Series on the brilliance of the British novel. Sebastian Faulks looks at villains in novels and how they have evolved over the last three hundred years. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff explores the decline of the country house and its fight for survival. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff tells how Bath was almost destroyed by bombs, before narrowly escaping further damage from developers. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff tells the rollercoaster story of Brick Lane in London through the people who have lived there. Show more

Series on the brilliance of the British novel. Sebastian Faulks looks at how literary lovers, from Mr Darcy to Nick Guest, have taught us the truth about love. Show more

Series on the brilliance of the British novel. Sebastian Faulks looks at how the ideas of heroism have evolved over the last 300 years, from Daniel Defoe to Martin Amis. Show more

Simon Armitage goes on a journey to discover the language and landscape of the Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and finds modern relevance in its hero's trials. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff visits the most controversial listed building in Britain: the Park Hill flats in Sheffield. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff visits Assynt, a small community in Scotland, where the land reform movement began in the 90s. Show more

Dr Stephen Baxter takes a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children, and discovers how they played a vital role in creating the medieval world. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of the battle for Covent Garden market. Show more

The story of 12-year-old James Annesley, snatched from Dublin and sold into slavery in America in 1728, whose fate helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped. Show more

Film about Thomas More's daughter Margaret, showing her revolutionary intellectual spirit and how the ideas that shaped her education changed the cultural life of England forever. Show more

Armando Iannucci journeys through Milton's life and his great poem Paradise Lost, offering his own passionate and illuminating response to what he feels is a work of genius. Show more

Alexander Waugh, son of the controversial journalist Auberon and grandson of the great novelist Evelyn, reflects on the father-son relationships in this great literary dynasty. Show more

Series on modern design. A look at the 1980s, the decade of the designer-suited yuppie, the filofax, the Sinclair C5 and Richard Rogers's Lloyd's building. Show more

Series on modern design. The 1990s saw the rise of IKEA, James Dyson reinvent the vacuum cleaner, a computer game become a design icon, and Ford cars turn curvy. Show more

The series on modern design looks at the 1970s, including the fashion for rural idyll, Biba, Clive Sinclair's pocket calculator and the DIY ethos of punk. Show more

Mark Lawson looks back at the most popular programmes of 1973, including The Burke Specials, to consider what their success tells us about life in Britain at the time. Show more

Series about Britain's post-war conservation movement. Tom Dyckhoff visits Big Pit in South Wales to see how a mining community used industrial heritage to reinvent itself. Show more