from the UK's leading experts. Over four months, Martin and four fellow sufferers track their progress as they test different treatments, all in pursuit of the good night’s sleep they desperately crave.

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Since Nadiya Hussain won Bake Off in 2015 she’s rarely been off our screens. But behind the scenes Nadiya suffers from extreme anxiety and debilitating panic attacks, which she’s had since childhood. For decades, she has kept her anxiety a secret, ashamed to speak out. She’s never had a proper diagnosis but thinks she has an anxiety disorder, and with around 5 million people suffering from the ... Read more

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In 1989, Jocky Wilson was crowned world darts champion for the second time. Featuring rare archive footage and told in his own words, this is the story of the rise and fall of a cult Scottish sporting hero. Known for his heavy drinking and unorthodox throwing style, Jocky was propelled to fame through a sport that went from pub pastime to mass entertainment. Darts took him from the dole queue in ... Read more

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David Harewood had a breakdown at the age of 23. Here he opens up about his experience and meets young people living with mental health problems and the NHS staff treating them.

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On the 25th anniversary of Mandela's election, BBC Correspondent Fergal Keane goes back to examine his reports, and considers why history did not turn out the way he expected. At the heart of the film is an interview in which Fergal explores his decades of reporting in South Africa, from the fear being caught up in violent protests to the joy of reporting for BBC Newsbeat as Mandela was sworn ... Read more

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With a week to go before the UK takes part in EU elections, and nearly three years after the UK voted to leave the EU, Andrew Marr and guests explore how we reached this point. What were the factors behind the leave vote? How do the EU elections work? And what could happen afterwards?

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HRH the Duke of Cambridge, Gareth Southgate, Peter Crouch, Thierry Henry, Danny Rose and Jermaine Jenas gather together in the company of Dan Walker for an extraordinary and revealing conversation about men's mental health.

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In a world of constant flux and chaos, it is almost a shock to discover some experiences remain unchanged, natural, primitive even. In the middle of London lies Hampstead Heath, 320 hectares of forest, parkland and wildlife, plus three swimming ponds. People take their waters all year round, just as they did in the time of Constable and Keats. Capturing all the beauty of the English seasons, the f... Read more

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A heartwarming story of homelessness, belonging, adventure and hope, told over the course of a year in Oxford, as an unlikely group of homeless people throw loneliness aside and come together to create and perform an entirely new piece of theatre.

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In an intensely personal and often surprising film for BBC Two, Alastair Campbell candidly talks about his experience living with depression and explores if radical new treatments can make a difference. Alastair is best known for his role as Tony Blair’s formidable and often contentious spin doctor, but, away from the public eye, he has been dogged by crippling bouts of depression for most of ... Read more

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Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland - the remote islands at the northerly limits of Britain - and traces the course of a breeding season from the depths of winter to high summer as the animals on the islands battle for survival. In never-before-seen footage, an orca pod hunts seals along the rocky coasts while a mother otter struggles to protect her twin cubs from maraud... Read more

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A year on, Warwick University is still reeling from the fall-out over a Facebook group chat where male students made rape threats against their female peers. After two of the men had 10-year campus bans reduced to 12 months, serious questions were raised about the university’s handling of its investigation into the messages. In this documentary, those at the centre of the Warwick University ra... Read more

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One family’s fight for answers after their daughter took her own life. Natasha Abrahart was one of 11 students at the University of Bristol to kill themselves in 18 months.

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Until recently, centre left social democrats held power in many countries across Europe. Since the financial crash of 2008 and high levels of immigration into Europe in recent years however, parties who once prospered from their "third way" centrist policies have suffered some major reverses. While the nationalist right and socialist left have found many new voters across the EU, the social democr... Read more

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Exploring what happened to Father Francis Joseph, a Catholic priest who negotiated the surrender of some of the rebel commanders at the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

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All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world. And the problem is intrinsically linked to climate change. The country has already warmed by 2.2 degrees, forcing thousands of people to abandon the countryside and the traditional herding lifestyle every year for the smog-choked city where 90% ... Read more

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In the last few decades hundreds of mansions have sprung up in villages throughout Pakistan's Punjab. Each mansion represents a successful migration to the West. This film tells the story of three local men who migrated to Oslo where they have worked, married, had children and lived their lives for decades. All three have realised their dream to have a mansion back home, all three experience the c... Read more

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Victorian society is often viewed as buttoned up and prudish. Historian and author Dr Fern Riddell holds the opposite view and takes us on a journey deep into Victorian culture.

