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Chris Beardshaw travels around by helicopter on a mission to find Britain's most inspirational gardens. Arriving in the Lake District, Chris dons his waders and goes in search of the ultimate water feature.

James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.

Siegfried wins a major victory and Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers that he has a rival.

When a young gang member, Patrick, is released after serving a short stint in prison, he is brutally shot down. Louise Bergstein, who has just started a new job as a teacher in criminal profiling, takes the case alongside her professional, and now romantic, partner Frederik Havgaard. Meanwhile, former gang member Kim Jensen, who is now a family man in Sweden, gets dragged back into his criminal pa

Forensic evidence concludes that Patrick and Pernille were killed by the same person. As Louise and Frederik investigate the link between the two victims, an old gang-related double murder comes to the surface. With a potential quadruple murderer on the loose, Louise entrusts her teaching job to her Swedish colleague and mentor, Gunnar, and commits herself to the case. In Danish with English subti

Terry Wogan chats to Christopher Timothy, Steven Berkoff, Duncan Norvelle and Tom T Hall.

Classic comedy series about the inmates of HM Slade Prison. The problems of an anxious father and a pining first offender are solved in the prison waiting room.

Hancock decides to invest in a new camera – which Sid sees as the perfect opportunity to make some money.

James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.

Siegfried wins a major victory and Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers that he has a rival.

James Fox uses art to explore how humans began to try to understand nature for the very first time. From the Song dynasty in China and the Islamic world, through to the Scientific Revolution and the advent of the industrial era, James shows the very different ways in which humans came to both appreciate and understand nature, whilst at the very same time beginning to dominate and control it. With

Chris Beardshaw travels around by helicopter on a mission to find Britain's most inspirational gardens. Arriving in the Lake District, Chris dons his waders and goes in search of the ultimate water feature.

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