Continuing the historical strand.
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7.40 Western Front: Making the Front
The first of six films in which Professor Richard Holmes examines how the First World War was fought.
Holmes follows the route taken between August and December 1914 by the 100,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force as they went to fight the Germans in France. At first it was a war of movement, but, by Christmas, the Great War was bogged down in the trenches.
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8.10 Into Africa with Henry Louis Gates: The Slave Kingdoms
Henry Louis Gates's trek in search of Africa's hidden past takes him to the ancient kingdoms of Asante and Dahomey. Guided by the descendants of slaves and slave traders, he explores the human traffic that took slaves to Europe and the Americas. See today's choices.
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