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The story of Scotland's superstar DJ you’ve never heard of. A crowd-pulling DJ at 15, Stuart 'Scoobs' Cochrane performed from Bannockburn to Ibiza and all points in between. A pioneer of the rave scene in Scotland, Scoobs' entrepreneurial spirit and hedonistic attitude saw him host raves in the most unlikely of places including Blair Drummond Safari Park. But at 56, having struggled with his menta... Read more

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Documentary looking at the growing phenomenon of co-parenting – where women and men have a baby together without being in a romantic relationship. Many are friends, while others meet through co-parenting websites. They all have one thing in common – a very strong desire to have a child of their own. Friends Alex and Miriam are both in their 20s, both gay and both want to be parents – so why not... Read more

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Sugar dating websites aim to connect attractive, young women and men, known as ‘sugar babies’, with older, wealthy men known as ‘sugar daddies’. The websites claim sugar babies can receive thousands of pounds in cash each month, as well as luxury gifts, and the right sugar daddy can even introduce them to a world of business opportunities. In this programme, presenter Tiffany Sweeney meets 18-y... Read more

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The Royal Academy summer exhibition is the world’s longest running and largest open-submission show. What does that mean? That any artist can enter and stand a chance of hanging alongside the great and the good within these hallowed halls. Kirsty Wark and Brenda Emmanus follow every step of the way with three hopeful amateur artists, and delve into the fascinating process of curating and hangin... Read more

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Award-winning author Darren 'Loki' McGarvey reveals the history of Scottish hip-hop. Looking back at over 30 years of culture, he speaks to the pioneers in music, dance and art, telling a story of young men and women in Scotland overcoming adversity to express themselves in often-challenging circumstances. Exploring status in culture and language and how young people in the 80s caught on to ... Read more

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Documentary telling the story of hip-hop's rise to become a highly lucrative global business with some of its stars making hundreds of millions of dollars. Famous artists including 50 Cent, Ice T, Chuck D, Young Thug, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel along with music industry moguls explain their recipe for success. The film tells the story of those names that have changed the rules of the game and h... Read more

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Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl is an intimate portrait of British singer-songwriter Kate Nash and follows her journey over several years in her pursuit to remain a creatively and financially independent artist. After being dropped by a major label, Kate learns (the hard way) how to navigate the music industry as a self-sufficient businesswoman and creative. The film provides a unique insight in... Read more

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A deeply personal film from the Academy Award-winning team behind Virunga (2014) and The White Helmets (2016). Fourteen years after the suicide of their son and brother Evelyn, director Orlando von Einsiedel and his family decide to walk the length of the UK and try to talk about him - something they had failed to do in over a decade. This poetic feature documentary explores the fabric of grief an... Read more

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Ewan McGregor narrates a unique nature special looking at the wildlife of the North Atlantic through the eyes of the Vikings. Combining historical re-enactment with jaw-dropping Natural History sequences, Wild Way of the Vikings features vast herds of reindeer, huge gannet colonies, cute Artic foxes, seal-hunting orca, mystical ravens and giant walruses.

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David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants has been 70 years in the making.

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After being diagnosed with a rare, deadly form of malignant melanoma, George McGavin embarks on a unique, and deeply personal, journey as he learns about the science behind his treatment.

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This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-... Read more

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Documentary film-maker Sophie Fiennes follows the star Grace Jones behind the scenes - in the recording studio, backstage and at home with her extended family in Jamaica - and intersperses this candid, revealing footage with live performances by Jones. Still an iconic, uncompromising performer, Jones uses all her legendary stagecraft to perform classic hits like Pull Up to the Bumper and Slave to ... Read more

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When Martina Navratilova called for an open debate about transgender women athletes competing in women’s sports earlier this year, it sparked a heated and passionate argument, creating global news headlines. In this one-off documentary special for BBC One, Martina sets out to open up the debate and answer some of her own questions by meeting a range of athletes, trans women and scientists. Marti... Read more

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Documentary telling the story of Mikey Kay’s autistic 47-year-old brother Spencer, who finds his peace in epic walks across the majestic, rugged Welsh terrain. For Spencer, everyday tasks can be a huge challenge, and he is unable to wash, dress or feed himself. But the moment he steps into the mountains, he becomes unstoppable. The family know the only medicine their brother actually needs is his ... Read more

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With a week to go before Glastonbury 2019, Edith Bowman narrates this affectionate, witty A-Z of 25 years’ worth of Pyramid Stage headliner action since TV cameras first came to Pilton in 1994.

