Nicholas Crane travels across wild Highland landscapes using William Roy's pioneering military map of 18th-century Scotland. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. He uses a 1675 road map to traverse the trans-Pennine pass from York to Lancaster. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. Inspired by a circuit board diagram, Harry Beck designed the now iconic London Underground Map. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. He uses Greenville Collins's coasting pilot of 1693 to navigate the Cornish coastline. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed Britain. Saxton's 1577 map of Norfolk helps him through some wild waterland. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed Britain. A modern OS map helps him through some wild Highland territory. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He uses Timothy Pont's 16th-century maps of Scotland to locate unidentified mountains. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps. Can he navigate Berwick with Speed's roadless town plan? Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals. Show more
Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original Ordnance Survey map. Show more
Nicholas Crane tries to locate a lost village using Thomas Raven's 1625 maps of the Clandeboye Estate in the north of Ireland. Show more
Bombay Railway
Episode 1: Pressures
59 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Available for 7 months
Documentary about Bombay's vast suburban rail network, which serves millions of commuters every day and struggles to cope with the peaktime 'super-dense crush load'. Show more
30 minutes
Series in which Julia Bradbury explores the work of fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright. She sets off to climb Helvellyn via the fearsome ridge of Striding Edge. Show more
The origins of the real Peaky Blinders, a mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century. Show more
Looking at the birth of organised crime in Britain. Billy Kimber’s gang clash with London’s Sabini gang and Alfie Solomon in the racecourse wars of 1921. Show more
Britain's Best Drives
Episode 3: North Cornish Coast
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Richard Wilson gets to grips with a retro VW camper van as he drives the coast road from St Ives to Land's End and learns about St Ives's 1950s art heyday. Show more
Britain's Best Drives
Episode 5: The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Richard Wilson drives an Austin Cambridge around an area claiming to be the birthplace of British tourism, culminating at a renowned viewpoint. Show more
Britain's Best Drives
Episode 6: The Trossachs
30 minutes
In his final drive, Richard returns to the country of his birth in a splendid 1950s Bentley and discovers what it is about great vistas that gives us such a thrill. Show more
Johnny Kingdom looks at the wildlife of Exmoor. It's autumn, and he prepares to build a badger hide, from where he hopes to film badgers and other wildlife. Show more
Johnny Kingdom looks at the wildlife of Exmoor. It's mid-autumn - the time of the red deer's mating season - and Johnny has some unfinished business with a stag. Show more