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China on Four Wheels
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two epic car journeys across China, navigating congested cities and winding mountain roads to explore how the country’s economic growth, symbolised by its booming...
China on Four Wheels
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt continue their epic car journeys across China, heading for their final destination, the financial mega-city of Shanghai. Along the way they navigate congested cities and winding...
Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
A specially commissioned documentary in which Michael Sandel, the world renowned Harvard professor, looks at the philosophy of justice. Is it acceptable to torture a terrorist in order to discover where a...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Human, All Too Human
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The 20th century was a time of unprecedented change and conflict. Violence and war spread across Europe and the World. And as new technology trumped old it became possible to harm others on a previously...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Grand Experiment
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
The question of how to run a good society has puzzled intellectuals for centuries. Should we allow governments to secure a better country, or place our trust in the individual? In the twentieth century,...
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
The Culture Wars
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Culture used to be so easy to define - it was ballet, opera, Shakespeare, Beethoven... But in the twentieth century, these easy assumptions were torn apart by intellectuals that turned culture into a...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Empire
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
The story of the British Empire from 1750 to 1900 revealed through its art and treasures. Dimbleby travels through Britain, America and India tracing the descent from adventure and inspiration into moral...
Seven Ages of Britain
Age of Ambition
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War,...
Timeshift
Crime and Punishment: The Story of Corporal Punishment
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
Timeshift lifts the veil on the taboo that is Corporal Punishment. What it reveals is a fascinating history spanning religion, the justice system, sex and education. Today it’s a subject that is almost...
Timeshift
Crime and Punishment: Capital Punishment
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
Timeshift digs into the archive to trace the extraordinary story of the ultimate sanction. At the beginning of the nineteenth century you could still be hanged in Britain for offences such as stealing a...