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Sue Barker presents an intimate profile of one of sport’s most famous characters, John McEnroe, who is still controversial as he enters his 60th year. Sue travels to John’s New York home and meets his childhood friends, brothers Mark and Patrick, daughters Anna, Ava, Ruby and his wife Patty Smyth (the American singer and songwriter). Along with his greatest rival and close friend Bjorn Borg, t... Read more

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Using dramatic reconstruction, declassified cockpit audio recorded by the astronauts themselves and film archive, this is the untold story of the first moon landing.

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It's 50 years since Charles was crowned Prince of Wales in a lavish ceremony which divided opinion in our country. Sian Lloyd goes on a road trip across Wales, and back through time, to see what the heir to the throne has done for Wales, and asks whether we will ever see another investiture like it again.

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For over fifty years, Dieter Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe, and his influence on Apple. So, at 87 years old, why does he now regret being a designer? Rams is a design documentary, but it is also a rumination on consumerism, sustainability and the future of design. Dieter's philosophy is about more than just design. It is... Read more

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The majority of the 14,000 fans were young girls, there to enjoy a night of freedom. Twenty-two people were killed, more than 250 injured and countless lives were impacted. This observational documentary hears from nine young girls and women aged between 11 and 20 who were directly involved, many of whom are reflecting on their experiences for the first time. Following three of them in the mont... Read more

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In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell from Lewes in East Sussex travelled in secret to northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the country. In the midst of the civil war in Syria, a fledgling feminist democracy had been established but almost immediately came under threat from the so-called Islamic State. Just eight months after arriving and with no military ... Read more

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Fifty years on from the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, this documentary explores the tumultuous period leading up to the investiture and the rise of Welsh nationalism. The investiture set two very different men on a collision course; a young prince making his debut on the global stage and a military man turned bomber, repelled by the investiture and all it represented, an... Read more

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Writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald traces the dramatic journey of Britain’s greatest river, the Tay, over an entire year. Mixing natural history, cutting-edge science and historical biography with a spectacular travelogue, the film is a celebration of our largest river as it transforms from melting Highland snow to a vast torrent flowing into the cold North Sea. Following the river’s cours... Read more

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In 2016 a trip to a summer camp in Russia's far north ended in tragedy, when 14 children died during a boating activity. It later emerged there had been complaints about the conditions at the camp, but nothing had been done. The deaths shocked Russia. Now three years on and following criminal proceedings where two people were prosecuted, Yulia James meets some of the families of the children who d... Read more

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The story of Britain’s biggest ever food scandal. Mad cow disease has killed almost 200 people. It is an epidemic that was created through greed and political miscalculation.

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An intimate, feature-length documentary following two patients through groundbreaking ‘first in-human’ trials for CAR T-cell therapy, a treatment described as the beginning of the end of cancer. Not allowed to meet and separated by two floors of a hospital, 53-year-old Graham and 18-year old-Mahmoud are nevertheless bound together by their commitment to the treatment and their faith in the sci... Read more

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Looking back with a mixture of pride, curiosity and occasional bewilderment, Noel Gallagher relives moments of his life on TV - handpicked by Dermot O’Leary. From Maine Road to Downing Street, The Word to Newsnight – Noel has been ever present on our screens for the past 25 years. Now is his chance to watch it back. In characteristically revealing form, Noel talks about the early days of Oas... Read more

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Music documentary that traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a black American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar. Pride’s love for music led him from the Delta to a larger, grander world. In the 1940s, radio transcen... Read more

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A documentary exploring the place of the LGBTQ community within the Christian faith, and the Church of England in particular, through the perspective of the Rev Jide Macaulay, an openly gay member of the clergy. Jide is an ordained deacon and wants the Church of England to adopt a more inclusive position towards the LGBTQ community, with particular respect to same-sex marriages for members of the ... Read more

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How golfer Tommy Fleetwood went from sneaking on to golf courses as a youngster to the top of the sport. With contributions from Tommy, his wife, father, coach and caddie, as well as Colin Montgomerie, Robbie Fowler and his friend Francesco Molinari. The programme includes never-before-seen home video of Tommy’s childhood and follows him to golf tournaments in the UK and USA.

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Revolutionary change is shaking up the TV industry in Hollywood. A wave of hit shows like Atlanta, Dear White People and Insecure, all with majority African-American casts, are pioneering a new frankness about race and identity. This film follows Reggie Yates to LA and into this ferociously creative and hugely aspirational new world as he meets leading African-American actors such as Oscar-winner... Read more

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A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have been attributed.

