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

Ben Robinson flies over Hadrian's Wall to reveal a landscape of hundreds of sites of human occupation suggesting the area was richly populated. Show more

Naturalist Stewart McPherson explores the British Overseas Territories. He begins in Bermuda, travelling on to the British Indian Ocean Territory and Pitcairn Island. Show more

Drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel. An aspiring writer decides to focus on the story of Mississippi's black maids - much to the consternation of her well-to-do white friends. 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

Documentary bringing the story of the coach up to date, exploring the most recent phase of Britain's love affair with four-wheeled group travel from school trips to Indian treks. Show more

Documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age. Show more

Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith re-envisions the story of 20th-century American culture by taking a girth-busting road trip through its most iconic institution - the diner. Show more