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Petroc Trelawny and Alexandra Dariescu present highlights from the final of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. Five outstanding pianists from across the globe compete for one of the most coveted and life-changing prizes in the classical music world, The Leeds gold medal. Playing concertos by Bartók, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Brahms accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philha

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to E

A family move to a remote country house and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse.

A man books into a countryside retreat, but does not find the solace he was looking for.

Alex Kingston breathes life into Mary Shelley's timeless gothic horror story. Young, gifted scientist Victor Frankenstein unwittingly creates a monster. Written more than 200 years ago, the classic masterpiece still resonates today as a tragic romance that examines the battle between ambition and morality.

Some 200 years since it was written, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is now shorthand for the horrors of science run amok. But when author and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the 18-year-old Mary's manuscripts, she finds someone concerned with the very act of creation itself. She also discovers clues of another writer's influence, someone very close to Mary. Alice's travels take her to th

Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? Mark attempts to uncover the secrets of James's inspiration, taking an atmospheric journey from James's childhood home in Suffolk to E

A family move to a remote country house and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse.

A man books into a countryside retreat, but does not find the solace he was looking for.

Some 200 years since it was written, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is now shorthand for the horrors of science run amok. But when author and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts returns to the 18-year-old Mary's manuscripts, she finds someone concerned with the very act of creation itself. She also discovers clues of another writer's influence, someone very close to Mary. Alice's travels take her to th

There is no greater test for life than winter as temperatures plummet to 70 below and winds reach 200kph. Darkness and ice extend across the polar regions and only a few remarkable survivors gamble on remaining. We join a female polar bear trekking into the Arctic mountains to give birth as the first blizzards arrive. Out on the frozen ocean, the entire world's population of spectacled eider ducks

A look at the way the sea has fired the imagination of writers, painters and explorers.

Celebrating the architectural history of Las Vegas and its diverse influences.

Robert Robinson referees a duel of words and wit between Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell.

Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against a celebrity panel.

The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity – where some form of alien life might exist. Featuring first-hand accounts of the incredible discoveries made by New Horizons from many of the scientists involved in the mission.

We think of the Earth as a blue planet, but satellite cameras reveal it to be a kaleidoscope. The astonishing colours of the aurora are towering vertical streaks, hundreds of kilometres high, phytoplankton blooms turn the ocean into works of art, triggering a feeding frenzy, and for a few weeks a year China's Yunnan province is carpeted in yellow as millions of rapeseed flowers bloom. This is our