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A group of Holocaust survivors and their families gather in Prague’s Old Town Square to recreate a photo that was taken in 1945, when the survivors had just been liberated from Nazi concentration camps. The survivors were part of a group of children flown to the UK to start new lives after World War Two. Unlike the Kindertransport - which rescued thousands of children in the early years of the ... Read more

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What do you do when you’re young, homeless and have a baby? As homelessness in the UK reaches the highest level in a generation, for many this is an all too real predicament. With 130,000 children now growing up with no fixed abode, the government have described the situation as a national crisis. This film follows the ups and downs of a group of young women who, with nowhere else to go, are t... Read more

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With July 2019 marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, eyes across the world will be turned to the skies. To celebrate this seminal event, Wales's NASA-recognised astro-photographer Alyn Wallace sets out to capture his ultimate moon images, taken in iconic locations around Wales. Along the way, Alyn will celebrate Wales's internationally recognised and protected 'dark skies'. In a ti... Read more

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2019 has marked a change in public attitudes to climate change driven in part by a huge new global protest movement. In this timely and powerful documentary, reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most important of the protest groups, Extinction Rebellion. He is with them for four months as they build towards “the rebellion” - 11 days of protest in April during which they take over and occupy four ... Read more

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In this special programme, marking 50 years since the first moon landing, comedian Tudur Owen tells the remarkable story of Tecwyn Roberts - a Welshman who was instrumental in the Apollo missions at NASA. From Anglesey to America, we hear just how important Tecwyn’s work was in getting man to the moon. Tudur visits the homes and gets exclusive interviews with three of NASA’s finest engineering leg... Read more

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Every year in the UK thousands of baby boys are circumcised for religious or cultural reasons. The practice, which involves removing a small part of their penis, is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world. But several European countries are considering a ban on circumcision, unless there are medical reasons for the operation to be carried out. Is it something we should consider ban... Read more

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Komodo dragons, Earth's largest lizards, can only be found in a tiny corner of Indonesia. Tourists from around the globe flock here to see them and locals believe they are physically and spiritually related to them. But as Rebecca Henschke reports, Indonesian regional authorities want to return Komodo Island to the dragons.

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Witness History has five stories from the history of space exploration, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing in 1969.

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Bestselling author Jessie Burton and award-winning author and playwright Alex Wheatle join School of Life bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud to discuss the role of reading and writing within mental health. Hosted by BBC Culture's literature columnist Hephzibah Anderson.

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In a Sussex village, a community has turned its back on the modern world to live a life free of money, crime and homelessness. But one young resident is questioning her future.

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The tragic death of Emiliano Sala in a plane crash touched thousands of people across the world. BBC Wales Investigates examines the circumstances of the crash and travels to Argentina to speak exclusively with his family and friends to find out more about the footballer and their hopes for justice.

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Working-class Tory and Leave-voting comedian Geoff Norcott sets out on a mission to expose the middle-class hypocrisy that he believes is ruining Britain, looking at education, the gentrification of parts of big cities, and the worlds of dating and politics.

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In this revelatory documentary, hip hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy (aka Fred Brathwaite) saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian renaissance art in 15th-century style – on horseback. Amidst superstar artists such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Ghiberti and Carpaccio, Fab discovers groundbreaking images of a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society that have slipped through the cracks of art hist... Read more

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Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain’s elite professions. What does it take for bright working class youngsters to break into the elite?

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Documentary following Markus Meechan as he explores London’s comedy scene to see what stand-ups can get away with and why there’s a backlash against ‘edgy’ humour.

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Merely Marvelous is a celebration of the life and artistry of Broadway's greatest dancing star, Gwen Verdon. She overcame many obstacles, including rickets, the Hollywood system, a loveless first marriage and a difficult second marriage to choreographer/director Bob Fosse, to become a multi-Tony Award-winning performer. Gwen's life is told through interviews with family members and theatre asso... Read more

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Dubbed Britain’s worst football team, Fort William FC sits at the foot of Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands. Filmed during the new management’s first season in charge of the club, the documentary follows the struggles of the Highland League side on and off the pitch and the lives of the locals for whom the club means so much.

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Acid house is often portrayed as a movement that came out of the blue, inspired by little more than a handful of London-based DJs discovering ecstasy on a 1987 holiday to Ibiza. In truth, the explosion of acid house and rave in the UK was a reaction to a much wider and deeper set of fault lines in British culture, stretching from the heart of the city to the furthest reaches of the countryside, cu... Read more

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Conjoined twins Marieme and Ndeye from Senegal have defied all expectations by living to two and a half years old. But their future is uncertain and their father Ibrahima now faces an unimaginable decision. When the sisters were seven months old, Ibrahima brought them to the UK to seek the specialist care of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The hospital is one of the world’s leading centres for th... Read more

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Comedian and football presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and the truth about the industry.

