Plot: BBC has gone ambitious with one of their largest classical music projects yet: A compilation of one year of concert broadcasts, television and radio programmes themed around one century of classical culture. `Our Classical Century' involves BBC Four, Radio 3 and all the BBC orchestras, and is the backbone...
Plot: Suzy Klein explores how the power of music to rouse our emotions gave it a crucial role, from the Russian revolution and the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin to WW2.
Plot: Following comedian Frank Skinner and Scottish crime writer Denise Mina as they team up to recreate James Boswell's and Dr Johnson's 18th century trip through Scotland to the Hebrides.
Plot: Actor Sean Bean narrates this four-part documentary, which focuses on the history of one-on-one combat and how people have used organised fighting - to gamble, aid diplomatic relations, settle scores and protect personal honour, for example - throughout the ages. Four eras of fighting are covered in...