The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

Michael Portillo finds out about a funeral service running coffins from Waterloo to Brookwood Cemetery and explores the changing fortunes of London's docks. Show more

Richard Fortey travels to find the survivors of mass extinction events. He focuses on a series of cataclysms over a million-year period 250 million years ago. Show more

Jonathan Meades provides a tour of Essex, a county he sees as the home of picturesque villages, pre-war modernism and 19th-century social experiments. Show more

The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the courts of the Tudors. Show more

Comedy series about a man seeking political office in Scotland. Bob launches his campaign with controversial results. A radio appearance leads to a visit from the police. Show more

Danish political drama. When Birgitte needs a popular cause she is tempted to help broker peace in a central African country. Show more

The eyes of the world are on Birgitte Nyborg Christensen as peace talks between North and South Kharun draw near. Show more

Documentary profile of painter Brian Clarke, one of the world's greatest stained glass artists and a man who has collaborated with some of the world's leading architects. Show more

David Heathcote takes a trip on the Orient Express and meets James Sherwood, the man who restored the old 1930s carriages to their Art Deco glamour in the 1970s. Show more

Jonathan Meades provides a tour of Essex, a county he sees as the home of picturesque villages, pre-war modernism and 19th-century social experiments. Show more