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Michael Portillo discovers how trains spread the word about Oban whisky, hears about the struggle to build a railway across Rannoch Moor and visits Corrour. Show more
Documentary filmed in the London warehouse studio of Norman Ackroyd, one of the country's most celebrated landscape artists, as he creates his latest work. Show more
Classic moments brought to the screen by Kenny Everett's stable of wacky characters. Guest appearances by Joanna Lumley, Billy Connolly and Janet Street-Porter. Show more
Charlie Hamilton-James tries to recreate amateur naturalist Percy Smith's 1908 film The Acrobatic Fly, in which a bluebottle juggles a series of objects, and tells Smith's story. Show more
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, chronicling the reigns of the Roman emperors. Show more
Paul Merton's journey through Hollywood reaches the 1920s when in prohibition America the cinema industry was on a collision course with its public because of a run of scandals. Show more
Series exploring the heritage movement looks at its unsung heroes, civil servants such as Charles Reed Peers who helped save the great ruins of Britain. Show more
Documentary in which Waldemar Januszczak argues that the little known 17th-century artist William Dobson, court painter to Charles I, was the first English painter of genius. Show more
Charlie Hamilton-James tries to recreate amateur naturalist Percy Smith's 1908 film The Acrobatic Fly, in which a bluebottle juggles a series of objects, and tells Smith's story. Show more
