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Series in which Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of Scotland's first tourists. He travels from the Trossachs out to Iona and then the fabled Isle of Staffa. Show more
Marcus du Sautoy looks at the rise of mathematics in the east, discovering how it helped build imperial China and finding out about the invention of algebra. Show more
A film telling the unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the British documentary genre. Show more
Series which examines the recent discovery of 800 short films from the Edwardian age, made by pioneering film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon. Show more
Jack Ashley's influential 1963 documentary about unemployment in Hartlepool, is followed by a report by his daughter Jackie on how it changed politics in the north of England. Show more
Travelling to Russian battlefields and using original telegrams and official documents, David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the struggle between Germany and Russia in WWII. Show more
Marcus du Sautoy looks at the rise of mathematics in the east, discovering how it helped build imperial China and finding out about the invention of algebra. Show more
Series in which Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of Scotland's first tourists. He travels from the Trossachs out to Iona and then the fabled Isle of Staffa. Show more
A film telling the unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the British documentary genre. Show more
