TV, Radio & Events
Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream
The rise of one of the great cities of the world, and how the city today is a window into a past of power, religion and culture.
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Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond travels the globe to discover the unexplained, the unexpected and the plain unlikely, in an attempt to reveal the hidden world of weather.
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History & The Arts
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
Ian Kershaw, renowned as one of the leading experts on the Third Reich, unpicks the question of how history should view Adolf Hitler.
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NHS: A People's History
Alex Brooker presents a crowdsourced social history of the NHS, told through people's treasured mementoes.
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The Story Of Maths
Marcus DuSautoy explores the long, surprising history of humankind's relationship with numbers.
TV, Radio & Events
Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing
This documentary from the BBC explores the eccentric life of Ada Lovelace, the world's first programmer, the 'Enchantress of Numbers'
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Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story
Gabriel Weston investigates the world of the forensic scientist and the murders they've helped to solve.
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Explosions: How we shook the world
Bang Goes The Theory's Jem Stansfield is used to creating explosions, but for this explosions special he explores how we have learned to control them - and harness their power for our own ends.
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Light And Dark
In this mind-bending series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.
History & The Arts
Genius of the Ancient World
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy: The Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.
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Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream archive
Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the story of how the Habsburg family transformed Vienna into the capital that it is today, during a dynasty era lasting nearly 1,000 years.