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During the 1970s, Ibiza became the dance destination of Europe and heralded the birth of superclubs such as Pacha, Ku and Amnesia.

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In a series of documentaries, the BBC explores how best we can protect our precious planet. Climate change and pollution are taking their toll - that much is now scientifically evident. But for all the uncomfortable truth; individuals, scientists and politicians realise we have the power to do something; that we hold the future in our hands. We'll be exploring sustainable solutions around the glob... Read more

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As Iraq picks up the pieces after the defeat of the so-called Islamic State group, this film follows the relentless efforts of the women who are helping their country overcome the trauma of war.

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Sharanjit Leyl explores Singapore's early beginnings through the stories of some of the first settlers, examining compelling and remarkable characters who helped to forge a modern nation. She uncovers the secrets and little-known history of this fascinating city.

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This film gives the term ‘blood, sweat, and tears’ a whole new meaning as it charts the lives and loves of Wales’ first and best roller derby team, the Tiger Bay Brawlers. This observational documentary follows them through the biggest moment of their sporting lives: the European Continental Championships. Roller derby is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe. To the uninitiated, it looks li... Read more

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On 14 August 2018, the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa collapsed, sending 27 vehicles plummeting to the valley below. 43 people lost their lives. It was Italy’s worst ever road-bridge disaster. This film tells the story of some of the people on the bridge that day and investigates what caused the bridge to fail so catastrophically. The Polcevera Bridge was an icon of 1960s engineering, built by one ... Read more

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Presenter Josie d’Arby can’t wait to return to Wales’ largest international festival - the Llangollen Eisteddfod. This summer event showcases competitors and performers from all over the world and Josie will be there to meet the groups and experience the behind-the-scenes preparations and to congratulate the winners. BBC News presenter and passionate clog dancer Iwan Griffiths travels to Irelan... Read more

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In a uniquely personal journey on the 50th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in August 1969, reporter Peter Taylor reflects on almost a half century of covering the Northern Ireland conflict. The programme is a highly personal account of the Troubles events and legacies, drawing on Peter's experiences in reporting from Northern Ireland.

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The captivating story of Jim Haynes, an extraordinary 83-year-old man who grabbed with heart and soul the spirit of the 60s and continued to carry it throughout his life. He dined with The Beatles and shacked up with the Rolling Stones. He rubbed shoulders with soul diva Mama Cass, folk troubadour Leonard Cohen and a fledgling Pink Floyd. He was a figurehead for a new generation of playwrights.... Read more

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Eric Jones is a legendary adventurer. A climber, parachutist, base jumper, balloonist and motor biker whose love for speed and his need for pulse-racing adventure has seen him live an incredible and inspirational life. Eric is widely recognised as Britain's most successful solo climber. It's the purest and most dangerous form of climbing - solo and with no safety rope. Now, this 82-year-ol... Read more

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For three days in August 1969, half a million people from all walks of life converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound: a moment that came to define a cultural revolution. This documentary tells the story of the lead-up to those three historic days, through the voices of those who were there... Read more

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On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. Three others were killed on the boat that day, including two teenage boys. Later that afternoon, in a second strike, the IRA killed 18 British soldiers, across the border in Northern Ireland. Forty years on, this is the story of that remarkable Bank Holi... Read more

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Jonathan Meades completes his quartet on the architecture of the great European dictators of the 20th century. Franco's architectural legacy was more enduring and surprising than any of the others.

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Rugby legend Gareth Thomas continues his campaign to wipe out homophobia in professional football. With reported incidents of homophobic abuse at football matches at a record high, Gareth enlists the help of parliament as he attempts to outlaw abuse in football stadiums. He also recruits Cardiff City, Leeds United and Norwich City in his campaign to tackle homophobia in the boardroom, the dressing... Read more

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Anni Albers enrolled in 1922 at the legendary Bauhaus school with hopes of becoming a painter. However, its founder feared that too many women might damage his new school’s reputation so Anni and the majority of female applicants were swiftly funnelled into the weaving class and workshop. This film documents Anni’s rise and the turbulent final years of the Bauhaus when Anni was forced to flee Ger... Read more

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Presented by Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, Bauhaus Rules brings the radical principles of the Bauhaus to a new generation, to discover if the school's groundbreaking approach to training artists still holds its power 100 years on. Over a week, six Central St Martins graduates - across fine art, fashion, graphic design and architecture - are challenged each day to create a new work of art, design or pe... Read more

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In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form this influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined tha... Read more

