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Michael Portillo rides the stunning Severn Valley Railway across Victoria Bridge and learns how Victorian blacksmithing was not for the faint-hearted. Show more
Series that explores strange behaviour in the animal kingdom. The bizarre methods employed by some creatures to catch their prey, from fish to lemurs. Show more
Ben Garrod uncovers the secrets of how vertebrates capture and devour their food using extreme jaws, bizarre teeth and specialised bony tools. Show more
Professor Richard Fortey visits China to see a fossil site that has yielded remains of feathered dinosaurs and rewritten the story of the origin of birds. Show more
Ten-part series based on the book by Hew Strachan. Part five looks at the ferocious battle for the Eastern Front, fought from the Urals to the Alps. Show more
Documentary following Frank Quitely over the course of a day and a night, as he works on a page from his latest work, Jupiter's Legacy. Show more
Documentary telling the story of British and German soldiers' photography during the First World War, a moving document of lives in the trenches and their rapid loss of innocence. Show more
Home movies tell the story of how, when steam started to disappear in the 1950s, volunteers were able to save some of the tracks and the engines that ran on them. Show more
Series that explores strange behaviour in the animal kingdom. The bizarre methods employed by some creatures to catch their prey, from fish to lemurs. Show more
Ben Garrod uncovers the secrets of how vertebrates capture and devour their food using extreme jaws, bizarre teeth and specialised bony tools. Show more
Documentary following Frank Quitely over the course of a day and a night, as he works on a page from his latest work, Jupiter's Legacy. Show more
Professor Richard Fortey visits China to see a fossil site that has yielded remains of feathered dinosaurs and rewritten the story of the origin of birds. Show more
