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In preparation for a car trip around Britain, Richard Wilson learns how to use a gearstick again, having driven only automatics for the past 30 years. Show more

Ben Garrod discovers how the skeleton has adapted for vertebrates to move on land in many ways and explores the role of the spine in both cheetahs and snakes. Show more

Museum-based quiz panel show. Griff Rhys Jones tests experts at Liverpool's World Museum, which houses collections covering archaeology, ethnology, natural and physical sciences. Show more

Professor Robert Bartlett charts the downfall of the Plantagenet dynasty. In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are deposed and murdered. Show more

Documentary series about Britain's motorways. This final episode explores how people questioned the promises made by the motorways and began to protest. Show more

Vanessa Collingridge travels in the footsteps of legendary explorer Captain James Cook to uncover the forces that drove him to success - and ultimately to his own death. Show more

Michael Mosley lays bare the mysteries of the digestive system and reveals a complexity and intelligence in the human gut that science is only just beginning to uncover. Show more

Ben Garrod discovers how the skeleton has adapted for vertebrates to move on land in many ways and explores the role of the spine in both cheetahs and snakes. Show more

Museum-based quiz panel show. Griff Rhys Jones tests experts at Liverpool's World Museum, which houses collections covering archaeology, ethnology, natural and physical sciences. Show more

Documentary about a team of men and dogs who set out to relay an antitoxin across 674 miles of Alaskan wilderness to save the town of Nome after diphtheria had broken out. Show more

Professor Robert Bartlett charts the downfall of the Plantagenet dynasty. In the last century of their rule, four Plantagenet kings are deposed and murdered. Show more