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Commonwealth on Film
Episode 4 - Free Time
- Broadcast
- 2014 (29 mins)
From Trinidad to Australia, Kenya to Barbados, Canada, India and beyond, over the decades film-makers have captured the rich diversity of the Commonwealth. For more than 8 decades the Commonwealth of...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 3 ' The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
At the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour lie the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen and their families in 1809. Tethered to the sea and cut off from the city the squares developed their own...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 1 ' The Moray Estate, Edinburgh
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
In Edinburgh’s ancient New Town ' a street unlike anywhere else in Britain, with an architecture and a people seemingly unchanged over almost 200 years. The last bastion of the British Empire. A group of...
The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
Episode 2 ' Duke Street, Glasgow
- Broadcast
- 2014 (58 mins)
Duke Street is Britain’s longest street, running through the heart of Glasgow’s East End. Elegant Victorian tenement blocks line the road to the South. Yet if the City’s planners had had their way,...
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
The working class worked. It’s right there on the tin. From the dark days of the industrial revolution to the hairnets and rubber gloves of the factory line, it was the workers that made Britain great. But...
Paul O’Grady’s Working Britain
Episode Two
- Broadcast
- 2013 (58 mins)
Work may have been at the heart of working class life, but once we clocked off- whoa, it was a different world! From the streets where we lived, to our holidays, not to mention our nights on the town, this...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 1 - Democrats
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 1 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott journeys to Athens to explore how drama first began. He discovers that from the very start it was about more than...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 2 - Kings
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 2 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott looks at the dramatic decline of Athens and the remarkable triumph and transformation of theatre. During the...
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode 3 - Romans
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In Episode 3 of ‘Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth’ classicist, Dr Michael Scott examines the vital role played by the Romans in the preservation of Greek drama and in the history of theatre. He...
Divine Women
Episode 1 - When God Was A Girl
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
In this three part series historian, Bettany Hughes sets out on an epic journey across continents and back in time to trace the hidden and, often controversial, history of women in religion. From Ancient...