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The Planners Are Coming
Description: Looking at building planning processes. Genre: Documentary Year Released: 2008 Number of episodes: 8 First episode air date: September 11, 2008 Network: BBC One Narrated By: Timothy Spall Genre: Television documentary
Plot: To mark 300 years since the birth of the English language novel, an in depth look at three crucial themes featured strongly in its three centuries of existence.
Plot: Comedian Susan Calman takes a light-hearted jaunt around her homeland to visit some of Scotland's most iconic destinations, including Loch Ness, Edinburgh Castle, Rosslyn Chapel and Skara Brae, discovering the nearly forgotten legends and secret stories within. As Calman embarks upon this adventure...
Plot: Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer reminisce on 20 years of house-hunting, with a look back on helping first-time buyers and their first ever property search.
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: One of the paparazzi's most controversial figures, George Bamby, reveals some of the dark arts of the world in which the paparazzi and celebrities indulge in a bizarre game of hide and seek where the lines between fact and fiction are often blurred.
Plot: The history of the warship from the dawn of the 20th century to the present day. Bismarck and Tirpitz were two monsters that threatened Britain's Atlantic convoys.
Plot: Katie Puckrik voyages through a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft when studio-based artists like The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall and Oates produced the smoothest R&B and married it to adult themes about longing, aspiration and melancholy. In its day this music was never identified...
Plot: After helping Canadians off-load their supposedly unwanted homes in "The Unsellables," property marketing and makeover expert Sofie Allsopp travels to her homeland to give Brits a hand. She's armed with practical advice aimed at helping desperate sellers let go of the past, and renovation tips to gi...
Plot: Monty Don, a veteran presenter of gardening programmes, travels through France telling the stories of its most important and extravagant gardens. The three-part series brings Don back to a country he first encountered as a 15 year old, with many visits since but without a chance to properly explore...
Plot: An all-star cast of gardening experts present this programme in which they try to fight overdevelopment and return Britain back to a nation filled with people with green thumbs. Each episode features two presenters focusing on endangered aspects of gardening and offering advice on how viewers can improve...
Plot: Water is vital to life but all of it is not created equal, and getting clean water is a dirty business - literally. People who work for Britain's biggest water companies have to face messy, and at times revolting, situations in order to unblock a drain or fix a leaky faucet and improve the condition...
Plot: The presenters take the prospective buyers around to different houses in the country. The desire for more room, cleaner air and less noise drives city dwellers featured in this series to seek an escape to the country.
Plot: IKEA is one of the world's most successful and recognisable global brands, with more than 900 million people in 49 countries visiting its stores. Despite the popularity of self-assembled furniture, it has managed to keep an air of secrecy around its internal operations. In this three part series, cameras...