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Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

Series exploring the stories of four ships built on the River Clyde. The Robert E Lee was one of the most famous Clydebuilt blockade-running paddle steamers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Hayman
Series Producer:
Graeme Thomson
Executive Producer:
Craig Hunter
Director:
Sarah Sarkhel

A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Series 1

Episode 1: Beginnings

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for 12 months

Simon Schama begins his history of Britain at the miraculously preserved Stone Age cottages of Skara Brae in Orkney and then moves on to the world of Anglo-Saxon England. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Archive footage and testimony from the last of the whale hunters helps Adam Nicolson reveal what it was like to have hunted whales in Antarctica in the early 20th century. Show more

Amber

Episode 2

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Four

Reporter Maeve Flynn gets a call from a prison and a man who says he knows what happened to Amber - can he be trusted?

Contributors

Sarah Bailey:
Eva Birthistle
Ben Bailey:
David Murray
Amber Bailey:
Lauryn Canny
Eamon Bailey:
Levi O'Sullivan
DI Dunlop:
Declan Conlon
Declan Conlon:
David Herlihy
Sgt Karen Mulcahy:
Emily Nagle
Maeve Flynn-Dunne:
Justine Mitchell
Terrence O'Donoghue:
Ned Dennehy
Supt Jack Stirrat:
Gary Whelan
Janet Balfe:
Donna Dent
Bernard:
Eric Lalor
Maureen O'Donoghue:
Deirdre Donnelly

Series

Amber

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

Series exploring the stories of four ships built on the River Clyde. The Robert E Lee was one of the most famous Clydebuilt blockade-running paddle steamers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Hayman
Series Producer:
Graeme Thomson
Executive Producer:
Craig Hunter
Director:
Sarah Sarkhel

A History of Britain by Simon Schama

Series 1

Episode 1: Beginnings

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for 12 months

Simon Schama begins his history of Britain at the miraculously preserved Stone Age cottages of Skara Brae in Orkney and then moves on to the world of Anglo-Saxon England. Show more

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