Programme Index

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 18

Pixie Lott

Duration: 57 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for 4 months

Singer Pixie Lott has heard that she may have Italian ancestry from Verona, but instead she discovers ancestors battling poverty in London and three generations of military musicians. Show more

Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 18

Joe Sugg

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for 5 months

YouTuber Joe Sugg aptly discovers that one of his ancestors was involved in one of the earliest forms of communications technology, electrical telegraphs. Another survived the Great Fire of London. Show more

Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 18

Ed Balls

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for 5 months

Ed Balls explores his ancestry, investigating a possible link to Nelson's HMS Victory. He also learns about an ancestor who was put on trial at Norwich Castle. Show more

Treasures of Ancient Greece

Episode 1: The Age of Heroes

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Series in which Alastair Sooke explores Greek art. He begins his journey in Crete at the palace of Knossos, and travels to Santorini to the 'Greek Pompeii'. Show more

Treasures of Ancient Greece

Episode 2: The Classical Revolution

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Alastair Sooke unpicks the reasons behind the dazzling revolution that gave birth to classical Greek art, asking how the Greeks got so good so quickly. Show more

Treasures of Ancient Greece

Episode 3: The Long Shadow

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Filming in Italy, Germany, France and Britain, Alastair Sooke explores the extraordinary afterlife of Greek masterpieces that changed the course of western culture. Show more

Union with David Olusoga

Series 1

The Making of Britain

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

David Olusoga tells the story of attempts to form a united Britain in the 17th and early 18th centuries, a period defined by religious and cultural divisions. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Olusoga
Director:
Francis Welch
Producer:
Kat Feavers
Series Producer:
Francis Welch
Executive Producer:
David Olusoga
Executive Producer:
Leanne Klein
Executive Producer:
Mary Crisp
Production Company:
Wall to Wall Media

Union with David Olusoga

Series 1

Creating Britishness

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

In the face of threats from overseas and rebellion in Scotland, a new sense of Britishness emerges, and a national hero is born. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Olusoga
Director:
Francis Welch
Producer:
Kat Feavers
Series Producer:
Francis Welch
Executive Producer:
David Olusoga
Executive Producer:
Leanne Klein
Executive Producer:
Mary Crisp
Production Company:
Wall to Wall Media

Union with David Olusoga

Series 1

The Two Nations

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The 19th-century union appears secure, but beneath the surface run deep divisions, leading to the emergence of a new working-class movement - and a catastrophic famine in Ireland. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Olusoga
Producer:
Kat Feavers
Series Producer:
Francis Welch
Executive Producer:
David Olusoga
Executive Producer:
Leanne Klein
Executive Producer:
Mary Crisp
Production Company:
Wall to Wall Media

Union with David Olusoga

Series 1

Union and Disunion

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The 20th century sees partition in Ireland. A sense of national unity emerges in the aftermath of the World War II, but new divisions create questions about the union’s future. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
David Olusoga
Director:
Francis Welch
Producer:
Kat Feavers
Series Producer:
Francis Welch
Executive Producer:
David Olusoga
Executive Producer:
Leanne Klein
Executive Producer:
Mary Crisp
Production Company:
Wall to Wall Media

Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 15

Episode 7: Robert Rinder

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Robert 'Judge' Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, as well as investigating the dark mystery surrounding his great-grandfather. Show more

Uprising

Series 1

Fire

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The story of the New Cross house fire of 1981, in which 13 young black British people died, and how its aftermath ignited an uprising by the black British community. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan

Uprising

Series 1

Blame

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

The story of the aftermath of the New Cross fire and the run up to the Black People’s Day of Action, a mass demonstration organised to bring the tragedy to the attention of the nation. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan

Uprising

Series 1

The Front Line

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

How tensions between the black community and the police boiled over into some of the biggest riots in British history, from Brixton to Toxteth, while the cause of the New Cross fire remained unknown. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Steve McQueen
Director:
James Rogan
Series Producer:
Helen Bart
Executive Producer:
Steve McQueen
Executive Producer:
Nancy Bornat
Executive Producer:
James Rogan
Executive Producer:
Soleta Rogan
Executive Producer:
Tracey Scoffield

Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 14

Episode 1: Charles Dance

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for 11 months

Celebrity genealogy series. Actor Charles Dance explores his family history and is determined to learn about his dad, who died when Charles was four. Show more

Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 14

Episode 10: Ruby Wax

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for 11 months

Celebrity genealogy series. Ruby Wax journeys to central Europe to learn about the plight of her parents, who fled Vienna and the Nazis for America in 1938. Show more

Ancient Worlds

Episode 2: The Age of Iron

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation. He looks at the winners and losers of the Bronze Age collapse, and the powers that emerged in the Iron Age. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Miles
Series Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Producer:
Tim Kirby
Director:
Tim Kirby

Ancient Worlds

Episode 3: The Greek Thing

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Richard Miles explores the power and the paradox of the 'Greek Thing' - a blossoming in art, philosophy and science that went hand in hand with political discord. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Miles
Executive Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Producer:
Tim Kirby
Director:
Tim Kirby

Ancient Worlds

Episode 4: Return of the King

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Richard Miles examines the legacy of Alexander the Great. In Pakistan he discovers traces of a city where west and east were united in an intriguing new way. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Miles
Executive Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Producer:
Tim Dunn
Director:
Tim Dunn
Series Producer:
Tim Kirby

Ancient Worlds

Episode 5: The Republic of Virtue

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC History Channel

Available for years

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its mythical beginnings to the all too real violence of its end. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Miles
Series Producer:
Eamon Hardy
Series Producer:
Tim Kirby
Producer:
Tim Dunn
Director:
Tim Dunn

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