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Series following broadcaster Martha Kearney through her beekeeping year. As spring arrives, Martha witnesses the growth of the colony and watches as bee larvae hatch out. Show more

Lucy Worsley learns the 17th-century art of horse ballet, leading up to a public performance. She explores its origins, witnesses displays abroad and discovers its legacies. Show more

Neil Oliver continues his tour of Britain's past with the arrival of metals and how they ushered in a new age of social mobility, international trade and village life. Show more

Reappraising the Dark Ages, Waldemar Januszczak sees how Christian artists used images of ancient gods for inspiration and developed new architectural forms. Show more

David Attenborough narrates a documentary looking at the secretive sloth bear. It follows a young male called Baloo as he grows up in the harsh Karnataka landscape in India. Show more

Prof Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover what the universe might actually look like and charts the stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos. Show more

Documentary featuring specially commissioned research, revealing what really happened during the eruption of the Indonesian volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883. Show more

Documentary about English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. Ancient Egypt was vandalised by tomb raiders until one Victorian maverick pioneered modern field archaeology. Show more

How Jerusalem became the object of rivalry between Christian nations, the focus of the longing of Jews and the site of one of the world's most intractable conflicts. Show more