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An Engineer Imagines tells the story of Peter Rice, widely regarded as the most distinguished structural engineer of the late 20th century, and his massive impact on modern architecture. Without his innovations in material and design, and his collaboration with the leading architects of his time, some of the most recognisable architectural buildings in the world would not have been possible. These... Read more

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For Nadiya, summertime is party time, and is the perfect excuse to put her busy life on hold and pull out all the stops. In this glorious hour-long special, Nadiya cooks up an array of mouth-watering dishes that she serves up to her loved ones at her own summer party feast. Nadiya fires up the BBQ and cooks a delicious butterflied leg of lamb with sticky rhubarb glaze, perfect for feeding a cro... Read more

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Stevie Richardson always wanted to be in the army. In 2010, at age 22, Stevie lost his legs stepping on an Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan, losing his career as a soldier and his sense of purpose. Several years of arduous recovery later, and after learning how to walk on prosthetics, Stevie is still in combat in civilian life, struggling with his new identity as a 'disabled' man. ... Read more

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It's long been known that German soldiers used a methamphetamine, called Pervitin, during WWII. But have tales of Nazis on speed obscured the massive use of stimulants by British and American troops? Did total war unleash the world's first pharmacological arms race? And in the face of industrial slaughter, what role did drugs play in combat? Historian James Holland is on a quest to dig deeper a... Read more

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Richard Mylan and his autistic son Jaco are going on a journey of discovery. Travelling from Wales to America and back again, they’re visiting the most autism-friendly places around the world, to find out how we can make everywhere from a local barber shop to a national stadium more inclusive for autistic people. Richard and Jaco want to understand why so many autistic people feel like they have t... Read more

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The story of how the film producer acquired and deployed his power, charting how he allegedly abused women with seeming impunity throughout his career - from his early days as a music promoter to running movie company Miramax with his brother Bob. Women who came forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault tell their stories in detail, including Rosanna Arquette, Erika Rosenbaum an... Read more

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Charlotte Callen investigates an innovative scheme developed by Avon and Somerset Police that uses mentoring and education to help young drug dealers break out of a life of crime. The project, called "The Call In" offers young drug dealers an opportunity to go on a six month intervention course rather than face prosecution, with the aim of preparing them for a crime-free life as productive members... Read more

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What makes our lipstick glossy and our foundation smooth? A lot of the time it’s palm oil. It’s in 70% of beauty products - and some people say it should be banned. 28-year-old make-up artist Emmy Burbidge goes to Papua New Guinea to see where palm oil comes from, and to find out what our beauty products are doing to the planet. She discovers there is much more to the palm oil industry than me... Read more

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Ellie Flynn investigates the increasing number of claims that some American law enforcement officers have used their position of power to assault women in their custody. It's claimed a serving police officer in the USA is arrested for a sex crime every 35 hours. Following the ongoing high-profile case of teenager Anna Chambers, who alleges she was raped by two NYPD cops while under arrest in 20... Read more

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From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC archives, following the group’s encounters with ‘Auntie’ over the past 50 years. Highlights include Terry Gilliam showing how he created his unique Python animations, Graham Chapman discussing the pressures of life as a homosexual, alcoholic comi... Read more

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Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges - he is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality of pregnancy, as both a physical experience and one that challenges society's fundamental understanding of gender, parenthood and family. He quickly reali... Read more

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Film-maker Conor Reilly is given rare access to the Scottish flat earth community, setting into motion a chain of events that will introduce him to people that are making it their mission to spread the word of flat earth and why they believe in this so passionately. His journey takes him across Scotland, where he meets believers using social media to spread the message of 'waking up to the lies... Read more

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When Jesy Nelson rose to fame with pop band Little Mix, she was abused online for being 'the fat one". In this personal documentary, the singer opens up about the impact cyberbullies had on her life and the effect on her mental health. Her fellow Little Mix members Perrie, Leigh-Anne and Jade discuss how Jesy's torment affected the ban, while her boyfriend, Love Island star Chris Hughes, recalls f... Read more

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The story of the fighter aircraft that became an international icon, told in the words of the last-surviving World War II veterans combined with stunning contemporary and historical aerial footage.

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In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th century.

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When legendary writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was dying of Aids, his friend and collaborator Werner Herzog made a final visit to say farewell. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog the rucksack that had accompanied him around the world. Thirty years later, carrying the rucksack, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life. Along the way, Her... Read more

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Rugby legend Gareth Thomas lifts the lid on living with HIV. In an emotional and hard-hitting documentary he finally goes public about his condition and reveals how hiding the truth about his health left him feeling depressed and contemplating taking his own life. Now he is on a journey to change perceptions about HIV by raising awareness, fighting prejudice and taking on the biggest physical ... Read more

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Documentary about the extraordinary friendship and collaboration between Winston Churchill and film producer Alexander Korda that helped to bring America into the Second World War.

