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  • The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway-The Final Countdown

    Episode 2

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    This episode follows the men and women responsible for building London’s brand new underground railway - the "Elizabeth Line’". With a fifteen billion pound price tag, it’s one of Europe’s largest...

  • The Music Of Time

    Cuba

    Broadcast
    2017 (49 mins)

    Why Cubans love their famous and irresistible music called ‘son’, and consider it a part of their identity and ‘the DNA of Cuban culture. This style of music, which spawned the likes of salsa, has been...

  • The Music Of Time

    India

    Broadcast
    2017 (49 mins)

    Jasdeep Singh explores the profound effects of Indian independence and partition in 1947 on music across the north-west of the subcontinent. On the 15 of August 1947 India gained its independence and was...

  • The Music Of Time

    Jamaica

    Broadcast
    2017 (49 mins)

    The Music of Time from Kingston, Jamaica with Dr Carolyn Cooper from the University of West Indies, looks at Jamaican music through the decades. From drumming during slavery, to 1970’s reggae, dancehall...

  • The Music Of Time

    Japan

    Broadcast
    2017 (49 mins)

    As Japan emerged from the Second World War, American occupation forces set out to remake Japanese society in their own image. They decided that popular music would play its part - especially jazz: democratic...

  • Dangerous Borders - A Journey Across India and Pakistan

    Episode 1

    Broadcast
    2017 (58 mins)

    Journalists Babita Sharma and Adnan Sarwar are beginning their epic journey along the still-contentious border that divides India and Pakistan. 70 years after the partition of India and the creation of...

  • Dangerous Borders - A Journey Across India and Pakistan

    Episode 2

    Broadcast
    2017 (58 mins)

    Journalists Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma are on the second part of their epic journey taking them both through the province of Punjab, along the volatile border that divides India and Pakistan. This lush,...

  • Dangerous Borders - A Journey Across India and Pakistan

    Episode 3

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    Journalists Adnan Sarwar and Babita Sharma are on the second part of their epic journey taking them both through the province of Punjab, along the volatile border that divides India and Pakistan. This lush,...

  • Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

    Ep1 - Martindale Road

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    During the blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on individual lives, right through...

  • Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain

    Ep2 - 6th Avenue

    Broadcast
    2017 (59 mins)

    This second episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the port city of Hull, flattening two houses and changing the lives of two families forever. The Taylors lost baby Peter...