Plot: Dan Cruickshank explores famous buildings throughout Britain, discovering their histories and some of the stories that have accompanied them through the years.
Plot: Historian Neil Oliver traces the history and development of Britain from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. The programme documents how thriving Britain became part of the Roman empire during the Iron Age and how Celtic communities survived around the fringes of the island. It also examines how a new Romano-British...
Plot: Navigating Britain's longest canal to be built by just one company, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Experimental for the time, this canal rises 500ft above sea level, scales the steep Pennines and turned Liverpool into the busiest port in the world.
Plot: Art historian and University of Kent professor Alixe Bovey retraces a series of old roads in Britain, using the Gough Map, the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Believed to have been drawn between 1355 and 1366, the map illustrates one of the earliest road networks of England. Following...
Plot: Archaeologist, historian and broadcaster Neil Oliver sets off on a journey to reveal the sacred face of Britain, an ancient landscape of belief and ritual that still lies hidden just below the surface of the modern world. The three-part series sees Oliver search for the very first stirrings of religion...
Plot: `Reel History of Britain', a co-production in association with the British Film Institute and Regional Archives from around the UK, is an exhaustive 20-part series that tells of past hardships and simple pleasures of British life, incorporating the many social changes that took place from the 1900s...