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To celebrate 55 years of the programme, Sir Patrick picked out 55 objects in the April sky for viewers to discover. He and the team find out how everyone got on. Show more
Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 700th episode of The Sky at Night at his home in Sussex, with the help of guests Brian Cox, Jon Culshaw and the Astronomer Royal. Show more
Documentary about the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old object now regarded as the world's oldest computer, found by divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck in 1901. Show more
Space scientist and lunar fanatic Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores people's intimate relationship with the Moon, a familiar presence in the sky that most take for granted. Show more
James Shapiro concludes his series by showing how late works like The Winter's Tale saw Shakespeare still experimenting and alert to the troubled Jacobean world around him. Show more
Adam Nicolson uses newly found 17th-century manuscripts to tell the story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being. Show more
To celebrate 55 years of the programme, Sir Patrick picked out 55 objects in the April sky for viewers to discover. He and the team find out how everyone got on. Show more
Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 700th episode of The Sky at Night at his home in Sussex, with the help of guests Brian Cox, Jon Culshaw and the Astronomer Royal. Show more
Space scientist and lunar fanatic Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores people's intimate relationship with the Moon, a familiar presence in the sky that most take for granted. Show more
Documentary about the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old object now regarded as the world's oldest computer, found by divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck in 1901. Show more