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Christine McVie is undoubtedly the longest-serving female band member of any of the enduring rock ‘n’ roll acts that emerged from the 1960s. While she has never fronted Fleetwood Mac, preferring to align herself with ‘the boys’ in the rhythm section whom she first joined 50 years ago, Christine is their most successful singer-songwriter. Her hits include ‘Over My Head’, ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘Everywher... Read more

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A compelling insight into the growth of America's devastating relationship with opioids that has destroyed millions of lives.

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Granting unprecedented access, Joan Armatrading tells her life story, both as a songwriter and as a performer. Features key performances from Joan and many of the musicians she has influenced.

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Meet Tony Flatman and Julian Meek, Wales's two most unlikely press barons. Four years ago they launched the Abertillery Dynamic, a free local newspaper, with the aim of holding power to account. Combining opinion pieces with regular features such as 'Sheep of the Week’ and 'The Pub Review’, this is no ordinary paper. After 36 editions, worn out and broke, they were forced to close down. But now th... Read more

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In this undercover investigation, Nawal Al Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq. Some Shia clerics are using a controversial practice called 'pleasure marriage' to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp them out.

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Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She 'was the first', as former husband Miles Davis said. 'Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince'. An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70s scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly ... Read more

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Upstream is a new film by the writer Robert Macfarlane and the director Rob Petit. The film, which is shot entirely from the air, follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland all the way to its source in the Cairngorm mountains, the highest of any river in Britain. With a prose poem written especially for the film by Macfarlane (voiced by Julie Fowlis) and an original score by the Oscar-nominat... Read more

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21-year-old Roma woman Rahela and 35-year-old Scottish man Neil are both residents of Govanhill, Glasgow. But even though they live in the same neighbourhood, their lives could not be more different. Rahela takes this opportunity to introduce Neil to her culture and people, and Neil confronts her about issues in their community that the majority of residents are not happy about.

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Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-century deepfake, and Hislop as never seen before.

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Andrew Graham-Dixon investigates the story of the 20th century's greatest art forger, Han van Meegeren, who made millions during World War II selling fake Vermeers in Nazi-occupied Holland. Following a trail of evidence across Europe, Graham-Dixon pieces together how van Meegeren fooled the art establishment - and even swindled Hermann Göring, selling him what was then one of the most expensive... Read more

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With Asia now home to more billionaires than the USA or Europe, this film follows Lelian Chew, who organises nuptials for the super-rich in the Far East, taking on ten just ceremonies a year at an average cost of $1million each. Bespoke Cartier jewellery, hundreds of thousands of dollars of flowers and multiple designer wedding dresses are nothing out of the ordinary. But Lelian's job also involve... Read more

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A treasure trove of tapes from the golden age of reggae has been salvaged and provides the soundtrack to the compelling story of the family behind the legendary Randy's Studio 17.

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Mark Ronson, hit songwriter and producer openly discusses his life and musical influences. With interviews from Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Broadcast on National Album Day.

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Annie Price meets the women fighting to the top in Mixed Martial Arts or MMA - one of the fastest growing sports in Britain. Molly McCann is the first English woman to win in the top league, the UFC or Ultimate Fighting Championship, and invites Price to train and hang out with her as she prepares for her biggest fight yet, in the USA. 18 year old Shanelle Dyer fights at amateur level and sees... Read more

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A collection of home movies, diaries and letters from the last summer before the start of the Second World War reveals how far the impending conflict was away from the minds of ordinary French people.

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An exciting and ambitious company of near space explorers who have turned their hand to providing a special and out of this world way to say goodbye to a loved one.

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1993 - Scotland’s last full-blooded strike. Thousands of protestors, police and press outside the Timex Camperdown Factory. The furious death throes of an industry that had employed generations of Dundonians - the vast majority women. For most, working for Timex had been a source of pride, good pay and conditions. It would all end in betrayal and bitter disappointment.

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Documentary that chronicles Australian David Mayman's seemingly impossible quest to fulfil his childhood dream to build and fly the world's first jetpack.

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In 1991, as the town of Motherwell faced the crippling social, economic and cultural impact of the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks, its football club, locally known as the Steelmen, lifted the prestigious Scottish Cup for the first time in 39 years. The victory was a glimmer of light in the ensuing darkness.

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Parle Patel investigates the hereditary class system of Hindu society, asking what kind of impact does it have on other Hindus living in Britain. He meets a young woman who is so proud of her caste she is still working in the same occupation as her ancestors did thousands of years ago, and also speaks to a man who has rejected his religion because he believes it's the only way to escape his caste.

