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Talking Pictures
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Narrated by Sylvia Syms.
Wild Down Under
A journey through space and time to reveal Australasia's natural wonders. Each episode is a detective story, delving into Australasia's hidden secrets to explain why its wildlife is so special. Its wildlife is an astonishing mix of the surprising, the strange and the deadly. It's one of the world's great melting pots for both people and wildlife.
Morocco To Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure
Timbuktu - a place so mysterious, mythical and far, far away that it has become a legendary destination. Alice Morrison, Arabist, writer, explorer and Marrakech resident, follows what was once one of the world's richest trading networks - the infamous salt roads - across north Africa from the top of Morocco to the fabled sandstone city of Timbuktu. Trekking 2,000 miles across some of the deadliest landscapes on earth, Alice journeys deep into the history, culture and civilisation of both ancient and modern north Africa.
World's Sneakiest Animals
Chris Packham meets the animals using devious tactics and sneaky tricks to survive. New, groundbreaking science reveals astonishing visual trickery, from illusionist zebras to vanishing geckos and shape-shifting cuttlefish. Meet the mischievous mimics, from snakes to baby birds disguised as caterpillars, and a lioness who looks like a male lion. The world's ultimate con artists rely on sneaky strategies, even against their own kind - meet the monkey that cheats its own family and the lizard that fakes its own death. These animals really will do everything it takes to stay alive.
A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad
Three-part series delving into the story of the Assad dynasty. Right at the centre of it are President Bashar and his wife Asma, who met and fell in love in London. Bashar al-Assad trained to be an eye doctor at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington and Asma was a British-born girl from a Syrian family with a career in investment banking. Over a decade ago, they were being welcomed with open arms in Britain. Today, they are entrenched in a brutal war that has led to some of the most horrifying crimes of modern times. Told through rarely seen footage and testimony of those who knew them, worked with them and studied them, the series explores how the couple, who at first were seen as a modernising force, ended up running a regime accused of war crimes.
Britain in Bloom
Britain In Bloom focuses on fifteen different communities as they prepare to enter the RHS's prestigious annual floral competition this summer. Presented by Chris Bavin, each episode tells the story of one community's first preparations for Bloom right through to Judging Day itself.
My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles
Adrian Chiles explores his religious beliefs by visiting various festivals across the Mediterranean to find out whether or not his choice of church was down to were he was born.
Tutti Frutti
Dark comedy about Scottish rock and roll band The Majestics. Disaster strikes on the eve of their 25th anniversary tour when their lead singer dies in a car crash.
Last Chance Lawyer NYC
Following the exploits of criminal defence attorney Howard Greenberg. He may be the maverick of the New York courtrooms, yet at home his wife is judge and jury.
Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip
An Emotional History of Britain.
Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.
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