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Fake or Fortune?

Series 8

The Lost Gainsborough

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough. Show more

Digging for Britain

Series 8

North

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 4 months

More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alice Roberts
Executive Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Series Producer:
Paul Olding
Producer:
Gareth Sacala

Archaeology: A Secret History

Episode 2: The Search for Civilisation

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 6 months

Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past. Show more

Dan Snow, Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at a mighty tomb guarded by the Terracotta Warriors in China. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Snow
Presenter:
Alice Roberts
Presenter:
Albert Lin
Producer:
Nic Young
Director:
Nic Young
Executive Producer:
Lucy Van Beek
Executive Producer:
Greg Sanderson
Production Company:
Brook Lapping Productions

Treasures of the Indus

Episode 2: The Other Side of the Taj Mahal

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

Available for 4 months

Sona Datta looks at the Mughals, who created the most dazzling empire India has ever seen, from the Taj Mahal to intricate miniatures of court life. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sona Datta
Series Producer:
Hugh Thomson
Director:
Hugh Thomson
Executive Producer:
Harry Bell
Participant:
Giles Tillotson
Participant:
Nitin Bhayanan
Participant:
William Dalrymple
Participant:
Ahmed Rashid

Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. Show more

Contributors

Production Company:
Maroon Productions
Executive Producer:
Paul Blake

Fake or Fortune?

Series 8

The Lost Gainsborough

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough. Show more

Archaeology: A Secret History

Episode 2: The Search for Civilisation

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 6 months

Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past. Show more

Digging for Britain

Series 8

North

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 4 months

More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alice Roberts
Executive Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Series Producer:
Paul Olding
Producer:
Gareth Sacala

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