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

Michael explores the Conwy valley, stopping at Britain's first artists' colony at Betws-y-Coed and visiting the Victorian slate capital of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Show more

Michael Portillo takes a train up Mount Snowdon, witnesses the revival of Anglesey's sea salt industry and discovers how the railways transformed Holyhead. Show more

Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz show about making connections. Three budding linguists take on a trio of record collectors. Show more

An archive romp around the periphery of the global jamboree that is the World Cup, as Danny Baker mulls over the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver. Show more

Ray Mears finds out how 500,000 square miles of flat, treeless grassland was the setting for Wild West stories of Indians, wagon trains, homesteaders and cattle drives. Show more

An international team of scientists and divers search for species new to science in the Amazon River. They find stingray, freshwater dolphins, talking fish and the mysterious Jau. Show more

Michael Mosley explores how history has shaped science. He looks at how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos. Show more

Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz show about making connections. Three budding linguists take on a trio of record collectors. Show more

A Timeshift documentary that charts how luxury hotels have met the needs of new forms of wealth - from aristocrats to rock stars and beyond - with comfort, innovation and service. Show more

Using the Rank Organisation's Look at Life documentaries, a look at how childhood was transformed by sweeping changes to the British educational system in the 1960s. Show more

An archive romp around the periphery of the global jamboree that is the World Cup, as Danny Baker mulls over the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver. Show more