Experts illuminate moments in Winston Churchill's life that informed his decisions during the war, revealing how he...
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A look back at Berlin's most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it: the German population and Allied...
Journalist Afua Hirsch explores how African countries are throwing off their colonial pasts and becoming 21st-century...
Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. He visits each of these monumental vessels as...
Monty Don travels across the Islamic world and beyond to discover how its culture and climate has influenced garden...
Mary Beard investigates the real Julius Caesar, separating fact from fiction and revealing how his influence is still...
Historian Mary Beard answers the big questions that have fascinated people for centuries. How could a mediocre city in...
From the settlement of the Nile by a handful of nomads to the building of the pyramids and the burial of King Tut...
Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt - from the realities of...
Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of...
Colourized archival footage tells the story of the First World War, taking us to the battlefields, the strategy rooms...
Monty Don heads across the Channel to find out what makes French gardens, and the French themselves, so unique. From...
Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations, but what was it like to live there? Egyptologist Joann...
In Medieval and Tudor England there was no question in peoples' minds – men ruled and women didn't. Historian Helen...
British historian Mary Beard takes a fresh look at ancient Rome, putting aside the stories of Emperors, armies, blood...
Kate Humble travels through India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, discovering how spices were once so coveted that a small...
Monty Don unearths the history, the culture, the politics and the climate that have shaped Italy’s most sublime gardens...
Sixty years of Cuba's history and its place in the world is explored, with views from every side - the Cubans, the...
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
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Naples
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Monty Don's journey takes him to Naples, where he visits some of the most sublime romantic retreats in southern Italy.
Monty Don's Italian Gardens
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The Veneto, Lucca and the Lakes
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Monty Don meets up with the founder of the garden society - the Grandi Giardini Italiani - to peer over the fences of...
The Spice Trail
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Pepper and Cinnamon
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Kate Humble retraces the steps of 15th-century explorers as she sets out on a journey that takes her to India and Sri...
The Spice Trail
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Nutmeg and Cloves
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Kate Humble embarks on a journey around the fabled Spice Islands of eastern Indonesia in search of two spices that...
The Spice Trail
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Saffron and Vanilla
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Kate's journey takes her from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to Spain, as she uncovers the story of the world's most...