Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou visits key archaeological excavations and examines evidence for and against the Biblical account of King David. Show more

Inspired by his experiences in 'Around the World in 80 Faiths', part-time vicar Peter Owen Jones tries to turn his back on consumerism. Show more

Peter Owen Jones continues his search to find the answer to a more simple and meaningful life. He meets a Franciscan friar in Canterbury who shows him where he's gone wrong. Show more

Pete Owen Jones's exploration of world faiths continues in Latin America, where he visits a UFO-worshipping community and goes down a mine to meet an underworld god. Show more

Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. Drawing on expert opinion and new evidence, she looks at Karl Marx and his groundbreaking ideas. Show more

To mark Good Friday, Melvyn Bragg sets out to unravel the many questions surrounding one of the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figures: Mary Magdalene. Show more

To mark the start of Ramadan this programme, narrated by Colin Murray, speaks to star players and top managers to find out what impact Muslims are having on the Premier League. Show more

Using simple reconstructions, this film gives voice to some of the Muslim soldiers who fought in the trenches of France during the First World War as part of the Indian Corps. Show more

Fern Britton travels to Jerusalem on a life-changing journey of faith in search of the real story of Jesus's final days. Show more

Bettany Hughes travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundamentally shaped the country of his birth for around 2,500 years.

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. In this episode she looks at the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha. Show more

Bettany Hughes investigates three giants of ancient philosophy. In this episode she is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates. Show more

Fern Britton travels to Jerusalem on a life-changing journey of faith in search of the real story of Jesus's final days. Show more

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. To begin, she investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha. Show more

Bettany Hughes travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundamentally shaped the country of his birth for around 2,500 years. Show more

Bettany Hughes investigates three giants of ancient philosophy. In the second episode she is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates. Show more

Sussex vicar Peter Owen Jones checks if it is possible to live without money in our modern world. But how will he cope with the mounting bills, the car's MOT and insurance? Show more

Series in which Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of great modern thinkers. She travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Show more

Simon Sebag Montefiore charts Rome's rise to become the capital of western Christendom and its impact on the lives of its citizens, elites and high priests. Show more