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The chilling account of the 2018 megafire that swept through northern California, containing moving interviews with the firemen, police and survivors who came face to face with the disaster.

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The secrets of a lost archive of portrait photos showing the changing face of Bradford in the 20th century. Presenter Shanaz Gulzar tracks down people in the portraits.

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After centuries of Bonnie Boats speeding Over the Sea to Skye, in 1995 a new bridge was built between the island and the mainland. Privately funded, this was to be a toll bridge. Not only that, it turned out to be the most expensive toll bridge in Europe.The locals, however, were having none of it. The Battle of Skye Bridge tells the story of the islanders' protests against the hated tolls, their ... Read more

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Using first-hand testimony and extensive archive, this documentary reveals what it was like to be an RUC officer during the Troubles. In the 1980s, Northern Ireland was described as the most dangerous place in the world to be a cop. At its peak, the RUC employed 8,500 full-time officers with 4,500 reservists. A total of 319 officers were killed, with 9,000 injured during the conflict – some died a... Read more

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During the Troubles nowhere was immune from the violence and fear inflicted on our society. Not the streets, not the factories, not the hospitals. Not even our schools. Through powerful and revealing interviews with teachers and former pupils, this documentary tells the story of how our schools dealt with the traumatic experience of the Troubles as they impacted on the lives of those that lived th... Read more

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Until Northern Ireland spiralled into mayhem after the explosive summer of 1969, Northern Ireland’s firefighters did the same job as any other fire service - days of relative inactivity interspersed with house fires, road crashes and the occasional factory fire. In the space of a few months the service went from this typical fire-fighting life to the most extreme experience in Western Europe since... Read more

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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 USSR in his inimitable fashion.

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For all our advances in medical science, the number of people suffering from fertility issues remains stubbornly high. Across the UK, one in seven couples - around three and a half million people - will experience difficulty starting a family. Of those, a third have what is known as unexplained infertility - both partners are apparently fertile, and yet together cannot conceive a child. In this... Read more

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Dame Vivienne Westwood is punk rock’s grande dame. This one-time agent provocateur became the doyenne of British fashion, an eco-conscious Boudicca and one of the most influential originators in recent history. This film reflects on her extraordinary career from her early uphill struggle to success, and looks closely at her artistry, her activism and her cultural significance. Blending iconic ... Read more

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How the BBC radio programme Letters without Signature, which ran from the 1950s to the 1970s, provided a voice for the citizens of the former communist state of East Germany.

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Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the BBC's John Simpson goes back to examine his reports and consider why history did not turn out quite the way he expected.

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Both Bob Dylan and Nick Cave have testified in song that death is not the end. But, not all stories from the musical afterlife are created equal. Death may have its obvious downside. However, in the world of pop, shuffling off your mortal coil could be a unique business opportunity. In this documentary, Scissor Sisters star Ana Matronic goes on a journey into the afterlife of pop. Think of her ... Read more

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Mark Kermode revisits his 1998 cult documentary on The Exorcist. In this exclusive extended version never seen before on TV, Kermode traces the extraordinary history of The Exorcist, the novel by William Peter Blatty that William Friedkin turned into a popular and controversial film. He examines the aura of mystery that still surrounds the film, the making of which claimed several lives. Alongs... Read more

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40 years ago, the Iranian hostage crisis gripped the world, with details unfolding nightly on television. But one story remains untold. Desperate to get their message out, the hostage takers invited 50 ordinary Americans to visit Iran. For the Americans, this high-risk trip held the tantalising possibility of securing the release of hostages. What transpired was a journey quite unlike any of them ... Read more

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For 45 years after World War II, the Soviet Union and the west were deadly enemies. So what did Scotland do? Presenter Jenna Watt’s own family worked at the Faslane nuclear submarine base, and she wrote and performed an award-winning play about the Scottish-based nuclear deterrent. In this documentary she travels the length of the country unearthing our amazing Cold War stories. From the schoo... Read more

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Documentary that reveals the truth behind a data breach at the University of East Anglia in 2009 that suggested that scientists had manipulated data to exaggerate evidence of climate change.

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Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his late grandad, Stanley Abbs, to explore a brutal but often overlooked chapter of the Second World War.

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A documentary that showcases five of Soviet Europe's most grandiose architectural enterprises. Created to embody the 'collective good', the buildings, made with courage and a bit of lunacy, were used to remind the people of the power and brighter future that awaited them. Each building was designed to be either the tallest or the largest, or to have the biggest clock on earth or the most advanc... Read more