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A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a...

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Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago....

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Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ashley Jensen

Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see...

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The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where...

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Cast: Victoria Coren Mitchell

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...

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Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Capaldi

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Gatiss

The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...

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Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Wight

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and...

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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...

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Charlie Brooker's acerbic take on recent TV contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Brooker

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...

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Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jo Brand

Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Kermode

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mackenzie Crook

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vic Reeves

Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare's plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to Shakespeare while...

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Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he sees a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Meades