Plot: As the UK is undergoing a severe housing crisis, filmmaker Richard Macer heads into Oxfordshire, one of Britain's most expensive counties, where vast areas of once protected countryside are being turned into housing. Filmed over nine months and with unprecedented access to councillors, developers,...
Plot: Trying to run a business in the heavily regulated national parks of England and Scotland can be difficult, causing the business owners a number of trials and tribulations. This programme, presented by filmmaker Richard Macer, examines the problems those businesses face. Among the stories told are that...
Plot: Rory Stewart examines the legacy of Britain's First World War campaign in the Middle East, and draws parallels with British and American interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Plot: `The Secret History of My Family' is a documentary created from a two-year research project, exploring social mobility over a 200-year period. The miniseries explores Britain's history using particular case studies, tracing family ancestry throughout the years and examining whether social ranks have...
Plot: Melvyn Bragg examines the lives, work and legacy of two men whose ideas have had tremendous consequences both in their own time and down the centuries.