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Bruce Parker hosts the first transmitted episode of Antiques Roadshow from February 1979.

Hugh Scully and Arthur Negus go back in time to the medieval and Elizabethan period to explore the emergence of a distinctive English style of furniture.

A closer look at furniture made in the Jacobean and Restoration period.

Groundbreaking docudrama from 1956 exploring the experiences of the then 75,000 West Indians who had newly settled in Britain.

A Storyville documentary that tells the story of sports legend and social activist Arthur Ashe, who in 1975 became the first black man to win Wimbledon.

Sam Willis looks at how castles survived into the Tudor era. But these strategic seats of power had to become palaces to impress monarchs such as Elizabeth I.

The roadshow visits Barnstaple, north Devon. Hugh Scully introduces the programme, first broadcast in 1987.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough.

Archaeologists find more than they expect in the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.

Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past.

Dan Snow, Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a mighty tomb in China.

Sona Datta looks at the Mughals, who created the most dazzling empire India has ever seen, from the Taj Mahal to intricate miniatures of court life.

How Caribbean and African women came to the UK to save the then ailing health service. Contains language which some may find offensive.

The team investigate an 18th-century landscape that could be a lost work by of one of the biggest names in British art, Thomas Gainsborough.

Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past.

Archaeologists find more than they expect in the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

At Covent Garden's Royal Ballet School, Michael Portillo hears how in 1909 a Russian ballet company took London by storm.

Archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers how traditional boat building shaped the beautifully preserved village of Arnside on the banks of the River Kent in Cumbria.

Victor's outing to photograph badgers ends up with him being mugged. Mrs Birkett comes to regret calling at the Meldrews' to collect items for a jumble sale.

Leonard want Ria to have lunch with him on his birthday. All Ria wants is excitement. Contains language which some may find offensive.

Mark Urban continues the story of men from the Fifth Royal Tank Regiment in World War II.

A defiant journalist battles for freedom of the press and against state-censored media. Contains strong language.

Journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson investigate eugenics. Contains some strong language.