Plot: Oxford University theology professor and prize-winning author Diarmaid MacCulloch attempts to do what countless presenters, journalists, novelists, poets and prime ministers have tried over the years: define what it means to be English. But instead of doing so using the usual suspects of politics, wars...
Plot: Inquiring minds just can't help but ponder such questions as, why is the sky blue? Or, why does one catch colds? Perhaps you've wondered what you may look like in a thousand years. `James May's Things You Need to Know ...' covers those questions and others in a series hosted by May (`Top Gear') that...
Plot: Forensic pathologists, mortuary technicians, police and coroner Alison Thompson are the stars of this series. No, it's not a new BBC crime serial - it's a look at the real-life work done at the Coroner's Court, where Thompson and her team investigate mysterious, violent and unnatural deaths in west...
Plot: Presenter Howard Goodall meets some of the world's foremost classical musicians in this insightful programme that features in-depth interviews and intimate performances. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks about the inspiration he gets from Matislav Rostropovich, and performs works by Bach, Britten and...
Plot: Like it or not, parking tickets are a fact of life for motorists not only in Britain but across the world. Despite that, some people still try to fight tickets that are issued to them. `Parking Mad' features some of those disputes, featuring municipalities going after non-payers and even going so far...