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Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo experiences Italy's need for speed in a state-of-the-art Maserati sports car. Show more

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - challenged the westward push of the early pioneers. Show more

The best in British archaeology. Finds in the west include the camp from which the Vikings invaded, Iron Age gold and evidence that people lived inside our henge monuments. Show more

Comedy series about two metal-detecting friends. Andy and Lance go to great lengths to protect their land. An audacious theft leaves Lance reeling. Andy quits his job. Show more

Black comedy about small-town life. Mr Chinnery has an accident with a tortoise. Benjamin is appalled by his aunt and uncle's eating habits. Show more

Series in which Andrew Marr explores the books we really read. He argues that the British spy novel allows readers to engage with big questions about the human condition. Show more

Film about Peggy Guggenheim, an heiress who became a central figure in the modern art movement, a colourful character who was not only ahead of her time, but helped to define it. Show more

How the landscapes of America's three great mountain ranges - the Appalachians, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada - challenged the westward push of the early pioneers. Show more

The best in British archaeology. Finds in the west include the camp from which the Vikings invaded, Iron Age gold and evidence that people lived inside our henge monuments. Show more